How-To use Comskip to cut out commercials via MediaPortal (3 Viewers)

[HappyTalk]

As I posted on other thread you need to map chapter skip to 'TVfullscreen' NOT 'Fullscreen video' then it works fine for My TV|Recordings

 

[mendola]

Hi,

I followed this how-to but was only able to create those txt-files to skip commercials.

What actually didn't work was that comclear feature to cut away commercials.

Anyone got idea what's wrong?

I loaded latest files from comskip-page.

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

One thing i would like to point out for me this happens at least.

If i run comskip at the same time as TV recording is being done, when viewing back through recorded TV all the cuts are saved till the very end of the show, so you manually have to FF through the previous ads, real bummer as with automatically skip recording enabled there is no way you can watch the show
but if i run comskip at the end of recording, there is no such problem.

This is using comskip 79.132

ps. think my dualcore system is upto it

 

[johnw230873]

I'm having the problem where Comskip wont process ts file, it does the mpeg files fine (but my engine doesn't record Mpeg fine). The command I am using is

comskip -ts <filename>

the error seems to be "Video PID not found"

any ides

 

[johnw230873]

found the issue, comskip wont do H.264 recordings

Any other applications anyone can recomend

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

found the issue, comskip wont do H.264 recordings

First time i've seen someone say this, but it does sound reasonable considering the format.

Cannot find any info about other format support, not even on the showanalyzer website.

 

[erik1958]

I looked into adding H264 support to Comskip but it will be terrible slow. Both in implementation (me) and in speed (the CPU)

 

[djfuego]

Comskip after transcode

I made a transcode script that is run instead of comskip using FFMPEG Just to shrink the old TS file as I have limeted hard disk space I want to reincode/compress the video. You could modify this script a bit to up the resolutions and Bitrates but the commands are all there.

@echo Please wait For Transcode to complete...
[USER=42607]ping[/USER] localhost -n 3 >nul
echo c:\windows\codecs\FFMPEG -y -i %1 -s 512x384 -f avi -vcodec libxvid -vtag XVID -b 740kb -mbd rd -flags +4mv -cmp 2 -subcmp 2 -sn -g 300 -acodec libmp3lame -ab 128000 -ac 2 -ar 44100 -async 1 "F:\TV\recordings\%~n1.avi">c:\windows\codecs\go11.bat
echo if %~z1 GTR 5000 del %1>>c:\windows\codecs\go11.bat
call c:\windows\codecs\go11.bat
msg /time:8 * Transcode of last recording is complete!

You could probably add commskip in after the transcode for it to work successfully. I don't know if commskip is capable of cutting XVID though.

Whats cool about it is you can open other videos with this transcode script and it will go and reincode the video in most cases.

 

[erik1958]

Did I mention that Comskip does h.264? At least the early access version?