comskip and gbpvr interaction problem

[gkreis]

I missing the beginning and ending of some shows and I think it is due to the way comskip and gbpvr interact. I have the skip automatically enabled and I have noticed that sometimes a show seems to start in a little late. I thought it was the padding time, but increasing it didn't resolve it. Mostly, though, it affects the end of a show. The timeline shows green for a long stretch (without the usual commercial at the end) and the show ends early. When I open the recording in vlc, I can skip over the last commercials and see the ending.

It seems that GBPVR must chop off the end of a recording if all it sees is a commercial on the end of it. This keeps me from being able to override it and use the arrow keys to move along the timeline to see the ending.

If I am right, how should it be handled? I guess you could make the special case of keeping the ending even though it appears to be all commercial, and don't skip over it. Just let it play right into it (but I can hear the cries about autoskip being broken...;-). Even if it worked like this, I could use FF I guess and still scoot right out the end of it before I know it. Maybe we need a feature that would stop it from ending automatically at the end of the show in this case? Oiy.. I am not quite sure how to handle this.

[gkreis]

Well, after I submitted this I came across comskippad which sounds interesting. A nice way to think outside the box. Instead modding the logic around the file, mod the file! I look forward to see how well it works.

[erik]

Did you set in your comskip.ini file
delete_show_before_or_after_current=0
delete_show_after_last_commercial=0