It looks like somebody has come up with a neat solution to process EyeTV files with comskip:
http://www.tannhaus.com/personal/eyetv/guide.html

I am so glad somebody was able to do this-- I'm looking forward to trying it. It's not totally seamless yet, but this could probably turned into a folder script for automated post-processing.

How do people feel about the fact that it uses Wine? Does that make it slower or more resource intensive? (Comskip requires it, but comskip is a derivation of Myth's code, so there might be a pure unix solution out there.)

Hmmm not sure thats any easier....

If you have to open the show with EyeTV and edit the show anyway, why not just delete the couple of commercial breaks yourself. I'd guess you can do about as fast as having to pre-edit, compact, export, and change formats.

Tom N.

Hmmm not sure thats any easier....

If you have to open the show with EyeTV and edit the show anyway, why not just delete the couple of commercial breaks yourself.

You don't have to open EyeTV to pre-edit, I think that was just suggested as a way to get rid of the extra beginning and end. But you do raise a good point-- it may not be possible to have EyeTV do automatic post-processing. Hopefully we can brainstorm a solution.

Somehow this script needs to either be triggered when a recording is done, or know what files to process at a regularly scheduled time. EyeTV will automatically export when finished recording, but only to either an iPod or aTV compatible file. What we would need is for it to automatically export the mpg file to a specific folder.

If it could do that a folder script could be made (seemingly easily) to handle the rest. If EyeTV could trigger an applescript at the end of a recording that would work as well.

Does anybody want to weigh in? Is there a way to add an option to the export menu, perhaps by mucking around in plist files or elsewhere? Is there a way to trigger an applescript at the end of a recording?

Does anybody want to weigh in? Is there a way to add an option to the export menu, perhaps by mucking around in plist files or elsewhere? Is there a way to trigger an applescript at the end of a recording?

No way to add an export option. I don't think there's a way to trigger an applescript at the end of a recording. At the start of the recording (file creation) it's possible, but not at the end. You could just schedule a script to run at a certain time each morning (3:00 AM).

It's great that there's somewhat of a hack to automate commercial skipping, but until there's a mac specific way to do it I'll pass. Lose the X11 and have a prebuilt application and I'm there.

It's great that there's somewhat of a hack to automate commercial skipping, but until there's a mac specific way to do it I'll pass. Lose the X11 and have a prebuilt application and I'm there.

Amen to that.

Lose the X11 and have a prebuilt application and I'm there.

And that's something I would pay $20-$30 to use if it's reliable. I don't mind editing out commercials manually, but this would be a godsend.