[mythtv-users] 5 Sec Replay?

[Fred Squires]

On Fri, Feb 1, 2008 at 10:10 AM, Phil Bridges <gravityhammer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Feb 1, 2008 9:42 AM, Fred Squires <fsquires at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 10:55 PM, Michael T. Dean
>  > <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>  > > On 01/31/2008 08:21 PM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
>  > >  > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:02:25AM -0600, Noah Markon wrote:
>  > >  >
>  > >  >> Right now when I click on my replay button it only goes back 5
>  > >  >> seconds, which makes some things sort of painful. When you skip ahead
>  > >  >> 30 seconds you have to skip back 6 times to get back where you were. I
>  > >  >> looked all over for this changing this setting but I can't seem to
>  > >  >> find it anywhere. In fact I think it's listed in the TV Settings area,
>  > >  >> but it's not on the screen it's suppose to be at. I would also like to
>  > >  >> change the 10 minute skip ahead/back to 5 minutes. Anyway one know
>  > >  >> where these settings can be changed?
>  > >  >>
>  > >  >
>  > >  > On our box, we've set it to go forward 28 seconds, and back, I dunno,
>  > >  > either 5 or 8. There's magic, though, in that if you go one direction,
>  > >  > and then the other one within some short period of time, the jump
>  > >  > distance on the second changes temporarily to match, so you can correct
>  > >  > overshoots easily.
>  > >  >
>  > >  > I don't know where that knob is; it's probably been moved going from
>  > >  > .18 to .20.
>  > >
>  > >  Smart Fast Forwarding
>  > >  If enabled, then immediately after rewinding, only skip forward the same
>  > >  amount as skipping backwards.
>  >
>  > This is also the case for commercial skip.  If you commercial skip
>  > forward (and it goes too far) hit commercial skip back and it will go
>  > to the previous spot, instead of the previous commercial flag.
>
>  Isn't that the previous commercial flag, anyway?  There are two
>  commercial flags for every commercial break - commercial start and
>  commercial end.

True, but skipping back immediately after skipping forward will jump
back to the point skipped from regardless of the commercial flags.
I think this was added in .19 for people, like me, who manually skip
commercials.
It's helpful for badly flagged shows.

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