Req disable Comm Skip / EDL files
#1
Comm skip isn't always perfect or at least not for me. Actually let me rephrase that... it always works for me lol its all the weird trash tv shows my g/f watches that don't work perfectly with all their weird commercial breaks haha. In wmc I have a key press that disables it so when watching a show it can easily be disabled when not working. In Kodi I notice it says that you can FF / RR and it cancels out the EDL files but its just not the case at least not when using serverwmc as your PVR backend. In fact sometimes when I try to rewind back it gets all messed up and jumps forward. I have noticed mythtv has a setting to prompt at the beginning of a recorded show to ask if you want to use the EDL file. This would be awesome! but to be honest I would even take just disabling them all together and just using FF/RR when on the kodi clients.

So either a feature to not use EDL files per view or at the very least disable them all together on the client would be awesome. Maybe this feature exists already and I just haven't been able to find it. I will say I looked pretty hard though. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!
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#2
Interesting. When you say that mythtv prompts if you want to use the EDL file when you hit play, is that when using their kodi addon? I ask because I don't think there is a way for us to do this prompt through the pvr addon.

As for FF and RR canceling out the EDL file, if that happens normally in Kodi then it should be happening when using serverwmc too. Because when you play a wtv file, all serverwmc is doing is telling kodi the location of the wtv file, kodi then does the playback (and the EDL) with no intervention from serverwmc. The only exceptions to this are if you are playing a file while it is being recorded, or if for some reason you have turned on the 'remux the playback of all..." in the debug tab of serverwmc (which should only be turned on for debug purposes).

So I am guessing if FF and RW should be canceling the use of the EDL files but if its not working, then maybe its a bug with kodi and wtv/edl. To test this, you can add the location of your wtv/edl files as a video source to kodi and then play the files in kodi directly (bypassing serverwmc) and see if you get the behavior you expect. If you don't then you should ask the kodi team about it.
Windows Media Center PVR addon (pvr.wmc) and server backend (ServerWMC)
http://bit.ly/serverwmc
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#3
myth tv- So I have 0 experience using it lol its just what I have read in their forums / wiki. There is an option in the Myth tv PVR config for EDL files - Always, Prompt, and never. Then those that have described it in the forums discuss it as I have described. I have never used it so don't know if it truly works as intended haha.

FF/RR canceling out - Again I am only assuming it happens normally as this is what I have read on both wikis and forums. I like your idea about trying to play the files without serverwmc though. I will give that a try and see what happens.
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#4
http://trac.kodi.tv/ticket/15207

Found this... its exactly what I am seeing. This has been going on since 2014 and is still happening... This sucks hahaha
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#5
http://www.kaashoek.com/comskip/viewtopi...w=previous

it seems when comskip uses "0" to skip kodi reads it as "cut" which completely removes it. If the 0 is changed to a "3" it works as it needs to. By adding "edl_skip_field=3" to your comskip ini file it SHOULD change those 0's to 3's and work correctly. I edited an edl file, changing the 0's to 3's and kodi does work perfectly now. If you rewind you can see the commercials / go back to what ever you missed. Also cool is it will continue to skip future commercials after that but again you can just rewind. Will report back if that change in the code actually works and more importantly does it have any effect on wmc.
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#6
Ok so this is working PERFECTLY both in wmc and kodi!

If anyone else runs into this just add that "edl_skip_field=3" to your comskip ini

Also if you have a lot of recordings like I do... rather than make your computer reprocess them... you can use this

https://findandreplace.codeplex.com/

This tool will replace all the "0"s with "3"s. Make sure you include all the spaces infront of the 0 and infront of the 3 otherwise it won't work / it will change the actual times of your commercial breaks. Just point it at the directory and have it search for "*.edl"
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#7
Thanks for the info.
Windows Media Center PVR addon (pvr.wmc) and server backend (ServerWMC)
http://bit.ly/serverwmc
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