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Comm skip isn't always perfect or at least not for me. Actually let me rephrase that... it always works for me lol its all the weird trash tv shows my g/f watches that don't work perfectly with all their weird commercial breaks haha. In wmc I have a key press that disables it so when watching a show it can easily be disabled when not working. In Kodi I notice it says that you can FF / RR and it cancels out the EDL files but its just not the case at least not when using serverwmc as your PVR backend. In fact sometimes when I try to rewind back it gets all messed up and jumps forward. I have noticed mythtv has a setting to prompt at the beginning of a recorded show to ask if you want to use the EDL file. This would be awesome! but to be honest I would even take just disabling them all together and just using FF/RR when on the kodi clients.
So either a feature to not use EDL files per view or at the very least disable them all together on the client would be awesome. Maybe this feature exists already and I just haven't been able to find it. I will say I looked pretty hard though. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!
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2016-10-10, 19:21
(This post was last modified: 2016-10-10, 19:22 by krustyreturns.)
Interesting. When you say that mythtv prompts if you want to use the EDL file when you hit play, is that when using their kodi addon? I ask because I don't think there is a way for us to do this prompt through the pvr addon.
As for FF and RR canceling out the EDL file, if that happens normally in Kodi then it should be happening when using serverwmc too. Because when you play a wtv file, all serverwmc is doing is telling kodi the location of the wtv file, kodi then does the playback (and the EDL) with no intervention from serverwmc. The only exceptions to this are if you are playing a file while it is being recorded, or if for some reason you have turned on the 'remux the playback of all..." in the debug tab of serverwmc (which should only be turned on for debug purposes).
So I am guessing if FF and RW should be canceling the use of the EDL files but if its not working, then maybe its a bug with kodi and wtv/edl. To test this, you can add the location of your wtv/edl files as a video source to kodi and then play the files in kodi directly (bypassing serverwmc) and see if you get the behavior you expect. If you don't then you should ask the kodi team about it.
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myth tv- So I have 0 experience using it lol its just what I have read in their forums / wiki. There is an option in the Myth tv PVR config for EDL files - Always, Prompt, and never. Then those that have described it in the forums discuss it as I have described. I have never used it so don't know if it truly works as intended haha.
FF/RR canceling out - Again I am only assuming it happens normally as this is what I have read on both wikis and forums. I like your idea about trying to play the files without serverwmc though. I will give that a try and see what happens.