[mythtvnz] Commercial flagging / skipping

[Paulgir]

On Thu, 30 May 2013 01:06:38 +1200, Stephen Worthington  
<stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:

> On Wed, 29 May 2013 21:20:52 +1200, you wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 29 May 2013 14:28:44 +1200, Hadley Rich <hads at nice.net.nz>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 29/05/13 14:23, Stephen Worthington wrote:
>>>> What would help would be to have the key that goes back to where you
>>>> started an ad skip from on my remote, but I have never gotten around
>>>> to doing that.  If I had that key, I could just press it when an ad
>>>> skip did not work to get back to where I was and skip forward again
>>>> manually.  But to do that at present I have to get my keyboard, so I
>>>> tend not to try ad skipping because there is too high a chance I will
>>>> end up in the wrong place and have to spend a lot of time getting back
>>>> to where I should be.
>>>
>>> After ditching commercial flagging I found it easier to just hit 4 then
>>> -> that way you skip 4 minutes which is mostly how long an ad break is
>>> (except public holiday ad free days).
>>>
>>> hads
>>
>> I have set the skip key (down arrow) to 4 mins and use the left and  
>> right
>> arrow to 5 secs for fine adjustments.
>>
>> Paul
>
> I think that 4 minutes is a bit too long except at very peak times. It
> is usually about 3.5 minutes (7 x right arrow).
>
Most of my recording is done at peak times,so it works very well for me.If  
another user found that 3.5 mins is a better choice,then that would be a  
better choice.The shorter 5 sec skip makes finding the end of the ad break  
easy.

Paul