New plugin: Convert2wme 0.0.0 for MPEG-VCR

[erik]

This is my second plugin
it can be downloaded here

The plugin will convert the .txt file generated by comskip to a .wme file used by Womble MPEG-VCR as a cliplist.

When a new comskip (or ShowAnalyzer) is available that can generate .wme files there will be no more need for this plugin.

The plugin includes a convert2wme.bat file that can be used to convert already existing comskip .txt files to .wme files.

Instalation:

Copy convert2wme.bat to your gbpvr home dir and study the example postprocessing.bat on how to use this script.

Thanks to reboot for the testing

[reboot]

Now...another request...could you do the same thing for a Cuttermaran project file? (*.cpf)
It uses xml...here's an example of a movie, containing two audio tracks, with two chunks edited:

<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>
<StateData xmlns="http://cuttermaran.kickme.to/StateData.xsd">
<usedVideoFiles FileID="0" FileName="G:\!Videowork\video.m2v" />
<usedAudioFiles FileID="4" FileName="G:\!Videowork\video.ac3" StartDelay="0" />
<usedAudioFiles FileID="5" FileName="G:\!Videowork\video.wav" StartDelay="0" />
<CutElements refVideoFile="0" StartPosition="2222" EndPosition="3424">
<cutAudioFiles refAudioFile="4" />
<cutAudioFiles refAudioFile="5" />
</CutElements>
<CutElements refVideoFile="0" StartPosition="7642" EndPosition="14722">
<cutAudioFiles refAudioFile="4" />
<cutAudioFiles refAudioFile="5" />
</CutElements>
<CurrentFiles refVideoFiles="0">
<currentAudioFiles refAudioFiles="4" />
<currentAudioFiles refAudioFiles="5" />
</CurrentFiles>
</StateData>

[erik]

It looks rather simple but.....

I tried cutterman but the problem is that its so time consuming to use.
You first have to split, then to use cuttermaran and then to combine again.
What's te advantage against womble?

The fact that cuttermaran does have a cut list is good but for me its slower.
Or is there a better way to use cuttermaran?

I would be more motivated if I understand why I should work on it.

[reboot]

Cuttermaran is free (something that's always good!), and does an excellent job at frameaccurate cuts.
It's not any more difficult to use than womble, once you get used to it.

[erik]

Reboot,

This shoud do it.
Put the code text inside a convert2cpf.bat file (just like conver2wme.bat)
To test it I demuxed a file with woble into a .mpv video file and a .mpa audio file.
I assume them to be in the same directory as the .txt file.

When i try this with cuttermaran if starts to scan the files on loading the project (VERY slow on my 400mHz gbpvr system), how to skip this?
Then when trying to preview the cuts is say "missing filename" so no preview.
And I can;t get the output to work. I fooled the mixer to use profile 3 (generic MPEG) but no sound in the output file.
Help please?

Code:

rem Convert2cpf.bat Version 0.0.0

rem Initialize the variables
set start=1
rem Create the cliplist
echo ^<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?^>  >x.wme
echo ^<StateData xmlns="http://cuttermaran.kickme.to/StateData.xsd"^> >>x.wme
echo ^<usedVideoFiles FileID="0" FileName="%~dpn1.mpv" /^> >>x.wme
echo ^<usedAudioFiles FileID="2" FileName="%~dpn1.mpa" StartDelay="0" /^> >>x.wme

rem Process all the lines from the Comskip output file
for /F "usebackq tokens=1,2,3*" %%i in ("%~dpn1.txt") do call :processline %%i %%j "%%~dpn1"

rem Last part of the file
echo   ^<CurrentFiles refVideoFiles="0" ^> ^<currentAudioFiles refAudioFiles="2" /^> ^</CurrentFiles^> ^</StateData^> >>x.wme
rem Rename the output file
move x.wme "%~dpn1.cpf"
rem Done.

goto :eof

:processline
rem Skip useless lines
if "%1"=="FILE" goto :eof
if "%1"=="-------------------" goto :eof
rem Output the clip information for the show part
echo ^<CutElements refVideoFile="0" StartPosition="%start%" EndPosition="%1" ^> ^<cutAudioFiles refAudioFile="2" /^> ^</CutElements ^> >>x.wme
rem Remember start of next clip
set start=%2
goto :eof

:eof

[pwtenny]

This is my second plugin
it can be downloaded here

The plugin will convert the .txt file generated by comskip to a .wme file used by Womble MPEG-VCR as a cliplist.

When a new comskip (or ShowAnalyzer) is available that can generate .wme files there will be no more need for this plugin.

The plugin includes a convert2wme.bat file that can be used to convert already existing comskip .txt files to .wme files.

Instalation:

Copy convert2wme.bat to your gbpvr home dir and study the example postprocessing.bat on how to use this script.

Thanks to reboot for the testing

I wrote a similar but stand alone command-line program for the people on the SageTV forums back in April. It creates both the .wme project file and also the .vls clip list. The latter list creates a single video in MPEG-VCR with the commercials already cut so you don't have to assemble it yourself.

You can get it in any of three formats: zip, rar, or self-extracting EXE. This program is GPL'ed and the source code (it's in C) is included accordingly.

http://dock.nevernet.com/comskip2vls/1.2/