Ctivo support8/1/2023 ![]() ![]() In Preferences>General>Commercial>Strategy, you can choose whether to use Comskip or SkipMode only, or "SkipMode → Comskip", which means "Use SkipMode but if it's not available, fall back to Comskip instead". Best of Both Worlds (for Commercials at least): If you prefer not to have cTiVo retrieve automatically, you can disable Auto SkipMode, and the breakpoints can be retrieved manually by selecting a Show or Download and selecting "Get SkipMode from TiVo" from the cTiVo menus (either TiVo menu or right-click contextual menu). cTiVo will not interrupt a show being played back. Furthermore, in Automatic mode, cTiVo will only retrieve SkipMode breakpoints when your TiVo is playing Live-TV (as that's the default mode for an idle TiVo). To avoid interrupting your viewing, you can schedule a range of times in Preferences that's acceptable for cTiVo to take over your TiVo (see “Auto SkipMode Restricted to” in Preferences>General). If the SkipMode breakpoints aren't available when needed, the download will pause until they become available or until the four-hour wait time expires. When SkipMode breakpoints become available, they can be automatically retrieved for shows in the Download Queue. cTiVo makes it as easy as possible to take advantage of SkipMode, while falling back to Comskip as needed. However, there are some complications: 1) SkipMode may not appear until hours after a show ends, 2) SkipMode is only available for popular channels/shows, not news or sports, and may randomly be unavailable for an episode of a show that normally has it, 3) SkipMode is not available on TiVo Suggestions, unless you Keep the show on TiVo, and 4) most annoyingly, the only way to get the SkipMode breakpoints is for cTiVo to literally play the video and jump to each segment to find where it starts, thus disrupting viewing on the TiVo for 10-20 seconds per show. As TiVo's SkipMode analysis is done by humans, it is almost 100% accurate. ![]() With SkipMode, TiVo marks the commercials for certain shows. Notes on SkipMode (from 3.3 Release notes): Overview
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