10 minute delay - Can it be turned off?

[marvin-miller]

Hi Folks;

I've noticed there seems to be a 10 minute delay before comskip starts processing my .wtv files. I never had an issue with this before and I'd like to turn it off as it's wasting 10 minutes per show. It seems to have been introduced in this release;

Changes on 0.81.045
- Increased the waiting time for WTV files to 10 minutes for live TV processing to reduce the risk for crashing

How can I turn this 'feature' off ? I don't think it's even required as the '10 minute issue' is one that used to arise with DVRMS-Tooolbox and the proper way to address it is within DVRMS-Toolbox. That delay can easily be set there.

I no longer use DVRMS-Toolbox, I changed that out for VAP some time ago. Hence, the 10 minute delay is a huge time waster for me.

[erik]

Now available as user setting.
Changes on 0.81.049
- Added settings for live tv processing. The default settings should work for NPVR .ts recording and MCE .wtv recording (see comskip.txt) . You MUST set standoff_size > 0 otherwise the defaults will be used.
standoff_retries = times to retry if the file has grown during recording while sleeping one second between tries
standoff_time = time in seconds to wait after last file modification when proceesing during recording
standoff_size = size in kByte to stay away from the end of the file when processing during recording
standoff_initial_size = time in seconds to wait for after file creation time before starting processing
standoff_initial_wait = size of file in kByte to wait for before starting processing

[Kragger]

These changes have made live output functional in EyeTV again under .81.

I'm still tweaking around with the values, though at this point the only oddity I see is that for some reason it seems on the first commercial it finds to start skipping it goes back to the beginning of the recording and re-processes.

Thanks for your continued work!

[marvin-miller]

Now available as user setting.
Changes on 0.81.049
- Added settings for live tv processing. The default settings should work for NPVR .ts recording and MCE .wtv recording (see comskip.txt) . You MUST set standoff_size > 0 otherwise the defaults will be used.
standoff_retries = times to retry if the file has grown during recording while sleeping one second between tries
standoff_time = time in seconds to wait after last file modification when proceesing during recording
standoff_size = size in kByte to stay away from the end of the file when processing during recording
standoff_initial_size = time in seconds to wait for after file creation time before starting processing
standoff_initial_wait = size of file in kByte to wait for before starting processing

I'm still seeing a delay. I haven't set any of the variables above as it seems to indicate that that default settings should work...?

Or, do I have to set one of the variables above to get rid of the 10 minute delay?

[erik]

Yes

You need to set standoff_size to a non zero value to enable the user settings and then standoff_initial_wait to the amount of seconds for the initial wait and standoff_time to the amount to wait till completion.

[marvin-miller]

OK, so before this feature was added, how long did comskip wait? I never had an issue with it so those values should be fine.

[marvin-miller]

Yes

You need to set standoff_size to a non zero value to enable the user settings and then standoff_initial_wait to the amount of seconds for the initial wait and standoff_time to the amount to wait till completion.

With these settings;

standoff_size =1 ; size in kByte to stay away from the end of the file when processing during recording
standoff_initial_wait =5 ; size of file in kByte to wait for before starting processing

I'm still seeing a comskip-induced wait time of 10 minutes...

Woops...think I missed this one;
standoff_time =0 ; time in seconds to wait after last file modification when proceesing during recording

Success! After re-starting my application (VAP) comskip processing started immediately - thanks eric!

[spaceboy]

so i'm still having trouble getting this to work. i have the following lines in my comskip.ini file:

standoff_size=1
standoff_initial_wait=1
standoff_time=0

so i'd expect comskip to start 1 second after the recording starts and process the recording continually until it completes. but it continues to wait until 10 mins in. what am i doing wrong? thanks