Commercial Advance Beta Release

[Pumpkinhead]

If closed captioning is working for in 2.1, and I'm able to view my captions while watching LiveTV, is it safe to assume that Comskip .60 is using these closed captions to improve the commercial detection?

[snipeman]

Andy,

I'm happy to report that the script ran perfectly! I installed the registry object pack, the script and the version of comskip that I'm running on my media server.

Using the command line options I launch your script with a batch file that processes everything in my video directory. The script has no access to my SageTV program installation whatsoever.

Process times faster than across my gigabit network by about 30%, and I have CPU utilization for comskip on my HTPC.

I've run the script manually now two times, and will set it up on it's permanant schedule tonight.

I can't think of any other "must have" features. It would appear anyone with any setup can now use this just fine.

Thanks for the time and effort you put forth to share this with other people.


Regards,

The Other Andy

[Jere_Jones]

Added

• Aspect Ratio can now be used as another source of information.
• Added a comskip.dictionary file. (Discussed below)
• Added min_show_segment_length to ini file
• Added command line argument to specify the ini file

Changed

• Logo detection is more aggressive in rejecting "maybes". MUCH fewer false positives
• CC type determination code was improved to accurately reflect the time the text would have been displayed.

The list isn't long, but this version works WORLDS better for me than 0.60. I hope it improves for y'all as well.

The min_show_segment_length was added at the request of a GBPVR user, but I'm very impressed on how it "cleans up" the detection.

If you use --ini to specify an ini file and it can't be found, comskip will revert to the default ini file.

Ahh... the dictionary... this has made a lot of difference and can easily be customized to the shows that YOU watch. The included dictionary has phrases for Mythbusters, Stargate and Charmed. The dictionary is a list of phrases or words. The first lines are expected to be found in the show. Then there is a line with 5 dashes (i.e. "-----"). All the lines after that are expected to be found in commercials.

For example, Hersheys has a swoops commercial that starts out "Swoops, there it is." I put swoops in the dictionary file and if swoops is found in the closed captioning data, then the score for that block is slightly increased (by 5% for every match). Setting verbose=11 will include a "transcript" in the log file to help in finding good phrases to add to the dictionary.

I highly encourage and request that if you make additions/changes to your dictionary that you share them.

Oh, comskip pulls the CC data directly from the mpeg file, so no additional programs or steps are needed. Just make sure that they are embedded in the recording (if Sage shows them, then they're there and comskip can find them).

As always the latest source files are available at the sage-community website. The command line and ini pages have also been updated.

Enjoy,
Jere

[Snuffy2]

Is the dictionary file supposed to be named comdskip.dictionary or is it a typo and should it be named comskip.dictionary?

Just checkin.

Thanx

[malore]

Yes, it should be comskip.dictionary
I got a message saying "Dictionary not processed successfully" until I renamed it.

[snipeman]

Andy,

I turned on the deleting of orphaned files, and it deleted all my .BAT files and your VBS script file in the directory! Can you have the deleteing of orphaned files ONLY touch the *.TXT files?

Thanks,

Andy

[Jere_Jones]

Originally Posted by malore

Yes, it should be comskip.dictionary
I got a message saying "Dictionary not processed successfully" until I renamed it.

Oops...

Fixed and uploaded.

Jere

[sleonard]

Originally Posted by snipeman

Andy,

I turned on the deleting of orphaned files, and it deleted all my .BAT files and your VBS script file in the directory! Can you have the deleteing of orphaned files ONLY touch the *.TXT files?

Thanks,

Andy

It also deletes VideoReDo .VPrj files.

Edit: removed bad info. Wasn't paying attention.

It does not remove the showname.log files generated by comskip itself however.

[Deadbolt]

On the http://www.sage-community.org/index....ComSkipIniInfo community page states that the detect method default is 31....but that doesn't coorespond to any methods in the lower definition area. Also, if detect_method=32 ... does that include all the detection methods?

Thanks!

[ChrisAllenFiz]

Originally Posted by Deadbolt

On the http://www.sage-community.org/index....ComSkipIniInfo community page states that the detect method default is 31....but that doesn't coorespond to any methods in the lower definition area. Also, if detect_method=32 ... does that include all the detection methods?

Thanks!

you sum the numbers of the detection methods to get the overall number to put in, so 31 is everything except aspectratio

Chris

[Deadbolt]

ok, so 63 is everything?

[Cayars]

I think it's now 255

[pnyberg]

First, I'd like to thank everyone who's worked on CA. The fact that this project and this community exists is one of the reasons that I've just jumped onto the Sage bandwagon.

Second, as I just said, I'm a newbie with Sage (though I hope not a complete idiot in general), so please keep that in mind.

Being a recent arrival, I'm using version 2.1.10. I'm not messing with the client yet. I've set up my server set to run as a Windows service.

I'd really like to get the CA functionality into my Sage setup, but I can't seem to get to first base. I've tried using malore.stv as in import module, which seems to do nothing at all. I've tried using malore.stv as a custom module, which froze the machine. There are many references in this thread that refer to menus that I just don't seem to have (Custom Menus ?).

I'd be grateful for any pointers.

Thanks,
Peter

[krutaw]

Originally Posted by snipeman

Thanks for the time and effort you put forth to share this with other people.


Regards,

The Other Andy

Glad to hear it's working! :-D

- The Other Other Andy

[krutaw]

Originally Posted by snipeman

Andy,

I turned on the deleting of orphaned files, and it deleted all my .BAT files and your VBS script file in the directory! Can you have the deleteing of orphaned files ONLY touch the *.TXT files?

Thanks,

Andy

Yeah, that's actually the reason why I turned off the deleting of orphaned files by default so that wierd stuff wouldn't be deleted. This was one of the features that Jere asked for to clean up the folder of all orphaned files. I can see both sides of the coin and will build in another command line option this weekend to handle that

[Jere_Jones]

Originally Posted by Deadbolt

On the http://www.sage-community.org/index....ComSkipIniInfo community page states that the detect method default is 31....but that doesn't coorespond to any methods in the lower definition area. Also, if detect_method=32 ... does that include all the detection methods?

Thanks!

If detect_method=32 then comskip will only use the aspect ratio. Which is impossible because black frames are a requirement.

I've corrected the sage community page to reflect the truth: 255 is the default detect_method. Basically it means that all possible detection methods are used.

Jere

[Cayars]

Originally Posted by pnyberg

First, I'd like to thank everyone who's worked on CA. The fact that this project and this community exists is one of the reasons that I've just jumped onto the Sage bandwagon.

Second, as I just said, I'm a newbie with Sage (though I hope not a complete idiot in general), so please keep that in mind.

Being a recent arrival, I'm using version 2.1.10. I'm not messing with the client yet. I've set up my server set to run as a Windows service.

I'd really like to get the CA functionality into my Sage setup, but I can't seem to get to first base. I've tried using malore.stv as in import module, which seems to do nothing at all. I've tried using malore.stv as a custom module, which froze the machine. There are many references in this thread that refer to menus that I just don't seem to have (Custom Menus ?).

I'd be grateful for any pointers.

Thanks,
Peter

Download and try the Cayars STV. It will do Commercial Skip/Advance out of the "box" and now includes .61. You won't have to configure anything with it to get CA to work.

[JasonJoel]

I need to switch my recording profile from "DVD Standard Play" to one that uses constant bit rate (to test some issues with the Media MVP client).

Are there any CBR base recording profiles that will still have closed captions in them for use in COMSKIP??

Thanks in advance!

Jason Bottjen

[malore]

Aren't all the standard DVD profiles constant bit rate?

[Cayars]

I thought so.