Why seconds for the skip?

[Paulp33]

I was wondeing why the number press and skip works in seconds, why not minutes? ie at the moment you can type a number up to 999 and press forward or backward skip and it will skip that number of seconds. I assume it is for ad skipping? Why not make this minutes so it becomes a useful way of navigating to a particular point in a file? It will still be useful for ad skipping, at least here in Australia it would as you cannot prdict to any more accurate than a minute how long an ad break will last (the stations seem to have adopted a strategy of randomising the lengths of ad breaks, presumably to frustrate ad skippers).

[sub]

I used seconds because I like to be able to jump in seconds. I'm often jumping 150 seconds.

[Paulp33]

Any possibility you could add a checkbox in the config to select whether you want it to work in minutes or seconds?

[festus]

When navigating large files from the MVP, fast forward is too slow and skip is too interactive. I would definitely like some mechanism for larger skips or even absolute time scans.

[mvpaaagh]

Thanks for this thread guys. I didn't realise this feature existed. Very useful although I too would prefer minutes rather than seconds or the option to go beyond 999 seconds.

[Guest]

Can you change the default skip of 60 seconds? I see where you can change the small skip if you enable it but not the big skip. I know you can enter a number and then skip but I don't want to do that all the time.

By the way, I have been having problems with SageTV so I am now looking at GB-PVR. So far, it is really nice and I REALLY like the integration with the MVP. Great work!

David