ComSkip
EyeTV and Commercials.
01/22/08 07:44 Filed in: Computers
I recently began using my EyeTV Hybrid again. El
Gato released a new version of EyeTV. It allows
programs to be shared over the web after they have
been recorded.
EyeTV is nice. It has an editing feature for removing commercials. Removing commercials via this tool is tedious, at best. I could not bring myself to edit the programs to remove commercials. To me, it didn't seem worth the effort.
I know there are TV shows on the internet that have no commercials. I couldn't imagine that people are editing them all by hand, so I started searching.
I found some stuff, like ComSkip, but it is windows based. I found another solution, but there's a lot of moving parts. I may consider it in the future. This solution uses X11, ffmpeg, mplayer, and ComSkip. It is an automated solution but has a few moving parts. I may try to rework this in a bit.
I found a native version of ComSkip for the Mac. ETV-ComSkip can be used to skip commercials while you are watching a program. However, in it's process, it will actually mark the commercials. So, now I have an easy way to mark the commercials so they are easy to remove.
You have to quit EyeTV for it to mark the commercials. Evidently, EyeTV will overwrite the editing tags. So, you quit EyeTV after running 'FileWatcher all' from the command line. It is in the FileWatcher.app package. This will mark all the commercials.
After this process, you simply edit each program. The markers will be set. Compress them and the commercials are removed. You can then compress the programs for viewing on an iPod or iPhone. Or, in my case, the Web.
Simple as that.
EyeTV is nice. It has an editing feature for removing commercials. Removing commercials via this tool is tedious, at best. I could not bring myself to edit the programs to remove commercials. To me, it didn't seem worth the effort.
I know there are TV shows on the internet that have no commercials. I couldn't imagine that people are editing them all by hand, so I started searching.
I found some stuff, like ComSkip, but it is windows based. I found another solution, but there's a lot of moving parts. I may consider it in the future. This solution uses X11, ffmpeg, mplayer, and ComSkip. It is an automated solution but has a few moving parts. I may try to rework this in a bit.
I found a native version of ComSkip for the Mac. ETV-ComSkip can be used to skip commercials while you are watching a program. However, in it's process, it will actually mark the commercials. So, now I have an easy way to mark the commercials so they are easy to remove.
You have to quit EyeTV for it to mark the commercials. Evidently, EyeTV will overwrite the editing tags. So, you quit EyeTV after running 'FileWatcher all' from the command line. It is in the FileWatcher.app package. This will mark all the commercials.
After this process, you simply edit each program. The markers will be set. Compress them and the commercials are removed. You can then compress the programs for viewing on an iPod or iPhone. Or, in my case, the Web.
Simple as that.
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