Commerical Deleting

[sorrowstyr]

I am currently using Com Skip and with the Sage TV plugin and it works GREAT!

SageTV and my MVP skip the commercials like a charm...

Unfortunately, I am starting to archive my TV into Divx, but I need to delete
the commercials before I archive them.

I tried using com cleaner and it spliced out the commercials, but no player could play the files they were corrupted to all my players...

What can I use that will automatically strip the commercials, and that would work with DirMon so I can do just do it in on my media machine in my down time.

Looking for Advice

[ke6guj]

Originally Posted by sorrowstyr

I am currently using Com Skip and with the Sage TV plugin and it works GREAT!

SageTV and my MVP skip the commercials like a charm...

Unfortunately, I am starting to archive my TV into Divx, but I need to delete
the commercials before I archive them.

I tried using com cleaner and it spliced out the commercials, but no player could play the files they were corrupted to all my players...

What can I use that will automatically strip the commercials, and that would work with DirMon so I can do just do it in on my media machine in my down time.

Looking for Advice

I dunno, something like this maybe... http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21737 or this one.. http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21932

[sorrowstyr]

Originally Posted by ke6guj

I dunno, something like this maybe... http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21737 or this one.. http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21932

Your first link is invalid..

As for the second, I went to that page after looking at the customizations page, but it said that second link is for Version 6.

I am running Version 5, and not a big fan of non-release versions, (yes I know RC = release candidate) I guess I can just wait for the coveted version 6.

Any other suggestions for Version 5?

[ke6guj]

Ok, it looks like they combined the 2 threads, the 1 first one was the original, and the second was just an update. They got merged.

Any more info that that, sorry. I don't do commercial detection and anything I really want to archive without commercials, I do manually. I used VideoRedo to cut out the commercials and then convert to xvid manually.

[evilpenguin]

Originally Posted by sorrowstyr

Your first link is invalid..

As for the second, I went to that page after looking at the customizations page, but it said that second link is for Version 6.

I am running Version 5, and not a big fan of non-release versions, (yes I know RC = release candidate) I guess I can just wait for the coveted version 6.

Any other suggestions for Version 5?

If you download and install my Video Tools plug-in and skip all of the STV stuff you can use the "comm_cut_mpg_dragNdrop.bat" file I include to cut commercials with dirmon.

[roxy99]

Originally Posted by sorrowstyr

Your first link is invalid..

As for the second, I went to that page after looking at the customizations page, but it said that second link is for Version 6.

I am running Version 5, and not a big fan of non-release versions, (yes I know RC = release candidate) I guess I can just wait for the coveted version 6.

Any other suggestions for Version 5?

Actually the second link is all you need and its version independent- the threads were merged at my request. Sage 5 or Sage 6 will do fine. The batch runs outside of Sage in a Command mode window. The batch file is ready to go as long as you install VirtualDub and Besweet as instructed.

Eventually I'll also get around to configuring it to run with Dirmon2 automatically.

[davidk21770]

I tried a lot of different programs and none of them consistently produced files that would play back properly. I finally tried video redo. Great program (http://www.videoredo.com/). Show Analyzer will generate vprj files. Configure windows to open them with video redo and it takes a while minute or 2 to review the commercial skips (using tab, shift-tab to jump between commercials and shift-arrow to move back and forth a second to make sure you're at a commerical). You can easily adjust for the occasional SA mistakes and save the cut file. Has worked every time for me and I've done a whole lot of files since getting it. The only drawback that I've found so far -- it's not free <sigh>.

[roxy99]

VideoRedo is not free and doesn't encode to Divx. Try Evilpenguin's or roxy99's batch file first since you have nothing to loose.

[lobosrul]

Unfortunantly Evilpenguin's mod does not work with digital tv nor does Scoful's Minirecode. Im not sure about Roxy's batch file tool, but I doubt it.

Ive only had succes with digital tv after first running it thru Videoredo. The occasional file would go thru Divx ok w/o it but not on a regular basis.

After doing some testing with mencoder ive discovered digital TV seems to go thru it ok with no pre-processing. However edl cuts dont work. FFmpeg just screws the file up.

Im working on a plugin that will work with digital tv. It will require VideoRedo to be installed, howver you will never need to open it.

Ive pretty much got the java code down (this writes the batch file). But ive never done an STVi so that may take a long long while.

Note: The plugin will use Comskip/SA edl files for commercial removal, not Videoredo (thats only for a stream fix).

[roxy99]

Originally Posted by lobosrul

Unfortunantly Evilpenguin's mod does not work with digital tv nor does Scoful's Minirecode. Im not sure about Roxy's batch file tool, but I doubt it.

So I'm just yanking everyone's chain? Do me a favour, before you express doubt, try it. I'm using it and it works like a charm.

I don't know what you mean by 'digital tv' but its all analog once passes through S-Video or composite. It becomes digital after the video capture card re-converts it to an mpeg2 stream. I can assure you that thats standard fare.

FYI-- I did this batch file for myself and decided to share with you all. I use it all the time myself.

EvilPenguins works too I'm sure or he/she would'nt take the time to do all that.

[ke6guj]

Originally Posted by roxy99

I don't know what you mean by 'digital tv' but its all analog once passes through S-Video or composite. It becomes digital after the video capture card re-converts it to an mpeg2 stream. I can assure you that thats standard fare.

Digital TV doesn't always get captured as analog. If you have a digital OTA tuner, a firewire'd STB, or one of those new QAM tuners, you are actually capturing in digital. It is never in analog form at all.

[evilpenguin]

Actually, he's right, my tool doesn't work for any mpeg-ts (HDTV or pre-encoded SDTV) files right now, at least the compressing doesn't. The DVD creation still works fine though.

[sorrowstyr]

Awesome!

Thanks Penguin and Roxy, I will give them a shot, now that I know
I have 2 options!

This is going to be awesome, I am excited. =D

-SorrowsTyr

Thanks for all your hardwork in this, many HTPCs are thriving because of things
like this.

[sorrowstyr]

Roxy --

Your scripts and everything works as advertised and very easily
might I add with your script !

Thanks!
I will just have to try out Penguins stuff too.

Any suggestions for removing commericals out of my already converted
divx files ?

Thanks guys!