Video Archive Plug-in - New .NET 2.0 Version

[xHerbiex]

I haven't tested with SQLLite yet, but I have made the changes so that it should work. I will try to test it in the next few days just to be sure. If you can convery to SQLLIte and save a backup of your access database so that you can go back it wouldn;t hurt to try it yourself. It should be obvious pretty quickly if it doesn't work. A good test would be to go into the pending recordings screen (which does direct database access) and see what happens.

Jeff

Jeff,

I have a clean install of 97.7 using SQLite and when I installed VA and then tryed to run config, config failed saying it couldn't find the access database.

I uninstalled VA and everything returned to normal.

[chud]

Jeff,

i noticed some new behaviour of VA that i initially thought was a bug but i see from your "what's new" list that may be intended.

i don't have the GBPVR interface constantly running. i am finding that when i start GBPVR and go into VA, new recordings are not listed as they were before. pressing F11 will update them, but it is a rather slow process, not to mention an extra step. is this the intended operation? i do not find the speed of this VA any better than previous, just a bit less convenient. any chance for an option to return to the previous behaviour?

[Jeff]

I could add a flag to always scan in the background on startup. If you just have a few drives built into your PC you will not see any difference in the new method. The place you see a big speed differnce is if you use networked drives or external USB drives that tend to spin down when not in use and thus take time to start back up. The plug-in used to hit these drives all the time to find the list of files, pull images, etc. Since almost all of my storage is networked or external USB, it is much faster for me, so I don't plan to go back to the old method.

Jeff

[Jeff]

I just looked in the code and I already have a configuration option that will force the plug-in to rescan each time it starts. It is not exposed through the config UI, but if you edit your config.xml file and add the line

<ScanForFilesOnStartUp>True</ScanForFilesOnStartUp>

under the <VideoArchivePlugin> section it will do a complete search on each startup.

Jeff

[UncleJohnsBand]

I just looked in the code and I already have a configuration option that will force the plug-in to rescan each time it starts. It is not exposed through the config UI, but if you edit your config.xml file and add the line

<ScanForFilesOnStartUp>True</ScanForFilesOnStartUp>

under the <VideoArchivePlugin> section it will do a complete search on each startup.

Jeff

Jeff....I added this line and noticed I started to get the below .Net 2.0 Errors in the Windows App Log.....Removed the line....it went away.

Event Type: Error
Event Source: .NET Runtime 2.0 Error Reporting
Event Category: None
Event ID: 5000
Date: 6/3/2006
Time: 11:09:34 AM
User: N/A
Computer: DEN
Description:
The description for Event ID ( 5000 ) in Source ( .NET Runtime 2.0 Error Reporting ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: clr20r3, gbpvr.exe, 1.0.2344.23212, 33, video archiver, 3.0.2329.13191, 446c908f, 117, 6c9, system.nullreferenceexception, NIL.
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[Jeff]

A new version has been posted. It includes lots of bug fixes, including fixes to uncaught exceptions in background threads that would cause .net 2.0 to launch dw20.exe to log details about the crash. See http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Plugin/VideoArchive

Jeff

[Jeff]

I just found and fixed another problem. If you downloaded the update earlier today you should download the new version just posted.

Jeff

[Jeff]

New version posted at http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Plugin/VideoArchive

• When new files are created (e.g., recorded) the plug-in now monitors them for growth and updates the file size displayed in its list. By default the file is checked every 15 minutes.
  
• Added an option to let you reserve an amount of space on archive drives that will not be used for archiving files. The default is 0, that is, fill up every last byte on the drive with video files if possible. Settings are specified on the Disk Space tab of the config screen.
  
• Exposed the RememberLastLogin property via the config screen. If you define one or more users and this option is checked (the default), once you log in to the video archive plug-in it will remember that ID. If unchecked, you wil lneed to log in each time you active the plug-in.
  
• Updated to support current version of sqlite provided with gbpvr.
  
• Various other bug fixes, and I think a few new features too, although I forget what.
  

Jeff

[jksmurf]

Just a small note for the VideoArchive WIKI

http://dspguru.notrace.dk/BeSweetv1.5b31.zip is now the latest version (i.e. wiki link not working). Maybe just make it generic to http://dspguru.notrace.dk .. ?

k.

[Jeff]

Thanks. I've updated the wiki.

Jeff