2008-03-28, 10:32 PM
This may belong in the plugin help section...I'm not sure.
I've run through some info on comskip, comskip and comcut as well as -stattik's tanscode batch file.
I've also checked some google searches and so forth trying to answer my question but no luck so far.
Here are the questions:
a. Why does comcut produce a text file with shaded text/graphics accurately displaying the logo for a given station (extracted by frame comparison from the mpeg file)
b. What other programs use this logo file, and in what ways?
c. I have not found a way of using the transcode.bat file to use this logo file in any way, as I would like to remove the logo from the mpeg file.
I have found several sites describing methods of grabbing a frame of video, editing just the area that contains the logo, and supplying it as a filter to various editing tools such as virtualdub and another for using mencoder, but neither of these mention a text logo representation.
I have also found a recently released (3/20/08) Australian utility (Translogo) that identify's the logo in one pass and then has a utility for specifically removing it. (Apparently ABC is now adding large colored logos to Aussie channels)
However if the logo is already being identified by comskip, and mencode is already being used to remove the comercials with comskip input file, and there exists a method of masking it out with mencoder why the three couldn't be combined in the transcode batch.
I've run through some info on comskip, comskip and comcut as well as -stattik's tanscode batch file.
I've also checked some google searches and so forth trying to answer my question but no luck so far.
Here are the questions:
a. Why does comcut produce a text file with shaded text/graphics accurately displaying the logo for a given station (extracted by frame comparison from the mpeg file)
b. What other programs use this logo file, and in what ways?
c. I have not found a way of using the transcode.bat file to use this logo file in any way, as I would like to remove the logo from the mpeg file.
I have found several sites describing methods of grabbing a frame of video, editing just the area that contains the logo, and supplying it as a filter to various editing tools such as virtualdub and another for using mencoder, but neither of these mention a text logo representation.
I have also found a recently released (3/20/08) Australian utility (Translogo) that identify's the logo in one pass and then has a utility for specifically removing it. (Apparently ABC is now adding large colored logos to Aussie channels)
However if the logo is already being identified by comskip, and mencode is already being used to remove the comercials with comskip input file, and there exists a method of masking it out with mencoder why the three couldn't be combined in the transcode batch.
