Why does MCE not catch the Medicare, Car Warranty, and OTC pain medicine commercials? They don’t seem to be tied to the TV station break just a general 5 minutes of unfiltered same commercials. This is with any version but currently running 2.6.1 previous 2.5.7.
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My belief is that it is related to the length of these commercials. Any break that includes the long-running Medicare spots (which in our area can be as long as 2 minutes) simply gets ignored. My guess is that the system cannot discern between a 2-minute commercial and part of the show. Since the other commercials bracketing it are usually short, you’d expect them to get filtered, but I think the system is unsure, so it errs on the side of just leaving them all in.
Admittedly I don’t have a lot of experience fine tuning comskip but the last time I worked on it I found this post and the links within extremely helpful.
Tuning Comskip and Custom Comskip INI’s (Country / Channel specific) - General Support / Questions / Commercial Removal - MCEBuddy (mcebuddy2x.com)
You can could try to customize your comskip.ini using the INIEditor (copy the comskip.ini and editor into a new folder and then customize it rather than customizing the stock ini) and then your conversion task to use the custom comskip ini.
Things that pop out to me:
- Try making it more aggressive by enabling
Scene change,Closed captionsandCut Scenein the Comskip editor - If you have long running commercials try increasing the
max_commercialbreakandmax_commercial_sizedurations
