Comskip Support Forum

Just as I test, I set SageTV not to run Comskip right away on recordings. I started a recording and let it go for about 6 minutes, then I manually triggered Comskip (with live_tv = 0). It took a few minutes for it to catch up to the end of the recording, but as soon as it did, Comskip exited. I dele...

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It does process live just fine, as long as I have live_tv = 1 set in the comskip.ini file. If I set live_tv = 0, then Comskip exits within a few seconds of a recording starting. I tried it with 3 different recordings last night, and every time Comskip exited pretty much straight away. I set live_tv ...

I record in .ts format (H.264, if that makes any difference)

I only have two options in SageTV to start Comskip, live or wait until the show is over. Would delaying it 10 minutes even help though? Wouldn't Comskip catch up to the live data at some point, and then just exit? Since shows are different lengths, the delay would have to be different for every reco...

I tried doing that, but Comskip exits after just a few seconds if I run it on something currently recording. I essentially want the processing to be done live, but not output anything until the recording is done. Setting live_tv = 0 doesn't seem allow processing of a growing file. The alternative is...

Right now I have Comskip process recordings live, and the results for live detection aren’t great. When the file is finished recording, Comskip continues to run for 2-3 minutes and all of the inaccurate cuts are essentially fixed. I know I can trigger Comskip to not run until after the recording is ...

Why are the standoff settings not used any longer? Is Comskip better at handling things like this automatically now?

Both of these settings seem to be quite similar to me. Does anyone know the difference between them?

standoff_size - size in kByte to stay away from the end of the file when processing during recording

standoff - The amount of kBytes to stop reading before the end of the file.