[mythtvnz] Chch setup help please?

[Nick Rout]

On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Jim Cheetham <jim at gonzul.net> wrote:
>> Can it do anything with myth's commercial detection? I presume it's
>> got skip forward/back? There's no way I'd accept anything these days which
>> didn't have 30 second skip. I also don't think I could live without
>> timestretch.
>
> The commflag data is unavailable, I'm only re-playing the broadcast
> mpeg2video data. I'd have to create a new video file by assembling the
> "program" portions of a broadcast, and copy that down to the Popcorn
> if I wanted to skip commercials, and the commflagging would have to be
> very accurate to make that worthwhile. Comments onlist have indicated
> it's not quite there, so I haven't bothered.

myth has this function.
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Mythtranscode#Remove_commercials_from_an_MPEG2_recording

But as you say the commflagging has to be good before you trust it
with your recordings.

>
> I don't have a +30sec skip AFAIK, I get 2x,4x,8x speed forward & back.
> It's not perfect, but if you blast past the point you want on 8x,
> pressing play tends to drop you back by ~20 seconds anyway.
>

I installed minimyth on a frontend recently and it was set by default
to do ff 3x,5x,10x,20x (and more probably) on the right button, rather
than the more normal 'skip a predefined time'. I liked it so much I
put it on the other frontend too. I think its called sticky keys.

> Some programs can't rewind. I once encountered one that wouldn't
> fast-forward! There's nothing obvious to me to show the differences
> that cause this; in at least one case it's a single episode from a
> series, so I have to assume that it's broadcast with the same encoding
> as its compatriots
>
> On the whole it's a good machine, but it's by no means perfect :-)
>
> -jim
>