Commercial Detection

[krypton_john]

nkh: that is a fantastic idea to skip to next cut point! I've even got buttons on my remote that would make sense for that function

Sub, this would be a super duper feature for GBPVR. Would it be hard to do? Requesting commercial removal would always be risky as a precious recordings could be damaged, but having the ability to skip to the end of commercials would be soooo handy and non destructive.

[sub]

If you look back in some of the older posts, thats exactly what we've always intended to do. I will try to put this feature in for the next release.

I have no intention of automatically removing any part of the video. I'll just allow the user to press a button and jump to the next commercial skip point.

[reven]

are you going to make it possible to delete the ads? not automatically but as a basic editing feature?

[sub]

Nope, just allow the user to skip to the next detected ad cut point.

I'll leave it up to someone else to write a basic editing plugin. I'd never use this feature, so dont have much interest in doing it myself.

[reven]

sounds fair enough

[colin]

Hey Jorm,

I ran the lastest version of comskip against a previously 'comskip'ed mpg and this version did not hit as many commercials as the last version. I used the same .ini with this one so there must have been other changes to the detection algorithm. I'll try tweaking the parameters and see what can be done,

cheers,
Colin.

[jorm]

The author said that he rewrote a lot of the detection algorthims. I figure we are going to have to tweak the ini to see if we can get it working again. He is requesting the logs if you find that it misses a commercial.

I am going to try to run some tests tomorrow at work to see if I can tweak the ini to find anything.

If it looks like it is missing a lot of things I can write the author again.

Jorm

[PVR(SWE)]

I tried to use comskip but it bugs out. I start it from dos. with the command comskip c:\100.mpg
Everything works great at the start but then it bugs out.
The only thing that I have changed in the .ini file is the fps to 25 (Pal).
Cherrs /Jonas

[Jere_Jones]

As the current active developer of comskip, I just wanted to pop in and give my 2 cents on this subject.

A)  Thanks for the interest.  I hope everyone of you finds it useful.

B)  While I use SageTV, I'm not biased against the awsome work put into GB-PVR.

C)  Hence, if there are any additions/changes to comskip that I can make that will help y'all out, just ask.  I'd be happy to do what I can.

D)  Along the same lines, if you're having problems with comskip, let me know.  I'm an amateur programmer, so I sometimes (like lately) introduce a bug while trying to fix another.  Have patience, send me the log files, and I'll fix it (or try to).

Enjoy,
Jere

[colin]

Hey Jere_Jones,

and welcome to the GBPVR forums. comskip is an impressive app and hopefully we'll be able to give it some good testing for you and help you out on it.

Are you happy to check back here for any issues or praises we have or should we log details anywhere else?

Cheers,
Colin.