Commercial Detection

[jorm]

I have not had success enabling closed captioning in gbpvr, so I can try out the new comskip detection. See my post in support "Enabling Closed Captioning". Has anyone else been able to try it yet?

[Fillian]

The comskip detection in 0.60 works amazingly well!

One capability in GBPVR that would be really useful would be an autoskip setting (maybe a tag in config.xml) that causes the playback to automatically jump to the next post-commercial point without requiring the remote. My wife gets quite annoyed when I'm not paying enough attention to the TV to blast through the commercials.

[jorm]

Fillian,

Do you have closed captioning enabled?

[pancapangrawit]

Filian - with that name - do you happen to be in Germany? If yes, could you post me your .ini-settings?
.r.

[stu8080]

Are there any british users having success?

Im having a very mixed success rate, i think our logos are very varied (Five has that fade across screen effect that might not be picked up) and no CC available i dont think, im sure our .ini settings need to be tweaked to get best results.

Jorm i think it sounds like we have similair problems with CC. someone on the sage forum described how ours (Europe) differ from the US etc in that ours are called up through a wider info subchannel (teletext/ceefax etc) and so the CC page numbers differ by channel. Ive had no success with them, could this be the reason?

A concise description on how ComSkip works is here which helps me understand things a little:
How ComSkip works

[stu8080]

pancapangrawit, sorry mate, just noticed you made the very same point on the previous page! i apologise

[pancapangrawit]

Hi, no problem stu8080, rather interesting. So do you also have something like we in Germany in Britain? Each-channel has its own offerings and you pick them by page numbers. Do you also use vtplus as an interface for it? If that's the case, I don't think it makes sense to try to enable cc in the registry. You can use vtplus without enabling anything in the registry, and I think there is no way with hauppauge to display the videotext/teletext on the same screen as the monitor. I'm not sure what happens by enabling cc in the registry. Maybe change the way how the information in the "vbi-stream" is interpreted?
Best
.r.

[stu8080]

Essentially yeah, the only good thing is that subtitles are always channel 888. Ive not played with vtplus much, i might see how it works.
On Sky satellite system the subtitles feature is switched on at the reciever and so i dont know if the CC info would be present on the Composite TV-in of the TV card and would show on all recordings/live TV or whether the info is always transmited to Comp in and Sky reciever makes it visible/invisible in which case it might be picked up by PVR-350 regardless.

Im using just terrestrial channels via aeriel in and having no luck at all.

[Fillian]

Hi Jorm - as far as I know, no I don't have CC enabled. I'm using the stock comskip.ini that came with the package and haven't messed with the PVR-150/PVR-350 settings to enable CC. (I have a dual tuner setup.) I haven't fiddled with brightness or any of the other settings because I've been getting good results so far on detection.

If only it autoskipped for me... [0]+ [-|] is such a awkward one-handed combo on a Hauppauge remote.  

Panc - sorry, I'm in the US, getting NTSC over Comcast cable service. 'Fillian' was the name of a D&D character I played 13 years ago.  

[pancapangrawit]

Thank you anyways, Filian.

Stu8080 - I wonder whether it is possible at all to get vbi-data via composite in (and not the tuner). You might want to try with vtplus first - choose channe 254 and see whether you get anything. As I said I don't think there is a way to get videotext on the tvscreen, except you have a player software that explicitly supports it (like dScaler on AVI-cards). WinTV2000 doesn't do it.
It appears to be different in the States, an American might help us out here: if you enable CC in the registry, are subtitles automatically displayed on the tv-screen? - maybe regardless of the player-software you use?

Best
.r.