If I'm watching something "live" then i'll run it at around 85% slower speed (not slow enough to really notice any difference) then when the commercials come on your normally around 4mins behind realtime and can skip through most of them :)
Ash. On 5/26/05, Brad Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 11:10:46PM -0700, Joe Votour wrote: > > Actually, this would be a nice feature, but I'm not > > willing to code it, so I can live without. > > > > I've said it before, and I'll say it again: There are > > some people (myself included) who happen to use the > > LiveTV feature. Or, alternatively, I'll start > > recording a show, but them in skipping commercials, I > > catch up with the live feed. > > > > Can't skip commercials to get to content that hasn't > > aired yet. > > Well, sure you can. However, in MythTV at least for now, unlike > the Tivo, you just can't do it in the livetv mode. You must always > select to record the show, then watch the recording. > > This leaves you free to watch any of the other large number of > shows you have on your machine at any given time. Watch such > a show (documentaries and other non-suspense shows work best) for > however long it will take to match the number of commercials you have > to skip, and then watch the live show. If you understimate, just > pause and watch some other programming for a while. > > It's like you used to do, changing channels in the commercial break, > except with no discontinuity. > > Generally I never recommend use of Myth's live tv mode, even if you > want to watch live tv, but I know there are plans to improve it. > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
