STV Import: Comskip Playback support for SageTV v4 (v1.3 18/Oct/2005)

[JasonJoel]

Use the .STVI file in the post right before yours... Not the ZIP file.

Jason

Originally Posted by ajuhawk

Maybe I'm missing something, but I'm still not able to get this to work under 3.0.13RC2 - do I need a fresh install or should I clean up the properties file? Basically even with this new file I'm having the same results as the post above...

EDIT: I notice that the import file (in the zip file) has a date of August 04, 2005...if that matters...

[ajuhawk]

Originally Posted by JasonJoel

Use the .STVI file in the post right before yours... Not the ZIP file.

Jason

Doh, Thanks!!

-Adam

[JasonJoel]

No problem. Easy to miss!

Jason

[michelkenny]

I just downloaded the one linked in the post just above yours (the link is to the stvi) and it worked fine for me in 3.0.12. Don't forget to reimport the stvi.

[JasonJoel]

Well, I still get the problem with this import where all of the commercial marking are shifted backwards 20-30 seconds. The commercial times are correct, as seen in VideoRedo or Malore's STV. But when using this import they are all shifted to the left.

I don't understand why that is happening.

Oh well. It works perfectly in Malroe's STV and STVI, so I'll back to using that.

Jason Bottjen

[Deadbolt]

I have a PVR-350. When a file naturally closes in V3.0.14 it ends early..and I never get the EOF bug. However, when any of the STVs that enable comskip support...and the comskip file has a commercial after the last part of the show to the end of the file I get the bug. I think the comskip FFWD is jumping over the point where Sage would close the file early and going right to the end. My machine comes to a grinding halt....i can recover after about 5 min of painfully slow commands but is hurts bad.

Any way to tell the STV to only jump to a certain point? Example...with the latest RC, it closes 250 ms early. Could we have comskip jump to a latest time of 300 ms early so that the show will be closed by Sage?

Just an idea. Thanks~!

[cineburk]

Newbie question, but which buttons are used to skip the commercials when watching the shows? Are they certain "custom" ones?

[laurenglenn]

Originally Posted by cineburk

Newbie question, but which buttons are used to skip the commercials when watching the shows? Are they certain "custom" ones?

I think it's Custom 4 and Custom 5. You might want to try DVD Chapter Skip (forward and back) also. I don't know if it's in the Import, but it was in the original code.

Lauren

[laurenglenn]

Originally Posted by Deadbolt

I have a PVR-350. When a file naturally closes in V3.0.14 it ends early..and I never get the EOF bug. However, when any of the STVs that enable comskip support...and the comskip file has a commercial after the last part of the show to the end of the file I get the bug. I think the comskip FFWD is jumping over the point where Sage would close the file early and going right to the end. My machine comes to a grinding halt....i can recover after about 5 min of painfully slow commands but is hurts bad.

Any way to tell the STV to only jump to a certain point? Example...with the latest RC, it closes 250 ms early. Could we have comskip jump to a latest time of 300 ms early so that the show will be closed by Sage?

Just an idea. Thanks~!

You might also want to report this as a "bug" in one of Sage's bug reports for the reason that Sage should probably have an option so that if a Seek command is sent that's to the EOF that it would stop within that 250ms also...... but I'll add it to my code to make it stop if the last chapter stop is within 1 second of the file end.

Lauren

[dfrancis]

Originally Posted by Gaurav

I have the Sage v3 STV with Neilm's comskip plugin.
Every once in a while, Sage gets stuck in an infinite loop when it hits a commercial break. Pressing the FWD button brings it out of the loop.
It seems somehow the break sends the seeker back a few miliseconds.
So far i've only seen the problem when it hits a break very early in the show.

Anyone else has this prob ?

My god, over a year since I posted on here, that's some endorsment of Sage
Anyway, bought SA, got the unlock email today, all installed and working, except I get the above error, say 30% of the time.
Does not seem to matter where the comercial is, it will just go black screen on me, but it's still playing because the audio is comming through fine and clear, just no video, black screen.
If I hit FF or RR it comes on straight away.
Using the latest Sage, with the Dirmon and SA, plus the comskip plugin.
That whole pluggin/stv thing is pretty confusing, why does sage force you to make a copy of a file already there?

[jblust]

Let me be the first to ask... do we need an updated stvi import to support 4.1?

[gplasky]

I would say no for a point release. (.1)

Gerry

[ToxMox]

Yes actually. You need an updated STVi for the comskip import to work with the STV from 4.1

I am still using the STV from my 4.0 install until the import is updated and that is running fine.

[blade]

I imported it and it seems to be working fine for me. Maybe I just got lucky.

[gplasky]

Originally Posted by ToxMox

Yes actually. You need an updated STVi for the comskip import to work with the STV from 4.1

I am still using the STV from my 4.0 install until the import is updated and that is running fine.

Why?
I don't see an issue with it either.

Gerry

[nielm]

I have not had a chance to test any of my imports with 4.1...

[ToxMox]

Originally Posted by gplasky

Why?
I don't see an issue with it either.

Gerry

I'll have to test it again. I must have done something wrong.

[malbec]

I have imported it into 4.1 with no problems either. Well, not entirely true, but I am pretty sure it is not a 4.1 problem as I was having the same issue in 4.0.

I have tried reading and searching this forum, but I can't seem to find an answer. So, going back to the offical chain, I thought I would ask here. However, before I do, I feel obligated to to tell Nielm how much I appreciate what he does. Thank you!

My issue...as mentioned, I am using Sage 4.1 with DirMon and Show Analyzer. The Comskip file in the Sage folder is the latest version offerred on the WiKi. I still haven't found the "perfect" settings, but in general I am rather pleased. The one issue I keep running into however is SageTV will "stick" when it does an auto skip on a commerical. You will be watching a recorded show that has been ran through SA, you can see the commercial blocks in the progress bar, everything is fine. It then hits the initial commerical frame, skips the commercial and keeps playing. This is all well and good except my TV dos not show the video, rather the screen is frozen on the last frame of the commercial block. You can still here the audio playing as though everything is fine. If you check the progress bar, progress is being made, but the frame is frozen on that last commerical frame. Usually after pressing FF/RW everthing gets back to normal.

Anyway, that is the problem I am having. Any tips or ideas on what to try?

[dfrancis]

Originally Posted by malbec

I have imported it into 4.1 with no problems either. Well, not entirely true, but I am pretty sure it is not a 4.1 problem as I was having the same issue in 4.0.

I have tried reading and searching this forum, but I can't seem to find an answer. So, going back to the offical chain, I thought I would ask here. However, before I do, I feel obligated to to tell Nielm how much I appreciate what he does. Thank you!

My issue...as mentioned, I am using Sage 4.1 with DirMon and Show Analyzer. The Comskip file in the Sage folder is the latest version offerred on the WiKi. I still haven't found the "perfect" settings, but in general I am rather pleased. The one issue I keep running into however is SageTV will "stick" when it does an auto skip on a commerical. You will be watching a recorded show that has been ran through SA, you can see the commercial blocks in the progress bar, everything is fine. It then hits the initial commerical frame, skips the commercial and keeps playing. This is all well and good except my TV dos not show the video, rather the screen is frozen on the last frame of the commercial block. You can still here the audio playing as though everything is fine. If you check the progress bar, progress is being made, but the frame is frozen on that last commerical frame. Usually after pressing FF/RW everthing gets back to normal.

Anyway, that is the problem I am having. Any tips or ideas on what to try?

Exactly the same problem I was having before it stopped working completely. I will try a few things over the weekend, but it's looking more likely I will be asking for my money back. It is a great idea, but sadly it does not work well enough to charge good money for.

[gplasky]

Originally Posted by dfrancis

Exactly the same problem I was having before it stopped working completely. I will try a few things over the weekend, but it's looking more likely I will be asking for my money back. It is a great idea, but sadly it does not work well enough to charge good money for.

You do know if you're using ShowAnalyzer you DON'T want comskip.exe in the Sage folder. They are 2 seperate programs that do the same thing. Maybe that is where your issue is.

Gerry