[mythtv-users] How to skip commercials in Myth 0.22

[Newbury]

This will be short. iPhones aren't made for long posts. Apologies for  
top-posting.
Iirc a couple of pages into TV Settings are the 'skip' settings. Shows  
play games with onscreen stuff and fool the flagger. Thus the choices:  
it's a pulldown style menu. If you set to Notify the OSD pops up and  
tells you it thinks there is an ad. You set the warning period. I use  
2 seconds pre and post. The post time is how much it skips back from  
where it thinks the ad ends. If you don't see a second of the end of  
an ad then the flagger was wrong.
Z is the forward skip, Q back. Also bound to Left and Right. Look at  
the Setup -Edit Keys - TV Playback group and read keys.txt ( /usr/ 
(local)/share/mythtv )
Geoff
Sent from my iPhone

On 2010-01-22, at 22:46, Patrick Doyle <wpdster at gmail.com> wrote:

> OK, I've been recording shows for a while now and am (finally)
> managing to find the time to watch them.  I have been curious to see
> how well commercial flagging worked.  So far, I am disappointed... It
> seems that I'm not skipping through commercials.  So I tried looking
> in the User's guide and, except for some mention of the Z and Q key in
> the Keyboard Commands section of the manual, I don't see any mention
> of commercial skipping (although there is a certain amount about
> commercial flagging).
>
> So I searched the wiki for "commercial", without much success.
>
> So I searched Gossamer Threads for "commercial" and found a discussion
> from 2008 talking about using Z,Q, left and right to jump around.
>
> So now I'm going to ask some questions here...
>
> What do the settings for "Commercial Auto-Skip" in the OSD do?
> Auto-Skip OFF -- that one seems pretty obvious.  It also seems to be
> the default setting.  Is there a way to change this default?
> Auto-Skip Notify -- what gets notified, and how?
> Auto-Skip ON -- didn't seem to work (well) when watching "The Good
> Wife", but seems to be working with "ABC News"
>
> When should I use the Z and Q keys?  One time, when I tried it, the
> show skipped ahead to the next commercial, 15 minutes later into the
> program.
>
> Where can I learn more?
>
> --wpd
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