Okay, I was able to run everything manually without MCEbuddy2x. Here is what I found:
- Comskip.exe “D:\My Videos\AR\On Patrol Live S04E26 2025-10-18-2058_original.mpg”
Prodcued ‘On Patrol Live S04E26 2025-10-18-2058.edl (220 Bytes)
- Comskip produced the edl in the below format, which FFMPEG can’t use
| Issue |
Comskip Produced EDL |
FFmpeg Needs |
|
| Format |
1519.38 1560.12 |
0:25:19.38 0:26:00.12 |
|
So, I wrote a powershell script to convert the EDL to a format of HH:MM:SS.
$edlContent = Get-Content "D:\My videos\ar\On Patrol Live S04E26 2025-10-18-2058.edl"
$convertedEdl = @()
foreach ($line in $edlContent) {
$parts = $line -split '\s+'
if ($parts.Length -ge 2) {
try {
$startSec = [double]$parts[0]
$endSec = [double]$parts[1]
$startTime = [TimeSpan]::FromSeconds($startSec)
$endTime = [TimeSpan]::FromSeconds($endSec)
$newLine = "{0:hh\:mm\:ss\.ff} {1:hh\:mm\:ss\.ff} 1 0.0 COMMERCIAL" -f $startTime, $endTime
$convertedEdl += $newLine
} catch {
Write-Host "Skipping invalid line: $line" -ForegroundColor Yellow
}
}
}
- My FFMPEG is missing -vf “edl_overlay” , why I don’t know. Will address this later.
using the converted edl file I ran FFMPEG manually:
Using ffmpeg version 8.0-essentials_build-www.gyan.dev Copyright (c) 2000-2025 the FFmpeg developers
ffmpeg -hwaccel auto -i “D:\My videos\ar\On Patrol Live S04E26 2025-10-18-2058.mpg” -vf “select=‘not(between(t,1519.38,1750.32)+between(t,2535.10,2806.27)+between(t,3442.84,3713.94)+between(t,4578.04,4854.32)+between(t,5601.83,5877.97)+between(t,6559.39,6830.66)+between(t,7746.77,8022.91)+between(t,8246.04,8331.69)+between(t,8534.13,8824.55)+between(t,9284.04,9555.21)+between(t,10034.46,10276.00)+between(t,10540.53,10650.94))’” -c:v h264_nvenc -preset fast -c:a aac “D:\My videos\ar\Clean_Show.mkv”
Clean_Show.edl (504 Bytes)
NOTE: My profile.conf is using [MKV Nividia]:
[MKV Nividia]
Description=HEVC in MKV (H.265/AC3) conversion using NVIDIA NVENC. Creates a smaller file (50% smaller than H.264) with comparable quality and much faster performance.
order=handbrake,ffmpeg
ffmpeg-general=-threads 0
ffmpeg-video=-ss 0 -tag:v hvc1 -vf yadif=0:-1:1,hqdn3d -vcodec hevc_nvenc -preset p4 -rc vbr -cq 26 -map 0:v -sn
ffmpeg-audio=-acodec ac3 -b:a 160k -map 0:a
ffmpeg-audioac3=-acodec ac3 -b:a 256k -map 0:a
ffmpeg-ext=.mkv
ffmpeg-audiodelay=skip
handbrake-general=–decomb --loose-anamorphic --verbose=2
handbrake-video=–start-at duration:0 -e nvenc_h265 --encoder-preset medium -q 26
handbrake-audio=-E ffac3 -R auto -B 160 -D 0 -a 1,2,3,4,5
handbrake-audioac3=-E ffac3 -R auto -B 256 -D 0 -a 1,2,3,4,5
handbrake-ext=.mkv
handbrake-audiodelay=skip
PreConversionCommercialRemover=true
Conclusion: Comskip works, albeit with some tweaks. With that being stated and showing my results–could the issue be with my profile.con [MKV Nivida]?
What about the ffmpeg and the edl overlay issue?