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With DTB configured and our commercial skip preferences in order, we're going to do a little more optimization. If you aren't sure what each function does, just mouse over the drop down and read the tool tip. This basically disable these functions since these keys on the remote aren't used when watching recordings. Set everything else here to a D and a number like D3.

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This way the only negative side affect is that you can't browse right and left in the Guide while watching recorded TV (you know like a TiVo!). Although there really isn't an ideal setting, we find that the Right Key for Auto Skip On and the Left key for Auto Skip Off works the best.

The main key to achieving our desired results here is setting the preferred keys.

Start at the bottom by checking the Auto Skip check box and the Suppress Not Found check box (otherwise anytime you try to watch a recording that has not be scanned, you'll get a nag warning).

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If you don't want it to work like that, then by all means don't follow these settings, if you aren't sure how to change the behavior, post in the comments and we'll try to help. Now in the event that part of a show was incorrectly marked as a commercial - it does happen on occasion - what we want to do is simply disable the auto skip altogether and skip 'em manually. In the event that the show has not been scanned yet, we just want to watch the show and skip commercials manually. When a recorded program is played back, we want the commercials to be skipped automatically without even pressing a button. If your Recorded TV directory isn't flat like it is by default in Media Center, then check the Recursive watch check box.Д«efore we get into this, lets go over how we want this to work because there are lots of options. We also checked the automatic cleanup so temp files get deleted, as well as the Include Watched folder (although we don't know what it does). Towards the bottom, make sure the Log Create and Log Write check boxes are checked, otherwise it can be difficult to troubleshoot when things go wrong.

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If you have tons of disks, load up Resource Monitor in Windows and monitor the Average Disk Queue length to see what your box can handle. If you are very sensitive to a lagy UI, you should set this to 1.

We found that our dedicated Recorded TV Hard Drive really can't handle more than two workers and let us watch TV at the same time.

Set the workers to 2, which is how many shows will be scanned at the same time.

On one hand it is nice to be able to automatically skip commercials while a show is still recording, but on the other it occupies a worker for a much longer time (more on that next).

Wait Time should be set to 0 if you want recordings to be scanned for commercials while they are still recording, 5 if you'd prefer to wait until the recording is completed.

You can add more directories, one per line, if you store recordings in more than one folder.

The Watched Directories needs to contain your Recorded TV directory, which should be filled by default.