How to use VideoReDo to AUTOMATICALLY remove commercials

[guy2545]

Has anyone had an issue with this deleting the actual recording? I am not sure if it is just me or not but about 75% of the time using this batch file my recordings will magically disappear. This is what my postprocessing.bat looks like. Of course I can not find anything in any of the logs. I know the program records, as I can see the comskip .txt files in my original tv show directory.

Any ideas?

REM If you use Showanalyzer, unREM the next line
REM "C:\Program Files\Dragon Global\ShowAnalyzer\ShowAnalyzer.exe" %1
REM If you use comskip, unREM the next line
"E:\devnz\gbpvr\comskip.exe" %1
cscript //nologo "C:\Program Files\VideoReDoPlus\vp.vbs" "%~dpn1.VPrj" "%~dpn1_Cleaned.mpg" /t1 /q
Rem RENAME the old .mpg file and rename the new one to the old name
move "%~dpn1.mpg" "%~dpn1_original.mpg"
move "%~dpn1_cleaned.mpg" "%~dpn1.mpg"
REM The following lines cleanup the directory.
move "%~dpn1_original.mpg" "C:\Original TV Shows\"
move "%~dpn1.txt" "C:\Original TV Shows\"
move "%~dpn1.log" "C:\Original TV Shows\"
move "%~dpn1.VPrj" "C:\Original TV Shows\"
move "%~dpn1.logo.txt" "C:\Original TV Shows\"
rectracker %1 > rectracker.log
REM RenameRecordings %1 > renamerecordings.log

[pcostanza]

Yes I have had this problem so I rem'd out the 'move' parts and no longer have that problem. For me, it was about 50/50 that this happened. Couldn't find the files anywhere on the system, they just vanished.

[-Oz-]

i can't get my bat file to delete the recording in the end, but i think thats because i do more processing on it afterward.

[Killing2Live]

Alright, I need some help, I have set this up and it works perfectly but when I go to watch the show with gbpvr I believe it still trys to use comskip to skip past the cut commercials which really arent there...Do you get what im saying? Is there anyway that I can add a line to post processing to not use comskip on already cut episodes? I thought that VideoRedo Cut the episode wrong at first but I went through the cut episode and it was perfectly cut with nothing wrong but in gbpvr it skips parts (assuming that commercials used to be in that spot) Anyone else have this problem?

[dgeezer]

Make sure that you don't have the box checked to auto skip commercials. Its on the Misc tab of the config program. I think that it is checked by default.

[Killing2Live]

Okay thank you dgeezer, how do I use comskip on the the old recordings that I would want to automattically skip commercials?

[dgeezer]

If the automatically skip commercials box is checked then GBpvr uses the file that was generated by comskip to in effect press the fast forward key for you. If this is checked and you don't delete the comskip files you'll get erratic playback in the edited file.

For old recordings I will run the postprocessing.bat file on those recordings.

For me, the simplest way is to right click the mpg file in windows, click "open with" and then "choose program". Browse to your postprocessing.bat file and use that to open the video file. It should be one of the choices presented the next time you right click a video file.

Now, the entire postprocessing routine should run and leave you with a significantly smaller file without commercials. This also gives you a way to test your postprocessing.bat file and see that it is working correctly.

[JimF]

I need to manually check the cuts points in VideoReDo before actually making the cuts, since sometimes there are some errors. Can you get GB-PVR to start up VRD and mark the cuts without actually making them? This should be fairly easy, but I have not seached the above posts enough to figure out how to do it, and maybe someone has already done it.

[Tuffguy721]

I cant seem to get comskip to create the videoredo file. I have the comskip 79.63 and i adjusted the comskip.ini to output_videoredo=1 but it wont create the videoredo project file after the recording. Can anyone help me out? Thanks

Edit: Finally got it working.

[pBS]

Alright, I need some help, I have set this up and it works perfectly but when I go to watch the show with gbpvr I believe it still trys to use comskip to skip past the cut commercials which really arent there...Do you get what im saying? Is there anyway that I can add a line to post processing to not use comskip on already cut episodes? I thought that VideoRedo Cut the episode wrong at first but I went through the cut episode and it was perfectly cut with nothing wrong but in gbpvr it skips parts (assuming that commercials used to be in that spot) Anyone else have this problem?

just delete the corresponding comskip files afterwards, they are unneeded with shows that already have the comms cut out
move them to the original shows\ dir instead...