Using MPEG-VCR with Comskip

[erik]

WOuld it be possible to post the .txt file generated with comskip?
You can test the script also standalone and run it from a DOS window inside the gbpvr home directory like

postprocessing.bat "c:\directory\path\filename.mpg"

If you put a REM before the comskip it will use the already generated .txt file.
I will have a look at it later today.

[erik]

I have tested your postprocessing.bat and it runs as it should!

To make sure your comskip did run and the output .txt file can be found please insert the following two lines directly after the line that runs comskip

if NOT EXIST "%~dpn1.txt" echo >>comskip.log Error: "%~dpn1.txt" does not exist
if NOT EXIST "%~dpn1.txt" goto :eof


The file comskip.log (if existing afterwards) will tell you what file could not be found.
Hope this helps....

Anyway, in your post of yesterday you quoted the following .wme file

#
CLIPLIST: #1 show
CLIP: D:\Boy Meets World\Boy Meets World_20050529_10391104.mpg
6 0 19693 1 192 0 1 224 0 0 0 0 0 0
CLIPLIST: #2 commercial
CLIP: D:\Boy Meets World\Boy Meets World_20050529_10391104.mpg
6 19693 7917 1 192 0 1 224 0 0 0 0 0 0
CLIPLIST: #3 show
CLIP: D:\Boy Meets World\Boy Meets World_20050529_10391104.mpg
6 27610 1000000 1 192 0 1 224 0 0 0 0 0 0

This is a correct.wme file!!!!


You have to load it into MPEG-VCR from the menu
File/Load editor project to clipboard
After loading you see three clips on your clipboard.
Use the command View/Details view to get a better readable list of clips.
Now you can review each of the clips and combine them in one.

But watch out!!!!!
The part of the lines in .wme that says "1 192 0 1 224 0 0 0 0 0 0" depends on the content of the MPEG file.
Please use MPEG-VCR to find out if they are correct. (the file information (+) button at the right bottom part of the clip window when you open the .mpg file in MPEG-VCR)
The 192 stands for MPEG layer-2 audio
The 224 stands for MPEG-2 variable bitrate video
If you record something else you must change these numbers otherwise MPEG-VCR will try to read the incrrect stream from the MPEG file and your clips will appear to be empty.

[reboot]

I opened Womble, and selected File, Load editor project, and it does nothing.
I will run another test, including the code above, and post back with the comskip log and the txt.

[reboot]

I think I have found the problem.
The .wme file contains the original mpg name, such as: d:\mytvshow\mytvshow_20050530_0800-0830.mpg
Rename recording then renames it to something like this:
d:\mytvshow\episodename.mpg
The .wme file does not find the file, because it's been renamed.
I may have to run renamerecording BEFORE the .wme bat...
This should work (I think).

[erik]

make sure the you change the %~dpn1 to something where the renamed file can be found.
Otherwise it will fail...
If you can not predict the new name it all becomes very difficult.....

[reboot]

Just how would I do that?
I really need the episode name, so I do need to have renamerecording running.
Preferrably BEFORE comskip.
I tried renamerecording before the .bat and it didn't work, because the .bat couldn't find the renamed file (I guess).
Is there a way to run these two together somehow?

[reboot]

I also added this:

rem this Should delete the x.tmp file...
IF EXIST x.tmp DEL x.tmp |y

right before the REM DONE line, to delete the x.tmp

[erik]

I would recommend then to first run renamerecording.
Then to scan all your directories for .mpg files without a .txt file.
Run comskip on those .mpg files and run the .txt to .wme script.

An example script to scan a direcory see below
You can run it from postprocessing.bat, does not take much CPU time. (I did not test it, just typed it....)
-------------------------------------------------------
for %%f in (c:\mydirectory\*.mpg) do call :menc "%%f"
goto :eof

:menc
if EXIST "%~dpn1.txt" goto :nocomskip
comskip.exe "%~dpn1.mpg"
:nocomskip
if EXIST "%~dpn1.wme" goto :nowme
Rem this is your old postprocessing.bat without the comskip or the renamerecording
convert2wme "%~dpn1.txt"
:nowme
:eof

[reboot]

That may work, however...I must save shows, each in their own folder (the gbpvr setting).
I suppose I could add multiple lines to scan multiple folders, but it would be nice if it just scanned all SUB-folders of the main recording folder.

Call me an idiot, but I have no idea how to implement the code you just typed.
Where does it go?

[erik]

OK,

In your new postprocessing.bat you have (excuse the typo's)
---------------------------------- postprocessing.bat start
comskip.exe %1
renamerecording %1

rem The next For command will recursively walk all subdirectories below c:\root_of_video and execute the :menc for all .txt files present.
rem Kind of brute force approach, who cares....
for /R d:\root_of_video\ %%f (*.txt) do call :menc "%%f"
goto :eof

:menc
rem Don't do anything if the .wme is already present.
if EXIST "%~dpn1.wme" goto :eof
Rem this is your old postprocessing.bat without the comskip or the renamerecording
convert2wme "%~dpn1.txt"


:eof
---------------------------------- postprocessing.bat end

YOur old postprocessing.bat is renamed to convert2wme.bat and with deleted comskip, renamerecording or others.
Its sole purpose in life is to convert a found .txt file into a .wme file.

Walking the subdirecftories of your video collection will not take too much time (unless you have 1000+ directories )