commercial skips early

[millertinymouse]

I have both a STB with a Colossus2 and HVR-2250 that is connected to external antenna.

I am recording the same show at the same time using both devices.
The TS files from the antenna are about twice the size.

The recordings from the STB have the commerical skip jumping past at the correct spot using the client.
The external antenna recordings jump about 10 secs early and resume about 10 secs early.

I checked the comskip txt files using the comskipgui and it marked both of them in the correct spot.
I do see the frame rate in the TXT file for the STB is 5994 and 2997 for the antenna but don't see why that would matter.

I would prefer to record using the external antenna since it has two tuners and frees up the STB for other channels that are not local.
Let me know what files I should provide.

[mvallevand]

Without knowing which client you are talking about and with no logs, I can't see how we can help you on this one. Always best to start by sending all the zipped logs that you can get from the web server settings page.

Martin

[millertinymouse]

I am using the NextPVR client.
The recording in question is "The.Big.Bang.Theory.S11E07.The.Geology.Methodology"
That one is from the Antenna.    With a "-0" added to the filename is from the STB.

[mvallevand]

Skipping in NextPVR.exe is not always that accurate. Do these file have a .timing file? I know sub did some tweaking for NextPVR when he introduced thumbs that might cause a 10 second issue. If it has the .timing file and you rename the .timing file to something else does that help?

Generally Kodi and many UI clients skip better than NextPVR.exe.

Martin

[sub]

Generally Kodi and many UI clients skip better than NextPVR.exe.

If the file has got a perfect timeline...otherwise often worse.

[mvallevand]

Generally Kodi and many UI clients skip better than NextPVR.exe.

If the file has got a perfect timeline...otherwise often worse.

Based on my experiences over many years I will disagree and iy certainly is not often since a bad commercial skip is obvious.  The timing file does help NextPVR.exe though but if you want "perfect" remuxing to mp4 is still my recommendation no matter which client you use,

Martin

[millertinymouse]

Yes there is a timing file and renaming it does make the skipping much better.
Thank you.
Any downsides of not having that file.

[sub]

Any downsides of not having that file.

Usually worse skipping - I guess there might be exceptions to that rule though

[mvallevand]

Without that file, thumb based skipping will look pretty ugly so I wouldn't delete it if you used thumbs.

There are downsides to using the thumb/timing combination too so really it up to you to decide how your recordings skip. I prefer comskip over thumbs for skipping.

I will stand with my generat recommendation that mp4 files are always going to be the best for skipping.

Martin

[millertinymouse]

Thanks for the replies