Does MCE Buddy need to have comstrip and do I need to download it?

MCEBuddy uses Comskip or ShowAnalyzer to “identify” commercials. You can tweak it using tips from here [image] Tuning Comskip and Custom Comskip INI's (Country / Channel specific) Commercial Removal Tuning Comskip Commercial Detection See this post for details …

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I did my first video with mcebuddy. While watching the video without commercials, I noticed that an actor was going to do something, and I heard a women voice say “as the chief took off his hat”, and sure enough the chief took off his hat. What is this a joke? THanks Dan

Hey Goose - Great program as I paid for the full version of it. However, is it your program or comskip that does the actually taking out commercial? The reason why I ask is because I used your program for two programs last night and noticed that it left 3 full commercial in the program that I was …

O great and fairless leader Goose. Thank you for the quick reply. As I understand your last email that your program uses two programs (Comskip and ShowAnalyzer) to take out the commercials? I tried to log into Comskip forum and when I was registration the last question on the bottom got me. I an…

The login (username/password) for the forums is different than the username/password you use to download the premium version from the download site. I recommend keeping them separate. You can change the one for the forums website, not the one Goose assigned for your premium download. I use Comskip,…

Hey, mike thanks for the info. I’ve been using MCEBuddy now for about a week, and I’m looking into tweeting it a little later on. I’ve used the Custom Cuts as well, and I wish comskip was like that, but I understand it can’t. Again thanks for the info.

In the ‘comskip’ directory where you installed MCEBuddy (e.g. C:\Program Files\MCEBuddy2x\comskip), there is a ComskipINIEditor.exe that is a GUI editor for your Comskip.ini file. It’s a bit rough around the edges, but might be easier than editing the file directly with notepad, gVIM, or Notepad++, …

Thanks for the info. Had I idea, and that is can comskip ignore certain parts of the view windows? For example, I read someplace that when there is a weather warning that goes along the bottom and top of the screen, can comskip ignore that area of the screen? Dan

If you’re using the latest build of MCEBuddy you can use the ComkipINIEditor play with the settings highlighted which tell Comskip to skip the top or bottom % of the screen. [image]

Hi, Just have a question hoping I can get some help with… I’m using buddy and everything works great, with the exception of a few channels espn (sportscenter) and MLB network are two examples I think it has to do with the banner or crawl at the bottom of the screen, the log shows no commercials dete…

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