Comskip/Comclean

[Nightmare77]

Anyone have a working version of Comskip/Comclean with the new tv engine, i haven't been able to configure comskip/comclean yet, and was wondering if anyone has managed to do it, if they have is it possible to get the ini file from the comskip folder to help me on my way.

[luksmann]

I actually have a working comskip solution, but not with the new TV-Server.

My solutions works with the myPrograms plugin and deletes commercials in all .mpeg and dvr-ms recordings.

Send me a PM if you need further information!

Greets, Luksmann

[Ralph]

Originally Posted by luksmann

I actually have a working comskip solution, but not with the new TV-Server.

My solutions works with the myPrograms plugin and deletes commercials in all .mpeg and dvr-ms recordings.

Send me a PM if you need further information!

Greets, Luksmann

Hi Luksmann,

what program do you use for cutting dvr-ms files automatically after comskip has detected the ads?
Is it the dvr.ms-cutter from Comskip-Page? 'cause this is not working on my machine.

Regards
Ralph

[luksmann]

It is dvrcut from the comskip-page.
You have to open the comskip.ini and set output_dvrcut to 1

i got as far as that but thant I encountered a few problems.

what's most imporant is that you have to put all the comskip files into your user directory (C:/Documents and Settings/username) or comskip and dvrcut won't work.

you'll also have to unzip all the dvrcut files into your recordings folder. for me that's
e:/recordings - the files have to be in exactly the same directory as your recordings - no subfolders allowed.

than you'll have to edit your postprocessing.bat

my postprocessing.bat now looks like this:

comskip %1 /opens comskip; %1 is the full name of the recording.

"%~dpn1.bat" /comskip creates a .bat file, named after the input file. the content of this file is something like dvrcut "full name of the recording" xx:xx:xx and so on. this line open the .bat file. no matter where it is located (which solves the drive letter problem)

del "%~dpn1.txt
del "%~dpn1.log"
del "%~dpn1.bat"
move "%~dpn1.dvr-ms" "%~dpn1_original.dvr-ms"
move "%~dpn1_clean.dvr-ms" "%~dpn1.dvr-ms" /the three del commands clean up all the comskip logs. the move commands rename the original recording into recordingname_original.drv-ms and the recordingname_clean gets renamed to recordingname, which solves most problems with the MP tv-recordings database.

so my finished postprocessing.bat looks like this:

@echo off

comskip %1

"%~dpn1.bat"

del "%~dpn1.txt
del "%~dpn1.log"
del "%~dpn1.bat"
move "%~dpn1.dvr-ms" "%~dpn1_original.dvr-ms"
move "%~dpn1_clean.dvr-ms" "%~dpn1.dvr-ms"

i hope my solution works for you! if you experience any further problems feel free to pm me!

regards, luksmann

[Azazyel]

Off topic, but did you use 'move' instead of rename because you got errors with rename, or because you're Linux/Unix savvy? Or did you just copy it from someone else?

[luksmann]

I never did batch file programming so I read some online tutorials.
the first command i found which matched my requirements was "move" - so I used it

greets, luksmann

[erik1958]

I assume DVRCut could be anywhere in the PATH.
That is, in the current directory, or in the windows system directory or in the windows directory.
You can add directories to the path.
To find you where your PATH is open a cmd.exe window and type
path
Or you could set in your comskip.ini where dvrcut can be found
change
dvrcut_options="dvrcut \"%s.dvr-ms\" \"%s_clean.dvr-ms\" "
to
dvrcut_options="d:\\path\\to\\dvrcut \"%s.dvr-ms\" \"%s_clean.dvr-ms\" "
Make sure to use double backslash for the path to dvrcut (needed because of the escaping)

I also assumed you had to use
call "%~dpn1.bat"
instad of
"%~dpn1.bat"
but its good to hear its working!

[luksmann]

Works just fine without the "call" command...

but thanks for the information about the PATH problem!

greets, luksmann