skipping fouled up again

[sub]

No this is on an NTFS partition (win7 32bit). Some recordings are fine (ie skipping backwards goes backwards), but in others skipping backwards goes forward and it gets worse towards the end of the recording (starts skipping by several mins to 20 mins per skip)

Reproduce the problem, and post the npvr.log, along with a description of the skipping steps you tried to do, and I'll see if anything stands out in the log.

[marspath]

Reproduce the problem, and post the npvr.log, along with a description of the skipping steps you tried to do, and I'll see if anything stands out in the log.

Thanks Sub, I'm attaching the log.

Here are the steps:
I went to 'Play' a recording (not resume) which for some reason started not from the beginning but at the 4 mins mark, then I pressed the skip back button 5 times, which instead took me forward by increasing number of minutes until by the 5th skip backwards it reached the end of the recording.

EDIT: I just noticed that the recordings I'm having problems skipping through are unusually large compared to others in the same series. For example a 30 mins recording is usually around 800MB, but the ones I'm having problems with are at 1443 MB (for 30 min recording). This is on Win 7 32bit, NPVR 2.0.3 recorded with Hauppauge HVR 2250 (analog cable).

[Wakalaka]

Is commercial skipping built in to NPVR? I just set up my antenna and config picked up multiple OTA channels. I recorded a channel, but commercials weren't skipping. Can my GB-PVR PostProcessing.bat work for NPVR where it called comskip.exe to create commercial skipping info?

[sub]

Is commercial skipping built in to NPVR? I just set up my antenna and config picked up multiple OTA channels. I recorded a channel, but commercials weren't skipping.

Like GBPVR before it, NPVR doesnt have any built in commerical skipping capability, but it is able to use comskip files to skip seconds of a file during playback.

Can my GB-PVR PostProcessing.bat work for NPVR where it called comskip.exe to create commercial skipping info?

Yes, probably.

[jksmurf]

Is commercial skipping built in to NPVR? I just set up my antenna and config picked up multiple OTA channels. I recorded a channel, but commercials weren't skipping. Can my GB-PVR PostProcessing.bat work for NPVR where it called comskip.exe to create commercial skipping info?

... allow me to clarify the changes though, to just dumping comskip.exe, .ini and postprocessing.bat in the devnz/gbpvr directory like it was in GBPVR. In NPVR there is a different dir.

The current NPVR sticky doesn't refer to it directly, but does point to the OLD STICKY

Post # 3 of the old sticky is here and it says this:

Batch files executed by NPVR:
[DATA]\Scripts\ParallelProcessing.bat <filename> <channelnumber> <oid>: called when a recording begins - often used for comskip
[DATA]\Scripts\PostProcessing.bat <filename> <channelnumber> <oid>: called when a recording completes (not canceled) - often used for comskip or transcoding
[DATA]\Scripts\UpdateEPG.bat : called when the EPG update begins at the time specified in Settings; commands herein should update the XMLTV file
[DATA]\Scripts\PostUpdateEPG.bat : called during the EPG update procedure, but after the EPG is loaded; can be used for additional EPG-related processing (i.e. xmltvextras)
[DATA]\Scripts\Wakeup.bat : called after PC resumes from sleep, before beginning any recordings.

To be clear, in the two Processing bat files, %1 will be the full path and file name of the recording file, and %2 will be the channel number it is/was recorded from. %3 will be the recording OID parameter for scripts that will modify the database.

The UpdateEPG.bat is only needed when using the XMLTV option; the broadcast EPG and Schedules Direct options do not need this file.

I posted a sample PostProcessing.bat that runs comskip here: http://forums.gbpvr.com//showthread.php?...post387833

See post 1 for the location of the [DATA] directory.

Post 1 says:

[DATA] = "C:\Users\Public\NPVR" on Windows 6 variants (Vista, 7, 2008)
[DATA] = "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\NPVR" on Windows 5.x variants (XP, 2003).

So I just put comskip.exe, .ini and postprocessing.bat in the [DATA]\Scripts\ dir.

k.

[Wakalaka]

I put comskip in c:\users\Public\NPVR\Scripts and commercial skipping doesn't appear to be happening.

[jksmurf]

I put comskip in c:\users\Public\NPVR\Scripts and commercial skipping doesn't appear to be happening.

I assume you also put postprocessing.bat in the scripts dir? Here is what is in mine:

Code:

C:\
cd C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Scripts\
echo %date%,%time% - invoking comskip on %1 >>processing.log
comskip %1
echo %date%,%time% - comskip finished with %1 >>processing.log

The echo lines are to logs, you can delete them, but help to see if it has run.

[Wakalaka]

The first line of my c:\users\public\npvr\scripts\PostProcessing.bat file

Code:

echo Postprocessing.bat invoked on %1 recorded from channel %2 >>postprocessing.log

I have PostProcessing.bat and comskip files in c:\users\public\npvr\scripts. I do not have a postprocessing.log file, which means PostProcessing.bat isn't getting called.

[Jaggy]

Are you letting your test recording run right through? I believe Postprocessing.bat doesn't get called if you cancel a recording before it finishes by itself.

[Reddwarf]

Are you letting your test recording run right through? I believe Postprocessing.bat doesn't get called if you cancel a recording before it finishes by itself.

That's true, it has to run to the end before PostProcessing.bat is called.