[mythtv-users] Max Commercial Skip Time?

jedi jedi at mishnet.org
Wed Apr 16 15:09:51 UTC 2008


On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 12:08:20AM -0400, Krzysztof Adamski wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-14-04 at 21:35 -0600, Brian Wood wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> The break was longer then 1 hour?

Having this set by show, recording rule or channel could be handy.

Individual channel quirks seem to be were the autoskip stuff tends
to fall down. Still, it gets it right most of the time as is.

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