How to use VideoReDo to AUTOMATICALLY remove commercials

[ydekmekji]

it should

[reboot]

Yes, VideoReDo outputs a properly timecoded mpg.
I demux in PVAStrumento, then author in DVDLab, burn with Nero.

[theredbaron]

So, should I take the cleaned (commercial-stripped) mpegs i got from videoredo, demux them in pvastrumento, use dvdlab (free?), and burn? Easy as that?

[pcostanza]

So, should I take the cleaned (commercial-stripped) mpegs i got from videoredo, demux them in pvastrumento, use dvdlab (free?), and burn? Easy as that?

I've taken my comskip/VideoReDo mpegs and used Nero, Roxio, and DVDiT and have had no problems at all. DVDLab works fine too and I would think, demux on it's own.

[reboot]

DVDLab's demuxer does work, although maybe not as consistently as PVAS.
It's just a habit/sequence that I have always used with excellent results. YMMV.
Comclean's mpg's don't always demux properly in dvdlab. PVAS does it properly (and faster than dvdlab).
There should be no problems with videoredo's mpg's though.

[theredbaron]

Hey, are there any options/settings for PVAS? Do I just do demux and it's good to go? And what might I do to automatically demux my video files (say every few days or something)? Is there a .bat i can configure (i'm not very adept at making them, but I can edit them)? Also, is it possible to edit the demuxed files in videoredo or is it best to edit them pre-demux? Sorry about all the questions, but I want to get this right.

[Jim_]

I use DVD Movie Factory.
DVDMF authors VideoReDo edits without any additional steps or sync problems, without re-encoding the file.

[theredbaron]

I'm wondering, is there a line I can add to postprocessing that deletes the comskip text/log files after the cuts are made? Also, just to know, is there a way to delete the original file rather than renaming it original?

[dgeezer]

Look back at post 18 in this thread. This works for me almost every time. It failed to cleanup the directory once since I have been using this. Otherwise no problems.

This method works well enough for me that I am considering modifying my script to send the files directly to the windows recycle bin rather than keeping them in the temporary originals folder. I could always restore them from there if I needed to fix a segment.

[dgeezer]

I realised that I had made a typo in the postprocessing.bat file that I had modified and posted here. The last line had an extra s on the renamerecording command. I realized that the actual files were not being renamed.

Here is the corrected file:

REM If you use Showanalyzer, unREM the next line
REM "C:\Program Files\Dragon Global\ShowAnalyzer\ShowAnalyzer.exe" %1
REM If you use comskip, unREM the next line
"C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\comskip.exe" %1
cscript //nologo "C:\Program Files\VideoReDoPlus\vp.vbs" "%~dpn1.VPrj" "%~dpn1_Cleaned.mpg" /t1 /q
Rem RENAME the old .mpg file and rename the new one to the old name
move "%~dpn1.mpg" "%~dpn1_original.mpg"
move "%~dpn1_cleaned.mpg" "%~dpn1.mpg"
REM The following lines cleanup the directory.
move "%~dpn1_original.mpg" "G:\videos\originals\"
move "%~dpn1.txt" "G:\videos\originals\"
move "%~dpn1.log" "G:\videos\originals\"
move "%~dpn1.VPrj" "G:\videos\originals\"
RenameRecording %1 > "G:\videos\originals\renamerecordings.log"


Reboot - thanks again for posting this. It has been a great upgrade to my system.