Commercial Detection glitch

[slampman]

@krishkal

Are they all copied from some master file, or if I make change to the last one, it will get copied over to the next one?

Best not to mess with it. You will make it worse 99.9% of the time.

[tonyt57]

The default max_commercialbreak in comskip.inI is 660 seconds (10 min). The long break in Jimmy Kimmel (and Cobert and Fallon) is 11 minutes, so change to: max_commercialbreak=720 in comskip.inI

[krishkal]

Thanks @tonyt57 . There was no entry for max_commercialbreak in comskip.ini, only min_commercialbreak. I added a line to set it to 720 for the latest edition of comskip.ini (as I said before, there are multiple versions in the log folder). Let's see what that does!

[chDVRuser]

Might be helpful for those not familiar

New comskip.ini API vs Override comskip.ini file

These are the notes I made for why there's still a case for using an override comskip.ini file. Plus added a few comments for posting. Some background for those not familiar. Override comskip.ini file - In order to change the way comskip (Detect Commercials) works in Channels DVR, the devs allowed us to create our own override comskip.ini file that totally replaces the default one used by Channels DVR. The contents of this ini file determines how comskip detects commercials and what files it…

Comskip.ini

And a couple of threads that might be helpful

[tonyt57]

There are many settings in comskip that have default values if not set in comskip.ini. If you were to be able to see the log file when comskip runs you would see all the settings comskip used. If not in the ini file, max_commercialbreak=600

See the previous post by @ChDVRuser regarding how Channels handles the ini file