ComClean cuts file size, but not length....

[bradmarsh]

If anyone can help I would be most thankful.
Comclean Comskip rename

Hi, I have the above programs and batch in place but not one show runs without commercials. How do I delete the commercials.....???? and save the space for dvd burn?

Thanks for any help I am totally confused about this one. Everything else seems to work.

Brad

Comclean does have some cutting problems, and can generate a file that freezes in some players. It's not perfected yet.
Which version of comclean do you have?
Which version of comskip are you using?
Look in the comclean.bat file, for lines similar to this:

Code:

Rem RENAME the old .mpg file and rename the new one to the old name
move "%~dpn1.mpg" "%~dpn1_original.mpg"
move "%~dpn1_clean.mpg" "%~dpn1.mpg"
REM exit
goto :eof

For renamerecordings to work, it should look exactly as above.

[reboot]

Your postprocessing.bat should look like this:

Code:

comskip %1
CALL comclean
RenameRecordings

[bradmarsh]

comskip %1
CALL comclean
RenameRecordings

changed from

comskip %1
CALL comclean %1
RenameRecordings %

Thanks fingers crossed

[reboot]

If comskip doesn't find any commercials, or if the first block of the show IS a commercial, then comclean won't process it.
If you go back to comclean 0.0.1 (and REM the exit line as I posted above) it will process, but with an error in the log. It's (for some reason) unable to process the block if a commercial starts on frame 0 or frame 1, yet it works with SA's output.
The older version will error on the first block, but will clean all commercials found from comskip after that.
Change your postprocessing.bat to look like this:

Code:

comskip %1
call comclean %1 >>comclean.log 2>>comclean.err
RenameRecordings %1 > renamerecordings.log

Then check the comclean.err (open it in notepad) to see what happened after a recording.

[tevbill]

Is there any reason that this would not work?

comskip %1
comskippad "%1"
CALL comclean
RenameRecordings
rectracker %1 rectracker.log

[reboot]

That should work.
I don't use comskippad, nor rectracker, but...isn't there a way to add padding directly in comskip.ini so you don't have to use comskippad?
It may be confusing comclean...just guessing though.

If you don't get a cleaned, renamed file, then comclean has aborted.
Try the line call comclean %1 >>comclean.log 2>>comclean.err and see what the .err file shows. It may have aborted the recording because the commercial started on frame 0 or 1.
Go back to comclean 0.0.1 if you WANT it to process, even with an error.

[tevbill]

yeah thanks I will look into modifying the comskip.ini I think that will achieve the results I am looking for.

[jusatry]

my bat file looks like this:

comskip %1
CALL comclean.bat %1
RenameRecording.exe %1


do you have your extensions right and %1 where you need it?

[reboot]

You don't need the .bat nor the .exe extentions included.
The %1 just insures that the programs run, although it's redundant, and probably not needed.
As I mentioned before, if the commercial detected by comskip starts in frame 0 or 1 of the recording, the newer versions of comclean will abort.
The older version will still run, and show an error in comclean.err on the first block, but it will cut all remaining blocks.

[jusatry]

so before which version is the safest to have?