Would like a hook to control commercial skipping programmatically.

[jorm]

Sub,

several people have requested an auto skip feature myself included so as soon as you enter a commercial block it skips.

How about just exposing some methods in the IVideoPlayer to get the current frame position and a skip method. When someone starts watching a video if there is a comskip .txt I can spin off a thread that watches the IVideoPlayer and when we hit a commercial section it would skip it and store the range in an array. If the user rewinds I will check the array if it is in there I will do nothing. If not I skip again.

Jorm

[sub]

I've added an option to auto skip commercials in the next release. Its implemented much like you describe, with a list of sections already skipped, so that the user can rewind if required.

[jorm]

your awesome. thank you

[Pioneer4x4]

I'm looking forward to that also. What I frequently do is, when I get to a commercial, I hit play, if it doesn't skip, I hit forward then play. The only downside of auto skipping is;

Say there is a 'false commercial' detected, and gbpvr skipps it, it would be a pain to skip back to where you where. Could there be a 'autoskip undo' key. Maybe hit rewind within x seconds, and undo the auto skip? Does that make any sense?

Anyway, thanks Sub for considering it!!!!!

[jorm]

good idea

[Jere_Jones]

While this is being implemented, I recommend that two more keys be added. One to change the show/commercial status of a given segement. Another to indicate that a show is perfectly marked.

ShowAnalyzer will use these to learn and improve its detection.

Jere