[mythtv-users] changes to automatically skipping commercials?

J. Donavan Stanley jdonavan at jdonavan.net
Sun Feb 1 15:25:35 EST 2004


Chris Pinkham wrote:

>>I'm currently using 0.14.20040123-1.  A couple of weeks ago Mythtv quit 
>>automatically skipping commercials/cutlists even though the commercials 
>>have been marked and the cutlist loaded.  Is there a new config option 
>>that needs to be set?  It will skip the current commercial break after 
>>I hit skip ahead (right arrow) but I have to hit skip at all commercial 
>>breaks.  This is a dual pvr-250 system.
>>Thanks,
>>Vinton
>>    
>>
>
>No changes have been made that I know of that would cause that unless you
>have your Auto-Skip setting set to "Notify" instead of "Skip".  The Auto-Skip
>setting is 3-state now, "Off", "Notify", and "On".  Notify just pops up a
>box telling you how long the commercial break is when one starts that way
>you can hit or not hit the Z key in case the detection code was off and
>detected a 10-minute long commercial break for some reason. :)
>
>  
>
There's something going on beyond commercial skip.  I noticed last night 
that in order to skip  cut points I had to enter and exit edit mode.  I 
hadn't tried to track it down yet.


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