Yes, that’s all I want. I just want to be able to manually set the start and end of the show / movie. Not trying to trim. Just want to input the precise time or set the exact point in the timeline where everything before is treated as commercials for the start and everything after is treated as commercials for the end.
Conskip is a two step process from what I understand. There is the detection bit where the system tried to identify blocks of video and determine which are commercial and which are show / movie. From what I can tell by looking at the EDL files, the output from the detection process is little more than some times in seconds.
The second part of the process is playback skipping the commercials by reading the times in the EDL files.
As the data output from the comskip detection process is so basic, I really don’t see why there can’t be a way to edit these via a simple UI. Either inputting numbers in seconds or preferably moving the playback timeline to a desired locations and hitting a button to mark the start and end.
The problem with the system as it stands is that you can only choose which blocks are commercials and which are show / movie. It only works if comskip identifies the blocks correctly. In the example above, it didn’t. Not even close.
So I need a way of inputting the data directly without relying on the first, CPU intensive part of the process.