[mythtv-users] View Commercial Flags

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Mon Oct 16 04:18:59 UTC 2006


On 10/15/06 23:41, Trey Thompson wrote:

>  From: "Michael T. Dean"
>
> > On 10/14/06 23:12, Trey Thompson wrote:
> >
> >> What I've noticed is, commercial flagging works awesome! Here's
> >> the strange thing. The popup appears for a commercial flag at the
> >> "beginning" of the show when the 1st set of commercials appear.
> >> I hit Skip, and it goes to the right place. Then, the next set
> >> of commercials appear, and there's no popup. But, if I hit skip,
> >> it goes to the right place. Works almost 100% of the time, just
> >> no popup...?
> >
> > It didn't detect the start of the commercial break at the right
> > point. If you keep watching commercials, you'll probably see the
> > popup in 30 seconds or a minute.
>
>  I was patient, and watched some more, and you're right. It's picking
>  it up, or not.

On the bright side, you should be able to manually detect the beginning 
of the commercials without any additional work.  Compensating for missed 
commercial-break endings requires more effort.  :)

Mike


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