[Kirtlander]

Is commercial-skipping/EDL working properly for anyone? On a show that otherwise plays back fine perfectly on mythtv-frontend, the dialog doesn't appear (when I have skipping set to "dialog") and the skip happens in the wrong place. Much later than it should.

I wonder this myself. I sure wish that the automatic commercial skipping could be disabled since commercial detection is less than accurate on most US programming, particularly toward the end of the show. With EDL enabled, Kodi skips right past the end of the show, dropping back to the show list. It's maddening. Further, if you do decide to skip back, sometimes it will skip back to the mark, other times it will use the 10 minute default jump. Yes, I read about that three second grace period to recover from an automatic skip; but what if I didn't click it in time? What if I change my mind and want to go forward to the mark? There seems to be no rhyme or reason. It would seem to me that if there are scene markers present, that only those should be used for jumps, like on DVDs.

It's sooooo close to being usable enough to replace Mythfrontend, except for this behavior. I've been trying XBMC/Kodi on and off for the last three years, and the DVR integration was always the deal breaker for my wife and family. But with the new Myth add-on and newer Kodi, it's so much better than it was, but still not quite there.

Perhaps I'm just spoiled by the Mythfrontend default behavior of commercial skipping, which seems the most sane and predictable (read: family-friendly). It does not auto-skip by default, it can be invoked by simply hitting a button (oddly down by default, but i change mine to up for skip forward and down for skip backward), skipping to the next commercial marker. If no more commercial markers exist, Myth refuses to skip, saying it will be skipping past the end (this is a good thing!). I never miss the ends of a show this way. I would love to see this behavior in Kodi.

Recommendations (options to allow Kodi behave more like Mythfrontend):

1. Option to disable auto commskip
   
2. Separate keymap options for "Next Chapter" and "Previous Chapter" (i.e. not combined with the Big Step Forward/Backward)
   
3. Don't skip when there are no more marks