Hulu skipping second section of episodes

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Turn on commercial breaks, set number to 0.
2. Watch Full Episode of New Girl (NBC) "Control"
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
The episode plays loading a new stream at each commercial break.  However at 
the first commercial break, the episode resumes after the second commercial 
break instead, skipping an entire section of the episode.  Interestingly, if 
you try to replay the episode, it asks if you want to resume it after [m:ss] 
(the 1st commercial break).

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
BlueCop 3.4.4, Hulu video plugin. 

Please provide any additional information below.
I believe this has been an issue for a while now.  There were certainly several 
Daily Show's which seemed unusually short and it seemed as though I missed 
entire sections of Jimmy Fallon as well.
* If you play all the way through the episode having skipped the second 
section, if you reselect the episode then it asks if you want to resume from 
the skipped section.  However, it does not work to stop it and resume after the 
commercial break because it resumes from the 3rd section, so is ineffective as 
a work-around.
I confirmed that the second section of Tuesday's (March 20, 2012) Late Night 
with Jimmy Fallon (NBC) is "missing" as well.
It's not just NBC programming, the Daily Show is skipping the second section as 
well.
I didn't notice anything unusual about the commercial breaks when viewed 
through a traditional webpage.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by DancesWi...@gmail.com on 22 Mar 2012 at 3:58

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I wanted to check in to say that this is no longer an issue.  Thanks for all 
your hard work, Bluecop!

Original comment by DancesWi...@gmail.com on 30 Mar 2012 at 3:36

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I am experiencing the same issue. What was the fix? Cheers,

Original comment by nwal...@gmail.com on 7 Oct 2012 at 9:14

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I just found a fix for this. It's an ad setting. I edited my Hulu configuration 
(System>Add-Ons>Enabled Add-Ons>Video Add ons>Hulu) and entered the Configure 
menu. Under here you will see a section called Streaming. I upped my pre-roll 
ads and trailing ads to the highest value, and also enabled commercial breaks, 
and set that at the highest value. I was then able to see the beginning of 
several shows I had issues with. Hulu may treat the first segment of a show as 
some form of ad until the first commercial is over. Every time I had this issue 
the show would start after the first commercial.  Play around with the various 
add settings and see values that can still get you the first segment of the 
show without all the extra commercials. I haven't done that yet to find the 
right combination. I am just happy it works now.

Original comment by andrian...@gmail.com on 20 Oct 2012 at 1:36

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Still working at zeroes with 3.4.4 I have turned off autoupdate in xbmc. You 
should give a specific example for bluecop to check... I would guess not all 
shows have the same ad structure.

Maybe in a new thread though I guess this one is back at the top anyway.(?)

Original comment by DancesWi...@gmail.com on 20 Oct 2012 at 2:09

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That's odd that it works for you at zeros. After I fixed mine, I noticed how 
much I was missing of shows. Some shows were just more obvious than others. The 
broken ones for me are The Voice, ONCE upon a time, Vampire Diaries, Jimmy 
Fallon, SNL. I found the perfect setup - I have commercials disabled but 
pre-roll and trailing ads set to 1. At these settings I get the whole show. If 
I had either set to zero, I would miss the start of many shows, and for some 
shows would miss the end. So this fixed it. I also don't have to deal with 
commercials with the new settings. I don't know how other people aren't seeing 
this. It happens on most all of my content. Glad it's working for you! Maybe we 
had slightly different issues.

Original comment by andrian...@gmail.com on 20 Oct 2012 at 5:12