STV Import: Comskip Playback for Default STV (v1.5.4 30/August/2008 for SageTV 5/6)

[hemicuda]

Must be something I'm not doing correctly. I've started watching a couple of shows, but comskip isn't starting.

Here's what I changed in the cmd file to match the app path:

:generic
Rem The actual run of Comskip. Only one parameter, the name of the mpeg file to process.
Rem Comskip will read its settings from the Comskip.ini found in the same directory as Comskip.exe
"C:\Program Files\SageTV\comskip79_70\comskip.exe" --ini="C:\Program Files\SageTV\comskip79_70\comskip.ini" %1
:continue

[JREkiwi]

hemicida, You've enabled Start on Watch? Try just changing the Start on Watch Application in Comskip Playback Options to "C:\Program Files\SageTV\comskip79_70\comskip.exe" and see if that helps.

John

[hemicuda]

It was on my end. It got disabled somehow in the new options screen. Seems to be working fine now.

[ToonGal]

Originally Posted by JREkiwi

New Version (1.3)
- Added function to optionally run and pass parameters to an application/script when a video is watched

Call me a broken record, but this is yet another version that doesn't work for me. I'm still using SageTV v5, so that might be it, I guess. The import seems to not be doing anything in its entirety. It drops the "CS" markers in the recordings window, it drops the comskip markers in the playback, and has none of the configuration windows I see in this thread for the v1.3 version. It's as if it simply didn't import at all.

Any help greatly appreciated. Will try to give feedback if you need more information. Thanks!

[JREkiwi]

Originally Posted by ToonGal

Call me a broken record, but this is yet another version that doesn't work for me. I'm still using SageTV v5, so that might be it, I guess.

Apologies, missed running my script that fixes imports for loading on version 5 but at least you get to have the little changes in 1.3.1

You keep on being a broken record. I appreciate your feedback. I'd much rather know that something's broken, so I can fix it.

John

[joe123]

I re-installed SageTV (another story) and re-imported all of my Stvs including this latest one.

On my SageTV recordings, I see the "CS" labels just fine, however, when I hit the ">" arrow or "<" left arrow on my MVP remote, nothing happens.

All was working fine prior to re-installing SageTV.

I have SA outputing edl files and I can see my recordings timelines with the correct stop/start commercial skip info, but the remote is not jumping as before.

What did I miss?

[JREkiwi]

Originally Posted by joe123

On my SageTV recordings, I see the "CS" labels just fine, however, when I hit the ">" arrow or "<" left arrow on my MVP remote, nothing happens.

All was working fine prior to re-installing SageTV.

The Cursor Comskip is disabled by default.

Go to Setup -> Detailed Setup -> Customize -> Comskip Playback Options and enable it

John

[joe123]

Originally Posted by JREkiwi

The Cursor Comskip is disabled by default.

Go to Setup -> Detailed Setup -> Customize -> Comskip Playback Options and enable it

John

Ah, cool thanks John.

Say, would it not make more sense to re-labled that from "cursor" to "remote"? I know some watch shows on their PC's, but they still use a remote and not a mouse to navigate I imagine.

[JREkiwi]

Originally Posted by joe123

Say, would it not make more sense to re-labled that from "cursor" to "remote"? I know some watch shows on their PC's, but they still use a remote and not a mouse to navigate I imagine.

It's not really remote, it's left/right on anything that sends left/right to Sage. You can also use the Custom 4/5 keys on your "remote".

Maybe I should just have it enabled by default?

John

[joe123]

Originally Posted by JREkiwi

It's not really remote, it's left/right on anything that sends left/right to Sage. You can also use the Custom 4/5 keys on your "remote".

Maybe I should just have it enabled by default?

John

I would vote to have that default to be on.

I still say that 95% of SageTV users will be using some kind of a remote instead of a "left/right anything" to navigate. Just my opinion...

[JREkiwi]

Originally Posted by joe123

I would vote to have that default to be on.

I've updated the download with Cursor Comskip enabled by default. I've also changed the description text. No other changes to the download.

John

[JREkiwi]

New test version on the first post

(1.3.2rc)
- Support for SageTV V6.1.3 Release Candidate

John

[ptaylor]

Anyone else having lag issues when navigating the list of SageTV recordings? I have two stvi's loaded (comskip and the auto recompress ones) and I get horrible lag when navigating through my list of files. I have several directories with 10, 20 or even more episodes of the same show and when scrolling through the list of recordings it often pauses for 20-30 seconds or more, which makes using it painful... I loaded the comskip stvi first, so I loaded that version of my STV and it still is extremely slow, but with the default STV I have no problem flying through the entire list of shows...

Am I the only one seeing this?

I'm running v1.25 of the import (downloaded on 1/30/07, according to the timestamp)

Strange thing is that I'm seeing this same lag on my client machines. One is running SageMC.. (I think I have the comskip plugin on the other client)

And, if you are wondering why I have 10 or 20 episodes of a bunch of shows... one word... Kids!

[JREkiwi]

Originally Posted by ptaylor

Anyone else having lag issues when navigating the list of SageTV recordings? I have two stvi's loaded (comskip and the auto recompress ones) and I get horrible lag when navigating through my list of files. I have several directories with 10, 20 or even more episodes of the same show and when scrolling through the list of recordings it often pauses for 20-30 seconds or more, which makes using it painful... I loaded the comskip stvi first, so I loaded that version of my STV and it still is extremely slow, but with the default STV I have no problem flying through the entire list of shows...

Strange thing is that I'm seeing this same lag on my client machines. One is running SageMC.. (I think I have the comskip plugin on the other client)

I don't have any problem.

Which SageTV recordings view are you using? Default, Malore, Mlbdude.
What Java version are you running?

Try changing the Comskip Files Icon setting to none.

Can you check your clients and confirm what's happening on them

John

[JREkiwi]

A couple more things.

Is your new install using the same version of the import as your old install?
I assume you didn't have a problem before the reload.

You could try
video_thumbnail_generation=false
in SageClient.Properties

Can you check your CPU usage

John

[ptaylor]

Originally Posted by JREkiwi

Which SageTV recordings view are you using? Default, Malore, Mlbdude.
What Java version are you running?

Try changing the Comskip Files Icon setting to none.

Can you check your clients and confirm what's happening on them

I'm using the Default recordings view and I'm running the version of Java that came with Sage. The About tab in the Java Control Panel says it is 1.4.2_11.

Setting the Comskip Files icon to none resulted in the same spinning logo and 30 second delay...

As for my clients, my PlaceShifter client definitely does the same thing. My SageMC client doesn't seem to have quite the same pause issue there, but seems to be very slow to start playing and pauses for an extremely long time when a recording ends with the spinning logo. In fact, last night it hung there until I killed the Sage Client off, logo spinning the whole time... I killed it about 30 minutes later.

[ptaylor]

Originally Posted by JREkiwi

A couple more things.

Is your new install using the same version of the import as your old install?
I assume you didn't have a problem before the reload.

You could try
video_thumbnail_generation=false
in SageClient.Properties

Can you check your CPU usage

I don't know what version of the import I used on my old install. I honestly never got the comskip stuff working well with it as I started having BSOD issues and random reboots. It wasn't until a BSOD happened with my new install that I realized it wasn't my load of windows, but rather hardware... My video card, of all things. I realized this because I noticed that all of a sudden my video card acted as if it were running in Overlay mode all the time. It's hard to explain, but I changed it out and haven't had a reboot since.

I wouldn't think it would be the thumbnail generation that would cause this, since that's enabled when I'm just using the standard STV file...

[ptaylor]

One other tidbit of info that might be somehow related...

Just before I performed the reload of Windows, I moved all the video directories off to a NAS and moved the files there.

After I reloaded windows, I restored my wiz.bin file. The first time I started it up after restoring that file took a few minutes, probably because it was trying to locate the files that it remembered on the NAS, even though I had moved them back to drives local to the Sage server. After waiting a few minutes, though, it worked as expected.. Now, with the default STV I don't have any issues with these strange long pauses, but is it possible that somewhere the STV is still trying to access the nas? (It no longer exists at that IP Address.. Couldn't handle 2 HD streams at the same time, etc. so I'm not using it anymore.)

[JREkiwi]

You certainly sound like you have problems.
The fact that your also having problems with your SageMC client tends to indicate that you may have more of a generic problem with your setup, possibly access to your video library.

Can you try disabling comskip in Setup -> Detailed Setup -> Advanced -> Customize -> Comkip Playback Options

You could try running installing java 1.5.0_11. It certainly made my SageTV system more responsive in many ways.

And what is your CPU usage doing?

John

[ptaylor]

When I was performing my testing, my CPU utilization was practically nothing. Even when the spinning logo comes up, my CPU is almost completely idle. This machine is a P4 running at 2.4 Ghz and it's just for Sage, so that should be plenty for recording...