Q: EyeTV with Commercial Skipping HD DVR Server

thanks for your precise instructions but they seem too difficult for me. You said that the crucial port "hasn't been upgraded yet". Do you think it's possibile to install maverich and wait the port upgrade before updating xcode?  will maverich work with the old xcode?

Per the discussion at http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/106189/missing-usr-bin-gnutar-on-maveri cks-macports, a binary MacPorts installer for Mavericks (for the 2.2.1 bugfix release) is now available: https://distfiles.macports.org/MacPorts/MacPorts-2.2.1-10.9-Mavericks.pkg

I haven’t tried it yet, but I hope this helps.

Cheers,

S

How did you resolve the install error you got when trying to install ETVComskip?  I am encountering the same error, "The operation couldn't be completed. (OSStatus error 100030.)"

I notice the other day that the Elgato US store store, the Apple online store, and Newegg all no longer have ANY EyeTV tuners for sale ( aside from ipad tuners).  Is there any significance to this?  The UK store still has plenty of options.  The strange thing is the apple store icon for  video accessories is still an Elgato USB tuner I think.

HI

I still have some trouble with update to Mavericks. I have:

1) updated X11

2) run the command line xcode -select - install

3) updated macports through the binary installer suggested by ste88

i continue to see the error "comskip require x11. would you like to install now?". what i am missing?

do i have to insall/update xquartz too? 

do i have to run the commands "sudo port selfupdate... sudo port outdated..."?

thank you for anyone to help

essandess, thanks for all of your work on this.  I really appreciate you getting this far with it.

I was wondering if you might be able to help me out a bit with my RecordingDone script.  Once I have a recording, I like to encode it (smaller file size), and then store it on my external drive for Plex to find.  I have the commercials being marked fine, however when I export the commercials remain.  Idealy, I would love for them to be deleted all together.  If I manually export as QuickTime Movie, they are deleted.  (In the past I've used iPad, but I really don't care what I use as long as it's encoded for a smaller file size.)

This script below is really a hack of what I used to use (mainly from [url=http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topic/15100-eyetv-export-with-season-and-epi sode-applescript/]here[/url]) and a yours.

Any ideas?

Thanks again for ALL of your work on this!

global LogMsg

 

on RecordingDone(recordingID)

 

    set ProcessName to "Elgato H.264 Decoder"

    --set DelayTime to 60

    --set MaxDelays to 6 * 60 -- six hours

    set DelayTime to 10

    set MaxDelays to 15

 

    -- delay until the process slows down or stops running

    repeat MaxDelays times

        delay DelayTime -- delay at least once to give it a chance to start

        set pcpu to CPUPercentage(ProcessName)

        if pcpu is equal to "" or pcpu < 2.0 then exit repeat -- break out of delay loop if it's not running

    end repeat

 

    -- wait a few minutes for transcoding to complete; shorter times will result in operating on m4v file that look like busy_00000000162e5df5.iPad.chapters.txt   

    delay 180

 

    -- comskip81 uses ffmpeg and does not support live tv; take this from RecordingStarted.scpt

    set cmd to "export DISPLAY=:0.0; /usr/bin/nice -n 5 '/Library/Application Support/ETVComskip/MarkCommercials.app/Contents/MacOS/MarkCommercials' --log " & recordingID & " &> /dev/null &"

    -- display dialog cmd

    -- set cmd to "env > /tmp/etv_test.log &"

    do shell script cmd

 

    set LogMsg to ""

    CheckMultiplePIDs(recordingID)

    --display dialog "in RecordingDone" & recordingID

    --disable this if you do not want a logfile written

    if (count of LogMsg) > 0 then

        write_to_file((short date string of (current date) & " " & time string of (current date)) & LogMsg & (ASCII character 13), (path to "logs" as string) & "EyeTV scripts.log", true)

    end if

end RecordingDone

 

on doExport(recordingID)

    --Export to Plex!      

 

    -- Grab some basics from EyeTV. RecoringID, Show name, Episode name. It'll be used later.

    tell application "EyeTV"

 

        set rec to recordingID as integer

        set theRec to recording id rec

        set thisTitle to title of theRec

        --display dialog "title " & thisTitle

        set ParsTitle to my parseout(thisTitle)

        --display dialog "ParsTitle " & ParsTitle

        set thisEpisode to episode of theRec

        set ParsEpisode to my parseout(thisEpisode)

 

    end tell

 

    -- Customize this script for yourself. The next three variables are locations on your system where we will read and export to

 

    -- Set this value to the location where EyeTV records to

    set EyeTvArchiveLocation to "Large:EyeTV:EyeTV Archive:" as string

 

    -- Set this location to where you want your exports to write to

    set ExportLocation to "Large:TV Shows:" as string

 

    -- Set this to a temporary location. A file "temp.plist" is written and then deleted from here

    set TempLocation to "Macintosh HD:Users:Michael:Documents:" as string

 

    -- Now we're gonna go to the finder, find the show and grab the file out of the package that has the meta data. It'll be written to a temp file and we'll grab the season and episode # from it.

    tell application "Finder"

        -- Set the alias for the show we just got done recording

        if thisEpisode is "" then

            set fpath to EyeTvArchiveLocation & ParsTitle & ".eyetv" as alias

        else

            tell application "System Events"

                set temp to EyeTvArchiveLocation & ParsTitle & " - " & ParsEpisode & ".eyetv"

                if exists file temp then

                    set fpath to EyeTvArchiveLocation & ParsTitle & " - " & ParsEpisode & ".eyetv" as alias

                else

                    set fpath to EyeTvArchiveLocation & ParsTitle & ".eyetv" as alias

                    display dialog EyeTvArchiveLocation & ParsTitle & ".eyetv"

                end if

            end tell

        end if

 

        -- The .eyetv file is a package. We're going to read it's contents and find the .eyetvp file. It'll be stored in the fname variable

 

        set eyetvp to do shell script "ls -1 " & quoted form of POSIX path of fpath & "/*.eyetvp" as string

 

        set eyetvp to every paragraph of eyetvp --   paragraph == line

        set fname to item 1 of eyetvp

    end tell

 

    -- Great! no grab Season id and episode num out of this temp file and create the sedat variable. This will be used in the file export later.

    -- You can grab more meta data in this routine and also tweak the way the file name meta data is created.

    tell application "System Events"

 

        set fileRecord to (value of property list file fname)

        set sid to value of property list item "SEASONID" of property list item "epg info" of property list file fname

        set eid to value of property list item "EPISODENUM" of property list item "epg info" of property list file fname

        --if sid is not "" and eid is not "" then

        --      set sedat to "S" & sid & "E" & eid

        --else

        --      set sedat to "S00E00"

        --end if

    end tell

    tell application "Finder"

        set fileLocation to ExportLocation & ParsTitle

        if (exists folder fileLocation) is false then

            make new folder at alias ExportLocation with properties {name:ParsTitle}

        end if

 

        set fileLocation to ExportLocation & ParsTitle & ":" & "Season " & sid

        set tempDir to ExportLocation & ParsTitle

        set tempFolder to "Season " & sid

        set tempSid to sid as string

        if (exists folder fileLocation) is false and tempSid is not "" and tempSid is not "0" then

            make new folder at alias tempDir with properties {name:tempFolder}

        end if

    end tell

 

    -- Now, tell EyeTV to set the file name and location and export the file.

    -- TODO: I'd like to have an option to just rename the file in place here and/or export using Turbo.264 and/or export in HD720p format.

    tell application "EyeTV"

        set theDateStamp to (do shell script "date +%Y%m%d.%H%M%S")

        --set fileName to ExportLocation & thisTitle & " - " & sedat & ".avi"

        set tempEp to thisEpisode as string

        if eid is not "" then

            set tempEid to eid as integer

        else

            set tempEid to 0 as integer

        end if

 

        set tempSeason to sid as string

 

        if tempSeason is not "" and tempSeason is not "0" and tempEid is not "0" and tempEid is not "" and ParsTitle is not "" then

            --have season number, have episode number, and series name

            set fileName to ExportLocation & ParsTitle & ":Season " & sid & ":" & ParsTitle & " S" & sid & "E" & eid & ".mp4"

        else if tempSeason is not "" and tempSeason is not "0" then

            --have season number, use Date

            set tempEpDate to (do shell script "date +%m%d%Y") as string

            set fileName to ExportLocation & ParsTitle & ":Season " & sid & ":" & tempEpDate & ".mp4"

        else

            --just use date

            set tempEpDate to (do shell script "date +%m%d%Y") as string

            set fileName to ExportLocation & ParsTitle & ":" & tempEpDate & ".mp4"

        end if

 

        --display dialog fileName

        export from theRec to file fileName as iPad

    end tell

 

    --Voila!

end doExport

 

-- one more edit for plex export, only section below.

on readFile(unixPath)

    set foo to (open for access (unixPath))

    set txt to (read foo for (get eof foo))

    close access foo

    return txt

end readFile

 

-- testing code: this will not be called when triggered from EyeTV, but only when the script is run as a stand-alone script

on run

    tell application "EyeTV"

        set rec to unique ID of item 1 of every recording

        my RecordingDone(rec)

        delay 60 * 25

        my doExport(rec)

    end tell

end run

 

-- compute the percentage CPU used by ProcessName

on CPUPercentage(ProcessName)

    set ProcessPS to do shell script ("ps -axwwc | grep '" & ProcessName & "' | grep -v grep || true")

    if ProcessPS is not equal to "" then

        set ProcessID to word 1 of ProcessPS

        set ProcessPS to do shell script ("ps -xwwco pid,ppid,%cpu -p " & ProcessID & " | tail -1")

        set ProcessCPU to word 3 of ProcessPS

        return ProcessCPU as number

    else

        return ""

    end if

end CPUPercentage

 

on CheckMultiplePIDs(recordingID)

    --check if there are multiple Video PIDs in the file

 

    tell application "EyeTV"

        set input_text to my read_from_file((path to "logs" as string) & "ETVComskip" & ":" & recordingID & "_comskip.log")

        if (count of (input_text as string)) > 0 then

            set logdata to every paragraph of input_text

            set logdata_lastrow to (item ((count of logdata) - 1) of logdata) as string

 

            if (items 1 thru 19 of logdata_lastrow) as string = "Video PID not found" then

                --multiple Video PIDs, rerun MarkCommercials until successful

 

                set recrdingIDInteger to recordingID as integer

                set rec to recording id recrdingIDInteger

                set LogMsg to "RecordingDone found multiple PIDs for recording ID: " & recordingID & ", Channel " & (channel number of rec) & " - " & (title of rec)

 

                set PIDs to (items 44 thru ((count of logdata_lastrow) - 2) of logdata_lastrow) as string

                set delims to AppleScript's text item delimiters

                set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ", "

                set PID_List to {}

                set PID_List to every word of PIDs

                set AppleScript's text item delimiters to delims

 

                repeat with pid in PID_List

                    my launchComSkip(recordingID, pid)

                    repeat while (my mcIsRunning())

                        delay 5

                    end repeat

                end repeat

 

            end if

        end if

    end tell

end CheckMultiplePIDs

 

on read_from_file(target_file)

    --return the contents of the given file

    set fileRef to (open for access (target_file))

    set txt to (read fileRef for (get eof fileRef) as «class utf8»)

    close access fileRef

    return txt

end read_from_file

 

on write_to_file(this_data, target_file, append_data)

    --from http://www.apple.com/applescript/sbrt/sbrt-09.html

    try

        set the target_file to the target_file as string

        set the open_target_file to open for access file target_file with write permission

        if append_data is false then set eof of the open_target_file to 0

        write this_data to the open_target_file starting at eof

        close access the open_target_file

        return true

    on error

        try

            close access file target_file

        end try

        return false

    end try

end write_to_file

 

on launchComSkip(recID, pid)

    if pid = "" then

        set cmd to "export DISPLAY=:0.0; /usr/bin/nice -n 5 '/Library/Application Support/ETVComskip/MarkCommercials.app/Contents/MacOS/MarkCommercials' --force --log " & recID & " &> /dev/null &"

    else

        set cmd to "export DISPLAY=:0.0; /usr/bin/nice -n 5 '/Library/Application Support/ETVComskip/MarkCommercials.app/Contents/MacOS/MarkCommercials' --force --log " & recID & " --pid=" & pid & " &> /dev/null &"

    end if

 

    do shell script cmd

end launchComSkip

 

on mcIsRunning()

    set processPaths to do shell script "ps -xww | awk -F/ 'NF >2' | awk -F/ '{print $NF}' | awk -F '-' '{print $1}' "

    return (processPaths contains "MarkCommercials")

end mcIsRunning

 

--Subroutine to remove troublesome characters

to parseout(stringtoparse)

    set illegals to (ASCII character of 60) & (ASCII character of 62) & (ASCII character of 58) & (ASCII character of 34) & (ASCII character of 47) & (ASCII character of 92) & (ASCII character of 124)

    repeat with i from 1 to count (illegals)

        set testletter to (text i thru i of illegals)

        set the_offset to 1

        repeat

            set the_offset to offset of testletter in stringtoparse

            if the_offset > 0 then

                set stringtoparse to (text 1 thru (the_offset - 1) of stringtoparse) & "_" & (text (the_offset + 1) thru -1 of stringtoparse)

            else

                exit repeat

            end if

        end repeat

    end repeat

    return stringtoparse

end parseout

The line:

I believe is how the format gets set, however when I do "Quicktime Movie", the video file is not playable.

I posted my problem to the developer's website as suggested. I did a bit more digging and discovered that the problem is the file system of the dmg is read only.  I got around this problem by copying the package contents of the dmg to a folder and running the installation script from there.  This produced a new set of problems because now the installation files are looking for directories that do not exist on my Mac.

I realize this problem may not be appropriate for this thread.  The only reason I posted here was because I saw that someone had a similar problem. I will likely take this discussion to either a new thread or an existing thread that more suited to this problem.

Hi essandess,

Looking at the code below, doesn't this mark commercials, wait 25 minutes, then run the export?  If not, could you clarify what I am doing wrong?

Also, am I correct in believing that I can't export in mp4 format and have the commercials skipped?

Thanks again.

-- testing code: this will not be called when triggered from EyeTV, but only when the script is run as a stand-alone script

on run

    tell application "EyeTV"

        set rec to unique ID of item 1 of every recording

        my RecordingDone(rec)

        delay 60 * 25

        my doExport(rec)

    end tell

end run

Mavericks clean install...

Can the above instructions be used for a clean install after installing Mavericks?  What about the ML binaries and libraries?  How do I get these if I started fresh with Mavericks?

hi

thanks to your instructions I was able to fix the issue port and now comskip works perfectly with mavericks. Thank you. I have just one final issue with comskipper (the scritp that automatically skips marked parts during play with eyetv). it becomes "non responding" after few minutes (i monitor it through activity monitor). this too should be caused by mavericks because before it worked. any idea?

thanks