Parallel Processing.bat

[johnsonx42]

wait, you mean the latest versions of comskip can't run on a recording in-progress? that's not good at all as my current setup depends on doing comskip during the recording, then "imagegrablite --rename" in postprocessing after verifying comskip is done. I guess I'll stick with the last public version then, 80.42.

[mvallevand]

You can still run imageGrabLite after comskip runs in postprocessing, it just needs to run last so the edl's etc are renamed too.

Martin

[mulletback]

I'm not sure I want to go back that far in versions because of other issues. I think I'll rather wait for a version that does parallel processing.

The last version of 0.81.x I evaluated was 0.81.20 - with my setup I didn't notice any difference in skip quality vs 0.80.42. Since parallel processing is an important feature to my setup, I rolled back to 0.80.42 (donators version). What features of 0.81.x do you find critical to your needs?

[Reddwarf]

The last version of 0.81.x I evaluated was 0.81.20 - with my setup I didn't notice any difference in skip quality vs 0.80.42. Since parallel processing is an important feature to my setup, I rolled back to 0.80.42 (donators version). What features of 0.81.x do you find critical to your needs?

Mainly because moving back/forward in the graph window (during tuning) is incredible slow with my recordings, this was fixed in the latest donator version.

[leigh75]

If some one could point me to were I might learn how to set this all that would be great. I need comskip and comclean so I will end up with a file that has no com in it at all. I still new to this but so far so good and all I need to do is comskip and set up my remote then prety things up a bit. I must say a big thanks to all that have put out this great app it has been install and run so far with no problems what so ever. I have not done much with .bat files in some time so I'm a bit rusty so again any help would be great.

[Reddwarf]

If some one could point me to were I might learn how to set this all that would be great. I need comskip and comclean so I will end up with a file that has no com in it at all. I still new to this but so far so good and all I need to do is comskip and set up my remote then prety things up a bit. I must say a big thanks to all that have put out this great app it has been install and run so far with no problems what so ever. I have not done much with .bat files in some time so I'm a bit rusty so again any help would be great.

Some useful links here:
http://www.kaashoek.com/files/manual.htm#_Toc128549931
http://www.kaashoek.com/comskip/viewforu...827287521e
http://www.kaashoek.com/comskip/viewtopic.php?t=474

[johnsonx42]

just download comskip, extract the files in to c:\comskip. in your npvr/scripts directory, create a batch file "parallelprocessing.bat". in the file, put:

Code:

cd /d c:\comskip
comskip %1

Then when you play a recording that's been marked by comskip, whenever you reach a commercial break just press the Play button and it will jump to the end of the break. If you want NPVR to automatically skip commercials, edit config.xml and find the entry <AutoSkip> and set it to True.

If you decide you trust comskip enough to actually remove the commercials permanently, then just add comclean to the end of your parallelprocessing.bat.

[Reddwarf]

A tip for those with a slow processor or the impatient: In the latest donators version you can set ticker_tape_percentage=40 (or up to 60), that means comskip will ignore the lower 40% of the frame and thus speed up processing dramatic. I'v found that up to 55% gives me the same result as processing the whole picture. It also helps much when processing H.264 recordings, which is considerably slower to process than MPEG2.

[leigh75]

Thankyou for the info I'm guessing I have to use the donator version of comskip to make this work. So I have to hold of a few more days to try it out as I had planed on giving some here first. Good software needs help and as long as its not a do or die thing I'm happy to give it!

[johnsonx42]

No, I've always just used the free public version. It works great. If you run it in parallelprocessing, any decent CPU can keep up with even a high-quality 1080i stream and finish at the same time the recording is done.