Standby confirmation if recording in progress

[JonnyCam]

Does the recording service use the TCP connection continuously when recording? (as opposed to when doing nothing?)

I see that utility has an option to prevent standby if there is activity on a specified port.
So is there any difference between the TCP activity on port 76xx (forget which ones the recording service uses locally) when recording vs waiting?

Also, I could use this to prevent me pushing the standby button when a client is connected I guess (port 7968?)

Cheers

[sub]

So is there any difference between the TCP activity on port 76xx (forget which ones the recording service uses locally) when recording vs waiting?

No, the act of recording doesnt generate any addition TCP activity. Infact the client might not be running, then there would be no traffic on 76xx.

[Ommina]

A "shutdown confirmation when recording" popup would be all of an hour's effort (if that) as a plugin, but I'm not sure it would do much good. It seems to me that most such inadvertent shutdowns happen while GBPVR isn't running, but the recording service is. At least, that's my take on it.

As an aside, and relating only tangentially to the request, if I'm reading this right, I note that Vista has a special sleep mode (light nap?) for media recording. That is, the system is kinda asleep, but still records. It seems to be reasonably easy to turn on (couple of lines in .NET) and would probably be pretty popular. But only Vista. Blah.

[K.S.]

I think you underestimate sub.

definitely not
check his response times to questions here & you would be warned to underestimate him...

I started it up and tried to put my comp to standby from my remote, from PVRX2, from start button, even from Windows Task Manager window. It prevented all attempts.

that's the easy part & i doubt sub would have a problem to code that. hell, i could do that too it's the logic involved where the complexity kicks in. how should it behave? ask 4 people & you'll get 7 opinions. that's where he would have to make it configurable

[rob11252]

Help!
Tried to use wakeup application to prevent standby during recordings, so far fruitless. Here is the status:

Actually I found 2 applications which, when proper options are ticked off, prevent standby. They are Wakeup and PowrClik Lite. So I put command "run wake up" or run powrclik" in parallelprocessing.bat. I double-click on *.bat file, it starts wakeup, no standby allowed as requested.

Now, I start recording. It calls *.bat, it starts wakeup, but IT DOESN'T prevent standby. It turns out that the wakeup is running with system credentials "user nameystem" in Task Manager, so it runs with default options which is "standby allowed".

I inquired with authors if I can change the options from command line. Answer - these options not implemented, so no.

I thought that I can use runas command, but it asks for a user password which cannot be passed from command line.

So, I am stuck. Looking for some way to trick the computer to start the wakeup app with user credentials.

Any ideas?

[Ommina]

Well, you can try this.

It's a command line program that will start another application using a (supplied) username and password.

Total time spent testing: at least ten minutes.

Which is to say, I'm not making any promises. It worked quite well for those ten minutes, but let's be honest, "extensive and rigorous testing" it was not!

Usage notes:

RunAsUser {username} {password} {application} [args]

First three parameters, for obvious reasons, are not optional. The last one is.

If the application name, path, or both, contain spaces, surround the whole works in double quotes.

If you want to use a blank password, enter a . (dot) for the password field. Some user accounts disallow starting a process with a blank password though.

Also! Keep in mind that the password will be happily sitting in your batch file. In plain text. Waving at you. Smiling.

Good luck!

[rob11252]

Thanks, Ommina.
This is what I need.

[Ommina]

More importantly, did it work?

[rob11252]

More importantly, did it work?

The RunAsUser function is working as you described.

The only computer, where I can ultimately check it, is my HTPC and it is occupied by the family quite often.
I'll definitely report back when there is some progress.

[K.S.]

RunAsUser {username} {password} {application} [args]
...
Also! Keep in mind that the password will be happily sitting in your batch file. In plain text. Waving at you. Smiling.

there is a way to avoid that bit with the smiling create a scheduled task using the different user account you want with the app & args you want. you only need the rights to read the scheduled tasks & to execute them, no passwords left plain open. the rest is just calling schtasks with your set up task

additional advantage:
if it's a dos batch & you scheduled it with different user credentials you dont get to see that ugly dos box. if will just run & won't interact with the desktop

disadvantage:
if scheduled with different user credentials it will just run & won't interact with the desktop, sadly that means: if you need to see & interact, you will have to set that task with the same user as currently logged on.