Comskip Support Forum

After googling play_nice I assumed -1 would default to 0 and 2359 since so many people were using -1 but I'll give it a try later. Perhaps you could modify comskip to accept -1

play_nice_sleep exists in 056 yes?

I see a later change in 057:
With the increasing speed of CPUs it was time to reduce the default play_nice_sleep to 2 when using playnice.

Should I try 058 anyway?

It is already using Verbose=10 and I can see the log file as well as the logo.txt and EDL file in the same folder as the TS file.

Perhaps comskip isn't using the INI?

In MediaPortal I have comskip set up as:

Program: c:\comskip\comskip.exe
Parameters: "{0}"

Ok I've added that option.

I ran comskip but all four CPU's are ticked in Task Manager, and the priority is normal.

1 comskip process is using 44% CPU. IO reads is about 34 per second,

Not sure which setting that is, I'm using the default comskip.ini with the additional play_nice settings.

I checked the affinity the other day and all four cores where being used by Comskip in Task Manager.

CPU Priority is Normal in Task Manager.

I save the recordings to the local SSD.

I'm using 056 Donator and I have comskip running with Media Portal. When comskip runs two or more instances, it totally hangs the PC for minutes and can totally corrupt the MediaPortal recordings. I look in Task Manager and see the CPU running at around 95% (I didnt check the IO usage but that is pr...