[mythtv-users] Skip past commercial

[Dewey Smolka]

On 10/7/06, stan <stanlist at cox.net> wrote:
> There's function that I think is called "skip to next cut point".  In a
> commercial flagged recording, this skips to the beginning of the next
> commercial.  Even with auto-commercial-skip turned on, this point seems to
> be too late for the commercial to be skipped.
>
> The end result is a fast way to see all the commercials in a recording.
>
> Is there something I'm doing wrong?  Is there some way to skip to the point
> just past the next commercial.
>

Having a hard time parsing exactly what problem you're trying to
describe. Com flagging puts markers where Mythtv thinks commercials
begin and end. It's not 100 percent but pretty close. If you 'skip to
next cut point' while you're in a show, it will do just that -- i.e.
jump to the commercial. If you hit the 'skip' button again it will do
the same thing -- jump to the next marker, which should be at the end
of the commercial break.

If all this is working and you have autoskip on, then you don't need
to bother. Myth will jump from the point where commercials begin to
the point where they end (for the most part).

Note that if you manually skip past the cut point, then the
commercials won't be skipped automatically. But the 'skip to cutpoint'
command should take you to the end of the break.