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Commercial skipping
imugli:
OK so I think we have different meanings for Comskip, and how MC treats / does this ;)
When I say "Comskip" works for ts files, I mean comskip the program (http://www.kaashoek.com/comskip/, not comskip as in "Commercial Skipping".
Secondly, I don't believe MC automatically generates the edl file. I think you still need to run a third party app (comskip) to generate it (thus the reason .jtv cannot be comskipped, because no 3rd party apps support it), but once generated MC honours the edl file. Thus my attempts to get comskip monitoring a folder and running automatically.
pauly139:
Does anyone have Comskip working well for Australian television? If so, would you be willing to share your configuration file? Also, what application are you using to analyse the .ts recordings - eg Lifeextender or something else?
Thx
Paul
nwboater:
--- Quote from: imugli on October 30, 2011, 09:13:47 pm ---OK so I think we have different meanings for Comskip, and how MC treats / does this ;)
When I say "Comskip" works for ts files, I mean comskip the program (http://www.kaashoek.com/comskip/, not comskip as in "Commercial Skipping".
Secondly, I don't believe MC automatically generates the edl file. I think you still need to run a third party app (comskip) to generate it (thus the reason .jtv cannot be comskipped, because no 3rd party apps support it), but once generated MC honours the edl file. Thus my attempts to get comskip monitoring a folder and running automatically.
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Thanks for the clarification. I have Comskip Donators Version and it was working automatically in SageTV with a plug-in. Can somebody let us know if there is a way to have it run automatically in MC, or is that something that is being developed?
For those of you that are using Comskip to generate the edl files what are you doing to run it?
Thanks,
Rod
JustinChase:
--- Quote from: nwboater on October 30, 2011, 11:05:10 pm ---For those of you that are using Comskip to generate the edl files what are you doing to run it?
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I have a utility that watches a Recorded TV folder, and when WMC is done recording a .wtv file (usually about 10-15 minutes after), or when MC17 finishes recording a .ts file (actually usually during, I think the way MC records in eparts in extra folders confuses the utility?) it will 'convert' it to .ts into another folder, on the network, then it runs comskip on it, creates the .edl file* and an .xml file located in a third location, which WMC and the DTBAddin read from and I get automatic commercial skipping when watching the original WMC files in WMC, and I get automatic commercial skipping of the ts recordings (the converted ones and the originals) in MC17.
* the .edl file is currently still being misnamed to match the original filename, not the renamed/converted file. it takes 2 seconds to fix, then it's automatic. I'm hopeful this is resolved in the next day or 2.
This does result in duplicates of your files. Your workflow might cause you to want to delete either copy, and this will do that for you. it still involves a bit of work with the comskip.ini, but you need to do that to get accurate skipping anyway. That's on my list, but it's pretty close as it is now.
a 30 minute SD program takes about 5 minutes to completely finish the process and move all the files, YMMV
a 30 minute HD program takes about 13 minutes to completely finish.
MC-TVConverter the current version can be had here - http://mctvconverter.vivolum.net/
He also has a beta board where you can download a version that has commercial cutting separated from commercial skipping, if you want to just get the .edl, but not actually cut the converted file (comskip isn't perfect)
http://mctvconverter.userboard.org/closed-beta-discussion-f2/tvconverter-beta-t6.html
password is beta
If you want a newer version that cleans up after itself better, please let me know, I'm sure he won't mind if I share it with you.
He's been pretty responsive to my feedback, but his last effort failed to fix the renaming issue, yet again :(
Osho:
--- Quote from: JustinChase on October 31, 2011, 12:01:06 am ---I have a utility that watches a Recorded TV folder, and when WMC is done recording a .wtv file (usually about 10-15 minutes after), or when MC17 finishes recording a .ts file (actually usually during, I think the way MC records in eparts in extra folders confuses the utility?) it will 'convert' it to .ts into another folder, on the network, then it runs comskip on it, creates the .edl file* and an .xml file located in a third location, which WMC and the DTBAddin read from and I get automatic commercial skipping when watching the original WMC files in WMC, and I get automatic commercial skipping of the ts recordings (the converted ones and the originals) in MC17.
* the .edl file is currently still being misnamed to match the original filename, not the renamed/converted file. it takes 2 seconds to fix, then it's automatic. I'm hopeful this is resolved in the next day or 2.
This does result in duplicates of your files. Your workflow might cause you to want to delete either copy, and this will do that for you. it still involves a bit of work with the comskip.ini, but you need to do that to get accurate skipping anyway. That's on my list, but it's pretty close as it is now.
a 30 minute SD program takes about 5 minutes to completely finish the process and move all the files, YMMV
a 30 minute HD program takes about 13 minutes to completely finish.
MC-TVConverter the current version can be had here - http://mctvconverter.vivolum.net/
He also has a beta board where you can download a version that has commercial cutting separated from commercial skipping, if you want to just get the .edl, but not actually cut the converted file (comskip isn't perfect)
http://mctvconverter.userboard.org/closed-beta-discussion-f2/tvconverter-beta-t6.html
password is beta
If you want a newer version that cleans up after itself better, please let me know, I'm sure he won't mind if I share it with you.
He's been pretty responsive to my feedback, but his last effort failed to fix the renaming issue, yet again :(
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Awesome - this is very detailed and very useful :)..
Now, if only we could integrate this whole process into MC17 itself :) :)
Thanks,
Osho
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