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Hi,

first of all thank you for this very good software. i really like ProgDVB.

Can you add a TV ad switcher plugin or option to ProgDVB?
it should be a really simple function. if you watch TV let's say on channel 1 and when you see the the ads start on channel 1, you just push the TV ad switcher button in ProgDVB or on your remote to activate it, then a small OSD window appears with the number 4 (4 stands for the minutes, it can also be any other previously used number).
now if you as a user think 4 minutes are not enough you can just enter any other number on your remote or in ProgDVB and hit enter to confirm.
now you switch to any other channel without ads, after the 4 minutes(or whatever you have entered in the OSD window) ProgDVB automatically switches back to Channel 1.

this TV ad switcher function is just a simple time counter and channel switcher.

there is a sample code in C for a plugin here http://sbnc.dyndns.tv/trac/browser/tita ... /zapback.c

I think not many channels have fixed ads time...

Prog wrote:I think not many channels have fixed ads time...

In germany in the evening it is about 7 minutes ads time, noon and in the morning it is perhaps only 4-5 minutes. still it would be cool to avoid the ads and auto switch back after the ads. conclusion in the evening we set the timer of TV ad switcher plugin to 7 minutes and in the noon and the morning we set it to 4 or 5 minutes and we manually switch to another channel without ads and after the timer runs up the plugin switches automatically back to our previous set channel. i see no problems here.

let's say we set our red button on our remote as the TV ad switcher button, when the ads start we press the red button, then we press at example the button 7 on our remote and then we press the OK button to confirm our choice. done. after 7 minutes TV ad switcher plugin switches automatically back to our first set channel.

the main problem here without the plugin is, the television viewer almost always forgets to switch the channel back after the ads break.

OK. I am mark this idea for future versions.

Thank you alot and ProgDVB is really the best DVB software for PC.
I'm using ProgDVB with TeVii S650 DVB-S2 USB http://www.tevii.com/Products_S650_1.asp
I've never seen such crisp and detailed full hd pictures when i watch Sat TV on my pc and the best is, i can stream it to my Android HTC One M9 Smartphone.