help with cutpoints

[msde]

I'm in the process of trying to tune a fairly difficult show, and I can't figure out how to convince comskip that it needs more cutpoints. There's one problematic section of the show that consists of about 8 minutes of show, 3 minutes of commercial, and 8 more minutes of show, but turns into roughly a 15 minute block followed by a 4 minute block. It is an hour-long show, with only 17 identified blocks.

In the log file, I see that it identified at least 20 scene change and some silence cutpoints, but is throwing them out. Is there a way to force comskip to accept these as potential cutpoints?

Confidence of SceneChange cutting: 12 out of 20 are strict, too low
Confidence of Uniform cutting: 6 out of 14 are strict
Confidence of Volume cutting: 4 out of 9 are strict, too low

I've tried setting max_volume, non-uniformity, min_silence, and schange_threshold both much higher and much lower, but none of them seem to increase the number of blocks.

Thanks!

[erik]

There is not much you can do at the moment.

The new "confidence" algoritm still does require some tuning.
I have to add some parameters in the ini file for that.
Will be done in the next release

COuld you mail me the .csv file so I can use it for testing?
Preferrably with your ini file and a .ref file (an edited .txt file) with the right commercial block information?