[mythtv-users] RE: Commerical Skip problem

[Chris Pinkham]

Since you're watching LiveTV, commercial detection hasn't been performed
yet like it would be if you were watching a pre-recorded program, so
Myth doesn't know where to jump to.  So, it pauses the video and tries to
determine where to jump to by searching forward through the video.  If it
can't determine where the commercial (or commercial break) ends, then it
resumes play at the point you hit 'Z'.

Are you using software or hardware encoding?  I have a couple ideas that I
can think of to look at but want to make sure.

> I have that same problem, minus the slow motion part. 
> When I try to skip commercials during Live TV, it gets
> stuck and doesn't respond to any keypresses... Then it
> seems to time-out after 10 or 20 seconds, and then
> picks back up where it left off.  If I pressed any
> keys while it was frozen, they all take effect when it
> times out.  Hopefully I didn't hit q or z again.  :P
> 
> It seems that before pausing the stream, it should
> figure out if it knows where to jump to, and if it
> doesn't know of any commercial cutpoints to jump to,
> then it shouldn't even stop the stream.  It should
> just  keep going, and display "Couldn't skip" in the
> OSD or something.
> 
> Ben

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Chris