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I'm having a problem with commercial skipping in Vista Ultimate 32.

I've had commercial skip working before, but after a reinstallation to upgrade to the newest version of dvrmstb, commercial skipping quit working.

I've tried both the msi installer and the manual installation method and either way, everything installs fine. DVRMSToolboxservice and DVRMSFileWatcherService are both running.

I've tried everything in the wiki: http://babgvant.com/Wiki/view.aspx/DVRMSToolbox/Commercial_Skip_Addin/TroubleShootingCommercialSkip

I've got logging and debug turned on for everything and I'm getting events for everything like I should be. Commercial skip XML files are being created where they should be. And when I open Media Center, I'm getting a comskip event that looks normal:

User: Groove

Initialize Registry Settings, CommercialSkip Version 1.2.0.7

NumberOfProcessors = 2

AutoReloadSettings = True

WriteOnMceStateChangeEvents = True

SkipBoxMinMinutes = 0

SkipDisplayType = Classic

SkipMaxMinutes = 65535

AutoSkip = True

WriteEvents = True

PromptScan = Prompt

KeyHandleDisableTime = 30

DisableAutoSkipOnBack = True

DisableKey = D1

ForwardKey = Right

BackKey = Left

SkipOnKey = Up

SkipOffKey = Down

Debug = False

 

Before, when everything was working, I could press the up or down arrow and I would see that commercial skipping was being turned on or off. But now, I get nothing except the mini-guide when I press up or down.

I was trying a few things, and I decided to try and re-register mcestate.dll and I got the following error:

The module "mcestate.dll" was loaded but the entry pint DllRegisterServer was not found.
Make sure that "mcestate.dll" is a valid DLL or OCX file and then try again.

 

Any help would be appreciated.

Update:

I just uninstalled v1207, removed all reg entries, removed all files under Program Files, and Users/Public/DVRMSToolbox.

I then rebooted and installed v1206.

The situation is exactly the same. No error messages are generated at all, but I don't get any commercial skip functionality in Media Center. The xml files are being generated properly though.

this problem is usually caused by ehmsas.exe being broken (a somewhat common thing in vista).  if it did work on your installation, do a system restore back to the point where it worked, then try again.  I had this problem with the first install I did of Vista, I fixed it by doing an upgrade installation (because it never worked properly).