Comclean plugin : automatic deletion of commercials

[dirtygreek]

I'm having a weird problem with comclean. My first try was perfectly successful; comskip didn't do exactly what it should have, but comclean seemed to cut the files right where comskip told it to.

However, I'm having a problem now where the original file is getting renamed to showname_original.mpg, and the log says that a clean file is being generated, but the clean file is nowhere to be found! It only happens sometimes, and other times, the files show up.

[erik]

This happens when no commercials are found

It is solved now

The new version can be found here

[dirtygreek]

But, it did find commercials. The most recent was an hour long show, and comskip identified three commercial breaks. Then comclean didn't cut any of them. Maybe I'm misunderstanding you as to what "didnt' find commercials" means? I'll try the new version.

thanks!

[erik]

The new version works when no commercials are found.
In your case it does not make a difference
Please post the txt file that shows the found commercials so I can test

[dirtygreek]

Sure thing, erik, here you go:

FILE PROCESSING COMPLETE
-------------------
1577 3369
6850 11512
28128 32937
51354 56995

by the way, This one I did manually, and here's what I got in response to my attempt:

C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr>comclean d:\tv\recordings\Scrubs\Scrubs_20050222_21
002130.mpg
Resulting cutpoints: 0:1:3 0:2:19 0:11:4 0:12:16

C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr>"c:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\mpgtx.exe" -j -f -o "
d:\tv\recordings\Scrubs\Scrubs_20050222_21002130_clean.mpg" "d:\tv\recordings\Sc
rubs\Scrubs_20050222_21002130.mpg" [-0:1:3] [0:2:14-0:4:34] [0:7:40-0:18:45] [0:
21:57-0:34:14] [0:37:59-]
range [0:21:57-0:34:14] results in invalid [661007443-1030910622] range
Resulting cutpoints: 0:1:3 0:2:19 0:11:4 0:12:16
The system cannot find the file specified.

[erik]

Your manual run shows that comclean does the right thing but mpgtx has a problem with [0:21:57-0:34:14] range the so I tried to reproduce it.

I did test with another mpeg file but with your commandline.
No problem.
Then I created the .txt file from your post and again no problem
I used version 0.0.2

Are you sure you do not try to clean an already cleaned file?????
This may cause the [0:21:57-0:34:14] range to fail because mpgtx runs into the end of the file

[dirtygreek]

No, there's no way that it's an already cleaned file, because it's an old file and I just got comclean yesterday. I ran comskip on the file manually then ran comclean on it manually, and I got this result.

Is there any way my recordings could have something wrong with them? I don't know what that something would be...

[erik]

Maybe something in the mpg file is corrupt after 30 minutes.
What do you use to record?

[dirtygreek]

i use the newest version of gbpvr with a hauppauge pvr 350. It's doing this on more than one file, so I'm confused.

[erik]

If you still have the file that failed could you do a manual run with this commandline.

(please remove any spaces in the file names that seam to appear caused by the forum software)

Code:

"c:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\mpgtx.exe" -j -f -o "d:\tv\recordings\Scrubs\Scrubs_20050222_21002130_clean.mpg" "d:\tv\recordings\Scrubs\Scrubs_20050222_21002130.mpg" [0:21:57-0:34:14]

If this failes there is something wrong with the mpg file.
Check if it is longer that 34:14 minutes