Comskip Help

[dgroover]

I have been searching the forums and reading all about batch files and I still cannot get comskip to work. Here is what I am trying to do. I record a show from an ATSC tuner and GB-PVR saves it in DVR-MS format. I am trying to use a postprocessing.bat file to process the media file to mark the commercials. I know that comskip wants a file name and channel number in order to process. Where does comskip get the file name and channel number from? Is it from a log file? I would like to see some examples of batch files if I could. I read in another thread something about using a .edl file for ATSC recording when using comskip. How does this work with comskip? Any help would be appreciated.

[smeghead]

The filename is passed in as parameter %1 to the batch file, see here for more info:
http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Tips/Post1

Here's my file. I use parallelprocessing.bat and not postprocessing.bat but I think it's the same parameters

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@echo off
Rem ParallelProcessing.bat
Rem This script will be run automatically by GBPVR when a recording is started
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 Parallelprocessing.bat invoked on %1 recorded from channel %2 >>parallelprocessing.log

cd c:\program files\devnz\gbpvr

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" == "101" goto eof:
if "%2" == "102" goto eof:
if "%2" == "106" goto eof:
if "%2" == "107" goto eof:

Rem COMMENT OUT THE NEXT GOTO LINE TO USE SPECIFIC COMSKIP.INI FILES
goto generic:

Rem this trick also makes it possible to have dedicated comskip.ini file for certain channels.
if "%2" == "79" goto channel79:
goto generic:

:channel79
comskip --ini=channel79.ini %1
goto eof:

: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

:eof
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hope this helps

Smeghead

[dgroover]

I was able to get comskip and comclean to run but the commercials are way off. It did ok on the first commercial break but missed the others. I recorded an HD broadcast. I thought I read something about the .edl file that comskip creates. Does comskip use that file instead of the .txt file? How do I make sure it reads that file instead of the .txt file?