What is everyone using for comskip in SageTV?

[peternm22]

I just ran a half hour MPEG2 HD recording (from my R5000) through both Comskip and Showanalyzer. The tables have turned!

Showanalyzer 0.9.7.290 (paid version) - 397 seconds to process
Comskip 0.81.088 (donators version) - 106 seconds to process

Comskip was almost 4 times faster with the HD recording. The downside is that Comskip seems a little less accurate, it marked a couple of commercial break starts a few seconds early. I'll have to look into tuning the settings.

[KryptoNyte]

Originally Posted by rochurch

I used SA for years but like others I moved to Comskip when development ceased.

I recently switched to a faster i5 computer and if I run Comskip immediately as the show is recording it does not detect any commercials. I'm using the stock donators .ini and the latest version. If I tell commercial detector to wait until the show is over to detect commercials I get a good comskip file and the commercials are properly detected.

Well I say properly - lately it appears to skip about 1 second too soon and come back to the show about 1 second too early. The back end "padding" is good, but the front end makes you think you missed content when you really didn't. Maybe it's just the shows we watch. Anyway, this part is no big deal.

Has anyone else had to set the plugin to not start when the recording starts after upgrading to a faster computer?

When I upgraded some time ago, I just started using comskip with the upgraded system (not on the old system). I believe you can tweak comskip in the Sage plugin UI, adjusting it to go a few seconds into the commercial and then come back a few seconds before the commercial finishes, which can overcome any of those timing anomalies.

That's a strange deal where you guys can't use comskip on liveTV - I really love that feature and it's always worked flawlessly on the two systems that I've built and run.

Comskip still runs slowly on h.264 files, but I am using one of the early donator versions that was allowing h.264. Maybe the speed on h.264 has improved?

[rochurch]

Originally Posted by Taddeusz

I assume that you have live_tv=1 in your ini. For me setting the standoff to 8000000 seemed to help. Set lowres=10 to increase performance.

Nope - everything was default. After I changed these it works like a champ. Thanks so much!!!