[mythtvnz] Auto commercial skipping after skip forward or back

Stephen Worthington stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz
Wed Dec 30 13:12:15 GMT 2009


On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:47:04 +1300, you wrote:

>Help!  WAF is low!
>
>My mother's new MythTV box is doing something very strange.  Only from
>the remote control, if I push any of the keys that move forward of
>backwards in a recording by skipping (left or right arrow, up or down
>arrow), the frontend is doing the skip, and then seems to be doing an
>automatic commercial skip immediately afterwards.  From the keyboard,
>the keys all work correctly.  I have compared the setup with what I
>have on my MythTV box, and, allowing for the differing remote
>controls, it all appears to be the same.
>
>Does anyone have any idea why this is happening and how to get rid of
>it?

I found the problem.  It was something in my ~/.lirc/mythtv file.  I
have no idea exactly what though.  I just started from the original
version of that file again and made my changes (very carefully) and
now it is working fine.



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