[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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