logos on commercials

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jriker1
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logos on commercials

Post by jriker1 »

I have a ini I used for Comcast from someone else that is fairly good, however I have issues probably rightly so, with commercials that contain the channel logo. Is there ways around this? Usually the commercial or two before the show comes back on frequently it keeps them with the logo and are usually channel specific advertisement for shows. Not sure if there are ways to deal with this?

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; Last modified: 1:32 AM 12/16/2010
; comskip v0.80.039
;
;[Main Settings]
detect_method=255         ; 1=black frame, 2=logo, 4=scene change, 8=fuzzy logic, 16=closed captions, 32=aspect ration, 64=silence, 128=cutscenes, 255=all
verbose=1            ; show a lot of extra info, level 5 is also OK, set to 0 to disable
max_brightness=60              ; frame not black if any pixels checked are greater than this (scale 0 to 255)
maxbright=1
test_brightness=40            ; frame not pure black if any pixels checked are greater than this, will check average brightness (scale 0 to 255)
max_avg_brightness=20         ; maximum average brightness for a dim frame to be considered black (scale 0 to 255) 0 means autosetting
max_commercialbreak=305       ; maximum length in seconds to consider a segment a commercial break
min_commercialbreak=21         ; minimum length in seconds to consider a segment a commercial break
max_commercial_size=65         ; maximum time in seconds for a single commercial or multiple commercials if no breaks in between
min_commercial_size=14         ; mimimum time in seconds for a single commercial
min_show_segment_length=291       ; any segment longer than this will be scored towards show.
max_volume=0            ; any frame with sound volume larger than this will not be regarded as black frame
non_uniformity=250         ; Set to 0 to disable cutpoints based on uniform frames
thread_count=4
;
;[Detailed Settings]
min_silence=20            ; Any deep silence longer than this amount  of frames is a possible cutpoint
noise_level=5
brightness_jump=200
fps=25
validate_silence=1         ; Default, set to 0 to force using this clues if selected above.
validate_uniform=1         ; Default, set to 0 to force using this clues (like pure white frames) if blackframe is selected above.
validate_scenechange=1         ; Default, set to 0 to force using this clues if selected above.
global_threshold=1.05
disable_heuristics=255         ; bit pattern for disabling heuristics, adding 1 disables heristics 1, adding 2 disables heristics 2, adding 4 disables heristics 3, 255  disables all heuristics
;
;[CPU Load Reduction]
play_nice_start=0000         ; at what time of the day should comskip slow itself down
play_nice_end=0000         ; ending time for self slowing
play_nice_sleep=30
;
;[Input Correction]
max_repair_size=200         ; Will repair maximum 200 missing MPEG frames in the timeline, set to 0 to disable repairing for players that don't use PTS.
ms_audio_delay=5
volume_slip=20
variable_bitrate=1
;
;[Aspect Ratio]
ar_delta=0.08
cut_on_ar_change=1         ; set to 1 if you want to cut also on aspect ratio changes when logo is present, set to 2 to force cuts on aspect ratio changes. set to 0 to disable
;
;[Global Removes]
padding=0
remove_before=0            ; amount of seconds of show to be removed before ALL commercials
remove_after=0            ; amount of seconds of show to be removed after ALL commercials
added_recording=14
delete_show_after_last_commercial=0   ; set to 1 if you want to delete the last block if its a show and after a commercial
delete_show_before_first_commercial=0
delete_show_before_or_after_current=0   ; set to 1 if you want to delete the previous and the next show in the recording, this can lead to the deletion of trailers of next show
delete_block_after_commercial=0      ; set to max size of block in seconds to be discarded, set to 0 to disable
min_commercial_break_at_start_or_end=39
always_keep_first_seconds=0
always_keep_last_seconds=0
;
;[USA Specific]
intelligent_brightness=1       ; Set to 1 to use a USA specific algorithm to tune some of the settings, not adviced outside the USA
black_percentile=0.0076
uniform_percentile=0.003
score_percentile=0.71
;
;[Main Scoring]
length_strict_modifier=3
length_nonstrict_modifier=1.5
combined_length_strict_modifier=2
combined_length_nonstrict_modifier=1.25
ar_wrong_modifier=2
excessive_length_modifier=0.01
dark_block_modifier=0.3
min_schange_modifier=0.5
max_schange_modifier=2
logo_present_modifier=0.01
punish_no_logo=1         ; Default, set to 0 to avoid show segments without logo to be scored towards commercial
;
;[Detailed Scoring]
punish=0            ; Compare to average for sum of 1=brightness, 2=uniform 4=volume, 8=silence, 16=schange, set to 0 to disable
reward=0
punish_threshold=1.3         ; Multiply when amount is above average * punish_threshold
punish_modifier=2         ; When above average * threshold multiply score by this value
reward_modifier=0.5
;
;[Logo Finding]
border=10             ; border around edge of video to ignore
give_up_logo_search=5000
logo_max_percentage_of_screen=0.15
ticker_tape=0            ; Amount of pixels from bottom to ignore in all processing
ignore_side=0
subtitles=0
logo_at_bottom=0         ; Set to 1 to search only for logo at the lower half of the video, do not combine with subtitle setting
logo_threshold=0.70
logo_filter=0                     ; set the size of the filter to apply to bad logo detection, 4 seems to be a good value.
aggressive_logo_rejection=1
edge_level_threshold=5
edge_radius=2
edge_weight=10
edge_step=1
num_logo_buffers=50
use_existing_logo_file=1
two_pass_logo=1
;
;[Logo Interpretation]
connect_blocks_with_logo=1      ; set to 1 if you want successive blocks with logo on the transition to be regarded as connected, set to 0 to disable
logo_percentile=0.92         ; if more then this amount of logo is found then logo detection will be disabled
logo_fraction=0.4
shrink_logo=5            ; Reduce the duration of the logo with this amount of seconds
before_logo=0
after_logo=0            ; set to number of seconds after logo disappears comskip should start to search for silence to insert an additional cutpoint
where_logo=0
min_black_frames_for_break=1      ;
;
;[Closed Captioning]
ccCheck=1
cc_commercial_type_modifier=4
cc_wrong_type_modifier=2
cc_correct_type_modifier=0.75
;
;[Live TV]
live_tv=0            ; set to 1 if you use parallelprocessing and need the output while recording
live_tv_retries=4         ; change to 16 when using live_tv in BTV, used for mpeg PS and TS
dvrms_live_tv_retries=300      ; only used for dvr_ms
standoff=0            ; change to 8000000 when using live_tv in BTV
dvrmsstandoff=120000
require_div5=0
div5_tolerance=-1
;
;[Output Control]
output_default=0         ; output the default .txt file
output_plist_cutlist=0
output_zoomplayer_cutlist=0
output_zoomplayer_chapter=0
output_vcf=0
output_vdr=0            ; set to 1 if you want XBMC to skipping commercials
output_projectx=0         ; set to 1 if you want ProjectX cutlist output (Xcl)
output_avisynth=0
output_videoredo=1
output_videoredo3=1
videoredo_offset=2
output_btv=0            ; set to 1 if you want Beyond TV chapter cutlist output
output_edl=1
edl_offset=0            ; The amount of frames subtracted from the edl cut time output, use negative numbers to shift to later.
output_edlp=0
output_bsplayer=0
output_edlx=0
output_cuttermaran=0
output_mpeg2schnitt=0
output_womble=0
output_mls=0            ; set to 1 if you want MPeg Video Wizard bookmark file output
output_mpgtx=0
output_dvrmstb=0
output_dvrcut=0
output_ipodchap=0
output_framearray=0         ; create a big excel file for detailed analysis, set to 0 to disable
output_debugwindow=0
output_tuning=0
output_training=0
output_false=0
output_aspect=0
output_demux=0            ; set to 1 if you want comskip to demux the mpeg file while scanning
output_data=0            ; create a dump of the user data channel, used for CC and XDS (such as V-Chip info). Can be use together with output_framearray to remote debug CC decoding
output_srt=0            ; set to 1 if you want to generate a .srt file, done by integrating ccextractorwin
output_smi=0            ; set to 1 if you want to generate a .smi file, done by integrating ccextractorwin
output_timing=0
delete_logo_file=1         ; set to 1 if you want comskip to tidy up after finishing
;
;[Cutscene processing]
cutscene_frame=0
cutscene_dumpfile=""
cutscene_threshold=10
cutscenefile1=""
cutscenefile2=""
cutscenefile3=""
cutscenefile4=""
cutscenefile5=""
cutscenefile6=""
cutscenefile7=""
cutscenefile8=""
windowtitle="Comskip - %s"
cuttermaran_options="cut=\"true\" unattended=\"true\" muxResult=\"false\" snapToCutPoints=\"true\" closeApp=\"true\""
mpeg2schnitt_options="mpeg2schnitt.exe /S /E /R25  /Z %2 %1"
avisynth_options="LoadPlugin(\"MPEG2Dec3.dll\") \nMPEG2Source(\"%s\")\n"
dvrcut_options="dvrcut \"%s.dvr-ms\" \"%s_clean.dvr-ms\" "
;
;[Sage Workarounds]
sage_framenumber_bug=0
sage_minute_bug=0
enable_mencoder_pts=0
;
;[Outdated parameters]
skip_b_frames=0            ; Set to 1 to force Comskip to skip frames for higher processing speed.
Thanks.

JR
Jagad
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Re: logos on commercials

Post by Jagad »

Perhaps if you experiment with the value of:
shrink_logo=5 ; Reduce the duration of the logo with this amount of seconds
erik
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Re: logos on commercials

Post by erik »

Or you can set
logo_present_modifier=1
to cancel the impact of logo on commercials.
if the logo stay's on during the transition from show -> commercial or reverse you better disable logo in the methods
Jagad
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Re: logos on commercials

Post by Jagad »

@erik
will shrink_logo support negative values in next version?
erik
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Re: logos on commercials

Post by erik »

Negative values in ini parameters is a bit of a problem......
Will consider
jriker1
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Re: logos on commercials

Post by jriker1 »

Thanks for the replies. What does shrink logo do? I know the logos on the commercials are the same as the show as I was thinking that meant there was some variance in the logo type in commercials vs the show?

Also what does logo present modifier actually do? I know erik you mentioned cancel the impact of logos on commercials, but how is that different than including or not including logos in the detect method?

I also see a number of situations where comskip will remove nothing. Unfortunately I have no logs left as my methods are, comskip, then use output with videoredo to create a new file and then delete temp files from comskip. I end up with new files occasionally that are the full length of the original so not sure why it occasionally completely fails but what you gonna do.

Also is there any logic that makes sense around the beginning and end of a show? So show starts, first two minutes are garbage as I have my DVR set to record two minutes early if it can. Occasionally comskip will remove the beginning and end. Rarely. My though is once you've hit the start of the show, maybe where it finds the logo, everything before it should be removed. Then whatever the last commercial was, everything after it should be removed. May not be that easy but I know the first two minutes for me are always garbage and it's usually still there so figured when the start of the show is detected remove everything before it.

Thanks.

JR
erik
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Re: logos on commercials

Post by erik »

Did you read the tuning guide inside the distribution zip file?
jriker1
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Re: logos on commercials

Post by jriker1 »

erik wrote:Did you read the tuning guide inside the distribution zip file?
Actually reading thru it last night. So for starters, does

delete_show_after_last_commercial=1

Apply to if I add an extra 5 minutes to the end of my shows AND there is actually the start of the next show as part of it? And how will this react since the setting is "Go over 5 minutes WHEN YOU CAN". So if I have 4 tuners and always recording 4 shows, it won't add the extra 5 minutes as wen it is done, has to move onto something else. Most of the time it does, but for some reason with one of my families soap operas, I guess it won't record two shows on the same channel at the same time. So if a show is from 11:30 - 12:30 on ABC and then 12:30-1 on ABC, it will stop the prior show at 12:30 even though 3 other tuners are available.

Thanks.

JR
erik
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Re: logos on commercials

Post by erik »

shrink logo reduces the duration of logo being present at both start and disappearing of the logo
All modifiers change the block score. Above 1 means commercial, below means show
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