comskip batch

[lj01]

Hi,

Thanks everyone for great help in years past, I've gotten much great info from this forum.

I've been using comskip for some years now to identify commercial breakpoints in mpg files. I use it manually from the cmd line, however, so if I have a set of mpgs, I will run it, wait for it to finish and then manually run it on the next file, until complete. Which requires me to be sitting at the computer so that I can run them one after the other.

Is there some other tool or script that can be run which I could use to have comskip run itself for all mpg files in a given directory? I've seen something called "comskip monitor" but not sure if that will do the trick (I suppose I can DL and try it?) Note that I don't necessarily need for comskip to delete the commercials, I'm just interested in the resulting .log files which produce.

Thanks for any help!

[_Al_]

you just create a BAT file and run it from that folder

@echo off
break>log.log
for %%v in ("*.mpg") DO call :my_compskip "%%v"
pause
exit

:my_compskip <video>
echo processing %~nx1
rem below this rem text you include whatever sequence of command lines you need to 
rem but replace your regular name.mpg with general  "%~1"


echo done %~nx1 >> log.log
echo.
goto :eof

[lj01]

Thanks for the info!

And just wanted to get some clarification...
So, my comskip application is in folder C:\Users\lj01\comskip
Let's say the folder of mpgs is in folder C:\Users\lj01\Documents\TV Shows

Normally, i would run from cmd line and navigate to the comskip folder and then the cmd line would be comskip "C:\Users\lj01\Documents\TV Shows\show1.mpg" and so forth.

Do i place the BAT in the "comskip" folder or the "TV Shows" folder and/or does it then matter where the comskip exe file is?

Thanks again for your help!

[lj01]

Got this to work -thanks for your help!

In case anyone else wondering, yes, you do copy the comskip folder into the folder you are running from - works brilliantly!

Thank you so much, _Al_!

[clarkbhm]

you just create a BAT file and run it from that folder

@echo off
break>log.log
for %%v in ("*.mpg") DO call :my_compskip "%%v"
pause
exit

:my_compskip <video>
echo processing %~nx1
rem below this rem text you include whatever sequence of command lines you need to 
rem but replace your regular name.mpg with general  "%~1"


echo done %~nx1 >> log.log
echo.
goto :eof

Sorry for reopening an old thread, but this is exactly what I'm looking for. I would like to ask though if there is a way to make it recursive into subfolders though...

[_Al_]

try to add /R in that FOR command, that should include subdirectories:

for /R %%v in ("*.mpg") DO call :my_compskip "%%v"

if not, then include that root folder path as well:

for /R "C:\main_folder\" %%v in ("*.mpg") DO call :my_compskip "%%v"

[clarkbhm]

That did it. Thank you for your super speedy response!

[_Al_]

ok, in that case you can print whole path into that log as well, so it is not a mess:

echo done %~dpnx1
echo done %~dpnx1 >> log.log

it is printed into cmd prompt and again into a file that could be checked with notepad, what has been processed so far

[mariofenech]

you just create a BAT file and run it from that folder

@echo off
break>log.log
for %%v in ("*.mpg") DO call :my_compskip "%%v"
pause
exit

:my_compskip <video>
echo processing %~nx1
rem below this rem text you include whatever sequence of command lines you need to 
rem but replace your regular name.mpg with general  "%~1"


echo done %~nx1 >> log.log
echo.
goto :eof

I m trying to get this to work but nothing is happening besides getting the names of my recordings into the log..
Do I have to add anything else to this batch file?
On the batch window after getting all my recordings listed I get a press any key to continue. . . and that s it..

thanks for any help..