Comskip Support Forum

First, thanks for all your efforts with ComSkip. I am very impressed.

I do have a question, though. I've used the information on the Snapstream forums to integrate Comskip into BTV and automatically invoke Comskip at the end of a recording. So far, so good.

Now I want to invoke comclean to cut out the commercials. For my SD recordings that are MPG, this is easy.

For my HD recordings, not so easy. mpgtx doesn't like .tp files. Do any of the available cutters accept Fusion/BTV generated .tp files.

Just to be clear, these are NOT dvr-ms files.

Thanks,

Tom

.tp files are actually MPEG Transport Stream files. Normally they have a .ts extension.
Any cutter that can cut .ts files can be used, however I don't know which programs can be used.
Possibly cuttermaran.
Maybe you can ask at the videohelp forum.

I recommend VideoRedoPlus for extracting/cutting the main program file out of a transport stream. It's very good at knowing which PID is the primary one. When it saves the output file, it also fixes any errors in the stream which can help with audio/video synch. It's not free, but they provide great support. They do have a trial version. Comskip provides the appropriate .vprj cut file using the --videoredo parameter on the command line. Use the .vprj file because VRD does not understand the *.chapters.xml file created by Comskip. It does however understand the *.chapters.xml file created by BTV.

Hi Kerry, good to see you here!

Could you post info showing the difference so I may be able to fix the chapters.xml output?

These are different shows, but here is a BeyondTV created chapter file:

<cutlist>
<Region>
<start comment="00:06:30.1142775">3901142775</start>
<end comment="00:08:50.4211105">5304211105</end>
</Region>
<Region>
<start comment="00:14:37.1341441">8771341441</start>
<end comment="00:17:55.3655107">10753655107</end>
</Region>
<Region>
<start comment="00:23:13.2163773">13932163773</start>
<end comment="00:25:43.3997439">15433997439</end>
</Region>
</cutlist>

And here is one created by Comskip:

<cutlist>
<Region><start>333667</start><end>61061000</end></Region>
<Region><start>6375369000</start><end>9151475667</end></Region>
<Region><start>12678332333</start><end>15397048333</end></Region>
<Region><start>17997312667</start><end>17997646333</end></Region>
</cutlist>

VideoRedo doesn't understand the version created by Comskip. No error messages; there just aren't any chapter/cut marks.

Can videoredoplus read videoredo project files?
Comskip is able to generate them.

erik wrote:Can videoredoplus read videoredo project files?
Comskip is able to generate them.

Erik,

Yes it can. It can also read BTV chapter files, just not the ones created by Comskip. Since it can read the *.vprj files created by Comskip, it's not a significant problem.

Kerry