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Q: EyeTV with Commercial Skipping HD DVR Server

I use EyeTV HD and Turbo.264 HD to record and transcode h.264 shows for playback on a Mac, Apple TV, iPad, iPhone. I also use a self-modified version of etvcomskip to detect and mark commercials, which are then automatically skipped at playback. This makes tv viewing a lot more pleasurable and efficient, and is especially helpful controlling advertiser access to children. In case this is useful to others, I've outlined the steps here:

 

  1. Eric Kaashoek's website Comskip and download his HD-capable Comskip software. "Commercial" commercial-skipping companies (ReplayTV, TiVo, Dish, etc.) are quickly sued out of existence or into submission, even if they simply provide a basic "30-second skip" feature. Comskip is open source beerware that you can download, install, and use yourself, and you can't sue anyone for publishing source code. And rather than providing a simple 30-second skip feature, it detects, marks, and provides that capability for automatic commercial skipping.
  2. Comskip a Windows executable, so you'll need WINE (WINdows Emulator) on OS X to run it. First, download and install Xcode (free from the Apple App store), then download and install and install Macports, then in Terminal, run "sudo port selfupdate; sudo port install wine-devel". Finally, make sure that /Applications/Utilities/X11.app is added to your list of applications to run at login (WINE uses X11 to display Windows windows). Yes, this is windows emulation, but on a half-decent box you'll see that commercial skipping runs at around twice real-time for h.264 HD recordings.
  3. Download and install etvcomskip (and PyeTV if you want EyeTV to work with Front Row). The 2010 version of etvcomskip doesn't work with Comskip's latest HD capabilities, and the latest Comskip mpeg libraries do not allow live tv processing, so install these files to get everything working. Once you done this, you'll have a commercial-skipping HD DVR box on your Mac that can stream to Apple TV, iOS, or export to iTunes.

Comskip software

This lives in the directory /Library/Application Support/ETVcomskip.

 

Edit the file ./comskip/comskip.ini to use these HD-tuned settings, tailored for US cable:

 

detect_method=127;1=black frame, 2=logo, 4=scene change, 8=fuzzy logic, 16=closed captions, 32=aspect ration, 64=silence, 128=cutscenes, 255=all
max_avg_brightness=21;maximum average brightness for a dim frame to be considered black (scale 0 to 255) 0 means autosetting
non_uniformity=50; Set to 0 to disable cutpoints based on uniform frames
max_volume=20; any frame with sound volume larger than this will not be regarded as black frame
logo_at_bottom=1; Set to 1 to search only for logo at the lower half of the video, do not combine with subtitle setting
intelligent_brightness=1 ; Set to 1 to use a USA specific algorithm to tune some of the settings, not adviced outside the USA

volume_slip=150

output_dvrmstb=0; Set to 1 if you're running DVRMS-Toolbox
live_tv=0; set to 1 if you use parallelprocessing and need the output while recording
live_tv_retries=4; change to 16 when using live_tv in BTV, used for mpeg PS and TS

 

Edit the file ./MarkCommercials.app/Contents/Resources/MarkCommercials.py to use WINE to run comskip.exe nicely. Grep for these changes:

 

EyeTV.launch()

 

msg = 'Error: unable to communicate with %s\n' % options.app

 

#cmd = '"/Library/Application Support/ETVComskip/Wine.app/Contents/Resources/bin/wine" "/Library/Application Support/ETVComskip/comskip/comskip.exe" --ini="/Library/Application Support/ETVComskip/comskip/comskip.ini" "%s"' % MpgFile

# MacPorts 64-bit wine

#cmd = '"/Applications/Wine.app/Contents/Resources/bin/wine" "/Library/Application Support/ETVComskip/comskip/comskip.exe" --ini="/Library/Application Support/ETVComskip/comskip/comskip.ini" "%s"' % MpgFile

cmd = '"/opt/local/bin/wine" "/Library/Application Support/ETVComskip/comskip/comskip.exe" --ini="/Library/Application Support/ETVComskip/comskip/comskip.ini" "%s"' % MpgFile

 

# nice the wine command

cmd = "/usr/bin/nice -n 14 " + cmd

 

EyeTV software

EyeTV uses the triggered AppleScripts RecordingStarted and RecordingDone in the directory /Library/Application\ Support/EyeTV/Scripts/TriggeredScripts. Open these using the AppleScript Editor and use these scripts instead. You will probably have to Save As... on your desktop, then copy the updated script back into the correct directory to avoid permissions issues.

 

RecordingStarted.scpt

 

on RecordingStarted(recordingID)

    delay 10

    -- comskip81 uses ffmpeg and does not support live tv; put this in RecordingDone.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

 

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

    write_to_file((short date string of (current date) & " " & time string of (current date)) & "Recording Started run for ID: " & recordingID & (ASCII character 13), (path to "logs" as string) & "EyeTV scripts.log", true)

end RecordingStarted

 

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

RecordingDone.scpt

 

-- Run the python MarkCommercials script for the given recording

-- this must be run with the RecordingStarted script

-- it will check if there were multiple PIDs for the recording and runs MarkCommercials for each pid

-- requires updated MarkCommercials which allows specifying the pid

-- by Ben Blake, September 2009

 

-- modified for latest Comskip, which cannot be run until after recording is finished; waits for Turbo.264 HD to stop running as well

-- S.T.Smith

 

global LogMsg

 

on RecordingDone(recordingID)

 

    set ProcessName to "Elgato H.264 Decoder"

    set DelayTime to 60

    set MaxDelays to 4 * 60 -- four hours

 

    -- 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

 

    delay 10

    -- 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)

 

    --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

 

-- 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.app"

        set rec to «class Unqu» of item 1 of every «class cRec»

 

        my RecordingDone(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.app"

        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 «class cRec» id recrdingIDInteger

                set LogMsg to "RecordingDone found multiple PIDs for recording ID: " & recordingID & ", Channel " & («class Chnm» of rec) & " - " & («class Titl» 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



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Mac mini Server (Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.4), Lion Server, EyeTV HD, Turbo.264 HD

Posted on Dec 5, 2015 1:28 PM

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  • by Johan F. Lehmann,

    Johan F. Lehmann Johan F. Lehmann Dec 2, 2013 2:40 PM in response to essandess
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    Dec 2, 2013 2:40 PM in response to essandess

    Hi Essandess,

     

    please forgive me thread-jacking: I'm trying to find a way to automatically export everything I record on EyeTV to iTunes, then delete the original file in EyeTV. I don't give a toss about commercial cutting or anything of that ilk: just want the recordings to be available in iTunes for AppleTV viewing and iPad / iPod / iPhone wireless syncing asap. post recording.

     

    Given your coding skills, could you tell me if this is an easy fix? Have had a look at Christopher Kampmeier's solution (http://kampmeier.com/chris/blog/?p=451), but all the messing about with the NAS has my limited code-skills reeling...

     

    Any and all replies very welcome! - trying to get this media center to fly...

     

    Best regards,

    Johan

  • by essandess,

    essandess essandess Dec 5, 2013 7:53 PM in response to Johan F. Lehmann
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    Dec 5, 2013 7:53 PM in response to Johan F. Lehmann

    This is easy/trivial, but you have to learn EyeTV's AppleScript Dictionary. Here: http://support.elgato.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid= 2583

  • by Niccum,

    Niccum Niccum Dec 5, 2015 1:46 PM in response to essandess
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    Dec 5, 2015 1:46 PM in response to essandess

    Clean install on Mavericks...

     

    I am still trying to get comskip working on a clean install of Mavericks.  Following the link essandess provided for the mp4v2, it appears that this should now work under Mavericks 10.9 and Xcode 5.0, but I cannot seem to figure it out.

     

    Would someone be so kind as to provide a new recipe starting from scratch how we can get comskip working on a clean install of Mavericks?  I would really appreciate it.  Manually marking the commercials has been a real PITA!

     

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  • by Niccum,

    Niccum Niccum Dec 5, 2015 1:47 PM in response to Niccum
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    Dec 5, 2015 1:47 PM in response to Niccum

    I have the following versions installed:

     

    XQuartz 2.7.5 (xorg-server 1.14.4)

    Xcode 5.0.2 (5A3005)

    wine  1.7.9

    Macports 2.2.1

    Python 2.7.5

    mp4v2 2.0.0_0

     

    comskip81_058_donators

     

    I tried to run MarkCommercials in batch mode to mark existing recoprdings.  Seemed to find one to mark, but ended up having a window stating "wine configuration is being updating" and it hung up there. Now it just says

     

    bash-3.2$ /Library/Application\ Support/ETVComskip/MarkCommercials.app/Contents/MacOS/MarkCommercials all

                    MarkCommercials 0.4.0

     

     

    1. Processing "Once Upon a Time" on [KVUE HDTV] channel [24-1]...

      Channel: 24-1 , not skipped

      Title: Once Upon a Time , not skipped

      Station name: KVUE HDTV , not skipped

    Error: accessing 0000000018306318.edl

    (2, 'No such file or directory')

     

    Real Time update... 

    I just removed the .wine directory

    rm -rf .wine

    ran sudo port install winetricks

    ran winetricks (this gave me errors about a missing file and tried to install a fix, but seemingly failed)

    re-ran MarkCommercials

    and it worked!  Now hopefully it works as I record in EyeTV and not just in batch mode.


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  • by tomar012,

    tomar012 tomar012 Jan 14, 2014 5:56 PM in response to essandess
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    Jan 14, 2014 5:56 PM in response to essandess

    Hello - I have tried for a couple of months to get this program installed and working.  I finally have it installed (I think) but it is not marking commercials.  I set EyeTV to record manually (not sure if this matters) and when go to edit the show, I don't see anything marked.  There are no errors that I'm aware of.  I have the HD version of comskip.  Can someone help me troubleshoot this problem?  Thanks

  • by chicodaman,

    chicodaman chicodaman Jan 14, 2014 6:30 PM in response to tomar012
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    Jan 14, 2014 6:30 PM in response to tomar012

    Do you know how to use the Console application (located in Utilities)?

     

    Running Console, under "Files", there should be "EyeTV scripts.log" and a folder named "ETVComskip".

     

    The "EyeTV scripts.log" should let you know if EyeTV is initiating a call to the "RecordingDone.scpt" script, and if so it should give you a numerical identifier of the file being processed.

     

    Inside the "ETVComskip" folder there should be two logs associated with the numerical file identifier. You should see "nnnnnnnnn.log" and "nnnnnnnnn_comskip.log" (where "nnnnnnnnn" is the numerical file identifier).

     

    The first log item is generated by ETVComskip (running under OSX as a Python script). It shows the progress of setting up and running the actual "comskip" program (which runs under Wine, since Comskip is a Windows app). If Comskip finds commercials, it will be indicated in this log file.

     

    The second item is generated by "comskip" itself, running under Wine. It will show you a log of the actual comskipping process, and if commercials were found, it will indicate so.

     

    So the first thing to do is see if you have these log files. If not, find out why. If so, examine their contents to see if you can get a clue as to why you aren't having success.

     

    One thing I might mention is that I've had issues with some of the later Comskip builds under EyeTV. You might try an earlier one to see if it functions any better for you (I've had good luck with comskip81_052_donators. Later ones have not worked wellfor me. comskip81_058_donators seems to solve some EyeTV issues, but not all of them).

     

    See if these steps help and report back.

  • by tomar012,

    tomar012 tomar012 Jan 15, 2014 5:28 PM in response to chicodaman
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    Jan 15, 2014 5:28 PM in response to chicodaman

    chicodaman wrote:

     

    The "EyeTV scripts.log" should let you know if EyeTV is initiating a call to the "RecordingDone.scpt" script, and if so it should give you a numerical identifier of the file being processed.

     

     

    The EyeTV scripts.log shows the following:

     

    1/11/14 8:16:54 PMRecording Started run for ID: 411182203

    1/11/14 8:51:50 PMRecording Started run for ID: 411184299

    1/12/14 5:05:09 PMRecording Started run for ID: 411257099

    1/14/14 7:33:56 PMRecording Started run for ID: 411438826

    1/14/14 7:53:59 PMRecording Started run for ID: 411440029

     

    There doesn't seem to be a call to RecordingDone.scpt.  If this is true, I suspect this is my first problem.

     

    I didn't see any obvious errors in the nnnnnnnnnn.log file.  "The Error Code is: 0, 0x0".  It also said "No commercials found by comskip"

     

    The nnnnnnnnnn_comskip.log files had the following lines at the end:

     

    Commercials were not found.

    [h264 @ 00198460] Missing reference picture, default is 0

    [h264 @ 00198460] decode_slice_header error

     

    I am using comskip81_056_donators but maybe I'll try comskip81_058_donators.

     

    BTW - did you make all of the updates to the various files as suggested by the OP?

     

    Thanks for your help. I've already learned new things!

  • by chicodaman,

    chicodaman chicodaman Jan 15, 2014 10:06 PM in response to tomar012
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    Jan 15, 2014 10:06 PM in response to tomar012

    The EyeTV scripts.log shows the following:

     

    1/11/14 8:16:54 PMRecording Started run for ID: 411182203

    .....

    There doesn't seem to be a call to RecordingDone.scpt.  If this is true, I suspect this is my first problem.

     

    Actually, the call to RecordingDone.scpt is working, or else you wouldn't be getting this log output. The output occurs as a result of the script. If you know, or are willing to learn a bit of, Applescript, you can open the RecordingDone.scpt script and see what it does. Anyway, that part of your setup is working.

     

    I didn't see any obvious errors in the nnnnnnnnnn.log file.  "The Error Code is: 0, 0x0".  It also said "No commercials found by comskip"

     

    The nnnnnnnnnn_comskip.log files had the following lines at the end:

     

    Commercials were not found.

    [h264 @ 00198460] Missing reference picture, default is 0

    [h264 @ 00198460] decode_slice_header error

     

    That looks ok. Comskip is running and outputting a log file. The only thing is that Comskip isn't finding any commercials.

     

    Why no commercials? Dunno. You might try some different source videos to be sure there actually are findable commercials. Or you can go to the Comskip website and look at "Tuning Comskip", which tells how to play with the parameters in the file "comskip.ini" to help comskip properly identify commercials.

     

    However, given a commercial-laden source video, Comskip usually finds at least some, if not all, of the commercials. If you've edited the "comskip.ini" file to output a verbose log file ("verbose=10", I think), that log file will appear inside the eyeTV package as "nnnnnnn.log" (control-click on the EyeTV video file --> "Show Package Contents").

     

    Check that comskip log file and see if comskip has identified any "blocks". Comskip first identifies "blocks", which are potential commercials, then uses logic to decide if they are indeed commercials.

     

    You'll see something like this:

     

    (...previous stuff deleted...)

    Logos detected on the following frames

    --------------------------------------

    Logo start -   4441          end -  20238          length - 0:08:47.09          before:21.6 s           after:9.2 s

    Logo start -  27699          end -  50485          length - 0:12:40.29          before:23.2 s           after:9.4 s

    Logo start -  55742          end -  56053          length - 0:00:10.37          before:8.9 s           after:11.2 s

    Joining blocks 25 and 26 at frame 42276 because they both have a logo.

    Joining blocks 24 and 25 at frame 38996 because they both have a logo.

    (... etc. ...)

     

    If it's finding blocks, that's a good sign. If not, something's wrong.

     

    In the meantime, a simple thing to try would be to install the ETVcomskip version _052 just to make sure that you're not experiencing the problems I've had with later versions and EyeTV files. It's worth a try at this point, since your install appears to be ok.

     

    If that doesn't work, since Comskip is running ok and producing log files, you can go to the Comskip website and ask for detailed help. Search the forum before posting, maybe someone has already described and resolved an issue similar to yours. On the top of the Support forum here is a sticky post that describes what information the Comskip author, Erik Kaashoek, requires to give assistance. He'll want to see the comskip log file from inside the EyeTV file package. He's not a Mac guy so he won't help you with anything but comskip itself (remember, ETVComskip runs comskip on the Mac under Wine, a Windows emulator).

     

    It seems like a lot of work, I  know, but it's worth it when you get Comskip running well. Good luck, let us know how things go....

  • by tomar012,

    tomar012 tomar012 Jan 16, 2014 7:28 PM in response to chicodaman
    Level 1 (8 points)
    Mac OS X
    Jan 16, 2014 7:28 PM in response to chicodaman

    I finally got it to work!  However, there were two things I did differently so I'm not sure which was the solution.  First, I upgraded to comskip81_058_donators.  Second, I left the comskip.ini file unchanged.  I made and recording and the commercials were marked!

     

    Thanks chicodaman for all your help!

  • by chicodaman,

    chicodaman chicodaman Jan 16, 2014 10:15 PM in response to tomar012
    Level 1 (15 points)
    Jan 16, 2014 10:15 PM in response to tomar012

    Cool! Have fun. You can tune the comskip.ini file for improved commercial detection, if necessary, and play with the "RecordingDone.scpt" file to have it do additional tasks, like use different comskip.ini files for different channels, or export the skipped files and markers for use in players such as XBMC, etc. Search around for examples. Glad you got it to work....

  • by essandess,

    essandess essandess Jan 19, 2014 5:42 AM in response to chicodaman
    Level 1 (28 points)
    Applications
    Jan 19, 2014 5:42 AM in response to chicodaman

    FYI, I recently learned that the older mid-2010 Mac Minis are cable of using 16 GB with recent OS X upgrades. The original limit was 8 GB, which does limit performance. This makes a big difference for a box that's constantly recording/transcoding/marking commercials. A quadcore i7 is much more performant now, but then so will be the next model with DDR4 on the horizon.

     

    Google is your friend—you're looking for the PC3-8500 DDR3 1066MHz SO-DIMM, and make sure you've correctly matched hardware. I personally recommend OWC.

     

    And FWIW, here's my comskip.ini diffs for 81_058 and U.S. basic cable:

     

    $ diff comskip.ini comskip.ini.orig

    2c2

    < detect_method=127                     ;1=black frame, 2=logo, 4=scene

    change, 8=fuzzy logic, 16=closed captions, 32=aspect ration, 64=silenc

    e, 128=cutscenes, 255=all

    ---

    > detect_method=43                      ;1=black frame, 2=logo, 4=scene

    change, 8=fuzzy logic, 16=closed captions, 32=aspect ration, 64=silenc

    e, 128=cutscenes, 255=all

    19c19

    < logo_at_bottom=1                      ; Set to 1 to search only for l

    ogo at the lower half of the video, do not combine with subtitle setting

    ---

    > logo_at_bottom=0                      ; Set to 1 to search only for l

    ogo at the lower half of the video, do not combine with subtitle setting

    23c23

    < intelligent_brightness=1              ; Set to 1 to use a USA specifi

    c algorithm to tune some of the settings, not adviced outside the USA

    ---

    > intelligent_brightness=0              ; Set to 1 to use a USA specifi

    c algorithm to tune some of the settings, not adviced outside the USA

    76,79c76

    < windowtitle="Comskip - %s"

    < ; http://www.kaashoek.com/comskip/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1130

    < thread_count=2                                ; multi-threaded proces

    sing

    <

    ---

    > windowtitle="Comskip - %s"

    \ No newline at end of file

  • by Brandon Riffel,

    Brandon Riffel Brandon Riffel Dec 5, 2015 1:48 PM in response to essandess
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    Dec 5, 2015 1:48 PM in response to essandess

    Ok, I just donated to comskipper.  I've used eyetvcomskip for a few years and should have donated earlier.

     

    With that said, I'm a little confused about what I need to do now.  I've been reluctant to rebuild by Mac Mini DVR setup with EyeTV because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to get it working again.  Well, it wasn't working all that well at the end so I pulled the trigger.  So I have a clean install of OSX 10.9, the newest build of EyeTV3 and that is about it (Handbrake, Subler, Flash are the only additions).

     

    Do I need to install all the additional components that Niccum listed above?

     

    XQuartz 2.7.5 (xorg-server 1.14.4)

    Xcode 5.0.2 (5A3005)

    wine  1.7.9

    Macports 2.2.1

    Python 2.7.5

    mp4v2 2.0.0_0

     

    comskip81_058_donators

     

    I didn't have all of that running on my old system I don't think.  Just XQuartz and Xcode.  Yes, I'll go back through the 7 pages of this thread to find somebody that has given a step by step guide, but most people aren't starting from scratch and I'd like to do a very generic install and configuration of this, then I can tweak and tune it later.

     

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  • by essandess,

    essandess essandess Jan 22, 2014 12:49 PM in response to Brandon Riffel
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    Jan 22, 2014 12:49 PM in response to Brandon Riffel

    Full instructions are in the zip file.

  • by Brandon Riffel,

    Brandon Riffel Brandon Riffel Jan 22, 2014 7:10 PM in response to essandess
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    Jan 22, 2014 7:10 PM in response to essandess

    essandess

     

    I see the manual and the readme, neither of which have instructions for how to configure the donator version on OSX, let alone 10.9.

     

    Niccum, did you get this working and if so, can you post the exact procedure?

  • by essandess,

    essandess essandess Jan 23, 2014 5:30 AM in response to Brandon Riffel
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    Jan 23, 2014 5:30 AM in response to Brandon Riffel

    comskip configuration depends on your specific content, country, and CPU threading availability. If the defaults aren't working for you, ask over at the comskip forums. And I believe that there is no specific setup necessary for a new Mavericks box, now that all the necessary Macports have been upgraded.

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