Set Comskip on a per-show basis?

[daneo]

Dear Sub & co,

I want to be able to set a recording such that Comskip will not be a global option, but able to check "disable comskip" on a show-by-show basis when setting up single or season recordings.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Dane

[TonyXL]

There's no way to do this in the GUI, but you could:

1. Create a batch file that calls comskip for all shows EXCEPT for any show you don't want. The logic would be like:

if
(%1 does not start with "Simpsons" and
%1 does not start with "Family Guy" and
%1 does not start with "Lost")
then
run comskip;

Obviously this isn't real batch code, and you could probably make it able to read from a flat file where you could list all your non-comskip shows. But you get the idea.

2. Call this batch file from ParallelProcessing.bat (and disable comskip on the Processing config tab).

-Tony

[dennit]

There's no way to do this in the GUI, but you could:

1. Create a batch file that calls comskip for all shows EXCEPT for any show you don't want. The logic would be like:

if
(%1 does not start with "Simpsons" and
%1 does not start with "Family Guy" and
%1 does not start with "Lost")
then
run comskip;

Obviously this isn't real batch code, and you could probably make it able to read from a flat file where you could list all your non-comskip shows. But you get the idea.

2. Call this batch file from ParallelProcessing.bat (and disable comskip on the Processing config tab).

-Tony

If you are trying to disable processing for one or two complete channels, it's quite easy to do using ParallelProcessing.bat (or PostProcessing.bat). The channel number is passed as a parameter to the batch file and there are some sample batch files for customized-by-channel number comskip processing (I think they're in the wiki). If you want comskip processing, but it's finding commercials that aren't really there, you can tweak the processing parameters by channel (or by show) using this method.