Comskip Question

[ToughRowToHoe]

I'm having problems with comskip starting the commercial skip too soon and ending it too early. I miss a minute or so just prior to the skip and end up with a minute or so of commercials just after. I've not really seen any complaint here but looking at the comskip forum it looks like I should by changing the "edl_offset" setting. With the March donators versions however, there is no edl_offset setting. Is anybody else running into this with NPVR? If so, how are you dealing with it? Thanks.

[Reddwarf]

I'm having the exact same problem, I haven't found any good solution yet but I'm about to post a request for help to the comskip guy, as soon as I can put together the nessesary files.

[BrettB]

I'm having problems with comskip starting the commercial skip too soon and ending it too early. I miss a minute or so just prior to the skip and end up with a minute or so of commercials just after. I've not really seen any complaint here but looking at the comskip forum it looks like I should by changing the "edl_offset" setting. With the March donators versions however, there is no edl_offset setting. Is anybody else running into this with NPVR? If so, how are you dealing with it? Thanks.

Being an entire minute off seems unusual. However, if the offsets are consistent, you can adjust the NPVR config.xml parameters:

Code:

<ComskipStartOffset>5000</ComskipStartOffset>
    <ComskipEndOffset>0</ComskipEndOffset>

[ToughRowToHoe]

Thank you both. I believe what I'm seeing is pretty consistent. I will give the NPVR offset a try. If it turns out it is isn't consistent, hopefully Eric can provide Reddwarf and I some suggestions.

[ToughRowToHoe]

Unfortunately, using the offset in NPVR didn't work for me. It looks like the offset needed increases over the length of the movie.

[ottoguy]

Did anyone find a solution for this? I have the same problem.

[Reddwarf]

Did anyone find a solution for this? I have the same problem.

I'm still struggeling with this, I cannot get the described procedure for making the .csv file to work (the files that should be attached when you email the comskip author for help)

[Grampz]

I have issues with comskip also. I have disabled the parallelprocessing.bat file that invokes it as I get mixed results. The main problem is gaps in the recorded .ts file that hangs viewing. Also, after recovering it will jump back to a previous area in the file... I have watched these files with vlc too, and this is how they were saved/written/converted/whatever..

[BrettB]

The main problem is gaps in the recorded .ts file that hangs viewing. Also, after recovering it will jump back to a previous area in the file... I have watched these files with vlc too, and this is how they were saved/written/converted/whatever..

I'm seeing similar results with several of my recordings recently. I don't think that they are signal quality related.

A question for sub or others: If the recording drive isn't able to "keep up" (due to some combination of too many concurrent recordings, comskip/transcoding processes, and/or playback sessions), will the NPVR recording just "drop" some of the .ts stream and not log any errors?

[ga_mueller]

1.4.7. dvr-ms. comskip perfection. Flame on!