Commercial Detection

jorm · 2004-09-09, 02:42 PM

I just built comskip. I put a hack in it to take a parameter for the ini name besides comskip.ini if specified. I want to play with it so I can run multiple ini's.

CodeMonkey · 2004-09-09, 04:08 PM

I wonder if capture card comes into play for blank frame detection. I suspect it does. If so, finding magic settings that work for everyone won't be possible. A little side application like jorm is working on to help people tune their own setups might be the way to go.

jorm · 2004-09-09, 08:21 PM

Comskip tool #1 complete.

Recursively runs the modified comskip (takes param for comskip.ini). If the text file for the commercials is not present it will generate it in a batch processing one at a time.

There is also a config.xml which allows you to define commercial parameters per show if you want, so you can tweak individual shows.

sub can use this if we prove comskip works, to generate commercial information every night.

jorm · 2004-09-10, 01:57 AM

I noticed that the comskip exe in the source tree is more accurate then the source code that is there. I built an exe from the source used the same .ini and the result was different. The one I build missed the last commercial set.

colin · 2004-09-10, 03:05 AM

Hey Jorm,

i tried your wrapper util but it didn't seem to have any luck in executing comskip. I'll look into it in more detail over the weekend.

Just tried the original comskip.exe on NBC's Joey and it worked nicely,

Colin.

jorm · 2004-09-10, 09:37 AM

It looks for comskip in the same directory as the util.

jorm · 2004-09-10, 09:44 AM

I am using the downloaded exe not the built one. I just ran it on a saturday night live episode (rerun) caught all of the commercials but cut out the closing credits and goodbye. Still got the content.

colin · 2004-09-10, 11:38 AM

I'll look more later but it looks like it tries to start up comskip then it dies immediately and your tool finishes. I suspect its not finding comskip (which is in the dir with your tool). I'll poke about the src later on and see what is happening,

Colin.

bryan · 2004-09-10, 05:49 PM

Is there a program already written that can play the mpg file,while reading the comskip output file, with the commercials skipped?

Thanks

colin · 2004-09-10, 06:25 PM

The only one i know of is Sagetv.

If we think this is a good route to take (and so far results have been positive) Sub may at some stage include support for this.

Colin.

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