Comskip INI settings for live TV scanning?

[glugglug]

When I set live_tv=1 in comskip, and a 0 wait time in DVRMSToolbox, it keeps exiting long before the show is ended, therefore not catching all the commercials.

I tried launching it from a batch file which waits 10 minutes before starting comskip, but it still doesn't run to the end of the show. Played around with standoff setting also, but nothing seems to work yet.
Does anyone have an .INI file for comskip that consistently makes it run to the end of the show, even if launched while the show is still recording?

[sccrgoalie1]

When I set live_tv=1 in comskip, and a 0 wait time in DVRMSToolbox, it keeps exiting long before the show is ended, therefore not catching all the commercials.

I tried launching it from a batch file which waits 10 minutes before starting comskip, but it still doesn't run to the end of the show. Played around with standoff setting also, but nothing seems to work yet.
Does anyone have an .INI file for comskip that consistently makes it run to the end of the show, even if launched while the show is still recording?

What version of comskip are you using?

[glugglug]

81_056 donator's version. On my old system I didn't care about not doing real-time because the HDD couldn't keep up if I had 3+ comskips running with 4-6 recordings anyway. The new system it easily can, so it would be cool to start having the commercials skipped while the show is still recording.

Looking at comskip.txt it looks like there are separate settings for "standoff_size" and "standoff_time" instead of just "standoff" is this where I need to set to get it to keep monitoring the file until its done recording?

What is the format for standoff_size? In the .txt file it says "1Mbyte for .ts, 50MByte for .wtv", but I think all the params in the file are purely numeric?

[Venom51]

I don't see the point in live scanning. It takes less than 20 minutes to scan an hour show. Are you really watching a recording within 20 minutes of it's original finish time?

Are you pausing the show for 10 minutes so it can be scanning out a head of your point in time? I never understood the desire for live scanning.

[aeblank]

Football is my reason for live scanning.

[glugglug]

I'll often start watching an hour show ~20-25 minutes after the start time, so by skipping commercials I reach the end about the time the recording ends.

Also, for the non-live scanning, you DTBFileWatcher gets configured to kick off the scanning job 10 minutes after the file stops being written to, plus you probably have a 3 minute padding at the end of the recording in case your clock is off, so the scan starts 13 minutes after the show ends.

[sccrgoalie1]

I'll often start watching an hour show ~20-25 minutes after the start time, so by skipping commercials I reach the end about the time the recording ends.

Also, for the non-live scanning, you DTBFileWatcher gets configured to kick off the scanning job 10 minutes after the file stops being written to, plus you probably have a 3 minute padding at the end of the recording in case your clock is off, so the scan starts 13 minutes after the show ends.

I use live scanning all the time. This is how it's setup

live_tv=1 ; set to 1 if you use parallelprocessing and need the output while recording
live_tv_retries=16 ; change to 16 when using live_tv in BTV, used for mpeg PS and TS
dvrms_live_tv_retries=300 ; only used for dvr_ms
standoff=0

using version comskip81_050_donators

[glugglug]

Hmm, 81_50 is the version I had on my old machine, and I don't remember having this problem even when I had it set to do live. I think it's a new bug.

[sccrgoalie1]

Hmm, 81_50 is the version I had on my old machine, and I don't remember having this problem even when I had it set to do live. I think it's a new bug.

I upgraded to your version today and it's working fine. I should mention I'm using .ts files now, so this may be a wtv specific issue in your version.