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Message: <blockquote data-quote="alpax" data-source="post: 124070" data-attributes="member: 24528">I believe I didn't do anything special to make comskip work - maybe just edited the path in a batch file. But the main idea of comskip support is not running it, but using the generated log-file to skip commercials while watching - without cutting them out!Even if comskip made a mistake and marked a part of the show as a commercial, you can easily rewind and watch the skipped part. I agree to do this once for maybe 10 recordings - that's how rarely I face such an error. But all other tens and hundreds of commercials will be skipped fully automatically.To my opinion this is a "must have" feature for any PVR-application - who wants to watch recorded commercials?!? This is completely different thing! With this option MP doesn't care about what actually shows on TV - it just blindly records that channel at that time.That is what I'm talking about! Unfortunately it seems like not smart at all! If the show start time changes (plus/minus 10 minutes, and it is in the guide!), it cannot figure that out. I got a lot of children shows (which tend to move around) cut off at the beginning or the end because of that - kids were very unhappy. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown    :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" />If the show episode is cancelled or moved to the next week, MP will record just what will be shown at that time.I don't remember, what exact option I used once - something like "Record all episodes at this time", but MP could not decide what to do when the show was on two channels at the same time. Its log was full of notes about this conflict, and finally it stopped recording 5 minutes before the episode end (the most important part!), and started recording another channel, where nothing interesting was shown at that time! I think that was "the last straw", after which I switched to GBPVR.GBPVR checks the recording schedule against the actual TV guide, confirms that the show episode is on this channel at this time. If you selected not the exact time but the time slot, it will record the episode correctly regardless of its start time - 7 or 8pm.That is what I'm looking for. Hope that the new MP's TV engine will be finally able to do the same. May be it already does that? I will check it out for sure when will have time.</blockquote>

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