comskip and converted mpeg to avi files

[jam_zhou]

I do my own conversions after the recording. With the new version of GBPVR it will figure out that the old mpeg is not there but a new avi file is found. This works...but now my comskip files do not seem to be associated with new avi file.


Who's responsible for the associations? Comskip or GBPVR?

Thanks.

[LilY0da]

Noticed the same problem here... GBPVR doesn't recognize the comskip file anymore once the file is .avi

[erik]

If you are referring to the .txt file generated by Comskip then I assume its GBPVR that has lost the connection between the AVI file and the .TXT file.

Comskip does not know anything about associations between file types, it only accepts certain file types for input and it can generate other file types for output

[LilY0da]

Tried it today
- If I play the file as a .avi, no commercials marked, the timebar is solid green
- If I rename the file as a .mpg (just a rename), then it shows up in Video Archive (without a description), and bam, the commercial breaks are back...
- If I play the AVI file on the MVP (in which case it's transcoded to a MPG), then I also have the commercial breaks loaded by GBPVR

I think that GBPVR doesn't load the comskip file when it plays a file with .avi extensions, not sure why.

[autumnmist]

Is there any way to set it up so that comskip files are associated with converted avi's?

I'm setting up this system for my parents and they aren't going to know how to rename avi to mpg.

[sub]

I did a brief check of this here a few minutes ago. I didnt actually do all the recording/comskip/conversion steps, but I did create a comskip .txt that matched the name of a .avi file I had on disk and played it through the video library. In this situation it showed the comskip breaks. Does it work for you from the video library?

[LilY0da]

OK I did this

1) go to the normal recordings menu, and play an episode of cheers, that's been converted to XviD by the normal GBPVR convert process
-> no commercial breaks loaded
2) copy the whole Cheers directory to where I store my DVDs, and open the .avi file with the Video Library
-> no commercial breaks loaded
3) rename the .avi file to a .mpg and play with video library again
-> commercial breaks loaded

Here are the files in the directory

Code:

M:\Video\Cheers>dir
Volume in drive M is media
Volume Serial Number is 5E90-046F

Directory of M:\Video\Cheers

01/04/06  09:50 PM    <DIR>          .
01/04/06  09:50 PM    <DIR>          ..
01/02/06  01:02 AM            94,469 Cheers_20060102_00000030.log
01/02/06  01:02 AM                81 Cheers_20060102_00000030.txt
01/02/06  01:02 AM               730 Cheers_20060102_00000030.wme
01/02/06  12:57 AM             2,710 Cheers_20060102_00000030.logo.txt
01/02/06  01:00 AM         8,010,728 Cheers_20060102_00000030.csv
01/04/06  09:52 PM       309,810,056 Cheers_20060102_00000030.avi
               6 File(s)    317,918,774 bytes
               2 Dir(s)  14,390,657,024 bytes free

Logs attached below

[sub]

I'm not really sure what to suggest. Its not an area with much debug information logger. I can see in your logs it's trying to load the information:

01/04/06 9:49:55 PM.781 INFO [2] Loading commercial skip point file: \\ROQUEFORT\MEDIA\TV_SHOWS\Cheers\Cheers_20060102_00000030.txt

Have you tried it off a non UNC path?

[sub]

The only thing it does differently if the filename is a .avi file, is it uses the Microsoft IMediaDet interface to determine the fps of the file. If this is returning some wacky number for fps, the ads maybe way off the timeline or something similar.

If you rename the file to .mpg it'll try to locate a system header in the file to determine the fps. If it can find one, it defaults to 30 fps.

[LilY0da]

I'm not really sure what to suggest. Its not an area with much debug information logger. I can see in your logs it's trying to load the information:

Have you tried it off a non UNC path?

No, didn't think about it since it loads the comskip file when the video is mpg. I'll try when current recordings are finished.

I'm concerned about the bad detection of fps. It sounds like a very plausible cause of the problem.
Is it possible to add a debug line to see what the library returns for the FPS value?