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Originally Posted by Carlo DLS
On ComSkip Playback Options (inside SageTV's Advanced section), I have Autoskip Commeciials Enabled and Pause playback before Skipping Enabled. What do these things actually do? The reason why I ask is, enabling these options aren't doing any automatic commercial detection. I just don't know half the stuff I am doing at this point so I apologize in advance.
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These options only affect how Sage will act when reading the .txt file. "Autoskip Commercial" will have Sage automatically jump over the commercial for you. Otherwise you can use the Custom4 and Custom5 commands to skip commercials. "Pause playback before skipping" will change behavior from just jumping past the commercial to pause, skip, play. That is something that will happen rapidly so you shouldn't even notice it, but if you are having wierd behavior at jumps (like the video freezing) then it can help. If you aren't seeing any wierd behavior, I would recommend leaving it disabled. (Anyone want to add to this?)
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Originally Posted by Carlo DLS
Is there anyway to do a proactive commercial skipping in SA? What I mean is, automatically mark and detect commercials while a show is recording? Not only that, go the extra mile with pausing the recording once a commercial is detected, then proceed on recording when the show resumes? Am I asking for the moon here? LOL! Sorry noobie questions here. If that doesn't exist anywhere, this'll be a good addition to SA's future releases.
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In a manner of speaking, this is already available. Just put a check mark in the "Process file even if it is being written to" block in DirMon so that DirMon won't wait until the recording is finished to kick off SA.
Since detecting commercials heavily depends on putting things in context, commercials aren't detected when the begin. Sometimes they aren't detected until well after they end. A common thing for people to do is wait until 15-20 minutes after the show has begun, then the commercials are (generally) already detected by the time they get to them.
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Originally Posted by Carlo DLS
Am I screwing anything up at all because I think I may have installed ComSkip and SA on SageTV? But then again, the comskip.exe file I downloaded was the ComSkip Proxy file I got from the Dragon Global site. OMG, I am so confused. Would anyone be willing to put up with this?
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Don't feel bad. Commercial detection is still in its infancy and as such can be very confusing.
If you put the comskip.exe that you downloaded from here in the SageTV directory, then that allows you to kick off a commercial detection run from inside of SageTV itself. Other than that, don't sweat it.
Jere