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build 115 is available

Build 119

Changes in 0.79.119
- Bug solved: Preview failed on certain TS files.
- During preview the 's' and 'f' keys will jump to Start and Finish of the recording
Changes in 0.79.118
- Bug solved: Previewing TS files failed once viewing near the end of the recording
- Added ini parameter: edge_step=1 Set to 2 when you need extra speed on scanning for logo's on HD files. Will make logo detection slightly worse
Changes in 0.79.117
- Bug solved: On certain MPEG PS recordings no audio was detected leading to much worse detection quality
Changes in 0.79.116
- Fixed a bug that could cause the preview to freeze when reviewing .txt or .csv files
- Improved the demux to better find the audio stream on HD TS recordings, not having audio will make detection quality much worse.

Build 121

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Added aspect ratio information

Build 129 is out.

Changes in 0.79.129
- Bug solved: The XML output file missed the first commercial when it started within 2 seconds from the start
- Improved the detection and decoding of sound in dvr-ms files.
Changes in 0.79.128
- It should now be possible to use the preview window on dvr-ms files. Not extensively tested and probably full of bugs. I need your feedback to improve (only for donators)
Changes in 0.79.127
- The previous build(s) generated a huge debug file called camples.csv. Is disabled now
Changes in 0.79.126
- Extra workaround implemented to prevent no sound detection on certain dvr-ms recordings
Changes in 0.79.125
- It is strongly adviced to set max_repair_size=0 for HDHomerun recordings.
- Bug solved: Comskip crashes under certain rare conditions
- Some HDHomerun recordings contain a track without sound, after 50 frames without sound another track is automatically selected
Changes in 0.79.124
- Setting skip_b_frames=2 will have Comskip skip frames on HD but not on SD, only available for donators
Changes in 0.79.123
- Adding output_aspect=1 to you ini file will instruct comskip to generate a .aspects file. This file lists the input resolution and aspect ratio changes. This information can be used for more efficient transcoding or automatic aspect ratio switching during playback.
Changes in 0.79.122
- Comskip can now skip frames to speed up processing, should work on HD streams. Set skip_b_frames=1 in your comskip.ini, only available for donators
Changes in 0.79.121
- New detection method added: RESOLUTION_CHANGE (detect_method , replaces the unused FUZZY_LOGIC (which is always on). Resolution_change will insert a hard cutpoint when the resolution of a digital recording changes.
- Improved accuracy during reviewing of cutpoints. Comskip could be up to 15 frames off during preview.

Build 144 is available.

Please upgrade to build 144 if you experience a crash on certain recordings

From the release notes:
Changes in 0.79.144
- Bug solved: Comskip crashes on recordings with mono AC3 sound
Changes in 0.79.143
- Bug solved: When remove_before is set to a positive value and the first commercial starts at the beginning of the recording then the first commercial is missing in the generated list of commercials.
- It is on request again possible to set enable_mencoder_pts=1 in order to use the initial PTS as an offset in the .edl output file to allow mencoder to correctly cut TS recordings.
Changes in 0.79.142
- Made a big change to the sound detection algorithm. This should solve some crashes on certain recordings.
Changes in 0.79.141
- Bug solved: Too short commercials at the beginning or end are not deleted even when shorter then min_commercialbreak
- Substantial changes to the heuristics and to the validation algorithm. Its better on my set of test files, how about yours?
- Switched back to the old compiler
- Bug solved: Can not disable heuristics rule 7.
Changes in 0.79.140
- When the debugwindow is uncovered the windows stayed black untill you hit a key or clicked on the time bar. I tried to show the debuginfo when the window is uncovered but it is not always working.
- Switched to a new compiler, did expect all kind of problems but haven't seen one yet.
- Bug solved: Heuristics rule 7 triggers incorrectly causing loss of show at the beginning of the recording.
Changes in 0.79.139
- Output for Virtualdup shifted with 2 frames
- Added a fflush after writing to stderr
Changes in 0.79.138
- It is now possible to use the .csv file to test changed settings of maxbright
Changes in 0.79.137
- Bug solved: When reviewing the .txt file the bar at the top of the debugwindow is grey instead of black/white
Changes in 0.79.136
- Bugs solved: Comskip crashes when invoked with a .csv file and no .data file is present.
Changes in 0.79.135
- Improved the CC word separation on certain broadcast channels
- (Re)added the "CC" type of CC data.
Changes in 0.79.134
- Change the extension of the XDS dump file to .data
- When comskip is started with a .csv file the .data file containing the XDS dump will also be read when available.
- In ComskipGUI.exe the 'X' key can be used to show XDS data. Currently the Program Name, V_Chips, Program duration and Program position are displayed. Decoding of the XDS data is not yet complete
- A very thin grey vertical line at the very top of the debugbar timeline shows the location of the XDS data changes
Changes in 0.79.133
- Added functionality to decode ATSC Close Captioning data. Will work on any file (mpg, ts, dvr-ms) that contains this information.
- Added the ability to generate a .srt file, Set output_srt=1 to enable. This is done by integrating ccextractorwin. Send me feedback on what other output formats of ccextractor are usefull.
- Added the ability to generate a .smi file, Set output_smi=1 to enable. This is done by integrating ccextractorwin.
- Added the ability to dump the user data stream from the mpeg recording. Set output_data=1 to enable. this will generate a .dmp file that could be compatible with ccextractor
Changes in 0.79.132
- Bug solved: The dvrmstv xml output file is missing the first commercial when it starts within the first second of the recording
Changes in 0.79.131
- Improved the previewing on dvr-ms recordings.
- It is now possible to disable the combining of blocks for strict or non-strict commercial length checking by setting the combined modifiers to 1.0
- Improved the automatic video PID selection when the stream switches to a new PAT
Changes in 0.79.130
- Audio detection on DVR-MS files still proved to be difficult when skipping frames. Some improvements have been implemented (I hope). Should also improve when not skipping frames.

The first h.264 capable version of Comskip is released in the early access area

Just released build 0.80.007

The early access version can process h.264.

From the changelog

Build 0.80.011 is release

The early access version can process h.264.

Changelog
Changes in 0.80.011
- New parameter: added_recording=7 ; amount of minutes that are added before and the actual show in the recording.
Changes in 0.80.010
- When before_logo or after_logo are set to 999 then a hard cutpoint will be inserted where the logo (dis)appears
- Improved again the robustness of the h.264 decoder (was lost in build 0.80.009)
Changes in 0.80.009
- Bug solved: Sometime the audio decoding stops
- Added the output format for iPod chapter skipping, enable by setting output_ipodchap=1 this will generate a .chap file with a chapter marker before and after each commercial.
- Removed the very small commercial found at the end of many recordings.
- Bug solved: Sometime Comskip crashes when output_smi or output_srt where enabled
- Bug solved: Comskip crashes on a h.264 recording that changes resolution
Changes in 0.80.008
- Doubled the speed of h.284 decoding. Only available in early access area. YOu MUST copy all the DLL's inside the zip file next you comskip.exe and comskipGUI.exe.

Build 0.80.015 released

Changes in 0.80.015
- Added parameter: delay_logo_search=0 When set to 1 logo seach will start after added_recording*60 seconds, or you can set it to the number of seconds after which to start the logo search
- Improved scene_change detection processing
- Improved the delete before/after commercial processing.

Comskip build 0.80.017 released today

From the changelog

Changes in 0.80.017
- Set Comskip to THREAD_MODE_BACKGROUND_BEGIN priority to prevent the disk IO from blocking all other processes
- Added the complete list and discription of all tunable parameters in the file comskip.txt
- Implemented a recovery mechanism for when the h.264 decoder (in comcodec.dll) generates an exception.

Could those of you that experience a crash retest with build 0.80.017?
Set verbose is 10 and check the log file for
h.264 decoder raised an exception
This signals a successful recovery from a crash

Many new builds have been released, on November 14 I released 0.80.027

From the changelog

Changes in 0.80.027
- Changed the sound detection algorithm to prevent sound decoding failure on very high quality digital broadcast.
Changes in 0.80.026
- Extended the H2 heuristics rule to also add short blocks before commercials.
Changes in 0.80.025
- Added parameter: incommercial_frames, default is 1000. When live_tv is set comskip also outputs a file with the extension ".incommercial" that contains a single line with a "0" when outside a commercial and a "1" when the current processed frame is less then incommercial_frames after the last detected commercial.
Changes in 0.80.024
- Bug solved: The delete_show_before_first_commercial did not function as expected
Changes in 0.80.023
- Added parameters always_keep_first_seconds and always_keep_last_seconds, Set them to the number of seconds at start/end you always want to be regarded as show.
- When live_tv is enable the THREAD_MODE_BACKGROUND_BEGIN is not set to ensure live_tv process can keep up with the recording.
Changes in 0.80.022
- Completely bright frames (such as bright lights or explosions) no longer generate uniform cutpoints.
Changes in 0.80.021
- The public version no longer needs comcodec.dll, I hope this solves the crash on the AMD processors without SSE2
Changes in 0.80.020
- Implemented an additional workaround to prevent a crash
Changes in 0.80.019
- Undid some changes preparing for a new demux as there seem to be some unreproducable stability problems popping up
Changes in 0.80.018
- Bug solved: Comskip sometimes crashes at the start of processing when output_default=0