Comskip does not process anything (1 Viewer)

[Dandy]

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Comskip does not process anything if started from TV-Server. The postprocessing.bat runs fine, if I start it from a dosbox. If I start it from the tv-server plugin (TEST), a dos box shortly appears that states "Der Befehl "C:\Program" ist entweder falsch geschrieben oder konnte nicht gefunden werden" in English:" Thew command "c:\Program" could not be found.

It seems that the plugin does not find the postprocessing.bat

Parameter is set to "{0}".
Can anyone help please?

 

[jameson_uk]

No logs

Should I assume from the above that you are using comskip launcher to run a batch file rather than comskip.exe?

 

[Dandy]

AW: Re: Comskip does not process anything

Hi Jameson,
yes I am using the postprocessing.bat - also for "Test". I have been trying for hours and found out the following:

1. If I set the Parameters in the ComSkipLauncher to "{0}" (with quotes) then the batch-file is not found at all.
2. If I leave out the quotes, postprocessing.bat starts but stops immediatly because the directory- and the filename contain blanks.
3. If the filename and the directory do not contain blanks, it works
4. I do not want to change the naming of the recording. I need it with blanks because of the episodescanner etc.

How do I transfer the directory- and filename with blanks correctly to the postprocessing.bat?
Any help would be very welcome.
Thanks

 

[jameson_uk]

forgive my ignorance but I am not sure where this postprocessing.bat comes from?

 

[Dandy]

AW: Comskip does not process anything

The batch-file is part of the comskip-zip that you can download.
it loos like this:


@echo off
Rem PostProcessing.bat
Rem This script will be run automatically by GBPVR when found after a recording is finished
Rem To enable it put this file inside your GBPVR default program directory (C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\)
Rem together with Comskip.exe, Comskip.ini and Comskip.dictionary
Rem The script is called with two parameters
Rem %1 is the fully qualified name of the recorded mpeg file.
Rem %2 is the channel number of the recording
echo Postprocessing.bat invoked on %1 recorded from channel %2 >>postprocessing.log

Rem The part below can be used to not run Comskip on certain channels, please modify for your conveniance.
Rem The channel numbers that should be skipped are the numbers between the double quotes ("").
Rem You can add "if" lines as much as you want
Rem To disable this behaviour use channel numbers outside the normal range, put a "rem" before the "if" or delete the "if" lines

Rem list of channels to not run comskip on
if "%2" == "27" goto eof
if "%2" == "36" goto eof

Rem this trick also makes it possible to have dedicated comskip.ini file for certain channels.
if "%2" == "79" goto channel79
if "%2" == "72" goto channel72
if "%2" == "65" goto channel65
Rem use the default comskip.ini for all other channels
goto generic

:channel79
comskip --ini=channel79.ini %1
goto continue
:channel72
comskip --ini=channel72.ini %1
goto continue
:channel65
rem This is an example of how to reuse a previously learned logo to prevent Comskip from learning the wrong logo
comskip --ini=channel65.ini --logo=channel65.logo.txt %1
goto continue

:generic
Rem The actual run of Comskip. Only one parameter, the name of the mpeg file to process.
Rem Comskip will read its settings from the Comskip.ini found in the same directory as Comskip.exe
Rem Both are supposed to be in the GBPVR default program directory. (C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\)
comskip %1
:continue

Rem Once the commercials have been identified you can run comclean to delete the commercials from the recording.
Rem Do this only when you are not using the Skip function in the GBPVR viewer.
Rem To enable comclean remove the word "Rem" from the following line.
rem call comclean %1
:eof


It simply calls the comskip.exe with the parameter %1 which is supposed to be the directory and filename from ComskipLauncher.

 

[jameson_uk]

I just point the plugin at comskip.exe directly and this works. Is there any reason you need to use the batch file?

Marking as no bug (if the bat file is not handling spaces this is an issue with the batch file not MP)

 

[Dandy]

AW: Re: Comskip does not process anything

Yes pointing directly works I know. But with the batch file you can call certain options, like ignoring HDT-files, starting comclean afterwards etc.
I wonder how to transfer the filename and the directory with spaces inbetween to the batch-file.

 

[ronilse]

Hi,
In .bat files you use "" when path has space, like this: "C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal+MediaPortal" same as command line in windows..

Regards
Roy

 

[Dandy]

AW: Re: Comskip does not process anything

Hi ronilse,
yes thank you. I have been trying to do this out of the ComSkipLauncher. I use the postprocessing.bat and the parameter "{0}". This does not work. With comskip.exe it works. But this is not what I want. :-(

 

[jameson_uk]

Re: AW: Re: Comskip does not process anything

yes thank you. I have been trying to do this out of the ComSkipLauncher. I use the postprocessing.bat and the parameter "{0}". This does not work. With comskip.exe it works. But this is not what I want. :-(

You need to change the batch file with this info not MP

I think you need to change things like
comskip --ini=channel79.ini %1
to
comskip --ini=channel79.ini "%1"