Commercials

[Mark Golczewski]

Does Torc have the ability to skip commercials?  MythTV has them marked.

Also, the fast forward button seems to only work on a small bit of streaming at a time.  Is there any way to configure how far or at least see how far this would fast forward?  This might get around the commercial skipping if I knew I had to forward say 2 minutes of recording.

[Robert McNamara]

Hi Mark,

The ability to skip commercials and fast forward are both limited by MythTV's streaming implementation.  Both would require arbitrary skipping within a stream, which at present MythTV cannot do.  It starts transcoding the program at the beginning and does so as quickly as possible based on your hardware.  So at any given time you can only jump within the transcoded portion.  

There was a time where people were talking about adding support for commercial skip (while transcoding) and potentially the ability to seek within the untranscoded portions (which would require a rework on the MythTV streaming to pre-write the playlist and only start transcoding a segment when it was requested), but neither seem to have been implemented.  Because of these limitations of the backend, Torc also is limited to the current streaming functionality.

Thanks,

Robert

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Mark Golczewski <golcz...@gmail.com> wrote:

Does Torc have the ability to skip commercials?  MythTV has them marked.

Also, the fast forward button seems to only work on a small bit of streaming at a time.  Is there any way to configure how far or at least see how far this would fast forward?  This might get around the commercial skipping if I knew I had to forward say 2 minutes of recording.

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[Mark Golczewski]

Makes sense.  I know there is a way to strip commercials out of a recording as a post processing step.  My limited experimentation yielded odd results so I knew it wasn't something that was easy to do.  The Myth Frontend seems to be able to do it though so I thought I'd ask.