I automatically flag commercials and have myth set to automatically skip commercials, since usually the flagging it pretty good. But sometimes I miss a bit of the show, and I wonder what others do when this happens. If I skip back to just before the bad jump, myth just jumps again at the same spot, so that doesn't help. And bringing up the menu to turn off auto-skipping is a bit of a pain. Do people bind a remote key to skip back to the last commercial mark? Does this do the right thing?
I've had that skip problem too. It seems like it could be fixed pretty easily: only auto-skip commercials if it has been more than N seconds since the last keypress. I'd say with an 'N' of about 10 or so, this would work perfectly. I don't know how easy this is with the current Myth code though.
>While I'm writing, I have a wishlist request: it'd be nice to be able to have the automatic skipping start 1 or 2 seconds after the beginning of the commercial (the number should be configurable and could default to zero, or course). The reason is that sometimes the skips are so perfect that I can't tell whether I missed any of the show.
Likewise, I'd like to be able to start playing just before the end of the commercial. There is already a setting for this, but it doesn't seem to work for me...
I'd like that too, and for it to start about 2 seconds before the end of the skip point too. The current behaviour is *great* when commercial skipping works perfectly (as it does for me with ABC World News Tonight and The Daily Show) but sometimes it will skip something that wasn't a commercial, and since I didn't notice the skip I'll get confused. BTW, one show that the commercial flagger seems to often get wrong is Teen Titans -- just in case someone wanted a test case to improve the commercial flagger.
By the way, thanks for much for this great feature of myth. It usually works perfectly!
Ditto. When it works perfectly I'm aways amazed at how great it is.
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