comskip?

[nv40]

I've decided to hold off on comclean for right now and just get comskip working correctly. Everyone is telling me to tune it.....umm, pardon my stupidity, but how? I'd rather have it least aggressive as possible and deal with a commercial here and there then to have it take chunks of the show out.

[reboot]

Open comskip.ini in notepad.
Change these two lines to look like this:

Code:

output_framearray=1
output_debugwindow=1

Make a recording.
Drag and drop the mpg onto comskip.exe
Let it run. It will go for awhile.
When it's done, look in the log.
Read "tuning.rtf" included with the comskip download.

[erik]

Don't forget to set
verbose=10
if you want the maximum info in the log file


The default comskip.ini file is not agressive.
You only may want to change
delete_show_after_last_commercial=0
if you do not use post padding in your recording setting.

Agressive settings are when you set
cut_on_ar_change=1
delete_show_after_last_commercial=1
delete_show_before_or_after_current=1


And if all else fail, read the documentation

[b00sfuk]

I have 4 profiles set up, for different channels, and I can get 100% on about 10 of the 15 or so I normally record from, and about 98% on the other 5 (one commercial in 30 or so get's missed).

reboot, how is it best to configure Comskip for multiple profiles? Do you just have multiple comskip.ini or am I missing something? Cheers

[reboot]

If you look in the supplied postprocessing.bat, it shows how to use multiple profiles based on channel number.
Yes, you have multiple comskip.ini files, each with their own unique name. I'f hilighted in bold below, how this works to select individual comskip.ini's.
You can use the same exact information in parallelprocessing.bat, so comskip runs during recordings, not after.
Sample code

Code:

Rem this trick also makes it possible to have dedicated comskip.ini file for certain channels.
if "%2" == "7" goto channel7:
if "%2" == "4" goto channel7:
if "%2" == "5" goto channel7:
if "%2" == "6" goto channel7:
if "%2" == "15" goto channel24:
[b]if "%2" == "24" goto channel24:[/b]


Rem use the default comskip.ini for all other channels
goto generic:

:channel7
comskip --ini=comskipcbs7.ini %1
goto continue:
[b]:channel24
comskip --ini=comskipshcase24.ini %1[/b]
goto continue:

:generic
Rem The actual run of Comskip. Only one parameter, the name of the mpeg file to process.
Rem Comskip will read its settings from the Comskip.ini found in the same directory as Comskip.exe
Rem Both are supposed to be in the GBPVR default program directory. (C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\)
comskip %1
:continue

I've actually modified my default comskip.ini to handle all but the above mentioned channels, so I'm down to 3 profiles.
I would post more, but my comskip.ini's are extremely agressive, and probably not good to start out with. The supplied comskip.ini is more forgiving, so you may not detect all commercials, but you won't miss any show portions either, especially if your commercial structure (how long, how many black frames, different aspects, etc.), and the decoder you're using, is any different than mine.
Each decoder produces different black levels, and volume levels. Although this comskip can do some automatic black level detection and audio volume detection, I'm not sure you'd want to try my comskip.ini's on any valuable recordings.

[b00sfuk]

reboot, cheers, exactly what I wanted. I guess I could work these out for myself but if you can confirm:

Is channel number the the actual one from the Capture Source or the logical one from the channel config page?

I guess I can use other variables for checking %~dp1 for for MPEGs in a specific folder? e.g. to make it more show specific.

thanks

[reboot]

Is channel number the the actual one from the Capture Source or the logical one from the channel config page?

You got me. Mine are all the same, but sub will have to answer this I think.

I would assume (a bad thing, I know) you could use variables such as show name, or even just *.mpg to test for the presence of a file. It's easier to set it up by channel, and probably necessary if you're running it parallel, not post.