[mythtv-users] PVR 350, closed captioning, commercial detection

[Jim Reith]

At 08:57 AM 8/8/2005, you wrote:
>On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 01:05, Jesse D. Guardiani wrote:
>
> > Also, what about commercial detection? Is that supposed to work with
> > PVR-x50's, or not? If it is, then I'd love to figure out what I need
> > to change to make it work on my system.
>
>Commercial detection works just fine with my box which has a PVR-350 and
>a PVR-250 in it.
>
>Commercial detection AFAIK only works on recorded shows.  A commercial
>flagging process is run after a show completes recording.  Once the
>process is done you can watch the show and set it to auto skip.  This
>works fairly well in my setup.
>
>If you are trying to skip commercials in live tv as far as I know that
>is not currently part of mythtv.

but you can use the skip button to jump ahead 30 seconds at a time which
works  quite nicely as long as you're not watching it live (start it and pause)