[mythtv-users] Commercial Flagging NFL Games

[John Drescher]

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Tom Lichti <redpepperracing at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Robert Shields <rwshields at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have been recording NFL games and watching them after being commercial
>> flagged (it makes the game go about 3x faster).
>>
>> I have found that during the commercial flagging process MythTV always flags
>> the kickoffs as commercials since the network only shows the one play and
>> immediately goes back to commercial.  I realize that I could go through
>> manually and fix every kickoff so it isn't flagged, but that solution has
>> two problems:
>>
>> It would be time consuming
>> More importantly, in doing so I would know the score of the game before I
>> saw the whole thing...kind of ruins the experience.
>>
>> I also know I could simply watch the game w/o commercial flagging or fast
>> forward manually when I know a kickoff is coming, but I thought before I did
>> either of these two I would ask to community if they had come across this
>> issue before.  If so, how did you solve it?
>
> For football I have a playback group with a short skip of I think 12
> or 15 seconds, which is just about perfect to skip between plays (when
> the play ends,

I will have to look into that. I sometimes accidentally hit the
(default) skip and I am 2 plays ahead. Then when I try to correct I
end up jumping before where I was before the skip..

John