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I installed DVRMSToolbox last night. I used the GUI and processes 14 files removing commercials and outputing to mpeg. All but two removed the commercials fine. Although commercials at the very beginnning were still there. I realize that it doesn't know if the very beginnning is a commercial or not until it gets farther into it and that is not a big deal.

 I have two questions.

First, I believe I have it setup correctly to automatically remove the commercials and convert. However, two shows that were recordeed this morning have not been processed. When I look in the Log file in FWLogs it shows that it is "Waiting to process file". How long will it continue to wait? The show was over at 8 and it's after 10 now. Is there a way to adjust how long it waits?

 Second, How can I make it remove the edl and txt files after it finishes processing the mpeg?

 

Added note at 1:00PM.

The conversion still has not happened, but I see that the "waiting to process file" gets repeated while the show is recording. I gather that this gets put in after the show ends:

Queue file
Duration = 01:05:31.0468750
Waiting to process...

However, I have 8 logs files that now have those entries in them and none have been processed. Any help is apprciated.

I think I may have found the problem. The temp files were being stored in DTBTemp and not getting deleted so the C: drive was full. I have moved the temp files to my D drive which has lots of room, but I'd like to set it up to clean the temp directory when it is done. How do I do that? I am using converttompgwocommercials and I added a step to "Delete the file in context("TempMpeg")" The problem is it deletes the output mpeg.

you have two options. first, there's an action that will delete the contents of the temp folder; this is only recommended if you have one worker.  the other, is what you're doing and you'll want to delete the "cutdvrmsfile".

"this is only recommended if you have one worker."

 Does this refer to converting one show at a time? So if I record two shows at the same time will they convert at the same time or sequentially?

if you have one worker, shows will process serially.  if you have multiple procs, it's better to have multiple workers.  I included the options and caveats for completeness.