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Greetings:

 Had DTB working great in MCE, but wanted to try Vista, so reformatted, reinstalled...now it's not working right.  I think.

 I've tried setting DTB to several different profiles for processing my dvr-ms files, but none of them seem to be making much of a difference.  The shows are processed for comercials, and that seems to be working fine, but any attempt to ask the program to either output to a different folder, or convert to a different format (let alone do both!) seems to be ignored.

 I'm sure it's a simple thing I'm missing here, but I can't figure it out myself.  Screenshots of settings below (again, tried different profiles w/ these settings & same results):

Any help appreciated.

Thanks,

Ryan

 I set the profile in the processing condition editor (I think that's the name of it, I'm not in front of it right now) instead of the dvrmstoolboxsettings module.  Works for me.

I've just tried it through the processing conditions editor as you recommended, and the settings are applied correctly.  How then are the settings I've configured in the DTBSettings module being enacted, or are they?  Still not sure why the Settings module isn't doing this for me...but thanks for your help!

The UI flow has been a bit challenging for me.  There seems to be options in the DVRMSToolboxSettings and options in the Process Editor that seem identical. Not quite sure of the difference and which options are pre-requisites. I've been trying to learn what's going on by reading the logs.  In the UI screenshot that you posted, you can place some checkmarks in the boxes for more logging.  There's also a few different places that the log files are wirtten to.  I found logs in DvrmsToolbox and DvrmsToolbox\FWLogs.  The DvrmsToolbox seems to have the log about the FileWatcher, and the DvrmsToolbox\FWLogs seems to have logs about the ProcessEditor and the actual process.Not intuitive since the FWLogs I figure was the File Watcher (FW) logs.

Maybe when I understand the UI and application better I can write a process flow chart. It should be simple:

1.  Detect and determine file to process (File Watcher and Process Editor; maybe others.)

2.  Do something with the file (Profiles, Commercial Skip, ComSkip, ShowAnalyzer Processing; maybe others.)

3.  Do something to the file after processing (File Watcher, Profiles; maybe others.).

There's other tabs and stuff for things I don't understand yet. MC Addin is another tab that I need to explore more.

Jake

I'm pretty new at using the tool, but it appears to me that the PCEditor really drives the profile that is being applied.  I think the profile that is selected in the Settings program might be applied when there is no commercial skip file and the add-in asks if you want to generate one.  I could be wrong about that part, there could be other instances when that profile is run.

when the fw detects a file if it has metadata (which should always be true) pc are used to select a profile. 

if the metadata can't be extracted then the profile selected on the processing tab is used.

when reprocessing a show (doesn't have an xml file or it's wrong) from the addin, you can also set a profile to be used (MC Addin tab).  usually you'll want to do this if you have a profile setup for transcoding (or some other complex task) that isn't really relevant to what you want to accomplish from inside MC.