Changing Media Center Skip Intervals with Registry Files
by Michael Healy @ 8:15 am on April 6th, 2009 in commercial skip with 4 Comments
One of the few things I wish was much easier to change is the intervals which Media Center uses to skip content forward and back. It’s frustrating to be able to skip ahead through commercials at thirty second intervals but then have to press the back button numerous times once you get to the content. By default Media Center’s skip intervals are 29 seconds forward but only 7 seconds back.
Changing the skip intervals isn’t a difficult but still seems to be a little more trouble than it should be to edit the registry values. Luckily now I won’t have to. Below you can download a series of registry files with various skip interval settings. Just double-click and allow the registry modifications. The following are included in the pack:
- Default Intervals
- Both 29 Seconds
- Both 1 Minute
- One Minute Forward and 30 Seconds Back
- Two Minutes Ahead and 1 Minute Back
- Two Minutes Ahead and 30 Seconds Back
Just download the file below and run whichever registry file best suits your needs. Alternatively, if you don’t like those intervals you can set your own using dword values in a registry file or check out this more complete guide using regedit.
Download: skip_intervals.zip (2.47kb)
