How do you setup DIRMON2 with comskip

[divinehammer]

i am attempting to setup DIRMON to control comskip. Has anyone set this up and if so could they put up some screen shots. I am trying to figure out how to get dirmon to run at a certain time of day. I just got it so maybe I will find it but the best recipe for using this with comskip would be great. Thanks for any help.

[SniperDude]

DirMon isnt really made to run at a certain time of the day...
but you can setup a 'blackout time' dont run btwn time1 and time2 ...
might sorta do what you want..

perhaps you can schedule it to start at a certain time(with windows scheduler).. and exit when its complete with the job...

but anyhow... thats my 2 cents..

it does work very well tho... you can have it check for a file... watch til it stops growing (recommend 60 seconds), and then run ComCut or ComSkip on that file...

do you really need to wait to run comskip? it doesnt take that much cpu power (well it uses whats available but I think it runs a lower priority) shouldnt affect your recordings..

[divinehammer]

well I have another post in support that is outlining what it is doing. Comskip certainly seems to be the problem. When I record two shows back toback it locks the computer up requiring a reboot really annoying. Anyway I am going to create my own program for running comskip at night on my machine. I am about half done with it so far.

[divinehammer]

How would you configure DIRmon to run comskip later. I suppose if it is set up then you could call it up via the scheduler anyone done this and can show me a screen shot of the main form in DIRmon2. Thanks.

[-Oz-]

i'm currently writing a bat file that may help you. Its not complete but in case you need a head start this is what it does.

after recording it adds the file to a text file list.

then i use windows scheduler to run a bat file that loops through the list and runs processes on it.

PostProcessing.bat

Code:

c:
cd C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr
echo %1 >> TranscodeQ.txt

Then windows scheduler runs the following file at like 2:15am (its not on an even hour or 30 min to make sure that the transcodeq.txt file doesn't change as it starts to run.
run.bat:

Code:

@echo off

copy TranscodeQ.txt active_transcode.txt
del /q TranscodeQ.txt

echo. >> transcode_log.txt
echo ************************************ >> transcode_log.txt
echo %date% %time% Starting the day's processing >> transcode_log.txt

for /F "delims=" %%i in (active_transcode.txt) do process.bat %%i

del active_transcode.txt

echo %date% %time% Ended the day's processing >> transcode_log.txt

And as it loops through the list of files it runs process.bat on them. yours would look like this:

Code:

comskip %1

In process.bat mine is supposed to run videoredo then do the transcoding. Thats the part thats not really working right now.