"Live" commercial skip with SageMC?

[jelwood]

I have Sage 6.3.5 setup with SageMC 6.3.7, and using a HD-100 for playback (so the PC is just a Server for Sage). I've setup Comskip so that it detects the commercials while the MPG file is still recording. However, I can't get SageMC to read the edl file until the recording is complete (and in some cases it won't read it until I stop and restart the Sage Service). "Live" commercial detection was a really nice feature of my MCE setup and I would hate to loose this feature. I've checked the edl file while a show is recording - it exists and the commercial markers are being written, they just don't show up in Sage.

Does anyone use commercial skip this way (if it isn't a feature I can stop trying to figure out what I did wrong) Any ideas?

[Khristopher]

I've been using SageMC with ShowAnalyzer and DirMon2 to accomplish this and it works without problems.

[mikesm]

Originally Posted by Khristopher

I've been using SageMC with ShowAnalyzer and DirMon2 to accomplish this and it works without problems.

Me too.

[BFisher]

IIRC - works with Show Analyzer but not Comskip... I use SA and it works.

[erik]

So with Comskip the .edl file exits, it has the right contents and still Sage does not read it?

[jelwood]

Thank you everyone for the responses. I rebooted the machine this morning, and now I just did some testing and everything is working perfectly. I have no idea what I did wrong, but this just shows I'm a newbie...

Eric, to answer your question, yes Comskip was working perfectly. My problem appeared to be with SageMC. However, clearly the real problem was EBKAC