How-To use Comskip to cut out commercials via MediaPortal

[tomtom21000]

this will be a very cool feature. unfortunately i can´t promise to test this at the moment but am most interested

tomtom

[hwahrmann]

Erik,

downloaded new code. Seems to work now.
Will test with several files and will let you know the rsult.
Will come back tommorow evening.

rdgs,
Helmut

[hwahrmann]

Hi Erik,

i ran comskip now.
The logo was detected. Everything seems to be ok, tough i'm getting tons of "Panic Volume buffer". Log file is 1.5MB big.

Frame    636 - Black frame with brightness of 15,uniform of 0 and volume of 1575
Frame    637 - Black frame with brightness of 15,uniform of 0 and volume of 1810
Frame    710 - Uniform frame with brightness of 221 and uniform of 233
Frame   1009 - Uniform frame with brightness of 222 and uniform of 220
Frame   1010 - Uniform frame with brightness of 222 and uniform of 205

Looking For Logo in frames 0 to 1225.

Looking For Logo in frames 25 to 1250.

Looking For Logo in frames 50 to 1275.

Looking For Logo in frames 75 to 1300.
Frame   1309 - Uniform frame with brightness of 221 and uniform of 214

Looking For Logo in frames 100 to 1325.
Panic volume buffer
Panic volume buffer
Panic volume buffer
Panic volume buffer
Panic volume buffer
Panic volume buffer
Panic volume buffer
Panic volume buffer
Panic volume buffer
Panic volume buffer
Panic volume buffer
Panic volume buffer
Panic volume buffer

Looking For Logo in frames 125 to 1350.
Panic volume buffer
Panic volume buffer
Panic volume buffer
Panic volume buffer
Panic volume buffer
Panic volume buffer
Panic volume buffer

Had a problem cutting the commercials, since comclean tells me that it is not a valid Mpg file.
Looks like mpgtx can't work with dvr-ms.
Correct?

rgds,

Helmut

[erik1958]

I am working on the "panic volume buffer" Net effect at this moment is that limited audio info is used.

None of the "comclean" family can cut dvr-ms
The whole reason for making comskip work on dvr-ms is to enable playback inside MP to autoskip commercials without the need to cut the recording.
Hope someone enables the MP player to read the output of comclean when playing back.
Both zoomplayer and mplayer are able to read the comskip output but at least mplayer can not play dvr-ms

[erik1958]

New Comskip is available.
All DVR-MS should work now.
Comskip can demux dvr-ms to support editing

[hwahrmann]

Erik,

can confirm that the problem with the Volume is gone.
File is being processed without any errors.
Verified the Cut Points given and it detected all commercials in my test file.
Couldn't verify the demuxing, since neither the "-m" switch and the --output_demux=1 are recognized as valid switches.

regards,

Helmut

[erik1958]

The -m demux switch indeed was forgotten to be included. Will be in the next release
Use
output_demux=1
in the comskip.ini file.

[erik1958]

Anyone out there that can send me a NTSC dvr-ms recording?
Preferrably with a transition between show and commercials.

PM me for the upload details.

[jrball]

I want to archive the processed MPEG's. I have run comskip and the two text files have been generated, how do I actually get the commercials cut out? I can't find how to do this either, am I missing something?

[johnbobjamesson]

Originally Posted by jrball

I want to archive the processed MPEG's. I have run comskip and the two text files have been generated, how do I actually get the commercials cut out? I can't find how to do this either, am I missing something?

Would it be too much to ask you to read the first post in this thread? There's an excellent how-to by Ralph.

J