ComskipHelper utility

[HamsterGirl35]

ZaDDaz,

Do you know why from time to time Comskiphelper wouldn't work and the log is telling me:
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Comskip seemed to stop processing...
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Because of that, my next command in Postprocessing.bat: renamerecordings.exe fails because the .mpg file seems to be locked somewhere....

any idea?

Thanks

[reboot]

You only need comskiphelper if you have previous recordings, that comskip wasn't run on. Even then, you can manually run comskip on them, as explained in the "comclean" thread.
Comskiphelper won't work with rename recordings (I've tried many methods!!!).
IIRC, renamerecordings MUST be in c:\programfiles\devnz\gbpvr folder, and will not work in any other drive/folder. I believe this may have changed, but I'm not sure.

[ZaDDaZ]

ComskipHelper and RenameRecordings will work together. I wrote both and use both together all the time. I do recommend putting RenameRecordings before ComskipHelper in your PostProcessing.bat file.

Using ComskipHelper instead of comskip by itself should be just fine. Right now, it monitors the comskip process checking if it is using CPU cycles. If, for some reason, comskip doesn't use any CPU for a minute, ComskipHelper decides that comskip is stuck and tries to kill it. I don't see this happen often, but it does and I didn't want it to just get completely stuck. There may be a timing issue with the attempt to kill comskip and the process finishing and RenameRecordings executing immediately. Put ComskipHelper at the end of your PostProcessing.bat file and you should be fine.

RenameRecordings and ComskipHelper should both be put in the root GBPVR folder as they use GBPVR components and CommonGBPVRUtilities as well.

I've added configuration file to ComskipHelper to disable the monitoring of comskip or alter the timing of the monitoring. I'm not ready to release this yet, but should be soon.

[HamsterGirl35]

I will try renamerecordings before comskiphelper.
(comskip version 0.66)

Here's my postprocessing.bat for now:
renamerecordings.exe %1 > renamerecordings.log
Comskiphelper.exe %1 > comskiphelper.log
call comclean.bat %1 > comclean.log
rectracker.exe %1 > rectracker.log

I'll let you know what it looks like....

ComskipHelper and RenameRecordings will work together. I wrote both and use both together all the time. I do recommend putting RenameRecordings before ComskipHelper in your PostProcessing.bat file.

Using ComskipHelper instead of comskip by itself should be just fine. Right now, it monitors the comskip process checking if it is using CPU cycles. If, for some reason, comskip doesn't use any CPU for a minute, ComskipHelper decides that comskip is stuck and tries to kill it. I don't see this happen often, but it does and I didn't want it to just get completely stuck. There may be a timing issue with the attempt to kill comskip and the process finishing and RenameRecordings executing immediately. Put ComskipHelper at the end of your PostProcessing.bat file and you should be fine.

RenameRecordings and ComskipHelper should both be put in the root GBPVR folder as they use GBPVR components and CommonGBPVRUtilities as well.

I've added configuration file to ComskipHelper to disable the monitoring of comskip or alter the timing of the monitoring. I'm not ready to release this yet, but should be soon.

[HamsterGirl35]

I have above postprocessing.bat running....but I don't think postprocessing finished the jobs for comskip or comclean......

I ended up with 4 files only.
filename.VPrj
filename.txt
filename.mpg
filename.log

I don't see any of the _clean.mpg OR _original.mpg files?

comclean.log seems to be looking for the original filename from database instead of the renamed one?!

I will use comskip instead of comskiphelper for next episode and see what happens.

If it still doesn't do the job, then, I will put renamerecordings.exe after comclean & comskip

****another topic, is it normal to see both comskip.bat & comskip.exe in gbpvr directory?

[HamsterGirl35]

Either I am on drugs or I am insane......

This time, there's only 1 file with .mpg (renamed already)

comskip 0.66 didn't work this time when I have renamerecordings.exe first.....

I am doing another test where I put in the regular order:

comskip %1 > comskip.log
REM Comskiphelper.exe %1 > comskiphelper.log
call comclean.bat %1 > comclean.log
RenameRecordings.exe %1 > renamerecordings.log
Rectrackter.exe %1 > rectracker.log

and see if it works.....

[reboot]

Yes, you MUST have comclean before renamerecordings.

[HamsterGirl35]

Hmm....Then, why did ZaDDaZ (post #41)

say the following?

I changed the order because he said it will work.....
(.... my misunderstanding???....)

ComskipHelper and RenameRecordings will work together. I wrote both and use both together all the time. I do recommend putting RenameRecordings before ComskipHelper in your PostProcessing.bat file.

Yes, you MUST have comclean before renamerecordings.

[reboot]

I said comclean before renamerecordings...
Comclean relies on the .txt file generated by comskip, and the original filename in gbpvr's database.
Once comskip has run, then comclean must use the same filename.

Zaddaz wrote that, and it will work, if you are NOT using comclean.
If you use comclean, you must have them in the order I specified, because comclean calls renamerecordings ONLY after it's finished.
If you change the order, comclean won't know what file to work on, and simply error out.

[HamsterGirl35]

Got it, thanks

I thought ZaDDaZ meant all 3 together would work together.....

Thanks

I said comclean before renamerecordings...
Comclean relies on the .txt file generated by comskip, and the original filename in gbpvr's database.
Once comskip has run, then comclean must use the same filename.

Zaddaz wrote that, and it will work, if you are NOT using comclean.
If you use comclean, you must have them in the order I specified, because comclean calls renamerecordings ONLY after it's finished.
If you change the order, comclean won't know what file to work on, and simply error out.