[mythtv-users] Commercial Skip
Mark J. Scheller
mjs at yoink.net
Fri Mar 4 13:56:03 UTC 2005
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 08:56 -0500, James Armstrong wrote:
> >
> >>While I'm writing, I have a wishlist request: it'd be nice to be able
> >>to have the automatic skipping start 1 or 2 seconds after the
> >>beginning of the commercial (the number should be configurable and
> >>could default to zero, or course). The reason is that sometimes the
> >>skips are so perfect that I can't tell whether I missed any of the
> >>show.
>
> How about a configurable feature for Commercial flagging that will not
> save any 'supposed' commercials over xx minutes. I have been having good
> luck with commercial flagging lately but there is an occasional
> commercial that is flagged and is over 5 or 6 minutes and is bogus. I
> think most of my commercials are only a few minutes long so ignoring
> ones longer than that would cut out some bad commercial flagging.
Along similar lines, I've had a "commercial break" that was 0:00 long.
It ended up getting itself into a rather tight loop of skip 0:00
(actually went backwards a bit), play, see 0:00 break, skip, repeat. So
another nice add would be a minimum commercial break length.
-mS
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