PostProcessing.bat not running?

[Beaker]

Hope you can help me...

My PostProcessing.bat does not seem to be running. Here is an excerpt from gbpvrrecordingservice.exe.log at the end of a recording:

16/05/2005 22:59:03.812 VERBOSE [31] - loading: South Park status:0 start: 28/05/2005 23:30
16/05/2005 23:00:00.109 VERBOSE [23] Recording has passed endtime+padding. Stopping.
16/05/2005 23:00:00.109 VERBOSE [23] Stopping recording oid:1
16/05/2005 23:00:00.296 VERBOSE [23] Adding I:\x GB PVR Videos\Scrubs\Scrubs_20050516_22302300.mpg to commercial detection queue
16/05/2005 23:00:00.296 VERBOSE [23] RecordingStatus is now RecordingStatus.RECORDING_COMPETED
16/05/2005 23:00:00.296 VERBOSE [23] RecordingFactor.save()
16/05/2005 23:00:00.328 VERBOSE [23] Save(): Updated existing scheduled recording
16/05/2005 23:00:00.328 VERBOSE [23] RecordingFactory.loadSchedule()
16/05/2005 23:00:00.343 VERBOSE [23] - loading: South Park status:4 start: 01/01/2001 00:00

I did try out comskip a while back but it didn't work very well for me so I removed it.

Does it look like GB-PVR thinks it is still there?

Should that log mention the PostProcessing.bat?

Here what my PostProcessing.bat contains:

rectracker %1
RenameRecording %1

Both utilities are working fine from the command line but nothing is happening after a recording...

Any ideas? Thanks.

[sub]

That section of log file only covers a few hundred milliseconds. Comskip or PostProcessing.bat dont run instantly but within about a 10 seconds.

[Beaker]

Thanks.

I scrolled down and found this:

16/05/2005 23:00:00.593 VERBOSE [23] pending: South Park
16/05/2005 23:00:00.609 INFO [222] Post Processing thread starting...
16/05/2005 23:00:00.609 INFO [222] Running postprocesing.bat on: I:\x GB PVR Videos\Scrubs\Scrubs_20050516_22302300.mpg
16/05/2005 23:07:23.828 VERBOSE [31] RecordingFactory.loadSchedule()
16/05/2005 23:07:23.828 VERBOSE [31] - loading: South Park status:4 start: 01/01/2001 00:00

Any help?

[sub]

That looks like its done its thing correctly. Add some debugging messages to your batch file. For example...

echo "running postprocessing.bat" > c:\debug.log

[Beaker]

I'm afraid I know nothing about batch files or debugging.

Will I try recording with a postprocessing.bat file as follows...?

rectracker %1
RenameRecording %1
echo "running postprocessing.bat" > c:\debug.log

Thanks for your help.

GB-PVR is fantastic - really getting into it now.

[sub]

Try something like...

echo "running postprocessing.bat" > c:\debug.log
rectracker %1
RenameRecording %1

Then check if c:\debug.log gets created. If it does, then you've got rectracker or renamerecording setup incorrectly.

[Beaker]

Cheers.

I'll give that a go...

[Beaker]

I tried that but no log was created. (I did find a C:\debug.log but it is an old one from something else and I presume that wouldn't have stopped a new one from being written?)

The gbpvrrecordingservice.exe.log looks the same:

17/05/2005 02:25:01.000 INFO [460] Post Processing thread starting...
17/05/2005 02:25:01.000 INFO [460] Running postprocesing.bat on: I:\x GB PVR Videos\Peter Kays Phoenix Nights\Peter Kays Phoenix Nights_20050517_01550225.mpg
17/05/2005 02:29:41.640 VERBOSE [33] RecordingFactory.loadSchedule()

I noticed that it says "Running postprocesing.bat" with the third 's' missing from PostProcessing. Could this be a factor?

[sub]

That's just a typo in the logging message. Its looking for "postprocessing.bat".

Sorry, I dont know whats causing your problem.

[Beaker]

I added a debug to PostUpdateEPG.bat:

echo "running postprocessing.bat" > c:\debugEPG.log
cd c:\program files\devnz\gbpvr
PriorityRecording.exe

...and did a manual update but PostUpdateEPG.bat doesn't seem to run either. No c:\debugEPG.log was created.

From GBPVRTray.exe.log:

17/05/2005 03:17:48.390 VERBOSE [1083] SourceConfigurationContainer.LoadAll()
17/05/2005 03:17:48.593 INFO [1083] Auto-Updating EPG
17/05/2005 03:17:49.031 VERBOSE [1083] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/MiscMediaDirectory
17/05/2005 03:17:49.062 VERBOSE [1083] getValue: /settings/MiscMediaDirectory : .\media
17/05/2005 03:17:52.234 VERBOSE [1083] EPGUpdate storeChannels()
17/05/2005 03:17:52.234 VERBOSE [1083] getValue cached value: /settings/EPGProcessingMode : NORMAL
17/05/2005 03:17:52.234 VERBOSE [1083] getValue cached value: /settings/EPGProcessingMode : NORMAL
17/05/2005 03:17:54.750 VERBOSE [1083] RecordingFactory.loadSchedule()
17/05/2005 03:17:54.765 VERBOSE [1083] - loading: The West Wing status:4 start: 01/01/2001 00:00
17/05/2005 03:17:54.765 VERBOSE [1083] - loading: Scrubs status:4 start: 01/01/2001 00:00
17/05/2005 03:17:54.765 VERBOSE [1083] - loading: Scrubs status:4 start: 01/01/2001 00:00

By the way, should I pay any attention to those crazy 2001 dates?