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Thanks, Thoughts and ComSkip

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  1. afschmitt
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    Thanks for creating this great piece of software. I've been using EyeTV for a while, but I've had two gripes.

    1. Export to iTunes uses an encoder that takes forever and the finished product looks terrible compared to the original.
    2. I don't want to remove the commercials manually. Many of the windows products strip out commercials using ComSkip

    You've fixed problem 1, by using the handbrake encoder. However, any chance I can convince you to integrated ComSkip into a future version?

    Thanks for all the hard work.

    Posted 2 years ago #

  2. awk
    Member

    Integrating some sort of commercial skip is definately on the to-do list, however it's probably going to be a while until it happens - there are some other higher priority tasks like season pass management ahead of it.

    One of the catches with commerical skipping is that right now there's no 'preview mechanism' for the recorded file before it's converted for iPod etc. You'd want to do the commercial skipping before conversion since it will reduce the amount of material to be converted, but you also want to make sure the portions skipped are accurate.

    In terms of algorithms, I'm not familiar with ComSkip - assuming it's open-source and license 'friendly' I'll take a look at it, otherwise I might roll my own or 'google around' for others.

    Posted 2 years ago #

  3. marc
    Member

    MythTV has respectable commercial skipping, not perfect but pretty good. Also it lets you setup multiple transcoding profiles and attach them to different shows in your schedule. It can be configured in a number of ways.

    - Automatically flag commercials and transcode.

    - Automatically flag commercial, let user manually edit/add commercial flags then queue job for transcoding. (my preference)

    Usually I don't even transcode, we watch most of the recording from the DVR in SD so disk space isn't a big deal. We just watch the the full stream, the player skips flagged commercials then delete them once we've watched them. But in the rare case it's a show the kids are going to watch a million times we'll adjust the flags.

    This looks like a cool project. I'm getting ready to setup a mac mini as a media center and looking forward to using your software. MythTV is great, lots of features, but the UI is weak, especially for music, and you have to be comfortable with command line Linux to get it to do anything custom. I'm guessing transcoding will be more of an issue for me once I can easily transfer recordings to my Iphone.

    Posted 2 years ago #

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