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Please note that all references below to Comcut should be Comskip.
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I am using GBPVR 1.4.7 on a Win Xp machine with dual Pentium 2.5s and 2.0 GB memory. Lately, some strange things have been happening. I mention them all here in case they might somehow be related:
1. Comcut messing up - I have it set to cut concurrent with the recording. Doesn't clean the commercials, only marks them to skip during playback. The resulting 1 hr recording indicates a length much shorter. For example, I recorded Castle the other night. The recording is 1 hr long, but it only shows as 22 minutes, and commercials are not cut properly. Shows one big cut in the middle. I can watch the show and, except for the one big cut in the middle, it plays all the way to the end. You cannot skip forward or back, however, because the timeline is all off. So, when I reach the big cut in the middle, I cannot skip back to catch what was cut. The really weird thing is that this behavior is apparently in the recording itself. I can rename the recording and move it to another directory, but it still shows as only 22 minutes. If I play it with VLC, it shows a length of only 22 minutes, too. VLC gives the following error, but seems to play it okay:
"VLC can't recognize the input's format:
The format of '\\Htpc\recordings\Castle\Castle_20100927_22012300.txt' cannot be detected. Have a look at the log for details.
VLC can't recognize the input's format:
The format of '\\Htpc\recordings\Castle\Castle_20100927_22012300.logo.txt' cannot be detected. Have a look at the log for details.
I wouldn't think that Comcut would alter the original video file. This has always happened once in a while, but it is now happening most of the time.
2. Truncated recordings - I am now getting many recordings that are truncated to 30-40 minutes on a 1 hr show - not the timeline just messed up, but actually shortened.
3. Something is causing GBPVR playback to freeze at least once during every play. It always fixes itself, though, in a half-minute or so. This may not be in GBPVR, because I believe that it happened, also, in playing back a GBPVR recording with VLC. I mention it for 2 reasons: a) the possibility that it may be related, and b) if anyone has any suggestions as to how to figure out what is causing the freeze, I would appreciate hearing them.
Thanks to sub for a great program and for nearly 2 years of (almost) trouble-free recording.
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I believe that the truncations have occurred in files that were transcoded to avi format, so that introduces another dimension to the problem. All transcodes previously okay, though, so I suspect, but do not actually know, that the problem is in the original. The originals are automatically deleted, however, so I cannot check them. I'm stopping the deletion now so that I can look at the originals should it happen again.
Jere
Please note that all references below to Comcut should be Comskip.
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I am using GBPVR 1.4.7 on a Win Xp machine with dual Pentium 2.5s and 2.0 GB memory. Lately, some strange things have been happening. I mention them all here in case they might somehow be related:
1. Comcut messing up - I have it set to cut concurrent with the recording. Doesn't clean the commercials, only marks them to skip during playback. The resulting 1 hr recording indicates a length much shorter. For example, I recorded Castle the other night. The recording is 1 hr long, but it only shows as 22 minutes, and commercials are not cut properly. Shows one big cut in the middle. I can watch the show and, except for the one big cut in the middle, it plays all the way to the end. You cannot skip forward or back, however, because the timeline is all off. So, when I reach the big cut in the middle, I cannot skip back to catch what was cut. The really weird thing is that this behavior is apparently in the recording itself. I can rename the recording and move it to another directory, but it still shows as only 22 minutes. If I play it with VLC, it shows a length of only 22 minutes, too. VLC gives the following error, but seems to play it okay:
"VLC can't recognize the input's format:
The format of '\\Htpc\recordings\Castle\Castle_20100927_22012300.txt' cannot be detected. Have a look at the log for details.
VLC can't recognize the input's format:
The format of '\\Htpc\recordings\Castle\Castle_20100927_22012300.logo.txt' cannot be detected. Have a look at the log for details.
I wouldn't think that Comcut would alter the original video file. This has always happened once in a while, but it is now happening most of the time.
2. Truncated recordings - I am now getting many recordings that are truncated to 30-40 minutes on a 1 hr show - not the timeline just messed up, but actually shortened.
3. Something is causing GBPVR playback to freeze at least once during every play. It always fixes itself, though, in a half-minute or so. This may not be in GBPVR, because I believe that it happened, also, in playing back a GBPVR recording with VLC. I mention it for 2 reasons: a) the possibility that it may be related, and b) if anyone has any suggestions as to how to figure out what is causing the freeze, I would appreciate hearing them.
Thanks to sub for a great program and for nearly 2 years of (almost) trouble-free recording.
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I believe that the truncations have occurred in files that were transcoded to avi format, so that introduces another dimension to the problem. All transcodes previously okay, though, so I suspect, but do not actually know, that the problem is in the original. The originals are automatically deleted, however, so I cannot check them. I'm stopping the deletion now so that I can look at the originals should it happen again.
Jere
