Commercial skipping for h.264 using trancoded files to generate .edl?

[Slipshod]

Is this possible....

Can I transcode an H.264 file to MPEG2, run a commercial skip detector on it to generate the .edl file, and then rename the .edl file to match the H.264 file and get commercial skipping on H.264??

EDL is timestamp based I think, so in theory this should work... Comments anybody?

[evilpenguin]

Generally the best thing to do is run comskip on the mpg before you compress it and then you can use that edl file on the compressed video.

Edit: Ahh, sorry, I didn't understand before, but yes that should work just fine.

[mikesm]

I think the thing the OP is trying to address is content sourced in h.264, which neither comskip or showanalyzer process now. I think Jere may be thinking about/is working on this, but right now there is no solution.

This is a problem for R5000-HD dish users today, but will become acute one the HDDVR device from Hauppauge begins shipping.

[JREkiwi]

Yes it will work, of course within the limitations of the SageTV media player's ability to skip to a correct location.

John

[Slipshod]

Cool. I guess I'll err on the side of a much faster CPU when I put together the server...

And this is specifically for R5000 on D* use. Don't want to have to listen to the wife complain about some shows having commercial skip and other not.

[MTuckman]

Related to this and maybe this is the same question, but...

I have a couple of movies that I ripped from my kids DVD's and then converted to h.264 / mkv files. In one of the movies there is a small scene that I don't really want the kids to see (one of the characters getting punched).

I tried using an edl file that I created by hand to skip the 10 second scene but SageMC doesn't seem to see it. If I do the same thing with a few different AVI files that I have it works fine for them.

During testing and from reading another thread I did already find out that the values in the edl file have to be separated by a TAB and not just a space.

[JREkiwi]

SageMC only supports .avi, .mpg, .ts and .mp4 files.

The import for the Default STV supports any video format SageTV will play.

John

[MTuckman]

Originally Posted by JREkiwi

SageMC only supports .avi, .mpg, .ts and .mp4 files.

Thanks - Didn't realize that. No worries - I modified SageMC to also support mkv files and it works like a charm. A lot easier than trying to cut out a 10 second scene!

[evilpenguin]

Originally Posted by JREkiwi

SageMC only supports .avi, .mpg, .ts and .mp4 files.

The import for the Default STV supports any video format SageTV will play.

John

That was fixed in the latest version of SageMC, it now supports comskip files with pretty much any file type.

[JREkiwi]

Originally Posted by evilpenguin

That was fixed in the latest version of SageMC, it now supports comskip files with pretty much any file type.

It hasn't changed in 6.3.7a

John

[evilpenguin]

Originally Posted by JREkiwi

It hasn't changed in 6.3.7a

John

Oops, I fixed the regEX but not the conditional above it