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Most commercials here are around 8 minutes. I want a comfortable way by using a manual binary skipping scheme: skip 8 minutes forward, if too far, 4 minutes back, if too far back, 2 minutes forward and so on.
Is there a addon providing this?
(I don't want comskip or other automatic things)
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You can approximate this by choosing the skip steps in the settings. By default, the setting is 10s, 30s, 1m, 3m, 5m, 10m. So, while watching a program, if you press RIGHT 4 times, it will seek to 3 minutes in the future.
(I find the defaults to be quite adequate, as in the US most commercial breaks are 3 minutes, while reality-type programs tend to have 5 minute breaks. And, the same steps work in reverse: press LEFT twice to seek backwards 30 seconds.)
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Thank you, that makes it a bit easier.
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You can also edit those times.
Man 8 minutes are a lot, ours are about 4 minutes, but maybe more often.
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2018-04-05, 19:47
(This post was last modified: 2018-04-05, 20:48 by j-m-s.)
How do I press "RIGHT" on an android box?
I could use "swipe right" and "swipe left" with the mouse, but kodi does not react to mouse gestures.
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By default, the same skip steps are also mapped to the PREV/NEXT buttons. (In Kodi, these buttons are internally named "skipminus" and "skipplus" if you want to change your keymap.)
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I have kodi in an nvidia shield android box and an MX3 air mouse.
I think I have to associate the PG-/PG+ buttons with skipminus/skipplus.
But in which keymap file?
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2018-04-15, 10:10
(This post was last modified: 2018-04-15, 10:14 by j-m-s.)
So I make a remote.xml and put sth. like this in:
<keymap>
<TVRecordings>
<remote>
<key id="1234">SkipNext</key>
<key id="9876">SkipPrevious</key>
</remote>
</TVRecordings>
</keymap>
Or can I use
<pageplus>SkipNext</pageplus>
<pageminus>SkipPrevious</pageminus>
?
But how do I know if kodi recognizes the key as pageplus?
In the standard remote.xml I see:
<skipplus>SkipNext</skipplus>
<skipminus>SkipPrevious</skipminus>
So skipplus and skipminus are the names of the buttons?