How-To use Comskip to cut out commercials via MediaPortal (2 Viewers)

[Ralph]

Re: Comclean process failing.. help me

Hi,

When ever I am using Comskip application it is failing at Comclean process, i tried with couple other different clips but i ended up with same error, can some one suggest how i can resolve this..

it is failing when comclean process started, error saying "results in invalid"
Thanks in advance.

Hi Green_Star,

are you using the tutorial?
And how did you convert your recordings to mpeg?

Regards
Ralph

 

[broadscott]

comskip edl and MediaPortal

Is there anyway to get MediaPortal to use the comskip edl file to skip ads, without having to cut them out?

 

[CodeMonkey]

broadscott - not currently

 

[broadscott]

broadscott - not currently

Are there any plans to implement this type of functionality? Afterall, there is really no need to remove ads physically from a file if you just want to watch a file once skipping over the ads (and hence saving precious disk space).

 

[CodeMonkey]

broadscott - I don't know of anyone pursuing this yet.

I notice that comskip/comclean will now do dvr-ms files. I plan on checking into this soon and will post a 'how to' for this as well.

 

[broadscott]

broadscott - I don't know of anyone pursuing this yet.

I notice that comskip/comclean will now do dvr-ms files. I plan on checking into this soon and will post a 'how to' for this as well.

It's easy to schedule a post capture task to use comskip to scan the file and flag all the commercials and output an edl. I have no idea about coding, but I really think the ability for MediaPortal to be able to read an edl would be handy. GB-PVR and MPlayer can read edit decision lists.

 

[deppeler]

Does anybody use this plugin and have altered the ini file to better detect commercials?

The default value is:
detect_method=43

But it is hit and miss...sometimes it detects correctly and sometimes it cuts portions of a program off...

Any ideas or suggestions

thanks

 

[erik1958]

Does anybody use this plugin and have altered the ini file to better detect commercials?

The default value is:
detect_method=43

But it is hit and miss...sometimes it detects correctly and sometimes it cuts portions of a program off...

Any ideas or suggestions

thanks

Did you read the tuning manual?

 

[deppeler]

Does anybody use this plugin and have altered the ini file to better detect commercials?

The default value is:
detect_method=43

But it is hit and miss...sometimes it detects correctly and sometimes it cuts portions of a program off...

Any ideas or suggestions

thanks

Did you read the tuning manual?

I just found the link to it....I'll study it.
Are the defaults (I changed to NTSC) 'ok' values or does it need tweaking?

thanks

 

[erik1958]

There are many people that have good results with the default ini file.
Which version of comskip do you use?
There is no need to set NTSC or PAL????