SkipTool creates a bogus file if the name contains &

[mkenyon2]

Files I'm talking about are:
Me, Myself & Irene.mpg
Mr. & Mrs. Smith.mpg
Pride & Prejudice.mpg
Starsky & Hutch.mpg

The AVI file created using SkipTool ends up in my root folder (D:\Video\ instead of D:\Video\Pride & Prejudice\)

The AVI file ends up as:
Me, Myself .avi
Mr. .avi
Pride .avi
Starsky .avi

That's not a big problem, I can rename them and I move them into a Movies folder anyway.

I do get 0 byte files created in the root folder also, called:
'Me, Myself '
'Mr. '
'Pride '
'Starsky '
(without quotes of course)

I cannot delete the 0 byte files.

I don't know if this is your tool, or one of the tools your script uses. The .DNE files are created in the files folder (D:\Video\Pride & Prejudice\).

[pastro]

I tested skipeditor and it works ok with the &. I assume you were using the queue tool, correct?

[mkenyon2]

Here's my process, I find my .mpg file, and go into SkipEditor.

I edit my commercials, all is well. Save and Close.
Then I click on the .mpg again, and do TranscodeQ.
Set my prefs for transcoding, and Queue It.
Exit, once I have a few queued up, I run the Queue. (Instead of trying to run them all separately... that's just crazy.)

[-stattik-]

Pastro,

It's probably the transcode script. Version 0.5.5c has some logic added by vmq that's supposed to address file with "&" and "^" in the name. I haven't fully tested it and it hasn't been officially released yet but you can take a look at it. It should accept the same arguments. Here's the changelog:

0.5.5c
* Added vmq patches for cropping, full resolution, and accepting files with "&" or "^" in their names.
* Removed old PSP profile.
* Subtitles will be added if corresponding .srt file is found.
* Adjusted the x264 encoding parameters. It's slightly slower but with better quality.
* This version is using a better IVTC method for 60FPS material.

0.5.5b
* Tweaked autocrop settings for PAL material.
* PSP Profile now uses x264 AVC for video.
* When ripping anamorphic DVD's and choosing full resolution, you will get 848x480 for NTSC and 1024x576 for PAL.
* Added custom_crop option. (Thanks vmq) If you want all shows of a certain size (IE 720x480) to get cropped, set the custom variables to your liking. If you also set full_resolution=yes, make sure your final height and width are divisible by 16. The encoder likes that
* added custom_letterbox option to override script generated letterbox settings.
* croptop has been depreciated in favor of the custom_crop_top variable.
* MKV container support added. (Preliminary)

0.5.5
* Added support for multi-core CPU's. (mencoder needs to be compiled with xvid 1.2 or later)
* Added the ability to set what time range transcoding will occur during the day
* Added the ability to set how old the source files need to be before being transcoded
* Added the ability to set the threshold of free space before transcoding begins
* Added the ability to move the source files to a temp directory after transcoding
* Added the ability to set the threshold of free space before deleting files in the MOVE directory.(First in, first out)
* Added support for MP4 container (mencoder builds after Oct 7th support this)
* Added the ability to automatically determine if cropping is needed. (Need to edit you comskip.ini file. verbose=10)
* x264 encoding speed increased by about 60%. (Changed some encoding settings that didn't have a good speed/quality ratio.
* Added the ability to manually update the GBPVR database with the new extension if you're running in client/server mode. (works for files with ?'s in the name as well.)
* Added logic that allows the script to verify if a source file is being transcoded by another script/computer.
* Added option to re-index source file if needed before running comskip.
* The script should automatically disable IVTC if the source is PAL.
* The script will encode subtitles of DVDrips if set.

[pastro]

Pastro,

It's probably the transcode script. Version 0.5.5c has some logic added by vmq that's supposed to address file with "&" and "^" in the name. I haven't fully tested it and it hasn't been officially released yet but you can take a look at it. It should accept the same arguments. Here's the changelog:

0.5.5c
* Added vmq patches for cropping, full resolution, and accepting files with "&" or "^" in their names.
* Removed old PSP profile.
* Subtitles will be added if corresponding .srt file is found.
* Adjusted the x264 encoding parameters. It's slightly slower but with better quality.
* This version is using a better IVTC method for 60FPS material.

Great. Mkenyon2 can you unzip the script to gbpvr\Third Party and test that it works ok for you?
Let me know how it works so I can put it in the distribution going forward.

[mkenyon2]

I'll try to get around to it. Don't have any new files with &, but when I have a lul in transcoding, I can try Pride & Prejudice again.

[pastro]

I'll try to get around to it. Don't have any new files with &, but when I have a lul in transcoding, I can try Pride & Prejudice again.

Ok thanks. I'll run a simple one tonight to verify that the & works but also it would be good to make sure that you don't have any issues with the queue and the new version of the batch file.

[pastro]

I'll try to get around to it. Don't have any new files with &, but when I have a lul in transcoding, I can try Pride & Prejudice again.

Did you get a chance to run this?

[mkenyon2]

K, I'm trying this.

First, I renamed the old script, and dropped in the new script (with it's new name). Got a .Net unhandled exception (probably because of not finding the script as it was named.)

No prob, I renamed the new script to be the same as the old script. Ran the queue.
It removed the item from the SkipTool queue in PVRx2, but no command window came up running the script.

I figured it's missing some path's or something, so I went into the new script, and tried to set paths to their correct value.

(I'm really interested in the portable conversion stuff I saw there... but that's another thing.)

Ran the queue, and still, nothing popped up, to say things were running, but the file got dropped out of the queue. Now I have two queueIt.exe instances running at 0% CPU load.

[mkenyon2]

BTW, I'm using:
Stattik's Bat
xvid-Fixed Quant
No IVTC
Automatic