ComSkip not Working for Me

[GWCowling323]

Took Martin's advice of adding one feature at a time. Extension of post-sports programs apparently worked on Sunday, so I added Comskip, but that didn't work. Will someone please take a look at my batch files and logs and provide advice?

[BrettB]

Took Martin's advice of adding one feature at a time. Extension of post-sports programs apparently worked on Sunday, so I added Comskip, but that didn't work. Will someone please take a look at my batch files and logs and provide advice?

I don't see a PostProcessing.bat file in your scripts. That's normally where the call to Comskip would go. Then after a recording, you should look for an .edl file with the same base filename as the recording in its folder.

[mvallevand]

Took Martin's advice of adding one feature at a time.

Right but you still don't follow my adivse http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...post509226 and it looks like parallelprocess.bat is still wrong.

Martin

[GWCowling323]

I don't see a PostProcessing.bat file in your scripts. That's normally where the call to Comskip would go. Then after a recording, you should look for an .edl file with the same base filename as the recording in its folder.

Tried PostProcessing first. Didn't work, so I tried ParallelProcessing. Wiki says it should work either way. But, not for me.

[GWCowling323]

Right but you still don't follow my adivse http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...post509226 and it looks like parallelprocess.bat is still wrong.

Martin

Am I correct in understanding that --oid %3 and --sd are supposed to be on the same line? Is it --oid %3 --sd or are there other characters I need to add?
Other than that, will these batch files work?

[Graham]

... will these batch files work?

I don't use conskip so these suggestions may not help ... Is comskip.exe in "Users\Public\NPVR" ... Where is comskip.ini? Did you see the page at ... http://www.nextpvr.com/nwiki/pmwiki.php?...ty.ComSkip ... The suggested batch file has a "cd" command in it and the wiki page says ... "Using a fully qualified path to change to the comskip subdir is necessary for comskip to reliably find it's .ini file."

What happens if you replace the single comskip.exe line in your parallelprocessing.bat to the three line example from the wiki?

[Graham]

Am I correct in understanding that --oid %3 and --sd are supposed to be on the same line? Is it --oid %3 --sd or are there other characters I need to add?

I don't use NextEnd ... I suspect that the Atlantic Ocean reduces its effectiveness .. so these are general observations. All of the parameters for a command line in a batch file have to be on the same line as the command. There is an "invisible carriage return" character at the end of the line that Windows understands to mean "end of command".

Think of it as the same as when you type commands such "dir /s" in the CMD window ... pressing the Enter key signifies the end of the command and its parameters ... Windows processes the command when you press Enter. The "invisible carriage return" in the batch files is the equivalent of pressing Enter.

[dgeezer]

I would start with using postprocessing.bat in addition to parallelprocessing.bat. That way you can more easily identify where the errors are.

I've got comskip installed at: C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Comskip

Therefor my postprocessing file is this:

@echo off
cd /d "C:\Users\Public\NPVR\comskip"
comskip %1

You can also drag a file onto the comskip.exe to trigger a manual run of comskip.

[GWCowling323]

I would start with using postprocessing.bat in addition to parallelprocessing.bat. That way you can more easily identify where the errors are.

I've got comskip installed at: C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Comskip

Therefor my postprocessing file is this:

@echo off
cd /d "C:\Users\Public\NPVR\comskip"
comskip %1

You can also drag a file onto the comskip.exe to trigger a manual run of comskip.

Comskip.exe & Comskip.ini are in my C:\Users\Public\NPVR directory. Used comskip %1 in both ParallelProcessing and PostProcessing and did not get a .edl file. Dragged a file to comskip.exe, which created a .edl, but I can't open it in NPVR. Uploaded NPVR and Comskip config files and my batch files, as well as they latest logs.

[Graham]

Used comskip %1 in both ParallelProcessing and PostProcessing and did not get a .edl file.

Where did you not get a .edl file? My understanding is that it should be in the same folder as the recording ... that is, in the same folder as the .ts file.

My understanding is that the .edl file is a list of the locations in the .ts file where there are commercials ... NextPVR plays the recording and, if there is a .edl file in the same folder as the recording file, NextPVR obeys the "instructions" in the .edl file and automatically skips the commercials.