Reschedule Comskip to start later

[kirschey]

Hi All

My CPU and harddrive have seen better days and it is time for me to schedule comskip to run later. I tried looking up my old files to no avail and going through the old GBPVR forums had the files removed.

More or less I would like to either run later and one at a time and if possible during if only one show it recording using parallelprocessing.bat of coarse.
Any help would be highly appreciated.

[HarryH3]

I have comskip set in PostProcessing.bat to only run on one file at a time. Here's a script that I got from this forum a few years ago:

Code:

@echo off

cd C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Comskip

echo %date%,%time% - PostProcessing.bat invoked on %1 recorded from channel %2 >>PostProcessing.log

Rem list of channels to not run comskip on; PBS channels have no commercials
if "%2" == "608" goto skip
Rem if "%2" == "28" goto skip

goto next

:skip
echo skipping comskip on %1; channel %2 because it is in skip list >>PostProcessing.log
goto continue

:next
rem need to add a pause to avoid race conditions
echo   ---  sleeping %2 seconds to avoid simultaneous execution >>PostProcessing.log
sleep %2

rem check how many comskips are running; if 1 is already running, wait 1 minute and check again
rem the third parameter passed in npvr 1.5.36 and later is a unique recording oid number, so it makes a good filename to store the temporary count
:check
tasklist | find /c "comskip" > %3.txt
set /p count= <%3.txt
if %count% geq 1 (
  echo ...%count% comskips running now, waiting 1 minute >>PostProcessing.log
  timeout 60
  goto check
)
del %3.txt

rem continuing now

Rem this trick also makes it possible to have dedicated comskip.ini file for certain channels.
rem if "%2" == "79" goto channel79
Rem use the default comskip.ini for all other channels
rem goto generic

rem :channel79
rem comskip --ini=channel79.ini %1
rem goto continue

:generic
echo %date%,%time% - invoking comskip on %1 >>PostProcessing.log
comskip %1
echo %date%,%time% - comskip finished with %1 >>PostProcessing.log

:continue

:eof

You can also set comskip to not be as aggressive with disk usage, using these 3 lines in your comskip.ini file:

Code:

play_nice_start=1800 ; at what time of the day should comskip slow itself down
play_nice_end=2300 ; ending time for self slowing
play_nice_sleep=30