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Hi Guys,

Firstly thanks for the amazing set of apps - extremely useful :-)

I was wondering if someone here could possibly help with an error I receive when trying to convert a MKV file to DVRMS so I can playback on my extender. This seems to be the only way in which to get HD MKV content on my extender as transcoding causes lip sync issues and the divx tech preview doesnt seem to work on my Windows 7 RTM 64 bit machine..

I followed the guide at hack7mc.com which advised to change some of the profile settings in the Convert MKV to DVR-MS - mencoder profile as detailed Here -->http://www.hack7mc.com/2009/03/convert-mkvs-to-dvr-ms-for-media-center.html

After making the necessary changes I receive the following error in my log file, I'm sure this will be something simple I am doing wrong but I just wondered if one of the Guru's here could help point this out. (I think the conversion is looking for a file somewhere else on my HD which doesnt exist)

InputFile=E:\TV\Heroes\Season 3\Heroes - S03E01 - (Volume Three- Villains) The Second Coming.mkv
Processing actions, this may take some time!!
File is not a dvrms-file
Run Profile = Convert MKV to DVR-MS - mencoder
ProcessId = 7220
DvrmsToolbox Version: 1.2.1.8
Throttle DVRMStoMPEG
FWThrottle: E:\TV\Heroes\Season 3\Heroes - S03E01 - (Volume Three- Villains) The Second Coming.mkv
WaitTime: 5 PollTime
Waiting to process file
Queue file
Duration = 00:00:01.0087891
Waiting for available worker: 27/09/2009 19:56
Worker allocated: 27/09/2009 19:56
Get the value of Context["OutputFile"] and set the value of Context["OutputFile"]
Context["OutputFile"] = E:\TV\Heroes\Season 3\Heroes - S03E01 - (Volume Three- Villains) The Second ComingNEW.mkv
Context["OutputFile"] = C:\Users\Public\DvrmsToolbox\DTBTemp\Heroes - S03E01 - (Volume Three- Villains) The Second ComingNEW.mpg
Duration = 00:00:00.0419922
Get the value of Context["InputFile"] and set the value of Context["OutputFolder"]
Context["InputFile"] = E:\TV\Heroes\Season 3\Heroes - S03E01 - (Volume Three- Villains) The Second Coming.mkv
Context["OutputFolder"] = E:\TV\Heroes\Season 3\
Duration = 00:00:00.0087891
Run MencoderProper\MencoderProper.exe "E:\TV\Heroes\Season 3\Heroes - S03E01 - (Volume Three- Villains) The Second Coming.mkv" "C:\Users\Public\DvrmsToolbox\DTBTemp\Heroes - S03E01 - (Volume Three- Villains) The Second ComingNEW.mpg"
Run C:\Program Files (x86)\DVRMSToolbox\Applications\MencoderProper\MencoderProper.exe "E:\TV\Heroes\Season 3\Heroes - S03E01 - (Volume Three- Villains) The Second Coming.mkv" "C:\Users\Public\DvrmsToolbox\DTBTemp\Heroes - S03E01 - (Volume Three- Villains) The Second ComingNEW.mpg"
[MencoderProper] Need some help running Mencoder?  Well that's what I'm here for!
[MencoderProper] You entered [E:\TV\Heroes\Season 3\Heroes - S03E01 - (Volume Three- Villains) The Second Coming.mkv] as the file you would like to convert and [C:\Users\Public\DvrmsToolbox\DTBTemp\Heroes - S03E01 - (Volume Three- Villains) The Second ComingNEW.mpg] as the destination file.
[MencoderProper] Initializing........
[MencoderProper] Loading config file located at: C:\Program Files (x86)\DVRMSToolbox\Applications\MencoderProper\MencoderProper.config
[MencoderProper] Config file loaded.
[MencoderProper] Initialization complete.
[MencoderProper] Obtaining input file location from parameter passed in and setting output to parameter passed in.
[MencoderProper] Getting MediaInfo for [E:\TV\Heroes\Season 3\Heroes - S03E01 - (Volume Three- Villains) The Second Coming.mkv]
Duration = 00:00:05.2294922
Move the file in Context["InputFile"] to D:\Videos
D:\Videos does not exist
Duration = 00:00:00.0976562
Get the value of Context["OutputFile"] and set the value of Context["InputFile"]
Context["OutputFile"] = C:\Users\Public\DvrmsToolbox\DTBTemp\Heroes - S03E01 - (Volume Three- Villains) The Second ComingNEW.mpg
Context["InputFile"] = C:\Users\Public\DvrmsToolbox\DTBTemp\Heroes - S03E01 - (Volume Three- Villains) The Second ComingNEW.mpg
Duration = 00:00:00.0019531
Get the value of Context["OutputFile"] and set the value of Context["OutputFile"]
Context["OutputFile"] = C:\Users\Public\DvrmsToolbox\DTBTemp\Heroes - S03E01 - (Volume Three- Villains) The Second ComingNEW.mpg
Context["OutputFile"] = C:\Users\Public\DvrmsToolbox\DTBTemp\Heroes - S03E01 - (Volume Three- Villains) The Second ComingNEW.dvr-ms
Duration = 00:00:00.0009766
Get the value of Context["InputFile"] and set the value of Context["TvDBXMLFile"]
Context["InputFile"] = C:\Users\Public\DvrmsToolbox\DTBTemp\Heroes - S03E01 - (Volume Three- Villains) The Second ComingNEW.mpg
Context["TvDBXMLFile"] = C:\Users\Public\DvrmsToolbox\DTBTemp\Heroes - S03E01 - (Volume Three- Villains) The Second ComingNEW.mpg.xml
Duration = 00:00:00.0019531
Read metadata from TvDB and build Sage XML file.
Processing TvDBMetaData with 12 arguments.
Using following file as Template Metadata XML file: Template.mpg.xml
Using following file as Series Alias XML file: SeriesAlias.xml
Using following file as the target Metadata XML file: C:\Users\Public\DvrmsToolbox\DTBTemp\Heroes - S03E01 - (Volume Three- Villains) The Second ComingNEW.mpg.xml
Using input parameter as regular expression: (?<series>.+)\.[s,S](?<season>\d+)[e,E](?<episodenbr>\d+)\.
Metadata provided by thetvdb.com
Found APIKey.
Found Series Name
Unable to find Episode in TvDB Database.
Duration = 00:00:03.4980469
Run todvrms.exe "C:\Users\Public\DvrmsToolbox\DTBTemp\Heroes - S03E01 - (Volume Three- Villains) The Second ComingNEW.mpg" "C:\Users\Public\DvrmsToolbox\DTBTemp\Heroes - S03E01 - (Volume Three- Villains) The Second ComingNEW.dvr-ms"
Run C:\Program Files (x86)\DVRMSToolbox\Applications\todvrms.exe "C:\Users\Public\DvrmsToolbox\DTBTemp\Heroes - S03E01 - (Volume Three- Villains) The Second ComingNEW.mpg" "C:\Users\Public\DvrmsToolbox\DTBTemp\Heroes - S03E01 - (Volume Three- Villains) The Second ComingNEW.dvr-ms"
C:\Users\Public\DvrmsToolbox\DTBTemp\Heroes - S03E01 - (Volume Three- Villains) The Second ComingNEW.mpg does not exist

Duration = 00:00:05.1152344
Delete the file in Context["InputFile"]
Duration = 00:00:00.0019531
Delete the file in Context["TvDBXMLFile"]
Duration = 00:00:00.0019531
Total Duration = 00:00:15.0429687

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated

Regards

Tylor

Any suggestions guys?

(After reading a few posts on the forum I think this may be realted to the fact I am running a 64bit OS). I get the mencoderproper failed error after pressing run to convert the files.

Is there a way around this, I am very keen to test the conversion to see if I am able to keep my HD quality files but achieve extender playback.

Thanks in advance

Tylor

Not sure if Andres ever got Memcoder Proper working on 64bit, but the file name is also incorrect for TheTVDB action.

Instead of 

Heroes - S03E01 - (Volume Three- Villains) The Second Coming.mkv

It should be

Heroes.S03E01.VolumeThree-Villains.The.Second.Coming.mkv

There is a new TV profile in the latest EA that converts mkv tv shows to wtv so mencoder proper isn't needed, give that a try.

Thanks for the reply,

I am keen to give this new Tv profile a try, what is it called and is wtv a new format? will this play natively on an extender?

Tylor

It's called "Convert MKV TV Show to WTV" and WTV is the replacement extension for dvr-ms in Windows 7 and the Vista TV Pack. The main advantage as far as I'm concerned is that it can contain H.264. It can also work with Dolby Digital Plus, but not much content out there that uses that yet and no free encoder is available yet.

 That sounds like it might do the trick, I'm guessing this must be in the 1.2.19 version of dvrms toolbox as I can't see that profile in my copy.

 Is there a way I can download the exe version or does it have to be compiled from source, i d have visual studio but have only cmpiled MediaBrowser in the past  

Yes it's in the latest EA build so you'd have to donate to the project to get it before it's released.

 Would you be able to point me towards the link to contribute?

 I have found the link and made a donation

:->

 I'm having the same problem.  Did you find that the Early Access version fixed the issue?

 Thanks!

I have made progress bradg,

Not sure you need to have the EA build as Andy advised me to use corflag.exe to update the flag setting in mencoderproper.exe to force it to run as a 32 bit application. Check my thread below for more details.

After using the corflag tweak I no longer receive the mencoderproper error and the profile does now run. Unfortunately I seem to have issues playing the output (dvr-ms file) on my linksys extender but I am hopeful I can overcome this..

 Thanks for the quick reply tylor.

 Unfortunately, I'm pretty slow with this whole corflags thing.  Would you mind giving a bit more explanation as to how you pulled it off?

Thanks,

-Brad

Ok the way I did this,

Copy MencoderProper.exe (found in the application folder in your dvrmstoolbox install) into the following location [well this is where my corflag.exe was]

C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Bin\

open up a cmd command and change the directory to that path

cd "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Bin\"

now type coreflag.exe /32+ /force MencoderProper.exe

to test if this has worked type corflag.exe mencoderproper.exe and it shouldbring up the stats of the mencoderproper file and it should have a 1 next to the 32bit flag. If the above has worked simply copy the altered mencoderproper.exe over the top of the original.

Thanks tylor.  I hadn't thougt of copying mencoderproper.exe into the bin folder and then pasting it back (I renamed the original mencoderproper.exe just incase I ever need to revert).  I followed the steps, and it seems to be working now (or, at least it's not stopping like it did last time).

 For anyone else who happens to be following the post, I kept getting an "Error CF001" or something.  If you get this, you need to be sure to run cmd as an Administrator.

 Thanks again tylor!

No problems - gladyou got it working

:-)