Mythtv:Skipping Commercials

LinuxMCE's default MythTV integration does not automatically edit out commercials after recording, though MythTV does have this ability. In its default state, MythTV will record a show, and then after it is recorded run it though a process which attempts to Identify commercials. It saves this information, but nothing is done with it. After this step is complete, a job runs which adds the new recoding to LinuxMCE's media database so it will show up in the datagrid on the orbiters.

There are, however, ways to Automate commercial removal, as well as manually remove them from old recordings that you didn't have it set to do automatically for. I recommend learning both, as there is no replacement for Human Intelligence when it comes to marking commercials, though in my experience MythTV does a pretty good job of it most of the time.

Automatic Commercial Removal(AKA Automatic Transcoding)

In MythTV terms, this process is called Automatic Transcoding, and there are a couple of settings that must be enabled for automatic transcoding (commercial removal) to work. Also, if you are recording something very important, I would recommend flagging thos recordings not to use automatic transcoding, and manually flag and transcode them yourself, as the algorithms used to flag commercials aren't always 100% accurate.

Manual Commercial Removal and Transcoding