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WMV conversion starts before recording complete...

Last post 05-04-2009 11:34 AM by babgvant. 1 replies.
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  • 04-27-2009 1:09 PM

    WMV conversion starts before recording complete...

    Hi Folks!

    I don't know if this is an issue or just a one-time glitch but I'm recording off a movie channel (with no commercials) so I made a Processing condition that looks for the channel name and when it finds it runs a custom profile that just converts the completed dvr-ms to WMV and moves it to a movies directory.

    This is the first time that processing condition/profile has been run and what happened is that as soon as file watcher saw the movie being recorded it immediately tried to convert it to WMV without waiting for the program to finish recording. As a result, the operation failed. The profile looks like this;

    • Throttle DVR-MS to MPEG
    • Convert DRV-MS to WMV using DVR2WMV
    • Rename file in Context 'OutputFile'
    • Move the files specified in context (OutputFile)
    • Delete the file in Context(InputFile)

    Like I said, I don't know if it was a random glitch (will know shortly as their are more of these programs coming) or if I need to change the profile to wait until the program has finished recording? If so, how?

    Thanks for such a great application - as I learn more it becomes more & more useful all the time :-)

    Update: I can confirm that this is happening with each new program that's being recorded that fits in to the above profile.

  • 05-04-2009 11:34 AM In reply to

    Re: WMV conversion starts before recording complete...

    wmv conversion needs to wait until finished.  either use a timed wait or if you want to switch to vista there will be a new metadata based wait action in the next release.

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