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[ww4397]

I'm not at the computer right now so I'm going from memory. Sorry for the lack of detail in my previous post.

Yes, I did demux. I used the mpeg tools avaialble in TMPGEnc (free version, available here: http://www.tmpgenc.net/e_main.html) to do it. I edited the .cpf audio file name extension to .mp2 because that is what TMPGEnc produced in the demuxing process. I think the video file was OK -- an .mv2 file.

I'll post the output file, later, when I get home.

[David]

This sounds interesting. Maybe a solution for playing my files on my DSM-320.

Could you post a sample of the lines required in my postprocessing.bat?

[erik]

mmm..

Nice idea.

First use mpgtx to demux

mpgtx -d -b filename filename.mpg

then rename the demuxed files to the basename

ren filename-0.* filename.*

Then run cuttermaran as a commandline tools.
This required changing the .cpf file to add
</CurrentFiles>
<CmdArgs OutFile="c:\temp\cut" cut="true" unattended="true" snapToCutPoints="true" closeApp="true" />
</StateData>
I could change comskip to add this line.
Then start cuttermaran with the cpf file as only argument.
The result is two files c:\temp\cut.mp2 and c:\temp\cut.m2v containing audio and video
Now the only thing to do is to mux them again.
So to google and try to find a commandline MPEG muxer.
Any help out there?

[ww4397]

Now the only thing to do is to mux them again.
So to google and try to find a commandline MPEG muxer.
Any help out there?

A quick Google yielded this:

http://members.aon.at/johann.langhofer/mplex1.htm

I don't know anything about it, however.

[erik]

It works

After multiplexing the timeline is without interruptions and should play on all players
So of to the drawingboard to add this option to comskip I assume
And to create the sample postprocessing.bat

[ww4397]

I'll post the output file, later, when I get home.

Here is the .cpf generated by comskip that won"t work for me. Note that the only change I made was to change the audio file name extension to .mp2:

[INDENT]<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>
<StateData xmlns="http://cuttermaran.kickme.to/StateData.xsd">
<usedVideoFiles FileID="0" FileName="D:\Recordings\Bob the Builder\Animal Habitats.M2V" />
<usedAudioFiles FileID="1" FileName="D:\Recordings\Bob the Builder\Animal Habitats.mp2" StartDelay="0" />
<CutElements refVideoFile="0" StartPosition="0" EndPosition="1">
<cutAudioFiles refAudioFile="1" />
</CutElements>
<CutElements refVideoFile="0" StartPosition="1827" EndPosition="55725">
<cutAudioFiles refAudioFile="1" />
</CutElements>
<CurrentFiles refVideoFiles="0">
<currentAudioFiles refAudioFiles="1"/>
</CurrentFiles>
</StateData>
<CutElements refVideoFile="0" StartPosition="1827" EndPosition="53393">
<cutAudioFiles refAudioFile="1" />
</CutElements>
<CutElements refVideoFile="0" StartPosition="55726" EndPosition="55725">
<cutAudioFiles refAudioFile="1" />
</CutElements>
<CurrentFiles refVideoFiles="0">
<currentAudioFiles refAudioFiles="1"/>
</CurrentFiles>
</StateData>

[/INDENT]

[erik]

ww4397

I can see one clear error. Its like a partial .cpf file is concatenated to another .cpf file.

The sequence
<CurrentFiles refVideoFiles="0">
<currentAudioFiles refAudioFiles="1"/>
</CurrentFiles>
</StateData>
that appears in the middle should not be there.
The frame numbers mentioned are very weird.
Could you post the generated .txt file because there seems to be something wrong with the frame numbers of the commercials ?

[ww4397]

ww4397

I can see one clear error. Its like a partial .cpf file is concatenated to another .cpf file.

Could you post the generated .txt file because there seems to be something wrong with the frame numbers of the commercials ?

Sure, erik. Here it is:

[INDENT]FILE PROCESSING COMPLETE 55725 FRAMES
-------------------
1 1826
55725 55725
53393 55725
55725 55725[/INDENT]

Thanks for taking the time to look at this.

[erik]

There is something terribly wrong with the .TXT file.
The detected commercial frame numbers are impossible.

FILE PROCESSING COMPLETE 55725 FRAMES
-------------------
1 1826
55725 55725
53393 55725
55725 55725

As you can see commercial 2,3 and 4 are all ending at 55725, that's the end of the show and the last commercial has size zero.

It looks like comskip is experiencing some kind of memory corruption.
COuld you rerun comskip on the file with verbose set to 10 and mail me the log file? You may zip the log file but I can receive mail op to 10MByte.

[landru22]

I seem to have the same problem with the .cpf file as WW4397. I unfortunately don't have the cpf file available to post as I edited it to make it work but I noticed the same type of problem with the same start points listed twice, each with different endpoints.

Also, the default demuxed audio file extension with Mpeg2Cut2 is .M2a (At least it is with my setup).

And one other problem with Cuttermaran. The cut in or cut out from the .cpf file may not correspond to an I,B, or P frame. In this case, when you attempt to create a cut file, Cuttermaran will give you an error.

At this point, it is easier to just edit out the commercials manually.