Should I switch from Beyond TV...

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Originally Posted by gveres

What happens when I have run comskip on a recording and then I convert it to an avi or something?

If you comskip on the original .mpg or .ts file before you convert, you should still be able to skip the commercials. JREkiwi just updated his comskip plugin so that it should work for any video file that has a comskip file, before it only worked for .mpg/.ts/.avi files, and not for other types of converted videos like.mp4 files. I'm not sure if SageMC has that limitation, if it does, I'd ask flachbar to see if it could be updated to support that.

You just need to make sure you have the comskip finished before you finish the conversion and delete the original file. The comskip programs won't work on non .mpg/.ts/.dvr-ms files.

In BTV, it was smart enough to keep the commercial information so that I could still skip commercials when playing back the show squeezed file.

Sage will too, as long as the main filename still matches between the comskip file and the video file.

I just finished installing comskip monitor and it is churning away so I guess I can find out in a couple of hours.

Not sure if comskip monitor is configurable to know not to delete the comskip file if the video file has been converted.

edit: Yes, it appears that comskip monitor can be told to associate .avi files as a related extension, so that when it does clean up of orphaned comskip files (the recording has been deleted), to not delete the .txt/.edl files if it can't find the .mpg file, but does see a matching .avi file. Otherwise, you would lose your comskip files right after you convert them.