Comskip channel profiles

[warrenlj]

Has anyone had any luck running comskip w/ Dirmon2 and different comskip.ini settings for different channels? The example that eric gives over at the comskip forum seems to be gbpvr specific. Or, has anyone had any luck with this with and comskip monitor?

Thanks

[hemicuda]

it's working fine w/ my setup... with the caveat that I haven't tried using the extra features of the comskip.cmd file yet. i've also set the ini to process while recording. I just don't have enough "weird" channels to need custom ini's for proper skipping. this is sure to change when I get into HD this year. maybe i'll try a custom on History channel sometime. it's always cutting the trivia before a commercial.

[JREkiwi]

The problem is that there is no way for comskip/dirmon to know what channel anything was recorded on. Showanalyzer can do a call to neilm webserver to find out what channel a file was recorded on.

The Comskip example is being called by the PVR software using a batch file to run comkip and passing the channel number as a parameter.

John

[erik]

A possible alternative is to use the program name.
There are some examples out there that use the first x letters of the file name to decide what to do.
The comclean.bat file has an example on how to test the first letters of a parameter
This example test the first 4 characters to be either FILE or ---- and jumps to the label :eof
Not sure if there is a double quote at the start of the filename or if that is removed by the set arg=%1

rem test the first parameter to the command file
set arg=%1 
if "%arg:~0,4%"=="FILE" goto :eof
if "%arg:~0,4%"=="----" goto :eof

rem do something for names not starting with FILE or ---- 

:eof