comskip STV for SageTV v5?

[Nate]

Hi, I just upgraded to version 5 of Sage and I lost the ability to have Sage visually show where comskip thinks commercials are and to auto-jump over them. I was using a special STV file with v4 (forget which exactly). Is this possible with v5? Thanks!

[blade]

Yes, when you upgrade Sage it goes back to using the stock STV. So you'll have to re-import any customizations you want.

The comskip import you need is here. The thread says Sage v4, but it works with v5 as well.

[iceman]

Nate and Blade here's what I've discovered with Comskip STVI being imported into Version 5. The display of commercial segments doesn't display nor does a comskip enable or disable option show up if a right click of the mouse is done will playing a recording. The reason is that by default in the Sage Properties file the option "mmc/encode_digital_tv_as_program_stream=" is TRUE which means that all recordings will be generated with an extension of MPG. In mine I changed that option to false so that I would generate a transport stream or a file with an extention of TS vs. MPG. Well I changed the option back to TRUE and recorded one show and it created an MPG file. I then ran comskip against it via Dirmon2 and when I played back the recording the commercial segments displayed in the timeline and when right clicking using the mouse the Comskip enable/disable option showed up. I would guess that the comskip STVI is strictly looking at MPG file and not TS files. Does anyone have a fix for this. I have two Avermedia A180 HD cards and would prefer to record the files as transport streams.

HELP

[ToxMox]

I don't have the time right now to look into the import etc but a quick fix that I imagine would work would be this: Just close Sage and backup your XML first.
Open your STV .XML file that you've already imported the comskip STVI into and look for this line:

<Conditional Name="(GetMediaFileID(GetCurrentMediaFile()) != comshowid) &amp;&amp; (GetNumberOfSegments(GetCurrentMediaFile()) &gt; 0) &amp;&amp; IsVideoFile(GetCurrentMediaFile())  &amp;&amp; (StringEndsWith(GetFileForSegment(GetCurrentMediaFile(),0),&quot;.avi&quot;) || StringEndsWith(GetFileForSegment(GetCurrentMediaFile(),0),&quot;.mpg&quot;))">

Then change it to this:

<Conditional Name="(GetMediaFileID(GetCurrentMediaFile()) != comshowid) &amp;&amp; (GetNumberOfSegments(GetCurrentMediaFile()) &gt; 0) &amp;&amp; IsVideoFile(GetCurrentMediaFile())  &amp;&amp; (StringEndsWith(GetFileForSegment(GetCurrentMediaFile(),0),&quot;.avi&quot;) || StringEndsWith(GetFileForSegment(GetCurrentMediaFile(),0),&quot;.mpg&quot;) || StringEndsWith(GetFileForSegment(GetCurrentMediaFile(),0),&quot;.ts&quot;))">

[iceman]

TOXMox I tried your above suggestion howvere there was no change at all. I have posted several inquiries into the forums to see if others are having issues with using .TS files with the comskip stvi and I have seen that there are. I just can't imagination that there aren't more wanting to get this issued fixed. Any others suggustions?

Gerry

[ToxMox]

I'm surprised it didn't work. Make sure it actually saved to the file is the only thing I can think of.