Comskip Support Forum

Hi Erik
Can you tell us what numbers correlate to which global heuristic?

Thanks
Rob

hey - that was cool! It found the edges of the window box, sent a bunch of 'too big to be a logo' messages than after a bit, in zeroed right in on the logo! fantastic! I've tested against a show with the logo in the black column and it had no problem finding that logo. I'll keep testing it this week...

Hi Erik - thanks for that! I gave it a go and while it only searches the bottom of the screen it's still picking up the edges of the window box - but just the lower edges. Now the 'logo' it finds is 35% and still 'too big'... At first, I thought if you could cut off the sides and just search the mid...

With all your help last week I have a pretty well tuned ini file now. It's clear to me that logo detection is the key to really reliable comskipping. One of the problems I'm having in Australia is with 'window boxed' 4:3 programs that are shown locally in wide screen digital (Oprah and Dr Phil are t...

i think we just posted at the same time. I'll try the settings you suggest.

update new silence settings work great on recording number two. I'll be testing them on other recordings.

I'm starting to understand a bit better now. The 'score' starts at 1.0 and if comskip can detect some reason that a block may or may not be commercial, it will raise or lower the score (higher means commercial, lower means show.) In my second case, the two segments in question both scored 1.00 so we...

If only Australian TV could broadcast late night television at or near the advertised time! :D but of course we can't control that here! Now I have some questions: By FIRST occurrence, you mean from the top down, right? In the debug window I'm getting a black bar (not gray, but black) which I though...

interesting: I just ran the edited version of the same program (which included the two unwanted commercial blocks - but the rest had been removed) and comskip identified both correctly as commercials.

hmm I wonder if double processing is a valid strategy...

wow - that was quick!

max_volume is set to 100 further up in the file, it's my understanding the the first one is the one that is used. Is that right?

I've emailed the full log and ini files and, well everything except the dvr-ms file!

Hi - I'm rather new to comskip (only been messing with it for a week now) and think I've got most of it figured out. It's doing a great job of finding the breaks between show (in Australia) and commercial but sometimes it's leaving in blocks of commercial - but I can't figure out why it won't mark t...