postprocessing.bat, comskip & videoredo

[ApexHack]

I've been fighting with this for days now and am giving up and asking for help please.

I can see videoredo blip on the screen but then nothing. My latest iteration has videoredo outputting a .TS file.

C:
cd\Program Files\VideoReDoPlus
note: the above two lines were recent additions
cscript //nologo "C:\Program Files\VideoReDoPlus\vp.vbs" "%~dpn1.VPrj" "%~dpn1_Cleaned.ts" /t4 note: I changed t1 to t4 because I read on the videoredo forums that t4 is for transport streams
Rem RENAME the old .ts file and rename the new .ts to the old name
echo %date% %time% renaming "%~dpn1.ts" to "%~dpn1_original.ts" >>postprocessing.log
move "%~dpn1.ts" "%~dpn1_original.ts"

echo %time% renaming "%~dpn1_cleaned.ts" to "%~dpn1.ts" >>postprocessing.log
move "%~dpn1_cleaned.ts" "%~dpn1.ts"

echo %time% moving "%~dpn1_original.ts" to E:\Originals >>postprocessing.log
move "%~dpn1_original.ts" E:\Originals

REM echo %time% deleting "%~dpn1.log" >>postprocessing.log
REM del "%~dpn1.log"

REM echo %time% deleting "%~dpn1.txt" >>postprocessing.log
REM del "%~dpn1.txt"

REM echo %time% deleting "%~dpn1.VPrj" >>postprocessing.log
REM del "%~dpn1.VPrj"

REM echo %time% deleting "%~dpn1.logo.txt" >>postprocessing.log
REM del "%~dpn1.logo.txt"

I rem'd out the last few lines hoping it would leave some evidence I could look at. Also weird is that the postprocessing.log ends up in the videoredo folder sometimes. The videoredo logs don't even show that it tried to start. The postprocessing log sometimes shows that it completed the tasks when I know it hasn't because the files are still there and nothing is in the originals folder.

The vp.vbs file is in the videoredo folder. The postprocessing.bat file is in the gbpvr folder. Comskip is set to run concurrent with recording.

I noticed from reading another guys problem here something about the account that it's being run under, but that thread ended w/o a solution. When I run videoredo manually it shows up under processes as ADMINISTRATOR and PVRX2 is running under SYSTEM. I don't know how I would get videoredo to run under a different account anyway.

If anyone could offer me some help I would certainly appreciate it.

[K.S.]

what happens if you just drag & drop a finished recording onto the batch? does it work ok?

[steve232]

I've been playing with videoredo this week also.
I think the command line usage in VRD is like this:

cscript //nologo "C:\Program Files\VideoReDoPlus\vp.vbs" "input" "output" /t4

In postprocessing.bat try:

cscript //nologo "C:\Program Files\VideoReDoPlus\vp.vbs" % "%~dpn1_Cleaned.ts" /t4

Steve

[ApexHack]

what happens if you just drag & drop a finished recording onto the batch? does it work ok?

I'll try this and get back shortly. Thanks for helping.

I've been playing with videoredo this week also.
I think the command line usage in VRD is like this:

cscript //nologo "C:\Program Files\VideoReDoPlus\vp.vbs" "input" "output" /t4

In postprocessing.bat try:

cscript //nologo "C:\Program Files\VideoReDoPlus\vp.vbs" % "%~dpn1_Cleaned.ts" /t4

Steve

Thanks Steve, I'll try that next.

I wasn't getting emails so I didn't know you guys had responded. Thanks very much for helping out.

Cheers

[ApexHack]

what happens if you just drag & drop a finished recording onto the batch? does it work ok?

It seems to work like it should. A glimmer of hope. What does this mean?

I've got Steve's suggestion in postprocessing.bat so we'll see after 9 o'clock what happens.

Thanks again for the assistance.
Cheers

[ApexHack]

I've been playing with videoredo this week also.
I think the command line usage in VRD is like this:

cscript //nologo "C:\Program Files\VideoReDoPlus\vp.vbs" "input" "output" /t4

In postprocessing.bat try:

cscript //nologo "C:\Program Files\VideoReDoPlus\vp.vbs" % "%~dpn1_Cleaned.ts" /t4

Steve

OK, that didn't seem to work either. Funny how the .vprj is gone even though that line is REM'd out.

I have a feeling it's the account it's running under, but I don't really know what to do about it. I should have looked at the processes when I dropped a recording on the .bat file earlier.

On with the fiddling.

[ApexHack]

OK, my latest tack is to create some delay at the beginning of the postprocessing.bat file because it looks like comskip is still running when videoredo kicks off. If comskip wasn't done there wouldn't be a .Vprj file for it to find so maybe this is the problem.

I added PING 1.1.1.1 -n 1 -w 30000 > NUL

More recordings scheduled, we'll see when they finish. If this is it I could probably cut down the delay to something shorter with some experimentation.

[ApexHack]

That didn't work either. Hell, I don't know.

[K.S.]

It seems to work like it should. A glimmer of hope. What does this mean?

at least now you know that the error is not necessarily in the batch or in the vbs file. you can give the following a try: set the recording service to run under a specific user account, maybe something in the vbs is depending on that. (another option to try after that: set the service option to interact with the desktop)

[ApexHack]

Thanks, I'll give that a try.

I thought my recording service was set to interact with the desktop previously though when I used the NMT dummies installer. I will check though.