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Commercial skipping
raym:
--- Quote from: Matt on October 12, 2011, 10:52:11 am ---Future enhancements may include putting the commercial regions on the progress bar display, and supporting additional commercial skip formats.
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Any chance MC could read a VideoRedo .vprj cut file too? Xbox MC and others support this format as it's quite popular.
I've attached a sample.
Osho:
--- Quote from: raym on October 12, 2011, 10:31:19 pm ---Any chance MC could read a VideoRedo .vprj cut file too? Xbox MC and others support this format as it's quite popular.
I've attached a sample.
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Just my 2 cents: before supporting many different formats for meta-data for TV recordings, MC17 should 'standardize' on one such format - the one that it generates automatically after a TV recording is completed and analyzed (at a potentially user-configurable time and priority). Let's make sure that one method of commercial detection and skipping works well before opening up to other usage flows.
Thanks,
Osho
raym:
--- Quote from: Osho on October 13, 2011, 12:47:34 am ---Just my 2 cents: before supporting many different formats for meta-data for TV recordings, MC17 should 'standardize' on one such format - the one that it generates automatically after a TV recording is completed and analyzed (at a potentially user-configurable time and priority). Let's make sure that one method of commercial detection and skipping works well before opening up to other usage flows.
Thanks,
Osho
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I actually came back here to re-tract my request but you responded before I could do so. I completely agree with you. EDL (as produced by comskip and the likes) is a far more widespread format I believe and certainly the correct choice to focus on first.
I've messed with this quite a bit today and I've gotta say, WOW! It's so nice to be able to finally use this feature inside MC. Well done guys.
raym:
It just occured to me that perhaps EDL is not a standardised format? When compared to Matt's example above, the EDL that comskip produces looks a bit different, eg:
123.36 333.52 0
843.64 978.08 0
1412.08 1569.32 0
1889.28 2014.08 0
2868.80 2994.76 0
This appears to work fine so... I'm not sure...
raym:
--- Quote from: Matt on October 12, 2011, 05:00:27 pm ---I made it so that it only does a skip once.
But if you jump back more than 10 minutes, it'll reset and do skips again. My thinking is that at some point you're not jumping back to correct a wrong skip but instead jumping back to watch the show over.
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I don't like this much. The family often jumps back briefly to hear a line in the dialog that was missed or whatever. Problem is, the next jump point is ignored.
So, my pref would be a) ignore back skips entirely (as others have said) and b) enable forward skips ALWAYS - with an OSD option to enable/disable commercial skipping if the sidecar exists.
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