Comskip after AutoGK?

[brent1979]

Hey all
New to GBPVR, thinking of migrating from BeyondTV becuase i dont like being railroaded into 50$ for beyondmedia.

What i was curious about is if GBPVR can achieve full commercial skip & transcoding capability that BTV had, which is to
1) Record show
2) Scan for commericials and make cut points xml (txt)
3) Transcode to XVID/WMV/DIVX
4) play back transcoded file and still use the cut points from comskip
5) do all of this automatically in the right order of operations.


If this functionality can be achieved then the only thing the commercial products would have over GB would be the spotlight/online features which are pretyt much crap anyway except radio and i think gb does shoutcast or whatever soo..

[sub]

No, it doesnt do any transcoding. It does support capture devices like the LifeView TV Walker and Plextor PX-M402/TV402U which record directly to DivX.

Transcoding isnt really something I'm interesting in, but one of the other developers may add something. In theory you could rig up your own transcoding using the postprocessing.bat file that is called after each recording.

[brent1979]

Yes that is exactly what it does; postprocessing.bat calls autoGK to transcode to (ideally) XviD.

The question is, can The COMskip commercial skipping plugin be used with any kind of file not just mpeg recordings? For instances, if you havea convertx and have direct divx encoding can you use comskip features?

[sub]

Comskip only works with MPEG video.

[reven]

its a good idea thou to make it every file matching the comskip file name use the comskip file since its filename.mpg and filename.comskip so it would easy to extend this (well a not a lot of checking for file existance etc, implementing might be harder) filename.avi filename.divx filename.mov etc.

low priority of course.

[sub]

Its not really that simple. brent1979 referred one of the devices (convertx) supported by GB-PVR  which records directly to DivX. comskip.exe is not designed to work with DivX files so there is no way to generate comskip files for these.

Sure I could probably add playback-only comskip support for avi files, but I prefer to answer questions about GB-PVR in its current form, not how it might be in the future. GB-PVR does everything in "time" format. Comskip generates "frame" format information. I've written routines parse the frame rate information out of the MPEG2 sub headers, but I dont have the equivalent functionality for other format files. Whilst probably not a bad idea to support this for some other formats of file, I'm not going to be adding this any time soon so its easier just to be honest and say it cant currently do it.

[KingArgyle]

You might be able to use CBREAK to automaticaly remove the commercials from an AVI file. I have not yet had a chance to try it with a XviD or Divx file yet.

http://students.washington.edu/natetrue/cbreak/

Basicaly, it is like Cutterman but for AVI files.

If you know C++, you could probably modify it to produce a compatible comskip file for processing within GBPVR.

[brent1979]

Well thats unfortuante (and since i already own snapstream ill keep it because it can do this) but i had a revalation; if you factor the cost of beyond media and beyond tv together, you could just instead opt for 300 gigs or so of storage. Hardware is usually a better buy than a program too, esp with GBPVR improving all the time.

[stattik]

Quote[/b] (sub @ Dec. 14 2004,01:27)]In theory you could rig up your own transcoding using the postprocessing.bat file that is called after each recording.

Where is that postprocessing.bat file? I've searched for it but cannot find it.

Thanks.