[mythtv-users] Commercial Skip and seek table in leanfront

[John Pilkington]

On 17/10/2022 15:27, Peter Bennett wrote:
> 
> On 10/17/22 10:00, John Pilkington wrote:
>> Resending to list:
>>
>> It's looking better for me now at v381.  I edited (in Fedora) to play 
>> 2 short segments of an mpeg2 recording;  playback gave around a second 
>> at the start of recording, played the sections, skipped to the end of 
>> the recording, and left the display showing the end of the 2nd 
>> segment. Curly backarrow to quit.  Maybe the jump points weren't exact 
>> - need longer viewing history to judge that - but it's getting there!
>>
>> Thanks again
>>
>> John P
> 
> With this implementation there will be a second or two of the beginning 
> video played before the first skip. This is because it starts playing 
> before loading the cut list or comm break list. Once they are loaded, it 
> does the beginning skip if it is needed.
> 
> Peter

I'll continue on this branch of the thread:  As I said above, simple 
playback obeyed the cutlist reasonably well, but when I tried skipping 
around leanfront played the content as recorded without further 
reference to the cutlist.

I usually do the equivalent of the 'lossless mythtranscode', actually 
removing the unwanted bits, rebuilding the seektable, clearing bookmark 
and cutlist etc, so I don't use plain skips much with a cutlist active 
in the normal frontend - but if a skip landed in a cutzone I think 
playback would jump to the zone end.  And I suspect that that will 
probably need either the seektable or the use of mkv...

John P