[Sato]

I dunno, I'm thinking commercial breaks are consistent across the nation. Everytime I watch a DVD of a TV show it's pretty clear where the commercial breaks go in. Syndicated shows provide a different problem though... Any TV producers out there on this?

As for the padding -- this could easily be compensated for because BTV already knows how much padding goes onto each recording and thus could amend this number to the Skip file.

J