Commercial skip is not the same as pressing the skip button on your remote.
Commercial skip (single jump from start to end of commercial break) is done by the commercial flagging process. It is configurable on the "Playback" section of the "TV Settings" section of setup in the Myth front end. You need to turn on "Autmoatically Flag Commercials" (Or manually trigger commercial flagging in the job options dialog in Watch Recordings). You should pick the type of commercial flagging to use (the new "All" is pretty good, although none of them are perfect. It is "only" guessing at the commercials based on coding logic, so all in all it does a good job. Things like Tribal Council of Survivor always seem to false skip, and lately, any show with a final 30-60 second "goodbye" section before credits roll seems to get skipped (e.g. Last Call with Carson Daly). You then need to also turn on "Automatically Skip Commercials" as well to have ti just jump for you. FYI, the skip you are doing when you press skip on the remote is a fixed skip amount that is configurable on the screen before the Commercial skip one described above. There are three values to set. I can't remember the defaults, but I have Fast forward at 30 (~ one commercial), rewind I have at 10 (in case anything overshoots) and jump (which on my remote I have configured as the prev/next chapter button) is 2 minutes. These values work very well for me if/when the commercial skip does not work. Usually I do a jump (2 minutes) then a couple of skips until the show is on, then back up in 10 seconds steps to get to the start, even without auto commercial skip, you can jump the commercials in just a few seconds. I also have Smart Fast Forwarding: On, which i find quite handy/intuitive. Robin On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 22:14:54 -0500 (EST), Chris Pinkham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The litmus test will be "Lost". That's one sob on the .16 version ... > > Well, I record Lost and mentioned to others the other day (can't remember > which list) that I'll be using it for some of my testing in the future > to try to get it working better. I noticed that flagging wasn't > working as well on this last week when I watched a few episodes I had > recorded (from December). :) So, hopefully I'll be able to get better > detection working on there in the near future. > > -- > > Chris > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > >
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