Comskip Settings

[tonaeli]

I have a question regarding comskip setings. I have comskip working well except the beginning and end of shows are skipped. We have to disable and skip back to see recaps or previews. Anyone know of a setting that will ignore first and last 90 seconds? Thanks.

[nyplayer]

Originally Posted by tonaeli

I have a question regarding comskip setings. I have comskip working well except the beginning and end of shows are skipped. We have to disable and skip back to see recaps or previews. Anyone know of a setting that will ignore first and last 90 seconds? Thanks.

There are settings if the first or last commercial is less than the amount you set it will not mark it. The example below if the first or last commercial is less than 2 minutes then it will not mark it as a commercial.

ex
always_keep_first_seconds=120
always_keep_last_seconds=120

[tonaeli]

thanks, I will give it a try

[alfi33]

Originally Posted by nyplayer

There are settings if the first or last commercial is less than the amount you set it will not mark it. The example below if the first or last commercial is less than 2 minutes then it will not mark it as a commercial.

ex
always_keep_first_seconds=120
always_keep_last_seconds=120

Are you sure that's what that does? I thought these settings just made it so the last 2 minutes of a recording were marked as 'not a commercial'.

[nyplayer]

I am positive from experience and this thread.

Scroll to the bottom
http://www.kaashoek.com/comskip/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=707

[sic0048]

That is my experience too. You want to set the time for longer than you think. Perhaps 180 or 240 seconds. Set it too short and you'll still miss the end of the show because the "commerical" is longer than your set time.

[nyplayer]

Originally Posted by sic0048

That is my experience too. You want to set the time for longer than you think. Perhaps 180 or 240 seconds. Set it too short and you'll still miss the end of the show because the "commerical" is longer than your set time.

I agree.. that was just a sample mine is set to 300

[alfi33]

Originally Posted by nyplayer

I am positive from experience and this thread.

Scroll to the bottom
http://www.kaashoek.com/comskip/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=707

Based on that thread (and my experience as well), you're definitely right. It just seems less useful to me that way...

I guess this explains why this setting never worked the way I wanted or the way I thought it should. While using this setting, I frequently have the very end of shows marked as commercial even though its during the last 2 minutes.

EDIT:

Originally Posted by nyplayer

I agree.. that was just a sample mine is set to 300

Ah... I'll try that. Thx

[tonaeli]

Update: It worked! I had a few problems, but an upgrade to the latest version of comskip before adding the commands seemed to solve the problem--thanks for the help

[mbowling]

I tried using the always_keep_first_seconds and always_keep_last_seconds parameters to eliminate commercials being marked at the beginning or end of a show. There has been no change. There are still commercials marked at the beginning and end of a show. I have tried using 300 and 500 for the parameter values. Am I missing something? Anyone else have this problem? Using comskip 0.80.030

The following values are used in C:\Program Files\SageTV\SageTV\comskip.txt:
always_keep_first_seconds=500
always_keep_last_seconds=500

EDIT: I think I found the answer on the comskip forum.
comskip.txt is the manual listing all the possible parameters and their default.
comskip.ini is the file actually used by comskip.

I will add the values to the comskip.ini file.

[Doubledose]

always_keep_first_seconds=120
always_keep_last_seconds=120 

Does it make a difference where these are placed in the ini file?
Thanks
Wayne