[mythtv-users] commercial flagging questions

James Orr james.orr7 at gmail.com
Thu Mar 27 13:05:38 UTC 2008


On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 11:59 PM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>
wrote:

> On 03/26/2008 02:43 PM, bungle wrote:
> > 3. It looks like the only commercial-skipping keys are Z and Q, and they
> > always jump even if the position is nowhere near a commercial.  My wife
> (and
> > thus I) had a problem the other day because she skipped at a commercial,
> and
> > it jumped 15 minutes or so.
>
> Hit the button to skip to next commercial break marker (End or Z).
> Notice that Myth says, "Skipped 15:32."  Hit the button to skip to
> previous commercial break marker (Home or Q).  No matter where you were
> when you hit the Z key, if you hit Q within a few seconds (3? I think),
> you skip back to where you were when you hit Z.  Therefore, at this
> point, you know where you're at (if you hit the skip button when the
> commercial break started, you can now use the appropriate skip
> (Left/Right)/jump (Up/Down) keys to skip the break manually).
>

Additionally you can set the maximum number of minutes that it will skip.
Set it to 5 and it pretty much eliminates all extra long jumps like that.
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