Official ShowAnalyzer feature request thread

[babgvant]

Does SA have an API? I'd love to be able to call it directly instead of shelling.

[Jere_Jones]

Originally Posted by babgvant

Does SA have an API? I'd love to be able to call it directly instead of shelling.

Could you elaborate some?

Jere

[babgvant]

Originally Posted by Jere_Jones

Could you elaborate some?

Jere

Right now I use comskip in my program by shelling out calling "comskip.exe pathtompg", then when the shell returns I read the text file it creates using a regex then build an object which contains the commercial spans, which I later use in the program to cut out the commercials or skip the commercials in the UI.

I would love to be able to do something like

ShowAnaylzer sa = new ShowAnaylzer();
sa.Path(PathToMpg);

SACommercials comm = sa.FindCommercials();

where SACommercials would be an object containing the spans.

The easiest way for me would be if the API was exposed through COM, but it wouldn't need to be

[Jere_Jones]

Originally Posted by babgvant

I would love to be able to do something like

ShowAnaylzer sa = new ShowAnaylzer();
sa.Path(PathToMpg);

SACommercials comm = sa.FindCommercials();

where SACommercials would be an object containing the spans.

The easiest way for me would be if the API was exposed through COM, but it wouldn't need to be

Let's talk about this offline. Fire me an email.

Jere

[lseats]

This is related to my request for DirMon as a service so that they can be run without a user logged in.

[Jere_Jones]

Originally Posted by lseats

This is related to my request for DirMon as a service so that they can be run without a user logged in.

I don't think this is possible. However if DirMon is a service, it should be able to run SA without a user logged in.

Jere

[lseats]

I would have thought that too. In fact, I was a little puzzled when I setup DirMon to run as service with FireDaemon and it didn't properly start SA. Actually the behavior I saw was exactly the same as I saw when I tried to run SA from the GB-PVR postprocessing batch file. I think it is more than a coincidence that the behaviour is the same since GB-PVR runs as a service too. Hmmm....

Originally Posted by Jere_Jones

I don't think this is possible. However if DirMon is a service, it should be able to run SA without a user logged in.

Jere

[maniac2k]

A request for a new Output File type.

Filename is sourcefilename.xml

Here is the format:

<root>
<commercial start="488.354533333333" end="699.432066666667" />
<commercial start="1209.17463333333" end="1440.5391" />
<commercial start="2152.81733333333" end="2426.5241" />
<commercial start="2901.13156666667" end="3156.01953333333" />
</root>

Also, can the directory of the output file be a configurable option? If not, this file needs to be generated in the following directoy (C:\Program Files\DVRMSToolbox).

This is needed for a MCE addon to skip commercials. Here is a link to the program discussion.

http://www.thegreenbutton.com/commun...mp;TopicPage=1

Thanks!

-Tom

[Jere_Jones]

Originally Posted by lseats

Actually the behavior I saw was exactly the same as I saw when I tried to run SA from the GB-PVR postprocessing batch file. I think it is more than a coincidence that the behaviour is the same since GB-PVR runs as a service too. Hmmm....

Interesting. I will investigate this.

Jere

[Jere_Jones]

Originally Posted by maniac2k

This is needed for a MCE addon to skip commercials. Here is a link to the program discussion.

The author has already contacted me about providing a programatical interface to SA via an API. The API was originally supposed to be easy, but is causing me to have to (almost) rewite SA's entire infrastructure.

Rest assured that working on it as I would love for MCErs to be able to use SA as well!

Jere