[mythtv-users] commercial skipping on the Sci-Fi channel
Raphael
rpooser at gmail.com
Tue Aug 5 04:14:56 UTC 2008
Josh White wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 10:54 PM, Raphael <rpooser at gmail.com
> <mailto:rpooser at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Josh White wrote:
> > Does anyone else have trouble with commercial skipping in shows
> recorded
> > from the Sci-Fi channel? For example, if I record an episode of Star
> > Trek Voyager on Sci-Fi, the auto commercial skipping never seems to
> > work. If I record an episode of the same show on Spike TV, the
> > commercial skipping seems to work flawlessly. Has anyone else seen
> > similar behavior?
> >
> >
>
> Sci fi has been bad for me for quite a while.
> It was fine for a year then one day it went completely nuts. On a lot of
> shows I had to just turn off the autoskip.
> I just chalked it up to SciFi coming up with ways to trick autoskipping
> DVRs. I see plenty of things that look suspicious like this. Often the
> logo will stay during the first few commercials, especially commercials
> for shows. And then it will take a while to come back; the show will be
> on for 30-45 seconds before the logo reappears. Another thing I've
> noticed is a near-instantaneous transition to commercials - no blank
> screen at all. This fools the flagger some of the time.
>
> I have also noticed that some channels work much better than others.
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> Raphael,
>
> In my case, I don't have to turn it off at all, the commercials just
> never skip, at all. And if I try to manually skip it, I end up moving
> ahead like 40 minutes within the show. In that case, I just use "skip
> ahead" a few times, which moves you forward 30 seconds, and then I skip
> back if I feel I've missed something worth seeing when I see the show is
> back on.
>
>
Ahh ok I've misunderstood then. Brad's comments sound like a good idea.
I've gone and changed flaggers from time to time, but have always been
way too lazy to actually systematically do it and document anything in
my 3 years of using myth :)
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