[mythtv-users] Commercial Skip
Dan Christensen
jdc at uwo.ca
Thu Mar 3 04:08:45 UTC 2005
[Following up to myself, mostly for the sake of the archives.]
Dan Christensen <jdc at uwo.ca> writes:
> I automatically flag commercials and have myth set to automatically
> skip commercials, since usually the flagging it pretty good. But
> sometimes I miss a bit of the show, and I wonder what others do when
> this happens. If I skip back to just before the bad jump, myth just
> jumps again at the same spot, so that doesn't help. And bringing up
> the menu to turn off auto-skipping is a bit of a pain. Do people
> bind a remote key to skip back to the last commercial mark? Does
> this do the right thing?
The answer to the last question is yes, it works perfectly! So
I now map remote keys to the commercial skip actions.
> While I'm writing, I have a wishlist request: it'd be nice to be able
> to have the automatic skipping start 1 or 2 seconds after the
> beginning of the commercial (the number should be configurable and
> could default to zero, or course). The reason is that sometimes the
> skips are so perfect that I can't tell whether I missed any of the
> show.
Still wishing. :-)
> Likewise, I'd like to be able to start playing just before the end of
> the commercial. There is already a setting for this, but it doesn't
> seem to work for me...
In fact, it does work. Not sure why I thought it wasn't.
Dan
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