SkipMode Blunders

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TKnight206

Discussion Starter · Mar 19, 2021

I'm creating a thread for people to post the more egregious SkipMode mistakes. This of this as a place to vent. By egregious, I don't mean a few seconds.

For example, March 18th, 2021's The Daily Show With Trevor Noah had the first 50 seconds of the show cut off.

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mattack

· #2 · Mar 19, 2021

There have been times when it skipped many many minutes into a show..
heck, I always watch the time bar when I skip to make sure it didn't skip an entire segment (or my remote do a double-press -- multiple of my remotes seem to do that sometimes, and with new batteries)... and if it wasn't obviously at the very beginning, skip back 8 seconds.

Still, better than having to FF through or 30 second skip.. (though I watch the shows that I can on fully commercial free streaming, even with those having WORSE UI than Tivo for the transport controls).

tim_m

· #3 · Mar 21, 2021

Thankfully that has never happened to me.

TKnight206

Discussion Starter · #4 · Mar 21, 2021

I remember one episode of Black Lightning, there was like no audio for 30 seconds after a commercial. Not a mistake or anything, it was just a quite scene with no dialogue or anything that would result in captioning being needed. Well, if I recall, the skip marker was placed wrong... right where captions began.

If I had to guess, they use humans and technology to do the markers. Perhaps they use captions as a guide, and errors results when humans don't bother double checking to see if it's right. Kind of like how I think The Daily Show had the marker after the title sequence instead of at the beginning of the cold opening.

tim_m

· #5 · Mar 21, 2021

TKnight206 said:
I remember one episode of Black Lightning, there was like no audio for 30 seconds after a commercial. Not a mistake or anything, it was just a quite scene with no dialogue or anything that would result in captioning being needed. Well, if I recall, the skip marker was placed wrong... right where captions began.

If I had to guess, they use humans and technology to do the markers. Perhaps they use captions as a guide, and errors results when humans don't bother double checking to see if it's right. Kind of like how I think The Daily Show had the marker after the title sequence instead of at the beginning of the cold opening.

The CW screws up a lot. This was on last weeks episode. The first 30 seconds was totally black. I also quite regularly get where it goes black and and then green then a semi vertical line before the show comes back on. Usually the audio still is out for a few seconds after the video comes back. I do not believe this has anything to do with TiVo. It is either CW or something wrong with the local affiliates.

Rob Helmerichs

· #6 · Mar 21, 2021

Interesting...CW for me has always been pretty bullet-proof. It always starts and stops almost perfectly, much more so than other networks. To the point where I notice how good it is.

(I stopped watching Black Lightning after a couple episodes this season, however...)

tim_m

· #7 · Mar 22, 2021

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tim_m

· #8 · Mar 22, 2021

And it just did it again for the second time during Batwoman.

Rob Helmerichs

· #9 · Mar 22, 2021

No skip on Batwoman for me, so I can't test my previous comment that skip on CW shows (when it exists, of course!) has always been pretty much bulletproof for me...

TKnight206

Discussion Starter · #10 · Apr 1, 2021 (Edited)

This week's episode of Supergirl cuts off nearly 30 seconds of the episode around 22 minutes in.

Then at 44 minutes in, it resumes. But SkipMode skips to nearly the 50 minute mark. Nearly six minutes of the show cut off. Okay, not six minutes. It just skipped a whole segment of the episode. Six minutes minus the commercials that followed.

tim_m

· #11 · Apr 1, 2021

It was fine for me, very weird.

Rob Helmerichs

· #12 · Apr 1, 2021

tim_m said:
It was fine for me, very weird.

I had the same experience as TKnight206.

Made slightly worse because the initial commercial break came back with something of a non sequitur, so it was hard for me to figure out exactly where I needed to resume watching from.

CinciDVR

· #13 · Apr 1, 2021

tim_m said:
It was fine for me, very weird.

I also had the same experience as @TKnight206 and @Rob Helmerichs.

justen_m

· #14 · Apr 2, 2021

CinciDVR said:
I also had the same experience as @TKnight206 and @Rob Helmerichs.

Me four. Watching Supergirl from 3/30, hitting skip at the 39m mark skips ahead to the 49 min mark, by-passing two commercials breaks sandwiching 5 minutes of the show. I remembered the last scene I saw and rewound all the way to that, and then just did 30ss manually past the commercials.

TKnight206

Discussion Starter · #15 · Apr 3, 2021

Rob Helmerichs said:
I had the same experience as TKnight206.

Made slightly worse because the initial commercial break came back with something of a non sequitur, so it was hard for me to figure out exactly where I needed to resume watching from.

It might be worth forming the habit of hitting play before skipping, to see if the jump is too big.

TKnight206

Discussion Starter · #16 · Apr 8, 2021 (Edited)

This week's episode of Supergirl has SkipMode problems again.
About 27:10 it resumes and SkipMode skips to about 27:37. About 27 seconds of one section it cut off.

TKnight206

Discussion Starter · #17 · Apr 8, 2021

April 7th's episode of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert has the cold opening cut off using SkipMode.

TKnight206

Discussion Starter · #18 · Apr 14, 2021

About four and a half minutes of The Flash was cut-off using SkipMode at the beginning of the episode. Using it to skip the commercials before the show begins, and it skips over four minutes into the show.

tim_m

· #19 · Apr 14, 2021

Yep happened to me too. I had to rewind it multiple times for it to not skip. The test of the episode was fine though.

justen_m

· #20 · Apr 14, 2021

TKnight206 said:
About four and a half minutes of The Flash was cut-off using SkipMode at the beginning of the episode. Using it to skip the commercials before the show begins, and it skips over four minutes into the show.

I verified that with Flash, too. But... I suspect this is the case at the beginning of a lot of shows. I know I've seen it before. That's why I don't use skip at the beginning of shows. At most, I use a single 30ss, and usually have to jump back 8 a couple times. I'm guessing there's some sort of minimum "jump window" size, or something like that. If there are only, say, 10sec of non-show to jump, it is just seen as part of the show. Shurg.

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