[mythtv-users] Popcorn Hour Unit as VIdeo Output?
Misty P
mistyp at thekorn.net
Tue Oct 28 21:51:18 UTC 2008
Robert Kulagowski wrote:
> jedi wrote:
>> You still have to deal with video with commercials embedded in
>> them. If you're really keen on how MythTV skips through those, and
>> how it presents everything then the popcorn hour is interesting but
>> not quite there yet.
>
> If the PH is used to display video, then some out-of-band message
> needs to get from whereever you're watching to the backend saying
> something like "skip 180 seconds". Pretend that the PH is just
> reading a continuous stream of video; don't use PnP from the PH to
> request a skip, because AFAIK there's no mechanism to do that using
> the PnP protocol.
I seem to remember some loose talk about the pnp server presenting
commflagged videos as different chapters to the pnp box. That way, once you
hit a commercial you could hit chapter skip to go to the next program point.
Not sure if anything ever came of that discussion, however.
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