Commercial Detection

[sub]

Yes, I think that'd be pretty good. Although I"m not sure about the extension, I think .cif is already used for something. Are three letter extension still required by anything these days? *.comskip might be good?

[Jere_Jones]

Quote[/b] (sub @ Oct. 09 2004,21:40)]*.comskip might be good

hehe.  Good idea.

On a different subject -- Anyone that is using 0.42 would probably do well to download 0.43 from here.  I introduced a bug that basically crippled comskips ability to correctly mark commercials.  0.43 fixes this bug.

Jere

[tkgafs]

hi,

just tried latest version of comskip on british tv broadcast of japanese grand prix and it seems to have worked perfectly.

I havent watched the recording yet so I dont know if it missed any commercials but with a quck skip through with virtual dub it certainly hasn't detected any bits of the broadcast as commercials

thanks for a good tool

once support is built into gbpvr it will be awesome to just skip past commercials

tkgafs

[jorm]

Comskip support in GBPvr would be great.  I always seem to go into the movie when skipping and have to go back.  Pushing a commercial skip button would be really cool.

Worked great on Adromedia and Jack and Bobby (US).

Jere_Jones we appreciate the work you have done and are doing.

[Jere_Jones]

Version 0.50 is posted here.

It fixes a few bugs and adds the ability to output zoomplayer cutlist and chapter files. It can also output VideoRedo project files.

Enjoy,
Jere

[dottore]

that means, the movie can automatically be cutted, right? nice idea, good work, keep it up!

i think, an option in the configuration dialog would be nice, to make gbpvr skip the comercials automatically, if comskip is used.

[colin]

Sub is looking into adding the functionality to understand comkip files (see his previous posts in this thread)

@Jere_Jones,

I have been playing with the .ini file and man its sensitive Out of interest what country do you live in? On some American shows the commercials are a pain in the arse, as you may have a number of black transitions within a commerical period to advertise news shows coming up, etc.

I'm trying to figure out the settings for comskip to hopefully cope with this, other than that it does a failry good job. Have not had it cut up a programme yet.

Cheers,
Colin.

[Neo01]

Hello
I was follwing this thread a little bit and also tried comskip with success.

I had just the follwing idea:
Does it really make sense to use the commercial skip function based on frames?
Basically if the commercial info is based on frames, then the file get's useless if the mpeg is once transcoded to xvid,...

I think to base the system on frames is good for automatically cutting the commercials.
But as soon the files are further processed, a format like the Edit Descision List (EDL) of the mplayer would make more sense.

btw Is there already a tool for automatic cutting and transcoding of all records existing?

Regards Neo

[colin]

Quote[/b] ]Does it really make sense to use the commercial skip function based on frames?
Basically if the commercial info is based on frames, then the file get's useless if the mpeg is once transcoded to xvid,...

For using within GBPVR, i imagine frame numbers are fine - I don't know if Sub internally tranlates this into a timestamp or not.

As for xvid, never used it so have no idea. Does encoding into xvid change the number of frames?

Quote[/b] ]btw Is there already a tool for automatic cutting and transcoding of all records existing?

Don't think so, though it would be a simple matter of looking at what exists to do transcoding/encoding and cobble something together.

Colin.

[bryan]

Colin,
Have you experimented with Comskip (v0.5)? If so, did you make any changes to the default Comskip.ini file?

Thanks,

Bryan