[mythtv-users] Max Commercial Skip Time?

[Brian Wood]

On Apr 14, 2008, at 9:14 PM, Marc Randolph wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 8:37 PM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
>> The max commercial skip time appears to be 3600 seconds.
>>
>> Is there a way to increase this limit without having to recompile the
>> whole shebang?
>
> I don't think so.  Notice that MaximumCommercialSkip is hard-coded  
> to 3600:
>
> http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac/browser/trunk/mythtv/programs/mythfrontend/globalsettings.cpp#L576
> http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac/browser/trunk/mythtv/libs/libmythtv/NuppelVideoPlayer.cpp#L6329
>
> per:
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/commits/183725

That's what I figured., hadn't looked at the code. I guess it's a  
reasonable figure, I've only run onto a longer break once, but I  
suppose bumping it to 4800 couldn't hurt. Configurable would be nice  
but probably cause more problems.

Is the reasoning for having any sort of maximum to prevent the  
commercial skip function from running amok? That would make sense,  
maybe.

Thanks for the answer.

beww