[mythtvnz] Commercial flagging / skipping

[Stephen Worthington]

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).