Comskip won't read Channel 9 in Sydney, Australia

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mimwdv
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Comskip won't read Channel 9 in Sydney, Australia

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I'm hoping someone can help. Comskip won't to read the files from Channel 9 in Sydney, Australia properly. I've got it working just fine on every other channel, but everything I record on this one, Comskip seems to interpret it as only being a few frames long (the log below is from a 2h 42 min file) Other applications (mediaplayer classic, zoomplayer, projectX) don't have a problem with the file. Does anyone have any ideas what I can do to fix it?
The log file reports:

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Generated using Comskip 0.79.44
Time at start of run:
Tue Jun 20 19:38:41 2006
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Mpeg:	Six Feet Under 0619.ts
Exe	D:\installs\comskip\comskip.exe
Logo:	Six Feet Under 0619.logo.txt
Ini:	D:\installs\comskip\comskip.ini

Detection Methods to be used:
	1) Black Frame
	2) Logo - Give up after 2000 seconds
	3) Fuzzy Logic
	4) Aspect Ratio


ComSkip throttles back from -0001 to -0001.
The time is now 1938 so it's full speed ahead!
Auto selected video pid =  207
Selected audio pid =  2d0
MPEG2 sound at 48 khz

First Frame
Frame: 1	MinY: 10	MaxY: 566	Ratio: 1.30
Resizing scene change array to accomodate 2000 frames.
Audio PTS jumped -942932 frames at frame -4, audio may get out of sync
Audio PTS jumped 942932 frames at frame 1, audio may get out of sync
Video PTS jumped 2 frames, repairing timeline
Audio PTS jumped 1 frames at frame 21, repairing timeline
Audio PTS jumped 1 frames at frame 63, repairing timeline
Video PTS jumped 7398 frames, frame numbers may be incorrect

Parsed 7532 video frames and 130 audio frames of 25.00 fps

Maximum Volume found is 2324
Finished scanning file.  Starting to build Commercial List.

Not enough or too much logo's found (0.00), disabling the use of Logo detection
The last ar block wasn't closed.  Now closing.

Printing AR block list before cleaning
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Block: 0	Start:      1	End:    133	AR_R: 1.30	Length: 0:0:5.28


After Sorting - 31
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Aspect Ratio   1.30 found on    132 frames totalling 	100.0


After Sorting - 31
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Aspect Ratio   1.30 found on    133 frames totalling 	100.0

Printing AR block list
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Block: 0	Start:      1	End:    133	AR_R: 1.30	Length: 0:0:5.28
Confidence of Scene Change  cutting:   0 out of   0 are strict
Confidence of Uniform Frame cutting:   0 out of   0 are strict
Confidence of Volume        cutting:   0 out of   0 are strict
Black Frame List
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Black Frame Count = 0
nr 	frame	bright	uniform	volume	cause

Fuzzy scoring of the blocks
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Block 0 has non-strict standard length for a commercial.
Block 0 score:	Before - 1.00	After - 1.50
Threshold used - 1.0500	After rounding - 1.0500


	---------------------
	Initial Commercial List
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 0)      1	   132	0:0:5.24
No change

Logo fraction:              0.0000      Logo disabled
Maximum volume:               2324
Average volume:                473
Average silence:                32
Sound threshold:               500
Silence level found              0
Black threshold:                25
Minimum Black level found:      80
Average brightness:           1038
Uniformity level:              500
Average non uniformity:        344
Maximum gap between logo's:     -1
Suggested shrink_logo:	         0
Max commercial size found:      -1
Dominant aspect ratio:      1.3000
Suggested logo_threshold:   0.9000
Score threshold:            1.0500
Framerate:                  25.00
Total commercial length:    0:0:0.00
Block list after weighing
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  #     sbf  bs  be     fs     fe    sc      len   scr cmb   ar                cut bri  logo  vol  sil corr stdev        cc
  0:--    0   0   0      1    132  1.50    5.240  0.09   0 1.30           N        1030- 0.00 470- 320  0.000   103           

133 Frames Processed
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Time at end of run:
Tue Jun 20 19:38:43 2006
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erik
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Post by erik »

You could upload a recording to my FTP server so I can test the TS input.
I assume that is where the problem is.
Start uploading and abort when its enough (at least 500 seconds for this recording), whatever was uploaded will stay on the server.
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mimwdv
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Post by mimwdv »

Hi Erik, I've uploaded about 65MB, hope it's enough. Thanks for taking the time to look at it for me.

Miriam
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erik
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Post by erik »

I tested the file and indeed it causes Comskip to crash.
I made a small improvement in Comskip 0.79 build 45, it seems to work.
Could you test?
You will notice a lot of error messages on this particular recording, should be no problem, ignore.
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mimwdv
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Post by mimwdv »

Sorry it's taken me so long to get back to you, Erik - but it works brilliantly. Bedankt!
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