Version history for Comskip

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Changes from v0.79.141 Experimental to v0.79.142 Experimental

• Made a big change to the sound detection algorithm. This should solve some crashes on certain recordings.

Changes from v0.79.140 Experimental to v0.79.141 Experimental

• Bug solved: Too short commercials at the beginning or end are not deleted even when shorter then min_commercialbreak
• Substantial changes to the heuristics and to the validation algorithm. Its better on my set of test files, how about yours?
• Switched back to the old compiler
• Bug solved: Can not disable heuristics rule 7.

Changes from v0.79.139 Experimental to v0.79.140 Experimental

• When the debugwindow is uncovered the windows stayed black untill you hit a key or clicked on the time bar. I tried to show the debuginfo when the window is uncovered but it is not always working.
• Switched to a new compiler, did expect all kind of problems but haven't seen one yet.
• Bug solved: Heuristics rule 7 triggers incorrectly causing loss of show at the beginning of the recording.

Changes from v0.79.138 Experimental to v0.79.139 Experimental

• Output for Virtualdup shifted with 2 frames
• Added a fflush after writing to stderr

Changes from v0.79.137 Experimental to v0.79.138 Experimental

• It is now possible to use the .csv file to test changed settings of maxbright

Changes from v0.79.136 to v0.79.137 Experimental

• Bug solved: When reviewing the .txt file the bar at the top of the debugwindow is grey instead of black/white

Changes from v0.79.135 Experimental to v0.79.136

• Bugs solved: Comskip crashes when invoked with a .csv file and no .data file is present.

Changes from v0.79.134 Experimental to v0.79.135 Experimental

• Improved the CC word separation on certain broadcast channels
• (Re)added the "CC" type of CC data.

Changes from v0.79.133 to v0.79.134 Experimental

• Change the extension of the XDS dump file to .data
• When comskip is started with a .csv file the .data file containing the XDS dump will also be read when available.
• In ComskipGUI.exe the 'X' key can be used to show XDS data. Currently the Program Name, V_Chips, Program duration and Program position are displayed. Decoding of the XDS data is not yet complete
• A very thin grey vertical line at the very top of the debugbar timeline shows the location of the XDS data changes

Changes from v0.79.132 to v0.79.133

• Added functionality to decode ATSC Close Captioning data. Will work on any file (mpg, ts, dvr-ms) that contains this information.
• Added the ability to generate a .srt file, Set output_srt=1 to enable. This is done by integrating ccextractorwin. Send me feedback on what other output formats of ccextractor are usefull.
• Added the ability to generate a .smi file, Set output_smi=1 to enable. This is done by integrating ccextractorwin.
• Added the ability to dump the user data stream from the mpeg recording. Set output_data=1 to enable. this will generate a .dmp file that could be compatible with ccextractor

Changes from v0.79.131 to v0.79.132

• Bug solved: The dvrmstv xml output file is missing the first commercial when it starts within the first second of the recording

Changes from v0.79.130 to v0.79.131

• Improved the previewing on dvr-ms recordings.
• It is now possible to disable the combining of blocks for strict or non-strict commercial length checking by setting the combined modifiers to 1.0
• Improved the automatic video PID selection when the stream switches to a new PAT

Changes from v0.79.129 to v0.79.130

• Audio detection on DVR-MS files still proved to be difficult when skipping frames. Some improvements have been implemented (I hope). Should also improve when not skipping frames.

Changes from v0.79.128 to v0.79.129

• Bug solved: The XML output file missed the first commercial when it started within 2 seconds from the start
• Improved the detection and decoding of sound in dvr-ms files.
• Improved the aspect ratio detection
• Bug solved: When max_repair_size=0 and skip_b_frames != 0 the amount of position of the identified commercials is completely wrong

Changes from v0.79.125 to v0.79.126

• Extra workaround implemented to prevent no sound detection on certain dvr-ms recordings

Changes from v0.79.124 to v0.79.125

• It is strongly adviced to set max_repair_size=0 for HDHomerun recordings.
• Bug solved: Comskip crashes under certain rare conditions

Changes from v0.79.123 to v0.79.124

• Setting skip_b_frames=2 will have Comskip skip frames on HD but not on SD, only available for donators

Changes from v0.79.122 to v0.79.123

• Adding output_aspect=1 to you ini file will instruct comskip to generate a .aspects file. This file lists the input resolution and aspect ratio changes. This information can be used for more efficient transcoding or automatic aspect ratio switching during playback.

Changes from v0.79.120 to v0.79.121

• New detection method added: RESOLUTION_CHANGE (detect_method 8), replaces the unused FUZZY_LOGIC (which is always on). Resolution_change will insert a hard cutpoint when the resolution of a digital recording changes.
• Improved accuracy during reviewing of cutpoints. Comskip could be up to 15 frames off during preview.

Changes from v0.79.119 to v0.79.120

• Bug solved: Comskip crashes when the recording changes from 1080i to 480i or 720p.

Changes from v0.79.117 to v0.79.118

• Bug solved: Previewing TS files failed once viewing near the end of the recording
• Added ini parameter: edge_step=1 Set to 2 when you need extra speed on scanning for logo's on HD files. Will make logo detection slightly worse

Changes from v0.79.116 to v0.79.117

• Bug solved: On certain MPEG PS recordings no audio was detected leading to much worse detection quality

Changes from v0.79.112 to v0.79.113

• Added a specific setting for live_tv_retries for dvrms files to avoid dvrms users having to edit the ini file
• Bug solved: Comskip sometimes stops processing before the end of the recording.
• Writes progress to stderr including percentage done

Changes from v0.79.111 to v0.79.112

• Bug solved: Comskip crashes when the video size changes during logo searching.

Changes from v0.79.104 to v0.79.105

• Bug solved: Removed the bug that was introduced in build 104

Changes from v0.79.103 to v0.79.104

• The default comskip.ini file is not very agressive, I changed the settings to be more agressive. If you start to miss parts of the show revert back to the comskip.ini that is in build 103
• Bug solved: Invoking comskipGUI.exe without any arguments could cause Comskip to crash.

Changes from v0.79.102 to v0.79.103

• Improvements for the for realtime scanning of dvr-ms input, may not work

Changes from v0.79.101 to v0.79.102

• Experimental implementation of Live_tv for realtime scanning of dvr-ms input

Changes from v0.79.98 to v0.79.99

• Changed the Zoomplayer chapter file to use seconds instead of frame numbers to solve alignment problem with digital broadcast
• The default ini file now disables the heuristics as results are too broadcast dependend. Enable with care
• Added the .vdr output format defined by the Linux Video Disk Recorder software and used by XBMC to autoskip commercials. Enable by setting output_vdr=1 in the ini file.

Changes from v0.79.97 to v0.79.98

• Removed the enable_mencoder_pts=1 setting and instead introduced the output_edlp=1 setting enable generating a pts based mencoder file
• Added a parameter logo_filter=0, default is disable. Set to the size of the filter to apply to improve unreliable logo recognition. Setting logo_filter=4 often solves most problem

Changes from v0.79.96 to v0.79.97

• Improved logo recognition
• When enable_mencoder_pts=1 is set in the ini file the generated .EDL file will use the PTS information for the cutpoints to support mencoder. Does ony work for TS files. Running comskip on the .CSV file will always be done as if enable_mencoder_pts=0

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