Suppressing Commercial Skip by Channel

[gkreis]

I'd like to see a way to designate channels as ones that are not to be commercial skip processed. I guess it could be a checkbox in the config where we enable or disable channels in the guide.

For instance, Turner Classic Movies doesn't have commercials (nor does PBS). I am presuming my machine is laboring at the end of recordings of these channels looking for something it can't find. In fact, I am hoping it doesn't mistaken something for a commercial on these channels and auto-skip it.

Thanks for listening.

[reboot]

Inside comskip.ini, you can have certain channels not processed.
If TCM is on channel 25, you would put in:

Code:

IF %2 == 25 GOTO EOF

This totally bypasses comskip on that channel.
(Doing this from memory, so my syntax may be wrong)

[erik]

Indeed you are wrong!

It should be inside postprocessing.bat where you use the second argument, the channel number, to selectively skip comskip.
Have a look at the example postprocessing.bat that is inside the comskip distribution zip file.

[stefan]

Or in parallelProcessing.bat if you let comskip run during the recording?

[erik]

I have to admit that I don't know that, is it documented somewhere with what arguments the various bat files are called?
If I where sub I would have used the same arguments for all bat files

[sub]

I have to admit that I don't know that, is it documented somewhere with what arguments the various bat files are called?

Its not documented elsewhere, but is mentioned in the forums a few times. Basically the first argument is the filename, the second is the channel number.

If I where sub I would have used the same arguments for all bat files

I do. These same parameters are used for both ParallelProcess.bat and PostProcessing.bat

[erik]

I updated the wiki

[reboot]

I run everything in parallelprocessing.bat, including Erik's latest comskip, so at the very beginning, I have the channels I don't want comskip to run on, then the channels that have a specific .ini settings, then the actual run of comskip, then whatever else (automatic cutting, renaming, etc.)
The syntax would be

Code:

if "%2" == "25" goto eof:

Note I do not run comskip from within the gbpvr interface, but have an actual parallelprocessing.bat file.