Questions about comm skip

Channels DVR Server
#1

Hello! I have two questions regarding comm skip:

  1. Let's say for example, you begin watching a recording of a show that is 3/4 of the way through airing ... Once the recording is finished and the commercials get flagged, will commercial auto-skip feature automatically kick in while you are watching?

  2. Feature enhancement request: Would it ever be possible to have the comm skip process start while the show is still airing? It would be very cool if you could start watching a show half-way through, and already have (at least some of) the commercials skippable.

Commercial skip not working on NFL games
#2
  1. They do! It's like magic!
  2. Right now it is not. We're always exploring ways to make it better though.
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#3

In relation to 2:

comskip does offer a "Live TV" mode for processing, but it is not quite as good as processing over a recorded file. As far as I am aware, MythTV is the only DVR makes use of this aspect of comskip, and even then it is off by default (which is a good thing, because when I remember using it, it was resource intensive and not that great ... more of a gimmick than a useful feature).

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