Comskip edits out first 8 seconds or so of recording

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Nemesis1066
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Comskip edits out first 8 seconds or so of recording

Post by Nemesis1066 »

I've done the usual things (always_keep_first_seconds=60, always_keep_last_seconds=30, before_logo=10), but it doesn't matter at the beginning: the beginning 5 seconds or so of the actual show gets cut off (after the leader promo and before the logo first appears). 8 seconds are cut, 5 seconds of that is actual show.

Comskip.ini:
detect_method=47 ;1=black frame, 2=logo, 4=scene change, 8=fuzzy logic, 16=closed captions, 32=aspect ration, 64=silence, 128=cutscenes, 255=all
validate_silence=1 ;
validate_uniform=1 ;
validate_scenechange=1 ;
verbose=10 ;
max_brightness=60 ;
test_brightness=40 ;
max_avg_brightness=20 ;
max_commercialbreak=600 ;
min_commercialbreak=25 ;
max_commercial_size=125 ;
min_commercial_size=4 ;
min_show_segment_length=220 ;
non_uniformity=100 ;
max_volume=100 ;
min_silence=12 ;
ticker_tape=0 ;
logo_at_bottom=0 ;
punish=0 ;
punish_threshold=1.3 ;
punish_modifier=2 ;
intelligent_brightness=0 ;
logo_percentile=0.92 ;
logo_threshold=0.75
punish_no_logo=1 ;
aggressive_logo_rejection=0
connect_blocks_with_logo=1 ;
logo_filter=0 ;
cut_on_ar_change=1 ;
delete_show_after_last_commercial=0 ;
delete_show_before_or_after_current=0 ;
delete_block_after_commercial=0 ;
remove_before=0 ;
remove_after=0 ;
shrink_logo=0 ;
after_logo=0 ;
padding=5
ms_audio_delay=5
volume_slip=40
skip_b_frames=0 ;
max_repair_size=200 ;
disable_heuristics=4
disables all heuristics
delete_logo_file=0 ;
output_framearray=0 ;
output_data=0 ;
output_videoredo=0 ; The old videoredo format
output_videoredo3=0 ; The new videoredo v3 format.
output_womble=0
output_mls=0 ;
output_cuttermaran=0
output_mpeg2schnitt=0
output_mpgtx=0
output_dvrcut=0
output_zoomplayer_chapter=0
output_zoomplayer_cutlist=0
output_edl=1
output_dvrmstb=0 ;
output_edlx=0
output_vcf=0
output_bsplayer=0
output_btv=0 ;
output_projectx=0 ;
output_avisynth=0
output_vdr=0 ;
output_demux=0 ;
sage_framenumber_bug=0
sage_minute_bug=0
live_tv=1 ;
live_tv_retries=4 ;
dvrms_live_tv_retries=300 ;
standoff=0 ;
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\" "
windowtitle="Comskip - %s"
always_keep_first_seconds=60
always_keep_last_seconds=30
before_logo=10
Nemesis1066
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Joined: Sat Oct 01, 2016 1:00 pm

Re: Comskip edits out first 8 seconds or so of recording

Post by Nemesis1066 »

Nevermind: it turns out that MCEBuddy, which I use to kick off comskip for postprocessing, was putting in flags to skip part of the beginning of the recording.

So not ComSkip's fault at all.
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