[mythtv] Skipping Commercials When Not Done Flagging

Nathan Neulinger nneul at umr.edu
Tue Apr 5 00:14:37 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 20:09 -0400, J. Donavan Stanley wrote:
> Ben wrote:
> 
> > First time poster...I really love this software, and it may be time
> > that I chip in coding.  So allow me to ask this: is there a good
> > reason that commercials cannot be skipped even though the entire show
> > hasn't been flagged?  For example, my wife and I often start watching
> > a 7:00 show at 7:30.  With the recent CVS update of commercial
> > flagging starting at the beginning of a show, I know that the flagger
> > has surely finished flagging roughly half the show.  But since the
> > show isn't officially marked "flagged", I can't automatically skip the
> > commercials.  Where in the code would I look to enable commercial
> > skipping even though the flagging hasn't been finished?  Is this too
> > big of a change for a first MythTV patch?  I would love to have this
> > feature.  Thanks in advance!
> 
> 
> Why not just enable the setting to flag as it records.  If you're
> watching shows 1/2 hour late then it should be done with this setting on.
> _______________________________________________

Where is this setting? I've seen a setting for automatically flagging
commercials, but never one that causes them to flag while it is being
recorded.

-- Nathan

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