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Trying to make a long story short here. MCE 2005 machine, had it for 2 or 3 years. Reinstalled about 3-4 months ago. Was working fine. All of a sudden MCE stopped opening and videos wouldn't play. I did a bunch of reg and unreg to try and get it to work, but it never worked so I rolled back. Now it works, but ComSkip won't.

Filewatcher is loaded, but the comskip add-in isn't functioning. No xml files are being created and the arrow keys have no functionality. I get errors about each .dll. Here they are.

User: Administrator
Unable to uninitialize. System.ObjectDisposedException: Cannot access a disposed object.
   at System.Threading.ManualResetEvent.Set()
   at babgVant.MediaCenter.CommercialSkipAddIn.CommercialSkip.Microsoft.MediaCenter.AddIn.IAddInModule.Uninitialize()

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

2nd one:

 ser: Administrator
Unable to launch. System.Exception: Could not initialize MceState
   at babgVant.MediaCenter.MceState.MceStateConsumer.MceState..ctor()
   at babgVant.MediaCenter.CommercialSkipAddIn.CommercialSkip.Microsoft.MediaCenter.AddIn.IAddInEntryPoint.Launch(AddInHost host)

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

3rd one:

 User: Administrator
Unable to uninitialize. System.ObjectDisposedException: Cannot access a disposed object.
   at System.Threading.ManualResetEvent.Set()
   at babgVant.MediaCenter.CommercialSkipAddIn.CommercialSkip.Microsoft.MediaCenter.AddIn.IAddInModule.Uninitialize()

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Any thoughts? 

aragon127:

Trying to make a long story short here. MCE 2005 machine, had it for 2 or 3 years. Reinstalled about 3-4 months ago. Was working fine. All of a sudden MCE stopped opening and videos wouldn't play. I did a bunch of reg and unreg to try and get it to work, but it never worked so I rolled back. Now it works, but ComSkip won't.

Filewatcher is loaded, but the comskip add-in isn't functioning. No xml files are being created and the arrow keys have no functionality. I get errors about each .dll. Here they are.

User: Administrator
Unable to uninitialize. System.ObjectDisposedException: Cannot access a disposed object.
   at System.Threading.ManualResetEvent.Set()
   at babgVant.MediaCenter.CommercialSkipAddIn.CommercialSkip.Microsoft.MediaCenter.AddIn.IAddInModule.Uninitialize()

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

 

2nd one:

 ser: Administrator
Unable to launch. System.Exception: Could not initialize MceState
   at babgVant.MediaCenter.MceState.MceStateConsumer.MceState..ctor()
   at babgVant.MediaCenter.CommercialSkipAddIn.CommercialSkip.Microsoft.MediaCenter.AddIn.IAddInEntryPoint.Launch(AddInHost host)

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

 

3rd one:

 User: Administrator
Unable to uninitialize. System.ObjectDisposedException: Cannot access a disposed object.
   at System.Threading.ManualResetEvent.Set()
   at babgVant.MediaCenter.CommercialSkipAddIn.CommercialSkip.Microsoft.MediaCenter.AddIn.IAddInModule.Uninitialize()

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

 

 

Any thoughts? 

 

 

that error means that the mcestate.dll isn't registered properly, or isn't being loaded by ehmsas.exe; run regasm /codebase pathtomcestate.dll and reboot, if that doesn't fix it you will need to reregister ehmsas as a com server. 

Ran successfully, but now I'm getting these errors:

 User: Administrator
Unable to uninitialize. System.ObjectDisposedException: Cannot access a disposed object.
   at System.Threading.ManualResetEvent.Set()
   at babgVant.MediaCenter.CommercialSkipAddIn.CommercialSkip.Microsoft.MediaCenter.AddIn.IAddInModule.Uninitialize()

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

 And this:

User: Administrator
Unable to launch. System.Exception: Could not initialize MceState
   at babgVant.MediaCenter.MceState.MceStateConsumer.MceState..ctor()
   at babgVant.MediaCenter.CommercialSkipAddIn.CommercialSkip.Microsoft.MediaCenter.AddIn.IAddInEntryPoint.Launch(AddInHost host)

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

aragon127:

Ran successfully, but now I'm getting these errors:

 User: Administrator
Unable to uninitialize. System.ObjectDisposedException: Cannot access a disposed object.
   at System.Threading.ManualResetEvent.Set()
   at babgVant.MediaCenter.CommercialSkipAddIn.CommercialSkip.Microsoft.MediaCenter.AddIn.IAddInModule.Uninitialize()

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

 And this:

 

User: Administrator
Unable to launch. System.Exception: Could not initialize MceState
   at babgVant.MediaCenter.MceState.MceStateConsumer.MceState..ctor()
   at babgVant.MediaCenter.CommercialSkipAddIn.CommercialSkip.Microsoft.MediaCenter.AddIn.IAddInEntryPoint.Launch(AddInHost host)

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

 

 

 

try running regasm /codebase pathtomcestate.dll; then reboot

aragon127:

Already did that. Still getting the errors above.

please compare the reg keys on your machine to the ones documented here.   

aragon127:

Are those keys Vista only? I'm on MCE 2005.

sorry, you're right... did you try running

C:\WINDOWS\eHome\ehmsas.exe /unregServer

then

C:\WINDOWS\eHome\ehmsas.exe /regServer

Yeah, I think those are the ones that broke MCE. I had to run MCE_Repair a couple of times to fix it.

I'm beginning to think a reinstall may be in order. The only reason I don't want to do that is that I have a large amount of recordings and nowhere to store them.