danz0l Wrote:Does anyone have any transcoding scripts they have written or found to convert the mkv automatically to xvid upon successful recording ?

kdevane Wrote:This is the bones of a post script i use as part of removing commercial breaks.

I started from this script : Tvheadend_post_recording_scripts and working on using mencoder + comskip to remove ads and output to xvid avi.

Code:

#!/bin/bash

fext=${#f}    # length of the full path to the recording
let fext-=4    # length - extension

# Transcode to mpg
/bin/sync
output=${f:0:fext}.mpg    # add new extention to filename
edlfile=${f:0:fext}.edl
avifile=${f:0:fext}.avi

/usr/bin/ffmpeg -v 10 -i "$f" -vcodec copy -acodec copy -map 0:0 -map 0:1 -r 25 "$output"
wine "/home/xbmc/comskip/comskip.exe" "$output"

mencoder "$f" -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=1800 -oac mp3lame -lameopts vbr=5 -vf scale=624:352 -edl "$edlfile" -o "$avifile"

danz0l Wrote:kdevane thank you so much for posting this. After compiling and recompiling mencoder, ffmpeg etc etc and following countless guides i just about to give up then I tried your settings. The ffmpeg trancode to mpeg seems to work perfectly and mencoder options seem near perfect. However on some im getting audo sync issues and many 1 duplicate frame(s)! from mencoder, have you had those ? I am wondering if its a interlacing issue perhaps ?

danz0l Wrote:How are you finding comskip, is it working as expected or hit and miss ? And do you pass any parameters to this script ?

kdevane Wrote:Hi danz0l, Glad to hear you got it to work. To be honest i've only used the script a few times and not noticed any sync issues. Most my of my recordings are SD, i don't have a HD sub and there are only few HD channels available on freeview. Most of what is in the script are bits i've picked up here and there from google searches and modifying setting to suit my needs. I think i should have been able to use ffmpeg to create the xvid file, but for some reason it was giving me errors and i switched to mencoder.

Quote:Just got it working in the last week, it's a bit hit and miss. Been pretty ok with most channels i've tried. Tried a recording off discovery the other night, it didn't locate a single ad break. And after too much time adjusting settings it didn't get close to mathcing the ad breaks. All the settings are store in a comskip.ini file.

Best of luck
Kevin

dushmaniac Wrote:while playing the stream, press M, go to the audio settings and disable subtitles. there's some keyboard shortcut for it too. once you disabled it, xbmc will remember those channel settings.

the reason why only ned.1 is showing that behaviour is that it's one of the only channels here in holland that is using TT888 subtitles.