Bug #3610
Feature Request: Allow TvHeadend to supply EDL or other commercial skip formats to clients
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Description
Clients such as Kodi support using EDL and other skip formats to automatically skip sections of video see http://kodi.wiki/view/Edit_decision_list
Right now, one can post-process recordings in Tvheadend with Comskip or other tools to generate an EDL, which could be used to cut the video, or, via playing the file directly some players can use the file.
Playing files directly loses the big streaming advantages of Tvheadend, as well as the metadata it supplies to clients.
It would be very helpful if Tvheadend could supply an EDL to clients allowing them to choose to skip.
History
Updated by Hanspeter Müller over 8 years ago
Updated by That's working for years ;). https://tvheadend.org/boards/5/topics/8665
If there's an *.edl along with the *.ts file, kodi automatically jumps around the ads...
Updated by Gabriel Devenyi over 8 years ago
Updated by Thanks, I actually explicitly pointed that out in my report. That is not what I'm asking about.
I'm asking about the Tvheadend server/client protocol (HTSP) providing a edl list or equivalent.
If I access my recordings via the files in Kodi, I lose all the recording metadata.
Updated by Hanspeter Müller over 7 years ago
Hi, sorry for the "slight" delay ;), somehow missed your answer, so i'm mainly answering for the google...
Again, this does already work, i didn't mean you should access the recordings via files/smb, there just has to be an .edl file along with the *.ts file on the tvheadend-server, then kodi, playing a recording via pvr_hts from tvheadends htsp protocol *will automatically skip over the ads :). If you want to have a look, the code is in src/dvr/dvr_cutpoints.c
/hp
Updated by saen acro over 7 years ago
Updated by Isn't more ease to set recording on pause when channel logo disappear during commercials?
With timeshift for live streams.