TVHeadend postprocessor script for comskip

comskip-pp.sh

#!/bin/bash
#
# This is a postprocessor script to run comskip on a recording and optionally keep a logfile
# TVHeadend config: Configuration -> Recording -> Select profile -> Add the following in setting "Post-processor command": /home/USER/PATH/comskip-pp.sh "%f"
# Get comskip for linux from: https://github.com/erikkaashoek/Comskip
#

# Comskip and script paths
COMSKIPPATH="/home/hts/comskip/Comskip/comskip"
COMSKIPINI="/home/hts/comskip/comskip.ini"

# Keep logs
POSTSCRIPTLOGGING=false
POSTSCRIPTLOGPATH="/home/hts/comskip/logs"

# Input parameter
INPUTVIDEO="$1"  # Full path to recording, i.e. /home/hts/recordings/News.ts

if [ "$POSTSCRIPTLOGGING" = true ] ; then
        POSTLOGFILE="${POSTSCRIPTLOGPATH}/tvheadendpp$$.log"
else
        POSTLOGFILE="/dev/null"
fi

echo "***** STARTED:  `/bin/date`"                              >  $POSTLOGFILE
echo "***** USER:     `/usr/bin/whoami`"                        >> $POSTLOGFILE
echo "***** INPUT:    $INPUTVIDEO"                              >> $POSTLOGFILE
$COMSKIPPATH --ini="$COMSKIPINI" "$INPUTVIDEO" 2>&1 </dev/null  >> $POSTLOGFILE
echo "***** FINISHED: `/bin/date`"                              >> $POSTLOGFILE