[mythtv-users] 5 Sec Replay?

greg at nodecam.com greg at nodecam.com
Fri Feb 1 15:32:46 UTC 2008


> On Feb 1, 2008 9:42 AM, Fred Squires <fsquires at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 10:55 PM, Michael T. Dean
>> <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>> > On 01/31/2008 08:21 PM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
>> >  > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:02:25AM -0600, Noah Markon wrote:
>> >  >
>> >  >> Right now when I click on my replay button it only goes back 5
>> >  >> seconds, which makes some things sort of painful. When you skip
>> ahead
>> >  >> 30 seconds you have to skip back 6 times to get back where you
>> were. I
>> >  >> looked all over for this changing this setting but I can't seem to
>> >  >> find it anywhere. In fact I think it's listed in the TV Settings
>> area,
>> >  >> but it's not on the screen it's suppose to be at. I would also
>> like to
>> >  >> change the 10 minute skip ahead/back to 5 minutes. Anyway one know
>> >  >> where these settings can be changed?
>> >  >>
>> >  >
>> >  > On our box, we've set it to go forward 28 seconds, and back, I
>> dunno,
>> >  > either 5 or 8. There's magic, though, in that if you go one
>> direction,
>> >  > and then the other one within some short period of time, the jump
>> >  > distance on the second changes temporarily to match, so you can
>> correct
>> >  > overshoots easily.
>> >  >
>> >  > I don't know where that knob is; it's probably been moved going
>> from
>> >  > .18 to .20.
>> >
>> >  Smart Fast Forwarding
>> >  If enabled, then immediately after rewinding, only skip forward the
>> same
>> >  amount as skipping backwards.
>>
>> This is also the case for commercial skip.  If you commercial skip
>> forward (and it goes too far) hit commercial skip back and it will go
>> to the previous spot, instead of the previous commercial flag.
>
> Isn't that the previous commercial flag, anyway?  There are two
> commercial flags for every commercial break - commercial start and
> commercial end.

You can hit the commercial skip button at any point - it's most useful
when you hit commercial skip, but the system didn't flag what you're
seeing as a break, and skips 15+ minutes to the next break that it did
flag.

Greg



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