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Not supported at the moment. The PVR API has no support for asking the PVR addon if there is a edl file for a recording.
There is a pull request pending for opdenkamp that adds this.
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OK, thanks for clarifying :-)
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But, you can utilize the edl file if you watch your recordings from your videos library.
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2013-03-24, 14:45
(This post was last modified: 2013-03-24, 14:46 by margro.)
It should also work with Frodo when XBMC and the MediaPortal TVServer backend are on the same machine. In that case, recording playback is done directly by XBMC. The MediaPortal PVR addon passes the local recording filename to XBMC in that case.
BTW. The required PVR API change for EDL support is already merged into XBMC master (Gotham alpha's). Next step for me is to setup comskip for testing purposes and extend the PVR addon accordingly.
Can somebody point me to a good manual for MediaPortal + comskip?
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I had some fun getting comskip to play nice with my tvserver since if I had multiple recordings close together it would eat all my CPU as it processed the files concurrently, but since the comskip support in MP is pretty basic there is no way to limit this.
I put together a small app which basically queues the files and then passes them through comskip.
It's not super heavily tested, but its been running on my server for a few months without issue.. I'll drop you a PM with the link.
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margro, could you give us some information about the current state of this feature?
thank you
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I just checked what the PVR API now offers with respect to EDL/comskip support and it is not possible to just pass a "moviename.txt" or "moviename.edl" file to XBMC.
According to the PVR API function documentation I have to feed XBMC with the individual EDL entries.
This basically means that I have to build an EDL parser first, which seems a bit double work, because XBMC itself already knows how to parse them. I just can't tell XBMC: "here is your Comskip/EDL file"
Therefore, my conclusion is that even the current Gotham PVR API does not provide me with the right functions to support Comskip/EDL in an easy way.
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I am sure many people would like to have it. I understand that margro does not like to implement it with the current API options.
Hopefully the API gets optimized for this feature in the future.