@Reed97123 said:
@robertclemens said:
The one thing that surprises me is the lack of comskip.ini files. Everyone always posts to the comskip forum and I find it lacking. At least it is to say that comskip.ini files are scattered at best.That bothered me for a while too and so I spent a little time looking into it. I scoured the internet for USA-OTA comskip.ini files and then I wrote a small Perl script to extract and compare each of the settings for each of the files. What I found was there were actually very few of the parameters that people were actually modifying. In most cases it boiled down to changing the ‘detect_method’. Most everything else was cosmetic or had very little effect from my test runs. So what I ended up doing was setting the detection method to 107 and using default settings for just about everything else except:
- thread_count=4
- hardware_decode=1
- output_edl=1
- Various ones to turn off all other outputs.
A good way to understand a little more is to download the Windows version of comskip and then use it’s INI editor, which I found to be quite good.
For reference, here is my file which works nearly 100% accurate on everything except for the Big Bang Theory (for some reason):
For BBT I changed the global_threshold to 1.6. If you run the comskipgui from windows you can see that it is scoring it higher at the end of the show because of the logo that is missing. I also told it to score the logo from the bottom of the screen which helped a little too. My conversion seems good now.
I just use a seperate ini for this show.
I need to write a script to filter by show name because eventually I want to run all of the coversion on my linux tub.
I am using MCEBuddy right now which is filtering and applying different comskip.ini’s to the problem children shows.
Mash and BBT are two of them. Having and issue with A-team where the station ID is on the screen the entire time and the program logo is just above it so it is scoreing the station ID and not the program ID. Still working on this one
-Casey
