what EDL format is comskip using?

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cocoa117
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what EDL format is comskip using?

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Hi, I have BBC One HD recording in MPEG-TS container with h264 and AC3 video/audio codec. After process the file, the EDL output contains lines like this
102.56 173.96 0
253.52 397.32 0
3342.32 3517.92 0

Regardless how accurate the commerical detection is, can someone explain what format these number is using please.
e.g. 102.56 = 102 minus 56 seconds? If this is true, then it is impossible, the show I recorded only last for 60 minus.

In addition, I think because of this error time format, the mplayer -edl test.edl show.ts can be able to read the file with output "Read 3 EDL actions.", but it never really useful to play the file because the OSD showing file last 30:55:21 in total.

What did I do wrong here?
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Re: what EDL format is comskip using?

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Time in seconds start/end block to skip
cocoa117
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Re: what EDL format is comskip using?

Post by cocoa117 »

so does this mean 102.56 = 102.56 seconds? why it have .56 seconds? Is it frame number?

What's the best way to convert those seconds into hours, minus, seconds? I needed because at the moment, the Mplayer and VideoReDo don't play well with this number

I think I got it
3517.92 seconds = 58 minutes 37.92 seconds
I am using WolframAlpha.
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