Set Comskip to ignore certain channel? (1 Viewer)

[Jay_UK]

Hi there,

You could try something like this (just quickly typed it):

you will need to specify the path to the location of comskip
@echo off
REM
REM place the channel names within the brackets that you do not want to run Comskip for
REM We will loop through each name looking to see if it exists in the recording/filename
REM

FOR %%A IN (itv bbc bbc2) DO (
echo "%1" | findstr /I /C:"%%A" 1>nul 2>&1
if errorlevel 1 (

REM
REM No match found
REM
) else (
REM
REM Match found - so bypassing comskip and jumping straight to the end
REM
goto end
)
)

REM
REM Lets run comskip
REM
"c:\program files (x86)\comskip\comskip.exe" "%1"

:End




Cheers,

J.

 

[kiwijunglist]

oh that's cool didn't know that you could search for string in a .bat file

 

[Jay_UK]

Yep

Another option is to have a separate file with the channel names in (one channel per line)

Call the file something like: exclude_from_comskip.txt

Then modify the script above to be:

For /f %%A in (exclude_from_comskip.txt).....

J.

 

[gonzo90017]

Thanks for the info, i'm about to try it out. One question. This is what my channel list looks like. I decide to include the channel # in front of the channel name. So should I include the # or just the name?

 

[Jay_UK]

Hi there,

Just the channel name.

Basically within Mediaportal (its configurable) you have a list of variables that can be used to produce the filename of the recording (for example channel name - but not channel number). Therefore whatever "channel name" is within Mediaportal, then this is part of the filename.

This filename is then passed as the %1 variable in the script.

All my script is doing is to check if the list of your excluded channel names (or part of) is within the passed filename. If it is, then it simpy goes to the end of the script (bypassing comskip)

J.