postprocessing.bat, comskip & videoredo

[ApexHack]

Damn, I'm getting thoroughly frustrated with this shit.

If I try to set the rec svc up under a user it forces a password and won't start due to logon errors. I tried taking the PWs out but they just keep coming back. Fuckin' computers.

It is and was set to run under a SYSTEM account and is checked to interact with the desktop.

This is pissing me off because this is huge to me to have a recording get the commercials cut out and sitting there waiting w/o any intervention. I really don't know what the difference is between this new machine and the one I had this working on for years.

Shit, what else can I do?

[K.S.]

you need to set username & password for the service, else it won't start (exception is local system account)

[ApexHack]

Thank you. I didn't know.

I noticed my NMT isn't letting me on that computer since I was futzing with the rec svc yesterday. Will setting a password require me to set something with the nmt/mvpmc to get it to work?

[ApexHack]

After a minor problem with the recording service not running I then went into the user account for Administrator and set it to have the same password. The recording service now runs and it records shows again, but it still doesn't run postprocessing.bat like it should.

I have no idea why but before the above messing it did actually process one or two shows like it should have leaving a cut file in the appropriate recording directory and the original in the originals folder. An anomaly just to mess with my head.

Oh well, it looks like this functionality is just fucked for now. I'll have to maintain the damn thing every day.

The WAF is on a serious downslide now.

[Clanky]

I've got an Autoit script that qsf's the files & works perfectly for mpegs.

If you want to give it a try I can post the code here.

[ApexHack]

Huh, how would it help? Thanks for posting.

[gEd]

I've got an Autoit script that qsf's the files & works perfectly for mpegs.

If you want to give it a try I can post the code here.

yes please.

[Clanky]

OK, download Autoit and Scite Autoit editor

Copy & paste the script lines in the editor, read the comment about tmp path location & change it to where you want it.

Compile the script to create cleanmpeg.exe & copy it to devnz\gbpvr directory. Copy the & place the following line in postprocessing.bat
cleanmpeg.exe %1

It sometimes doesn't work with .ts files, I think that this could be a problem with the mux I'm using, so I have gone back to using mpeg files until I try a different mux.

You can test the script from the command line by typing
cleanmpeg.au3 followed by full path to recording




---------------Script starts on the next line------------------------------
#cs ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

AutoIt Version: 3.2.12.0
Author: Al

Rewrite to take care of .ts files, orig script failed because of mpeg cockup!
#ce ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

; Script Start - Add your code below here
#include <file.au3>
AutoItSetOption("WinTitleMatchMode", 2)
AutoItSetOption('Trayicondebug', 1)
AutoItSetOption('MouseCoordMode', 0)
HotKeySet("{ESC}", "Terminate")

While WinExists("C:\WINDOWS\system32\cscript.exe")
WEnd

; Get file & path names
Dim $szDrive, $szDir, $szFName, $szExt
$Pathfile = _PathSplit($cmdline[1], $szDrive, $szDir, $szFName, $szExt)
$fname = $szFName & $szExt
$pth = $szDrive & $szDir

;get filename extension, .mpg=t1, .ts=t4
If $szExt = '.mpg' Then $outtype = '/t1'
If $szExt = '.ts' Then $outtype = '/t4'

;set temp path & filename, change it if required
$tmp = "F:\" & $fname
; Enclose the paths with "", else VideoReDo script wont work if
; a path contains spaces
$vrin = '"' & $cmdline[1] & '"'
$vrout = '"' & $tmp & '"'

;Check the path for vp.vbs is valid, may be videoredoplus, not tvsuite
RunWait('cscript //nologo "C:\Program Files\VideoReDoTVSuite\vp.vbs" ' & $vrin & ' ' & $vrout & ' ' & $outtype)

;rename temp to original filename
$result = FileMove($tmp, $cmdline[1], 1)

; Next 8 lines were used for debugging, can be deleted
If $result = 0 Then
$resultfile = $cmdline[1] & "_VR_FAIL.txt"
Else
$resultfile = $cmdline[1] & "_VR_OK.txt"
EndIf
$resfile = FileOpen($resultfile, 1)
FileWriteLine($resultfile, $vrin & ' ' & $vrout & ' ' & $outtype)
FileClose($resfile)


Func Terminate()
Exit 0
EndFunc ;==>Terminate

------------------------Script ends on previous line----------------------

[K.S.]

@ApexHack: you're sure that postprocessing.bat is running at all? (you can easily check that with some logging at the beginning like "echo %time% postprocessing called >>postprocessing.log") if so, better try Clanky's script. use something that another videoredo user has running with no problems. else, your're in trouble... sorry mate

[sub]

There is some problem I'm looking into where Postprocessing.bat wasnt running on TS recordings where multi-record was enabled and a back to back recording was occurring at the end of the recording.