Comskipp support or Commerical skip via xml

[snake98 10]

Now that emby has tv support, is there any chance of getting a commerical skipping xml support added in.  By that I mean support to read xml files that tell where a commerical is and to skip it automatically.

 

 

I currently use windows media center with comskipp,   Bascily Emby would need to read the xml file(same name as the recording), and skip that portion of the video.

 

I'll be happy to help anyway I can.

 

I've attached an example of the xml file...

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<root>
<commercial start="625.758467" end="782.9822" />
<commercial start="1238.4372" end="1411.2098" />
<commercial start="2019.650967" end="2311.1088" />
<commercial start="2857.521333" end="3144.9418" />
<commercial start="3595.959033" end="3718.281233" />
</root>

[ThePaladinTech 22]

This would be great - I'll be watching this topic for any news on comskip

I'm thrilled by the liveTV i've seen so far.

[MSattler 387]

This would be great - I'll be watching this topic for any news on comskip

I'm thrilled by the liveTV i've seen so far.

 

Why not just have Emby remove the commercials in the same manner that MCEBuddy does?

[kmarq13 5]

Why not just have Emby remove the commercials in the same manner that MCEBuddy does?

Because sometimes it screws up. It works really well to use commskip to flag commercials but leave them in. That way if there is a bad cut you just have to hit the back button to jump back to where you were (at least that's how lots of players implement the cuts). 

 

It is also way faster for most PCs to detect commercials than to remove them. I believe some backends (myth maybe) do the commercial detection in realtime so if you're watching time-shifted you can still benefit.

[ThePaladinTech 22]

Because sometimes it screws up. It works really well to use commskip to flag commercials but leave them in. That way if there is a bad cut you just have to hit the back button to jump back to where you were (at least that's how lots of players implement the cuts). 

 

It is also way faster for most PCs to detect commercials than to remove them. I believe some backends (myth maybe) do the commercial detection in realtime so if you're watching time-shifted you can still benefit.

 

Zactly, for all those reasons. And SageTV can do comskip on live tv as well

Edited September 17, 2015 by ThePaladinTech