Comskip settings in UK

[simonk1969]

I'm currently using comskip with the default settings and probably get about 70% accuracy. I'm wondering what success others are having ?
I use freeview from 4 tuner cards.
If anyone is getting better results then would it be possible to share the ini file for me to try ?

Thanks
Simon

[rickgillyon]

Tried it myself a while ago. Accuracy was rubbish and I could only get US ini files. So I did the reasonable thing and gave up...

[doc]

Originally Posted by rickgillyon

Tried it myself a while ago. Accuracy was rubbish and I could only get US ini files. So I did the reasonable thing and gave up...

I did the same as you, tried comskip and show analyser.

After many hours of playing around, I gave up

[agitate]

There is a uk targeted ini file on the comskip forums:

http://www.kaashoek.com/comskip/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=439

To be honest, you probably won't get better than about 70% across all the standard uk channels because some of the broadcasters mix the breaks particularly well. I have tweaked the comskip.ini a bit more to make it even more sensitive, so I get more false positives, but I don't use automatic skipping so it suits me fine.

Cheers

Adam

[erik]

If you need some support in tuning, follow this guide
http://www.kaashoek.com/comskip/viewtopic.php?t=34
Can you get sage to use channel specific comskip ini file?

[rickgillyon]

Yeah, when I tried it I used the guide, but after spending some time on it I figured that I'd need to watch TV for 1000 years to get the time back I would end up spending on tuning it...

Some may think it's worth the time, but for me it was more hassle than it's worth. I think the yanks get more ad breaks than us, so have more to gain.

[doc]

I have 2 forward buttons programmed on the remote, one for 2 mins and the other for 10 seconds. I also have the same for rewind.

I can usually get through the adverts with 2, sometimes 3 clicks.

When you analyse the recordings, you notice that they deliberately stop and start the channel logo's out of sync with the adverts to make it as hard as possible.

There may be other ways to detect them, but they're certainly not making it easy are they.

[erik]

I am not referring to the tuning guide but to below text, I hope its less difficult as the tuning guide
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If you want to ask me for advice on how to tune comskip for your environment you need to follow this procedure to get the most out of your question.

Use the latest comskip, I do not keep old versions.

Set
output_framearray=1
and
verbose=10
in your comskip.ini
Run Comskip on the recording.
copy the generated .txt file to a file with the same name but with .ref as an extension.
Edit the .ref file such that it contains the start and stop frame numbers of the commercials as you would like them to be found.
Zip the comskip.ini, the .csv, .log and .ref files together and mail me the zip file so I can have a look.

[rickgillyon]

If I get time to look at it again, I'll certainly bear that in mind. Thanks for all the effort Erik...

[simonk1969]

Originally Posted by agitate

There is a uk targeted ini file on the comskip forums:

http://www.kaashoek.com/comskip/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=439

To be honest, you probably won't get better than about 70% across all the standard uk channels because some of the broadcasters mix the breaks particularly well. I have tweaked the comskip.ini a bit more to make it even more sensitive, so I get more false positives, but I don't use automatic skipping so it suits me fine.

Cheers

Adam

I loaded this ini file last night, so we'll see if I get any better results using this.

Thanks
Simon