[mythtv-users] Commercial Flagging NFL Games

Clay ctmythtv at pacbell.net
Mon Sep 27 15:30:54 UTC 2010


Robert Shields wrote:
> I have been recording NFL games and watching them after being commercial
> flagged (it makes the game go about 3x faster).
> 
> I have found that during the commercial flagging process MythTV always flags
> the kickoffs as commercials since the network only shows the one play and
> immediately goes back to commercial.  I realize that I could go through
> manually and fix every kickoff so it isn't flagged, but that solution has
> two problems:
> 
>    1. It would be time consuming
>    2. More importantly, in doing so I would know the score of the game
>    before I saw the whole thing...kind of ruins the experience.
> 
> 
> I also know I could simply watch the game w/o commercial flagging or fast
> forward manually when I know a kickoff is coming, but I thought before I did
> either of these two I would ask to community if they had come across this
> issue before.  If so, how did you solve it?

Some shows I record have known (to me) commflagging issues... lots of 
dark scenes that get flagged, people walking in front of the camera that 
get flagged, etc.

For these I simply hit play, then immediately turn off auto-skip.
Use the comm skip button when I get to commercials.



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