Unfortunately, the official NextPVR addon for Kodi streams the content from NextPVR, and support for Comskip is not enabled. Step Four: Configure Kodi To Skip AdsĬhances are, you aren’t watching shows in the NextPVR app itself–you’re watching them through an all-in-one media center program like Kodi. Play that recording from NextPVR, and you’ll see that the ads don’t appear. You can verify this is happening by browsing to your recordings’ folder: you’ll find the TXT and ELD files for your recording there. Įither way, Comskip will now run automatically every time a show is recorded. If you’d rather have Comskip run after a recording is complete, instead of during, simply rename the file to PostProcessing.bat. This will tell NextPVR to run Comskip as you’re recording shows. Then, paste the following three lines into the off cd /d "C:\comskip" comskip %1 Right-click the file to open it with a text editor (Notepad is fine). You’ll find the “output_edl” option under “Output Control”:Īnd the “live_tv” option under “Live TV”: If you’d rather not edit the text file, you can instead open the “ComskipINIEditor” program and use the GUI configuration tool. The second configuration, live_tv=1, tells Comskip to create this EDL file in real time, which is useful for skipping ads while pausing live TV. It should be enabled by default in recent versions of Comskip, but it’s worth checking just in case. The first, output_edl=1, tells Comskip to create an “EDL” file. Here’s what that looks like in the text document: then ensure the following lines include a “1” instead of a “0”: The first is to open comskip.ini, located in your Comskip folder, with a text editor (Notepad is fine). Happily, Comskip is capable of making those, it just needs to be told to do so. NextPVR can’t use that text file to skip commercials, however–it needs an “EDL” file. Step Two: Configure Comskip To Create EDL Files In Real Time This is the time, in seconds, when Comskip thinks commercial breaks start and end in the video you just tried out. When the process is done, Comskip will output a simple text file. You’ll see the tool identify the network logo displayed during broadcasts, notice black frames, and try to identify things like spikes in volume. It will sometimes loop back to re-check things, and the process can take a while, but it’s fascinating to watch. You’ll see the video itself in real time, and colors graphs that show Comskip’s attempts to identify commercials. Drag the video file to the icon for ComskipGUI.exe, and you’ll get a first hand view of how Comskip works.
CTIVO MPEG4 PLAYER TO SKIP COMMERCIALS WINDOWS
In a separate Windows Explorer window, browse to your PVR’s collection of recorded episodes, and pick a video you’d like to watch without commercials. There are a bunch of files here, but to get started with Comskip, we’re going to use “ComskipGUI.exe” to indentify some commercials. I recommend C:\comskip, and will be using that in the rest of the tutorial, but you can put it wherever you want.
CTIVO MPEG4 PLAYER TO SKIP COMMERCIALS ZIP FILE
Open the ZIP file and drag its contents to any folder you’d like.