No video pid found return from "comskip": 3

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
bash$ /Library/Application\ 
Support/ETVComskip/MarkCommercials.app/Contents/MacOS/MarkCommercials 231600480

        MarkCommercials 0.3.0

 1. Processing "Stealth" on [] channel [245]...
  Channel: 245 , not skipped
  Title: Stealth , not skipped
  Station name:  , not skipped
No video pid found return from "comskip": 3
bash$ 

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

     Expected file to have commercials marked. 

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

     MacOS X 10.0.2 etv-comskip 1.0.3
    Intel iMac; eyety 3.x (most recent)
    DirecTV Tuner on a Plexor converter.

Please provide any additional information below.

    Noticed others are having this same challenge on elgato forums. Is there a way to work around 
the "no pid found" problem?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by sdhel...@gmail.com on 4 May 2008 at 11:51

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The latest version of the upstream comskip may fix this.  I've personally run 
into
this problem, so it's difficult for me to test.

Original comment by jon.chri...@gmail.com on 5 May 2008 at 1:33

• Changed state: Accepted

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If you need someone to test the code or gather data, please let me know what I 
can do to help. 

Original comment by sdhel...@gmail.com on 5 May 2008 at 9:18

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It was my issue... the recording needs to be MPEG-2 and NOT MPEG-4. 

This is obvious from the comskip source. Recommend adding that in bold text on 
the etv-comskip page and 
readme. 

Thanks for a great effort!
Scott

Original comment by sdhel...@gmail.com on 6 May 2008 at 12:02

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Ah, well, that would be a problem too!

There is another issue where there is more than on PID in an (mpeg2) file which 
gives
the same error message.  I thought this was the problem you were experiencing.

Cheers,
Jon

Original comment by jon.chri...@gmail.com on 6 May 2008 at 4:49

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First of all, great Port. Thank you very much for your job.

Sometimes I get the same error (multiple PIDs) with mpeg2:

-Example-------------------------------------------------
Video PID not found, available video PID's 65, a3, 
---------------------------------------------------------

Manual start of comskip with option '--pid=a3' (second PID) works fine but is 
very
long-winded.

According comskip's windows readme.txt it seems to be solved since version 
0.79.131
(April/23/2008). Unfortunately the Mac port is based on 0.79.126 
(March/25/2008).
Current windows version is 0.80.023 (April/04/2009).

Is there a possibility to get new port in near future?

Thanks again and Cheers,
Juergen

Original comment by strasser...@gmail.com on 22 May 2009 at 1:23

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I'm also seeing this issue. Any chance we could see an update mac port of the 
current
version of comskip so we can get this fixed?

Cheers.

Original comment by dane%dan...@gtempaccount.com on 26 Jul 2009 at 11:52