ComCut - Automatically clean recordings of commercials

[NiteShdw]

I don't see why not. I'll give it a shot.

[davisj36]

Hey NiteShdw... any luck with a command line version?

[NiteShdw]

I have no plans on making a non-GUI version. The whole purpose for me was to make something that had a GUI that would be easy for users to set up.

I actually haven't worked on it for a while now. I've been playing with Media Center, comparing it to GB-PVR+tversity. If there are any specific requests from people, I'll put some time into implementing those. Perhaps I'll put up the source code as well.

[Broadband]

Does anyone have the latest version of comcut that they can attach to the thread. I've been unable to access the website hosting it for days.

[NiteShdw]

Sorry about that... I had problems with my hosting account, and I haven't gotten that site back online yet. I'll attach the latest version.

[Broadband]

Thanks alot!

[NiteShdw]

The website is back up.

I haven't made any updates to the program since build 82. If you have any feedback or suggestions for future development (such as transcoding), please post a message here or send me an email.

Thanks.

[crossnet]

Hi NiteShdw,

I have been using ComCut version 1.82b82 for the past few weeks and is been great. I run it in batch mode to convert videos which usually have been preprocessed with Comskip. It works flawlessly, on individual files. But, I cannot get it to process complete groups of files in a single directory. For some reason, it stops after one, two or three files. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for all your work.
crossnet

[NiteShdw]

I threw together the batch mode pretty quickly. Look for a file 'error.log' in your comcut folder. You can email that to me and it'll tell me where it wasn't working.

I have noticed that sometimes mpgtx, which I use to cut and demux the video, doesn't work on all my recordings. I suspect that my card (PVR-150) mangles the MPEG-2 files sometimes. There may be better ways to cut the videos.

The Comskip website has a batch file for using mencoder to do it. I'll have to look into that.

[NiteShdw]

PVR-150 records fine, it can't mangle the MPEG2 unless some hardware or software issue.

I was referring the the timestamp issue known to exist with PVR-150 drivers. I could be completely wrong, but I am guessing that mpgtx doesn't work well with MPEG-2 files that have incorrect timelines, as mentioned in the forum thread and that wiki article.

I have had quite a few recordings that mpgtx has refused to cut, claiming that the time periods to be removed were invalid.