Comskip walkthrough

[eldudemeister]

Hi,
Is there a guide/walkthrough I can be directed to in order to get comskip and nextpvr working together. I'm running nextpvr in docker on my ubuntu server and have installed comskip based on the directions for Ubuntu in here 
https://github.com/erikkaashoek/Comskip and tried to follow this guide but it doesnt seem to be working? https://www.howtogeek.com/251405/how-to-...h-comskip/
Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

[mvallevand]

A Windows guides isn't going to help much.

If you used the deb install the file would be

/var/opt/nextpvr/scripts/PostProcessing.sh (or ParallelProcessing.sh)

and you need as as minimum.

nice -n 19 comskip --ini=/pathto/comskip.ini "$1" > /dev/null

The settings in comskip.ini I recommend are

output_edl=1
live_tv=1
edl_skip_field=3

Don't forgot the chmod +x the .sh file

Martin

[eldudemeister]

Thanks for the quick response Martin, will give that a go! WAs probably being slightly naive using the windows guide but thoguhut I could adapt it! 
Matt

[eldudemeister]

Hi Martin,

I received the following error message in the logs

2020-01-17 18:02:00.830 [DEBUG][9] Starting: bash -c "'/config/scripts/PostProcessing.sh' '/recordings/The Chase/Season 13/The.Chase.S13E111.ts' 3 854 21 'The Chase'"

2020-01-17 18:02:01.706 [ERROR][87] nice: 'comskip': No such file or directory

Does the comskip file need to be mounted to the nextpvr docker container as well?

The below is what I've put in the post processing script

nice -n 19 comskip --ini=/home/matt/comskip/comskip.ini "$1" > /dev/null

[mvallevand]

Docker on an ubuntu server is a waste of resource IMO and makes this type of processing more difficult. sub might be able to compile and install comskip in his docker and you could probably keep comkskip.ini in /config/scripts (where PostProcessing.sh needs to be)

nice -n 19 comskip --ini=/config/comskip.ini "$1" > /dev/null

Martin

[sub]

Does the comskip file need to be mounted to the nextpvr docker container as well?

Yes. Basically if you're trying to run anything from an app in Docker, then it also needs to be in the Docker container.

Docker is really good for some stuff, but can make these type of customization hard.

[eldudemeister]

Thanks for the replies! Is there any chance of comskip being added to the docker?

[sub]

Hmmm, I don't really want to include that in my docker builds.

There was another user that had posted here with info about how he was repackaging the container. You might need to look into that as an option. ie, I think you can effectively have a Dockerfile that points to my image as the base, then add comskip to the image, then run Docker build.

[eldudemeister]

Understood, thanks. Will look into that!

[sub]

https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?tid=60014