<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/4/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Kevin Kuphal</b> <<a href="mailto:kuphal@dls.net">kuphal@dls.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Bill Peck wrote:<br>><br>> I was very pleased to see that with the latest ATRPMS UPnP video<br>> playback is working perfectly on my HD1000! Especially important<br>> since the native MythRoku has stopped working and devleopment is slow.
<br>><br>> I was wondering if it might be possible to have the MythServer skip<br>> commercials for the UPnP clients? Since the server would basically<br>> have to skip the video that is flagged as a commercial it could get
<br>> annoying if it got it wrong. Surely it would have to be an option to<br>> turn on or off, or maybe provide another UPnP folder or file that is<br>> the "commercial less" version. Another thought would be to show the
<br>> commercial video if the user rewinds or forwards around a commercial cut.<br>><br>> It just seems that now that UPnP is starting to work so well and we<br>> don't have to worry about protocol versions on our silent frontends
<br>> that we could bring back the best feature of MythTV. :-)<br>Since they skipping is done by the client (frontend), not the backend,<br>your best bet is to do a lossless transcode and cut out the commercials<br>from the original file which will then not have them when streamed to
<br>the client.</blockquote><div><br>I know thats how its currently implemented. I'm asking if this could be implemented in a future version and if others think its a good idea.<br><br>I am going to use the commercial cutting script for now. But I think we could get some kind of hybrid approach (rew/ffwd) that would work well for UPnP clients.
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