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First of all, thanks for the port! It works great with PyeTv and in manual mode 
via Terminal. But one 
thing never worked for me: triggering the RecordingDone.scpt script after a 
scheduled or manual 
recording.  

Im running on Leopard 10.5.4 with EyeTV 3.0.3

I suspect EyeTV never sends the trigger because other scripts dont work as 
well. Is there a solution?

Upgrade to Snow Leopard and a dialog appears at startup asking to terminate 
etv-comskipper.

Others have reported the issue at:

http://forums.elgato.com/viewtopic.php?f=91&t=5958

James.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Run FileWatcher.app on an iMac G5
2. Record a new program in EyeTV
3. Watch, as nothing happens.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Expected output is a .plist file in the recordings' directory with the same
name as the .mpg file.  There is nothing.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Release 1.0RC5 on Mac OS X 10.4.11

Please provide any additional information below.
FileWatcher.app indicates that it is (Universal).  Is that not the case?

i don't have an eyetv (just want to run comskip directly).  I suppose that 
might have confused the installer for some reason, but the comskip directory is 
improperly permitted.  

thanks for going to the trouble to put this all together.

version 2.0.2-10.6

sh-3.2# pwd
/Library/Application Support/ETVComskip
sh-3.2# ls -al
total 112
drwxr-xr-x@ 14 danno  staff    476 Apr  3 11:29 .
drwxrwxr-x  27 root   admin    918 Apr  3 11:28 ..
d-wx-wx-wt@  2 501    staff     68 Jun  1  2010 .Trashes
-rw-r--r--@  1 501    staff    975 Jun  1  2010 AUTHORS
-rw-r--r--@  1 501    staff   1310 Jun  1  2010 CHANGELOG
drwxr-xr-x@  3 501    staff    102 Jun  1  2010 ComSkipper.app
drwxr-xr-x@  3 501    staff    102 Jun  1  2010 Install ETVComskip.app
-rw-r--r--@  1 501    staff  17987 Jun  1  2010 LICENSE
-rw-r--r--@  1 501    staff  18300 Jun  1  2010 LICENSE.rtf
drwxr-xr-x@  3 501    staff    102 Jun  1  2010 MarkCommercials.app
-rw-r--r--@  1 501    staff   4315 Jun  1  2010 README-EyeTV3
drwxr-xr-x@  3 501    staff    102 Jun  1  2010 UnInstall ETVComskip.app
drwxr-xr-x@  3 501    staff    102 Jun  1  2010 Wine.app
drwx------@ 13 501    staff    442 Jun  1  2010 comskip

>This is the error I get every time with this program.

"12. Processing "Supernatural" on [TV 2] channel [2]...
  Channel: 2 , not skipped
  Title: Supernatural , not skipped
  Station name: TV 2 , not skipped
No video pid found return from "comskip": 3"

 I haven't been able to get this up and running at all. Seems like it's trying to do something... but 
it just throws up a random error every time.


>What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
MarkCommercials 0.3.0 ETVComskip 1.0.3 with MacOS X 10.5.6

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. install ETVComskip-2.0-10.6
2. have shows record in EyeTV 3.4

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

When completed, commercials are not marked. Running the /Library/Application\ 
Support/ETVComskip/MarkCommercials.app/Contents/MacOS/MarkCommercials
command by hand afterwards does mark them.

Error log shows:

Wed May 26 12:27:01 2010 -  1. Processing "ABC 6 News at Noon" on [WSYX] 
channel [9]...
Wed May 26 12:27:01 2010 - Path to recording is /Users/dreed/Movies/EyeTV 
Archive/ABC 6 
News at Noon.eyetvsched/0000000011ad834b.eyetvr
Wed May 26 12:27:01 2010 - Changing directory to /Users/dreed/Movies/EyeTV 
Archive/ABC 6 
News at Noon.eyetvsched
Wed May 26 12:27:01 2010 - Running: "/Library/Application 
Support/ETVComskip/Wine.app/Contents/Resources/bin/wine" "/Library/Application 
Support/ETVComskip/comskip/comskip.exe" --ini="/Library/Application 
Support/ETVComskip/comskip/comskip.ini" "0000000011ad834b.mpg" > 
/Users/dreed/Library/Logs/ETVComskip/296584011_comskip.log 2>&1
Wed May 26 12:29:59 2010 - Return code is: 26368, 0x6700
Wed May 26 12:29:59 2010 - Error code is: 103, 0x67
Wed May 26 12:29:59 2010 - Error: unknown error code from comskip: 103, 
assuming it 
worked.
Wed May 26 12:29:59 2010 - Error: accessing 0000000011ad834b.edl
(2, 'No such file or directory')



What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
ETVComskip-2.0 on 10.6.3

Please provide any additional information below.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Launching etv-comskip 
2. Pulls up the record content in terminal but it states "skipping" 


What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I would like etv-comskip to mark the commericals.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system
Mac OS leopard 10.6.8 Eye Tv 3.5.4

Please provide any additional information below.
Can someone provide me with the terminal command to mark the commericals?

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Upgrade to EyeTV 3.5
2. Re-install etv-comskip doesn't fix the issue

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I expect comskip to keep working, a re-install should fix it, instead its like 
etc-comskip isn't working even though X11 window is still launching with EyeTV.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
OSX 10.6.6, EyeTV 3.5 (6514)

Please provide any additional information below.

Sometimes commercial skipping seems to hang for a while. EyeTV will skip to
the end of the commercials, but looks like it will skip again to the same
place. I believe that for some reason etv-comskip will skip again to the
same marker thus hanging occurs. Looks like etv-comskip things it is still
in commercials when it is executed again (after 1 second?).

There seems to be easy fix for this. In commskipper.app script: 

------------------------------
tell application "EyeTV"
   jump to et
end tell
-- display dialog "Jumped"
delay 1 --Added by MNi
------------------------------

I added "delay 1" after the jump and this seems to fix the problem.

I took a run at building comskip from the etv-comskip source for 64-bit,
and it worked without a lot of hassle.  A quick benchmark on a half hour
program shows a 20% improvement.  ETV-comskip could add the 64-bit binary
into the fat package and users with capable procs would get a free
performance improvement.

The one changes needed are the ARCHFLAGS in the Makefile (add -arch
x86_64), and refreshing the libmpeg2 code.  What you have in svn right now
doesn't quite handle 64 correctly, but libmpeg2 0.5.1 has all the needed fixes.

On Oct 12 ComSkip stopped marking commercials with EyTV. In Console the comskip 
log now says:

err:process:__wine_kernel_init boot event wait timed out
Wine cannot find the FreeType font library.  To enable Wine to
use TrueType fonts please install a version of FreeType greater than
or equal to 2.0.5.
http://www.freetype.org

Any idea what is going on?

MacPro 5,1 OX10.6.8
EyeTV 3.5.3

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.
2.
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?


What version of the product are you using? latest
On what operating system? Snow Leopard latest 


Please provide any additional information below.
Seems to be working ok except I keep getting error message(attached) & X11 
opens with every new recording.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.
2.
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?


What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
latest version on Snow Leopard 

Please provide any additional information below.
I'm not a developer just a punter who stumbled across comm skip and thought i 
would give it a 
try, it didn't work at all for me, all the files where installed in the correct 
place. Is there anything 
else I need to do after install to get it working? or just do a recording and 
it should work? 

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Given the config line: 

EXCLUDED_STATION_NAMES = NDR FERNSEHEN|Das Erste|3sat|ZDF|WDR Kln|Sdwest BW/RP

2. Running MarkCommercials all gives output like this:

> 2. Processing "Babel" on [Das Erste] channel [1]...
>  Channel: 1 , not skipped
>  Title: Babel , not skipped
>  Station name: Das Erste , not skipped

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

I'd expect this recording to be skipped du to the station name. Maybe it's 
because of the 
trailing whitespace in the name? However I tried changing MarkCommercials.py to 
call 
stationName.trim():

> if stationName.strip() in excludedStationNames:
>   ...

But that doesn't seem to make a difference.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Add the line output_debugwindow=1 to comskip.ini
2. Run MarkCommercials.py on a single (suggest short) recording
3. Observe Python eventually hanging such that it must be force quit'ed

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

Comskip for windows brings up a video window used primarily during tuning to 
confirm the 
suspected commercial locations. Instead python hangs.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
 MarkCommercials 0.3.0 on OSX 10.5.6

Please provide any additional information below.

I would assume that this is due to the debugwindow functionality not being 
ported, but would 
like to confirm this as tuning without it requires using other mpg viewing 
programs that make it 
a little (but still possible) to do.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
Everytime EyeTV starts a recording

Latest version of every involved software 
etv 2.0.2
os 10.6.4
eyetv 3.4.1

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Install Snow Leapord
2. Reboot


What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Expected it to load.  It crashes.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Latest and greatest as of this date (29 Aug 2009), and just installed Snow 
Leapord.

Please provide any additional information below.

Doesn't seem to be compatible.

The MarkCommercials.py script contains several minor issues which however
prevent certain functionality to work:

1. parsing of User-based MarkCommercial.cfg file
2. correct usage of EXCLUDED_STATION_NAMES variable in cfg file
3. comskipLocations is incorrect: "ETVcomskip" instead of "ETVComskip"

The attached patch file fixes these problems when applied against version
0.3.0. Please note that it also incorporates the intermediate fixes for
umlaut characters mentioned in an earlier bugreport
(http://code.google.com/p/etv-comskip/issues/detail?id=8). It also contains
code for starting the comskip executable in "nice" mode so that it does not
interfere with other jobs on the machine and works more in background.

I also attach a full intermediate 0.3.1 version of the .py file which fixes
all these issues at one.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Running the triggered script

What is the expected output? 
Commercials are marked.

What do you see instead?
No commercials are marked and the log file says Multiple PIDs found. Whilst you 
can specify a 
PID for comskip (and one of the identified PIDs does mark the commercials 
correctly) there is no 
way in the current version of MarkCommercials to specify a PID.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
1.0.3-10.6 on MacOS X 10.6

Please provide any additional information below.
I have modified MarkCommercials.py to allow for specifying the PID. 
Additionally there are two 
triggered scripts to support this. RecordingStarted.scpt runs the 
MarkCommercials normally, 
RecordingDone.scpt checks if multiple PIDs are present and reruns 
MarkCommercials for a 
specific PID.

Can this be included in a new release of etv-comskip?

Comskip has been working fine for some time now, but tonight, it crashed
while processing a recording.  It popped up a crash report and checking the
log, it stopped at 90% with the following error code:
Tue Jan 13 23:19:13 2009 - Return code is: 35584, 0x8b00
Tue Jan 13 23:19:13 2009 - Error code is: 139, 0x8b
Tue Jan 13 23:19:13 2009 - Error: unknown error code from comskip: 139

I tried to manually run comskip from the command line, which I've done
previously, and now it says:
Error: importing appscript
No module named aem

I've reinstalled comskip and it still gives me the same error.  Let me know
if you need any more information from me.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Record Jeopardy
2. ComSkipper processes video with comskip
3. Play result

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
The programs are marked correctly (I can see the skip points by pausing the 
program). But the 
video is skipped at the wrong times.  Usually after a commercial, the video 
starts way past the 
end of the commercial.


What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
I have EyeTV 250 Plus and version 3.3 (5848) of the software.  I'm running on a 
current version of 
the mac-mini with snow leopard.  I used Pyetv too.


Please provide any additional information below.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. record many shows (say 6)
2. while 4 shows are being skipped compact 2 and start encoding immediately 
after company
3. more shows start recording and then comskipping
4. wait for the grey transparent apple fatal warning box to appear

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
see 4

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Snow Leopard 10.6.1, EyeTV 3.2, turbo.264 HD

Please provide any additional information below.

The console displays event and launchd errors when this occurs. Could the 
problem I am 
observing be related to this? --> http://db.tidbits.com/article/10643

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Start a recording with name such as "Rachael Ray - Wanna Live Rent Free for 
a Year?!"
2. Open the recorded clip after and no commercials are marked.
3. Check the comskip log in ~/Library/Logs/ETVComskip to see wine unable to 
find DOS drive for the path and comskip.exe unable to find the mpg file.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Recordings without these special characters work fine.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
ETVComskip-2.0.2-10.6 Snow Leopard 10.6.4


Please provide any additional information below.
Please find details in the attached logs

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. install snow leopard
2. install eyetv 3.4.2
3. install 2.0.2 of comskipper
4. ru
/Library/Application\ 
Support/ETVComskip/MarkCommercials.app/Contents/MacOS/MarkCommercials all


What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

this should mark the commercials.
i see the following error instead on all prerecorded shows:

Unable to open mpeg2 file return from "comskip": 2 

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

snow leopard, eglato 3.4.2 and latest comskipper (i think it's 2.0.2)

Please provide any additional information below.

I've upgraded to EyeTV version 3.1 and now see the attached dialog when it's 
time to identify 
commercial breaks:

MarkCommercials Error
An unexpected error has occurred during execution of the main script.

NameError: global name 'application' is not defined.

I have found that restarting the computer stops this problem, but it reappears 
after running fine 
for a while (not more than, say, a week or two while recording several TV 
programs daily.)

Using Mac OS X 10.5.6 on 1.83GHz Mac mini (MA608LL/A.)

Console log attached.

Using the Triggered Script method.

EyeTV recorded 6 programs today. The first 4 have plists and markers
inserted. The last 2, nothing.

If I start a manual recording, then stop it, comskip is run on it.

How do we make this run reliably?

What steps will reproduce the problem?
bash$ /Library/Application\ 
Support/ETVComskip/MarkCommercials.app/Contents/MacOS/MarkCommercials 231600480

        MarkCommercials 0.3.0

 1. Processing "Stealth" on [] channel [245]...
  Channel: 245 , not skipped
  Title: Stealth , not skipped
  Station name:  , not skipped
No video pid found return from "comskip": 3
bash$ 

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

     Expected file to have commercials marked. 

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

     MacOS X 10.0.2 etv-comskip 1.0.3
    Intel iMac; eyety 3.x (most recent)
    DirecTV Tuner on a Plexor converter.

Please provide any additional information below.

    Noticed others are having this same challenge on elgato forums. Is there a way to work around 
the "no pid found" problem?

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Set a recording
2. Instruct EyeTV to export to AppleTV upon recording completion
3. If I instead manually export to AppleTV later, commercials are removed.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Commercials to be removed from the output video.  Instead, exported video still 
contains 
commercials, although they are marked properly inside EyeTV.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
ETVComskip-1.0.3-10.6.dmg on 10.6.1 with EyeTV 3.1.3b1 (5275)

Please provide any additional information below.
I'm still trying to fully understand the way EyeTV handles scripting requests, 
but I feel as though 
EyeTV is running the export script to AppleTV (and iTunes) prior to the markers 
being added to 
the recording.  Does this make sense?  So when a recording completes, it first 
starts the export 
and moments later sends the recording to markcommercials where it is properly 
marked.

Any assistance is appreciated.

PPC issue:

On my iMac G5...

More often than not, ComSkipper.app will not work at all.  When the program
gets to the start of a commercial segment, I get the following dialog:  

Can't make "Dict {" into type number.

With an "Edit" and "OK" button.

If I access the same EyeTV archive on an Intel Mac, with the same version
of ComSkipper.app, this does not occur.
_

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Run Comskipper.app
2. Open EyeTV 3.0.1.
3. Open a live TV window or a currently recording program.

What is the expected output?
1-2% CPU utilization by Comskipper.

What do you see instead?
16-20% CPU utilization.

What version of the product are you using?
ETVComskip-1.0.0rc11-10.4.dmg

On what operating system?
10.4.11

What steps will reproduce the problem?
- run the script

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
- a video with commercials marked

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
- Version 1.0.3 for EyeTV3 for 10.5
- Mac OS X 10.5.6 (9G55)
- EyeTV 3.1 (4513)
- Pinnacle TV for Mac HD mini Stick (80e)


I have HD recordings (I don't record SD) that are not being marked with
commercials. I keep getting error messages about video PIDs not being found.

According to mplayer -identify <file>, I am getting MPEG-TS files from EyeTV.

Based on what I've been reading all day about this, I think the error(s)
may have something to do with the included version of comskip. The version
that comes with etv-comskip is 0.79.126. There is a new version out
0.80.010 (http://www.kaashoek.com/files/readme.txt).

comskip Error Messages:
    Video PID not found, available video PID's 

    0 frames decoded in 0.00 seconds (0.00 fps)

comskip Error Messages (verbose 10):
    Video PID not found, available video PID's 

    Parsed 0 video frames and 0 audio frames of 25.00 fps

> What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Have a recording with non-ASCII chars (such as German umlauts like
ä,ö,ü) in title or file name. E.g. the genre 'comedy' is 'Komödie' in
German -- that's how this can end up in the file name even if it's not in
the title.
2. Try to run MarkCommercials

> What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Fails to mark commercials, sometimes with a cryptic dialog that does not
give a line number.

> What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
ETVComskip-1.0.3-10.5, Mac OS 10.5.3, EyeTV 3.0.2

> Please provide any additional information below.
I've never done anything in python, but this hack works for me:
In "def WriteToLog(message):", replace
        log.write('%s - %s' % (time.asctime(), message))
with
        log.write('%s - %s' % (time.asctime(),
message.encode("ascii","replace")))

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Launch app.
2. Wait (or not...not sure how long it takes, but it consistently does so).
3. Take a look at activity monitor.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Comskip consistently takes over 2 gigs of Virtual Mem, even when not in 
operation and just idling in the background.  Something seems wrong with that.  
Shouldn't it take very little Virtual Mem when idling?

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Newest version from website on Snow Leopard with 8gigs total ram.

Please provide any additional information below.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Upon booting into Snow Leopard, when ComSkip tries to launch, an error
is produced
2.
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
It is expected that Comskip will run in the background, instead it launches
an error dialog that says:
ComSkipper Error
An unexpected error has occurred during execution of the main script

ValueError: Unknown typestr

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
I am running version 1.0.3-10.5

Please provide any additional information below.

The relevant console log is attached.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Launch Comskipper or have it as a login item

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Expect: Nothing, since it always runs in the background.
What happens: An error pops up and it gives me the option to terminate 
Comskipper.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
The current version on Mac OS X 10.6.

Please provide any additional information below.
The error is:

"ComSkipper Error
An unexpected error has occurred during execution of the main script

ValueError: Unknown typestr"

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Open Terminal 
2. Paste "bash$  /Library/Application\ 
Support/ETVComskip/MarkCommercials.app/Contents/MacOS/MarkCommercials all
3. Error Reported:-bash: bash$: command not found

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Batched marking of commercials in recorded TV shows.  Nothing

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
EyeTV 3.5.3; Mac OS X 10.6.8  (everything stopped working with the 10.6.7 
upgrade.

Please provide any additional information below.
I have Uninstalled and Reinstalled both ComSkip and Pye TV three times.

[deleted issue]

Would you kindly include also a build of comclean in the package? It would be 
useful for who 
want's to trim it's old mpegs wich can't be imported in eyetv :) Thanks

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Upgrade to Snow Leopard 10.6
2. Boot Machine
3. Get Error

8/15/09 3:24:16 PM  com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[177]
([0x0-0x22022].org.pythonmac.unspecified.ComSkipper[254]) Exited with exit
code: 255
8/15/09 3:30:08 PM  [0x0-0x5b05b].org.pythonmac.unspecified.ComSkipper[493]
Traceback (most recent call last):
8/15/09 3:30:08 PM  [0x0-0x5b05b].org.pythonmac.unspecified.ComSkipper[493]
  File "/Library/Application
Support/ETVComskip/ComSkipper.app/Contents/Resources/__boot__.py", line 31,
in <module>
8/15/09 3:30:08 PM  [0x0-0x5b05b].org.pythonmac.unspecified.ComSkipper[493]
    _run('ComSkipper.py')
8/15/09 3:30:08 PM  [0x0-0x5b05b].org.pythonmac.unspecified.ComSkipper[493]
  File "/Library/Application
Support/ETVComskip/ComSkipper.app/Contents/Resources/__boot__.py", line 28,
in _run
8/15/09 3:30:08 PM  [0x0-0x5b05b].org.pythonmac.unspecified.ComSkipper[493]
    execfile(path, globals(), globals())
8/15/09 3:30:08 PM  [0x0-0x5b05b].org.pythonmac.unspecified.ComSkipper[493]
  File "/Library/Application
Support/ETVComskip/ComSkipper.app/Contents/Resources/ComSkipper.py", line
19, in <module>
8/15/09 3:30:08 PM  [0x0-0x5b05b].org.pythonmac.unspecified.ComSkipper[493]
    import AppKit
8/15/09 3:30:08 PM  [0x0-0x5b05b].org.pythonmac.unspecified.ComSkipper[493]
  File "AppKit/__init__.pyc", line 10, in <module>
8/15/09 3:30:08 PM  [0x0-0x5b05b].org.pythonmac.unspecified.ComSkipper[493]
  File "Foundation/__init__.pyc", line 10, in <module>
8/15/09 3:30:08 PM  [0x0-0x5b05b].org.pythonmac.unspecified.ComSkipper[493]
  File "CoreFoundation/__init__.pyc", line 17, in <module>
8/15/09 3:30:08 PM  [0x0-0x5b05b].org.pythonmac.unspecified.ComSkipper[493]
  File "objc/_bridgesupport.pyc", line 129, in initFrameworkWrapper
8/15/09 3:30:08 PM  [0x0-0x5b05b].org.pythonmac.unspecified.ComSkipper[493]
  File "objc/_bridgesupport.pyc", line 53, in _parseBridgeSupport
8/15/09 3:30:08 PM  [0x0-0x5b05b].org.pythonmac.unspecified.ComSkipper[493]
ValueError: Unknown typestr
8/15/09 3:30:08 PM  ComSkipper[493] ComSkipper Error
8/15/09 3:30:08 PM  ComSkipper[493] ComSkipper Error
An unexpected error has occurred during execution of the main script

ValueError: Unknown typestr
8/15/09 3:30:56 PM  com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[177]
([0x0-0x5b05b].org.pythonmac.unspecified.ComSkipper[493]) Exited with exit
code: 255

Macbook Core 2 Duo
4 Gb Ram
Mac OS X 10.6 (10A432)

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. I can manually force MarkCommercials to run in Terminal.  It appropriately 
marks programs according to my settings.
2. It has never been able to automatically mark a recorded episode after or 
during airing.
3. Activity monitor does not show any of the program's activity.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I expect it to automatically mark commercials in EyeTV.  It does nothing.  I 
would like it to MarkCommercials as it records, as well.  I have enabled the 
"Live_tv" trigger in comskip.ini.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
I have EyeTV 3.5  I have the most recent version of Comskip Donator version for 
h.264.  I use a Hauppauge HD-PVR to record.

Please provide any additional information below.

I don't know how to reproduce the problem.  

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I am expecting comskip to mark commercials.  This is not happening. 

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
I'm using the latest release of etv comskip (1.1) for 10.6.3.

Please provide any additional information below.

I found this error in the console log viewer.
4/24/10 3:42:39 PM  com.apple.launchd.peruser.503[245]
([0x0-0x21021].org.pythonmac.unspecified.ComSkipper[310]) Exited: Terminated

I viewed the latest comskip logs in [home]/library/logs/etvcomskip folder
and the latest logs are all blank.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Simply running the program (launch on system boot) - after a day or so I
notice Comskipper using several hundred MB of RAM.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Why so much RAM?

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Comskipper v1.0.3 on EyeTV v3.1.0.

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
No Commercials are being marked when recording 

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Eypect marked commercials - nothing marked. When run manually after recording 
everything works

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
I tried ETVComskip-2.0.2-10.6 with EyeTV 3.3.3 as well as EyeTV 3.4.2 under OSX 
10.6.2

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The logs also say: No video pid found return from "comskip": 3

The comskip.log say:
Opening 000000001257f0d8.mpg
Comskip 0.80.031, made using:
mpeg2dec-0.4.0 - by Michel Lespinasse <[email protected]> and Aaron Holtzman
Permission denied - could not open file 000000001257f0d8.mpg

When I try /usr/bin/nice -n 2 /Library/Application\ 
Support/ETVComskip/MarkCommercials.app/Contents/MacOS/MarkCommercials 307753176 
--verbose=10 --force --log

where 307753176 is a recordingID of a recording already taking place I get the 
same error in the logs as I get onscreen by the verbose messages

When I stop the recording and try again everything works fine.

So I tried to copy the Recordingname.eyetvsched package or the mpg-file within 
with the same effect: I cant - the systems tells me I dont have enough access 
rights. After stopping the recording I can copy without problem!

Maybe an access problem caused by EyeTV?

Hope this helps. If you need some more info just tell me how

thanks

When the TV window is not active (not in focus) there is no sound (but the 
motion pictures are running in background). In "Console" there are no log
entries regarding this issue. I don't have this issue with other
software like iTunes or VLC media player. This issue arrived after installing 
etv-comskip.

$ uname -a
Darwin sven 10.5.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.5.0: Fri Nov  5 23:20:39 PDT 2010; 
root:xnu-1504.9.17~1/RELEASE_I386 i386

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Run RecordingDone.scpt manually
2. in terminal, run ps auxwww |grep -i etvcom
3. See that the program id is in exponential notation

Eg:
/Library/Application
Support/ETVComskip/MarkCommercials.app/Contents/MacOS/MarkCommercials --log
2.31395579E+8

It should be:
/Library/Application
Support/ETVComskip/MarkCommercials.app/Contents/MacOS/MarkCommercials --log
231395579


I don't really know applescript, but this seems to work:
Change:
        my RecordingDone(rec)
to:
        my RecordingDone(rec as integer)

I don't know if it breaks when the script is run automatically by EyeTV.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Double-click on the file produces "ETVComskip-1-5.0.3-10.5.dmg.bz2.cpgz"
2. I'm using Intel Mac and 10.5.3
3. Renamin the "expanded" file to a dmg-file is senseless

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Enter a station name with an Umlaut in any encoding into the cfg
2. Run MarkCommercials

I'd expect MarCommercials to read the config file using UTF-8 encoding, but 
apparently it insists 
on ascii. Thus, users who receive stations that have Umlauts (or any other 
non-ascii characters) in 
their names cannot filter for them.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Boot or restart iMac



I get ComSkipper Error during main script execution. ValueError: Unknown 
typestr.  

I continue with boot up by selecting terminate the script.


What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

 Using the latest version available on this site.

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The program seems to be working fine, it locates and marks the commercials.  
I'm not sure if it's 
suppose to automatically compress the recording removing the marked sections?  
If it is it is not 
compressing the files it has to be done using the EDIT function in EyeTV 3.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Record show
2. allow comskip to mark out commercials
3. do an export to MPEG4 or H.264

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
About 50% of the time or more the export will stall out halfway through.  It 
appears to be still 
exporting but eyetv starts using almost no processor and must be force quit.  

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
The latest etv-comskip release with eyetv 3.1.1

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I have EyETV setup to record (Comskip compacts auto) and export to iTunes 
automatically and it all work.

The problem that I have is that ETVComskip doesn't always do a great job of 
marking the actual start and finish of the commercial. It messes up the show 
when the action scene is cut and the commercial plays even when they're not 
supposed to play.

Is there a way to adjust the commercial threshold sensitivity? 

Thanks

Larry