ComCut - Automatically clean recordings of commercials

[NiteShdw]

Hi, I dion't see the postprocessing.bat file in my gbpvr folder. I have gbpvr installed in the default directory of C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr. Where exactly is it. Is it in any of hte sub folders in gbpvr folder? In gbpvr config app, i have the commercial detection option torun after the rcording in processing tab. Using gbpr v 0.99.5

If it's not there, just create a new file called "postprocessing.bat" and type in:

Code:

@echo off
comcut %1

and save it

[NiteShdw]

I ran this on my wifes "what not to wear" directory and I work on most of the files... about 25% of the files were not touch... I found the following in the error repected several time (Once of each file skipped):

1/9/2007 7:30:37 PM - ParseComskipLog - Log had no valid commercial segments to remove. No further processing will occur.
1/9/2007 8:12:46 PM - ParseComskipLog - Log had no valid commercial segments to remove. No further processing will occur.

Any idea's?

That error occurs if ComCut's log parser wasn't able to find any commercial segments to be removed. Were there comskip log files for those recordings? Did you have the Comskip options set to run comskip if the log file was corrupt?

[NiteShdw]

in error.log file
-------------------------
1/10/2007 12:40:55 AM - MPEG2Cut - mpgtx exited with error code 1
1/10/2007 12:40:55 AM - ProcessComCut - Error cutting MPEG2 file.
Output file may already exist or commercials have already been removed.
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Both stable & beta version produces this error.

mpgtx will exit with that error code if the output file already exists. It will be the same as the original filename, but the extension is ".comskip.mpg". It could also be that commercials have already been removed from that file.

[erik]

My process is
1. mpgtx is run on the original MPG file
2. mpgtx is used to demux the cut file
3. mplex1 is used to remux the demuxed output

Are you suggesting that mpgtx (step 1) should be run after the demux/remux?

No. Your process is OK.
mpgtx cutting (step 1) will create a corrupt timeline. step 2 and 3 solve that.

Some users reported that the demux/remux using mpgtx and mplex1 is not able to repair the timeline when using certain recording devices. Those users had to switch to a different timeline repair strategy such as using mencoder.
Don't ask me why things may (not) work. I don't have any problems to play back a corrupt timeline using my Philips SL400/i

[sfnet]

mpgtx will exit with that error code if the output file already exists. It will be the same as the original filename, but the extension is ".comskip.mpg". It could also be that commercials have already been removed from that file.

Situation:
Folder has only on mpg file. Just recorded by gbpvr, new file.
I dragged and dropped mpg file on comcut.exe shortcut
<option in comcut, run comskip if log files are not found>
after dropping the file, comskip runs, created those log files. The next step fails and error log is created.

This doesn't happen to all files. Some of them were cleaned successfully.

Any suggestions.

Thanks for a nice utility

[erik]

Situation:
Folder has only on mpg file. Just recorded by gbpvr, new file.
I dragged and dropped mpg file on comcut.exe shortcut
<option in comcut, run comskip if log files are not found>
after dropping the file, comskip runs, created those log files. The next step fails and error log is created.

This doesn't happen to all files. Some of them were cleaned successfully.

Any suggestions.

Thanks for a nice utility

Please post the comskip log of the file that fails

[NiteShdw]

Make sure that you have ComCut set to NOT delete the comskip files.

[railso]

this sounds like a great tool, but I can't get it to work. I tried dragging and dropping a file on the exe and got this error:

"ProcessComCut - Error cutting MPEG2 file. Output file may already exist"

I also tried running it from the command line, same thing. can I not run it this way?

[NiteShdw]

this sounds like a great tool, but I can't get it to work. I tried dragging and dropping a file on the exe and got this error:

"ProcessComCut - Error cutting MPEG2 file. Output file may already exist"

I also tried running it from the command line, same thing. can I not run it this way?

You should be running build 76. First, make sure you run the program by itself to set all the parameters, especially the program locations for the MPEG2 cutting utilities.

I suppose I should make the program verify that you've set those up first...

[railso]

You should be running build 76. First, make sure you run the program by itself to set all the parameters, especially the program locations for the MPEG2 cutting utilities.

I suppose I should make the program verify that you've set those up first...

I read the output again and it was an "invalid range" error. looks like the problem is that the first cut starts at 0 seconds...if I change it to 1 second I don't get that error...