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stanlist at cox

Oct 7, 2006, 4:41 PM

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Skip past commercial

There's function that I think is called "skip to next cut point". In a
commercial flagged recording, this skips to the beginning of the next
commercial. Even with auto-commercial-skip turned on, this point seems to
be too late for the commercial to be skipped.

The end result is a fast way to see all the commercials in a recording.

Is there something I'm doing wrong? Is there some way to skip to the point
just past the next commercial.

--stan

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petedaly at gmail

Oct 7, 2006, 6:34 PM

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Re: Skip past commercial [In reply to]

You are probaby using the 30-second jump function and not the commercial
skip function.

With a keyboard, the commercial skip function is mapped to the Z key. In my
experience the tagging works quite well. (see
http://www.mythpvr.com/mythtv/commercial_flagging for more on my experience
with it.) If you are using a remote, you may need to look it up in your
lirc button mappings to see which is the correct button.

I use it constantly now.

-Pete

On 10/7/06, stan <stanlist [at] cox> wrote:
>
> There's function that I think is called "skip to next cut point". In a
> commercial flagged recording, this skips to the beginning of the next
> commercial. Even with auto-commercial-skip turned on, this point seems to
> be too late for the commercial to be skipped.
>
> The end result is a fast way to see all the commercials in a recording.
>
> Is there something I'm doing wrong? Is there some way to skip to the
> point
> just past the next commercial.
>
> --stan
>
>
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dsmolka at gmail

Oct 7, 2006, 6:46 PM

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Re: Skip past commercial [In reply to]

On 10/7/06, stan <stanlist [at] cox> wrote:
> There's function that I think is called "skip to next cut point". In a
> commercial flagged recording, this skips to the beginning of the next
> commercial. Even with auto-commercial-skip turned on, this point seems to
> be too late for the commercial to be skipped.
>
> The end result is a fast way to see all the commercials in a recording.
>
> Is there something I'm doing wrong? Is there some way to skip to the point
> just past the next commercial.
>

Having a hard time parsing exactly what problem you're trying to
describe. Com flagging puts markers where Mythtv thinks commercials
begin and end. It's not 100 percent but pretty close. If you 'skip to
next cut point' while you're in a show, it will do just that -- i.e.
jump to the commercial. If you hit the 'skip' button again it will do
the same thing -- jump to the next marker, which should be at the end
of the commercial break.

If all this is working and you have autoskip on, then you don't need
to bother. Myth will jump from the point where commercials begin to
the point where they end (for the most part).

Note that if you manually skip past the cut point, then the
commercials won't be skipped automatically. But the 'skip to cutpoint'
command should take you to the end of the break.
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stanlist at cox

Oct 10, 2006, 8:42 PM

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Re: Skip past commercial [In reply to]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces [at] mythtv
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces [at] mythtv] On Behalf Of Dewey Smolka
> Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2006 6:46 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Skip past commercial
>
> On 10/7/06, stan <stanlist [at] cox> wrote:
> > There's function that I think is called "skip to next cut
> point". In a
> > commercial flagged recording, this skips to the beginning
> of the next
> > commercial. Even with auto-commercial-skip turned on, this
> point seems to
> > be too late for the commercial to be skipped.
> >
> > The end result is a fast way to see all the commercials in
> a recording.
> >
> > Is there something I'm doing wrong? Is there some way to
> skip to the point
> > just past the next commercial.
> >
>
> Having a hard time parsing exactly what problem you're trying to
> describe. Com flagging puts markers where Mythtv thinks commercials
> begin and end. It's not 100 percent but pretty close. If you 'skip to
> next cut point' while you're in a show, it will do just that -- i.e.
> jump to the commercial. If you hit the 'skip' button again it will do
> the same thing -- jump to the next marker, which should be at the end
> of the commercial break.
>
> If all this is working and you have autoskip on, then you don't need
> to bother. Myth will jump from the point where commercials begin to
> the point where they end (for the most part).
>
> Note that if you manually skip past the cut point, then the
> commercials won't be skipped automatically. But the 'skip to cutpoint'
> command should take you to the end of the break.
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>

Thanks everyone.

I finally got MythTV development time from the wife and found that one more
press of the button takes me to the end of the commercial.

I'm not getting automatic commercial skip when I "skip to next cut point",
but pressing once for the commercial beginning and once more for commercial
end is fine.

--stan

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