[mythtv-users] Switching away from comcast to online streams

[Michael T. Dean]

On 01/27/2014 02:17 PM, CACook wrote:
> What does MythTV do with commercials?  It is set to automatically skip all of them --by default no less-- using up to eight different algorithms to detect what is and is not, a commercial.  No different than Replay.

FWIW, the default is to disable commercial skipping and notification, 
completely.  Users have to enable it if they want it, or else watch 
commercials, or else fast forward/seek past them.

That said, I've still seen no authoritative source saying the commercial 
skipping is disallowed.  On the bright side, though, commercial 
detection has generally been useless outside the US, and over the years 
since the transition to digital broadcast in the US has gotten much less 
useful/accurate due to changes in the way broadcasters are 
encoding/cutting/splicing the video streams.  So, if it is a bad thing, 
maybe external changes are solving the problem.  :)

Mike