DVRMSToolbox - XP/MCE

Re: 1.1.0.6 comskip issue...

csgeek — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:32:26 GMT

same issue, comskip process is started by dtb, then sits idle forever... Manual execution of comskip on a dvr-ms file works as expected.

Re: 1.1.0.6 comskip issue...

bizzybob — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:05:00 GMT

Ditto on 1.1.0.6. I have reinstalled several times and cannot get comskip to process after recording. It will prompt and process within MCE when played. I'd like to try 1.1.0.7 but am denied download rights...

11/19 Uninstalled again, deleted DVRMSToolbox Registry Keys, installled 1.1.0.3. Initial tests show it is processing correctly.

Re: 1.1.0.6 comskip issue...

eggy78 — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:54:55 GMT

I had the same issue. It's a long story, but my roommate used a different account to install 1.1.0.6 ( over an existing 1.1.0.6 installation) and then comskip stopped working, exhibiting the same hanging after attempting to shell comskip. I worked for a long time trying to diagnose the problem, and if I had to guess I would say it's something to do with some sort of full buffer. It works fine in a command shell, but comskip hangs when started by FW/DTB.

I uninstalled, then deleted all of the files/entries described in the manual uninstall directions, and reinstalled DTB 1.1.0.6. Still same behavior. Uninstalled 1.1.0.6 and reinstalled 1.1.0.5 and it works fine. Haven't tried reinstalling 1.1.0.6 after 1.1.0.5, but I expect that it would work now. Hopefully the upcoming release will help with this issue.

Thanks!

Re: 1.1.0.6 comskip issue...

kendall43 — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 22:38:31 GMT

New user for your tool, but it is absolutely great. Thanks for all of your hard work. I installed version 1.1.0.6 and never did get it working. I've reviewed all of the troubleshooting tips and everything checks OK. When I watch a recorded show, the XML file never gets created. In the event viewer application log I get an error; perhaps this will point you to the problem:

The process cannot access the file "C:\Program Files\DVRMSToolbox\FWJobs\roseanne_wbdt_08_11_2007_13_49_04.fwjob" because it is being used by another process.

I have since uninstalled version 1.1.0.6 and installed version .5, and it works as advertised. Thanks again

Re: 1.1.0.6 comskip issue...

webcomber — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 09:24:37 GMT

Same here: since I upgraded to 1.1.0.6 on XPMCE2005. Before all was fine.
I upgraded to get the FFMPEG to shrink my recordings down to ~20%.

It will not work when started either by FileWatcher or DTbGUI !

It does work when started in a batch file, by manually dropping the recording on it.

It does not work when this same batch file is started by FileWatcher....

I see the same behaviour in the logs: Comskip is started, uses 100% CPU for about a minute, then stops processing, and sits there forever (=I manually stopped it after 8+ hours).

Can someone help determine what would be the difference from starting the batch file by hand or by FileWatcher?

My batch file:

@echo off
echo Running commercials removal + ffmpeg, check log after completion.
set t1stamp=%time%
echo ======Processing started: %t1stamp% >>%1.Cut2AVI.log
echo ====== >>%1.Cut2AVI.log
"X:\Program Files\DVRMSToolbox\DVRMStoMPEG.exe" /if=%1 /of=%1 /act=dvrmscutoutcommercialstoffmpeg >>%1.Cut2AVI.log
echo ====== >>%1.Cut2AVI.log
set t2stamp=%time%
echo ======Processing ended: %t2stamp% >>%1.Cut2AVI.log

The profile I made is the supplied dvrmscutoutcommercials appended with "Convert file with Ffmpeg" and a delete on "InputFile" commands.

Hope this helps to get it resolved!

Edit>> I found another post with similar problems, saying 1.1.0.7 EA solved it (http://babgvant.com/forums/permalink/6407/6859/ShowThread.aspx#6859) Could you please release this to us too so we can test if it fixes our Comskip issue too?

Re: 1.1.0.6 comskip issue...

babgvant — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 02:19:47 GMT

http://babgvant.com/files/folders/dvrmstoolbox/entry4588.aspx

Re: 1.1.0.6 comskip issue...

Quazione — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 03:18:46 GMT

By recording, your talking about trying to run comskip on something that is still in the recording process, or trying to run the comskip proccess on an already recorded file, while another recording is taking place in the background, or runinng the comskip proccess on a already recorded file, while MCE has scheduled recordings waiting in the background.

As for an update, I have now dropped over 50 pre recorded shows onto the comskip icon and comskip ran and created the com.xml files with no problems, but I have still yet to over come the DVRMS tool problem. it still gets stuck no matter how I try and run it. It will find the .xml file for the first file in the directory of 50, but will not find the second .xml file that is associated with the second show that is to be processed, it gets stuck at the comskip part every time. I have tried to remove the comskip or detection process form the main scripts, but this fails, because it never gets passed the xml file and the scripts fails due to fact that it does not know that this file exists. Any ideas? I have now got xml files, but can not get the DVRMST to strip the com. out of the file. hmmmm by the way if I run this on a file by file basis , and do not try to process an entire directory, the script, the compskip, and the output work fine....... Very strange huh. O'... I try to us the DVRMS watch tool, it only processes the comskip, but never finishes stripping the com.'s out and never writes a final output file to the output directory. I have to go back and again run the DVRMS tool by hand in single file mode.

By the way here is the command line that hangs the comskip program.

Shelling 'C:\Program Files\DVRMSToolbox\Applications\comskip.exe "O:\Recorded TV\Inuyasha_TOON_05_10_2007_02_00_02.dvr-ms" '

Also, if I run this command in a command window it works just fine.

Do you know where I might be able to get version 1.1.0.5 that everyone talks about that seems to work with comskip correctly?

Thanks

Re: 1.1.0.6 comskip issue...

Erik — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:00:13 GMT

No version of comskip before build 110 can process while recording.

Do you try to process while recording?

Re: 1.1.0.6 comskip issue...

Quazione — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:33:32 GMT

I have just had time to work on my MCE machine, and found that I have this same issue, Has anyone solved this, or do I just have to run all comskip processes before I can run the DVRMS Toolbox after the fact, kinda defeats the purpose! LOL

Re: 1.1.0.6 comskip issue...

nellanayrb — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 20:32:14 GMT

Ok I uninstalled 1.1.06 and installed 1.1.05 and now Comskip will work fine (same version of comskip under both dvrmstoolbox installs). But now I'm having the mencoder problem that was fixed in 1.1.06 :( Right now the only way for me to get everything to work is to manually process all of the TV shows with Comskip through a command line, and then let DVRMStoolbox do its thing. Anyone else figure out a resolution to the 1.1.06 comskip problem yet?

Re: 1.1.0.6 comskip issue...

nellanayrb — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 07:02:38 GMT

I'm having this same problem. Just did a reinstall of Dtb after recently formatting my computer, and now Comskip starts to process for around 30 seconds at 50% cpu usage, then drops to 0% forever (I let it sit for a few hours). When I tried manually processing the dvr-ms file through a command line it worked fine, no problems, so I have to assume it's something with 1.1.0.6 because it always used to work fine for me with older versions.

Re: 1.1.0.6 comskip issue...update

SammyD — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 01:02:26 GMT

Tried installing comskip 0.79.100 from http://mk.kaashoek.com/comskip/files/...no luck, still didn't fix the problem.

Re: 1.1.0.6 comskip issue...

dancougar — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 23:55:19 GMT

No answer, but I did find this thread of someone having the same exact issue, but with a SageTV plugin. No solution, but seems like it has been seen before.

http://forums.sage.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=25147 and look down a coupe of posts....

Was the method by which the comskip is executed change between 1105 and 1106? How about the way comskip is monitored for completion? Can someone who normally uses show analyzer go into the setup and and force to comskip and see if they can reproduce this odd behavior?

Ill keep playing and see if I can figure anything out....

Re: 1.1.0.6 comskip issue...

SammyD — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 23:45:31 GMT

Sorry I can't help you but I have the exact same problem. I had an older version and installed 1106 the other day. Everything installed fine but no commercialxml files. I also get the "xxx.logo.txt" file and the "xxx.txt" file in my RecordedTV folder.

Event log shows DVRMSToolbox starting up and no other errors. I'm turning on additional logging now....we'll see if gives any info.

Re: 1.1.0.6 comskip issue...

babgvant — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:30:06 GMT

i don't know how it could, comskip is a completely separate application.