[mythtv-users] feature suggestion: pause at end of playback

[Paul Andreassen]

On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 11:28 pm, Tom Lichti wrote:
> Michael T. Dean wrote:
> > On 08/10/2006 12:15 AM, Tom Lichti wrote:
> >> Michael T. Dean wrote:
> >>> On 08/09/2006 11:29 AM, Brad DerManouelian wrote:
> >>>> I'd rather see a request that commercial flagging be fixed to not
> >>>> skip the last part of the recording. :)
> >>>
> >>> Done.  (Kind-of.  The commercial flagging isn't fixed--because that's
> >>> not the problem--but the skipping is.)
> >>>
> >>> It's been working well in SVN trunk for a /long/ time, now.  When you
> >>> try to skip a commercial break and doing so would take you to the end
> >>> of the recording, you get a message saying, "At End, can not Skip."
> >>
> >> I'd have to disagree with you on that one, Mike. I have a few shows that
> >> seem to consistently chop off the last bit (American Dad being the most
> >> obvious one). I use auto-skip,
> >
> > Oh, yeah.  I forgot about auto-skip.  It definitely works when you set
> > it to notify.
> >
> >> and I just now realized that I can't turn
> >> it off. I mean, I can toggle it off, but it has no effect, it still
> >> auto-skips the commercials, so there is no way for me to see the end of
> >> that show (aside from watching it in Windows or on one of the Xboxes).
> >> Anyone else seeing that behaviour?
> >
> > When you say, "toggle it off," you mean change the commercial skip
> > method to one of the other two options, right?  (It's a combobox, not a
> > checkbox.)
>
> Bad choice of words...
>
> > Automatically Skip Commercials
> >     - Off
> >     - Notify, but do not skip
> >     - Automatically Skip
> > Automatically skip commercial breaks that have been flagged during
> > Automatic Commercial Flagging or by the mythcommflag program, or just
> > notify that a commercial has been detected.
> >
> > If so, I'm assuming you mean that turning it to "Off" doesn't changethe
> > behavior.  If that's correct, what happens when you use "Notify"?
>
> Yes, turning it to 'Off' does not work. I haven't tried 'Notify', I will
> have to do that.

Why would you need 'Notify'?  Surely you can tell a commercial from a program 
and if its wrong, it'll only annoy you.

Paul
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