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Matt:

--- Quote from: raym on October 13, 2011, 01:32:44 am ---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.

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I'm not sure I understand.  They seek back more than ten minutes to briefly hear a line?  Wouldn't that normally be seeking back a minute or less?

Thanks for any clarification.

Matt:

--- Quote from: raym on October 13, 2011, 01:16:19 am ---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...

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I wasn't posting EDL, just something human readable.

You're example is EDL.  It's like this:
[Start Time] Tab [End Time] Tab [Edit Type] Newline

I think the edit type of 0 means cut, not commercial break (which is 3).  But it looks like real-world examples use the two interchangeably, so we treat them the same.

babgvant:

--- Quote from: Matt on October 13, 2011, 01:20:47 pm ---I think the edit type of 0 means cut, not commercial break (which is 3).  But it looks like real-world examples use the two interchangeably, so we treat them the same.

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FWIW, I've only seen 0 in the last position.

raym:

--- Quote from: Matt on October 13, 2011, 09:46:55 am ---I'm not sure I understand.  They seek back more than ten minutes to briefly hear a line?  Wouldn't that normally be seeking back a minute or less?

Thanks for any clarification.

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I'm not sure I understand either  :-\  The way I read your description of this and what I was sure I observed myself initially was jumping back LESS than 10 mins would cancel auto skipping. That made no sense. But I can't reproduce this now so I'm not sure what I was thinking :).

Thanks for the clarification on EDL formats.

Once again, this is an awesome addition!

raym:
So I'm not going crazy... I just started watching a show and MC skipped forward the first 2 times as expected.   About 20 mins in I backed up the video about 30 secs (NOT 10 mins) and MC did not skip the next ad. Stopping and restarting playback fixed it.

I dunno. I understand the problems with this but not sure what to suggest.  For example, what happens when a skip point happens too early? You go back a bit but will MC skip at the wrong point again?

Again, a way to toggle the ad skipping function in the OSD if an edl is present would be a good idea as a temp "fix" for issues like this perhaps.

Thanks.

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