SA, Comclean, RenameRecordings...

[reboot]

Is there a way to have all 3 of these work together properly?
When I use ShowAnalyzer in my postprocessing.bat, comclean screws up.
I get this every time, on every recording.
Here's my comclean.err

Code:

Missing operand.
Missing operand.
Missing operand.
Missing operand.
Missing operand.
Missing operand.
Invalid range [-::]
The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.
The system cannot find the file specified.

[Jere_Jones]

I've given this some thought. Running a windows application from a command line (or batch file) returns immediately. Since SA isn't done, comclean shouldn't be able to work.

Try adding start /wait before the SA command. For example:

Code:

start /wait "C:\Program Files\Dragon Global\ShowAnalyzer\ShowAnalyzer.exe" %1

That will (should) cause the batch file to pause until SA closes and everything should then run fine.

Jere

[afriend1]

I tried your suggestion and got a file with the episode name and one with the series.original.mpg name. THey were the same size. Also, there were no .txt, d2a, or .log files so I'm assuming SA didn't complete its run before comclean started.

[dirtygreek]

I'm having the missing operand problem, as well, after running SA on two files at once. I'm going to try it again on a single file and see if hte problem reoccurs.

More here:
http://www.dragonglobal.org/forums/showt...49#post949

[jsteele]

jere_jones

Just a quick note in support of SA. I've been it for a few days and it has impressed me with how well it works. Comskip was good, SA is simply better. I have sent my 'donation' for the live license.

BTW, is a filter called Alparysoft Deinterlace Filter part of the SA package just after I installed SA? I had not installed anything else recently so I figured it might be.

[Jere_Jones]

BTW, is a filter called Alparysoft Deinterlace Filter part of the SA package just after I installed SA? I had not installed anything else recently so I figured it might be.

SA installs no filters. The school house will use whatever filters you have for preview. Other than that, directshow isn't even used. It's way to slow.

Jere

[reboot]

I'll try that in my postprocessing.bat, thanks.
Another issue...I cannot get SA to run on two recordings that end at the same time. It only runs on one or the other, and there seems to be no distinct way it determines which one it picks. It doesn't seem to be alphabetic, it's not based on which recording was started first...I just don't know.
I have the horsepower here to run two (or even 3 or 4) instances of SA at the same time...is that an option?

Is there something different about SA's .txt file, and the old(er) versions of comskip's .txt file? Comclean always worked on comskip's output, and cut exactly at the same points as the .wme generated.
SA's output .txt file contains the same cutpoints as the .wme, but comclean doesn't cut anything properly...I'm not convinced this is a comclean issue, because I've tried multiple versions, all with the same results.

OK, something very strange just happened.
My two recordings finished.
SA didn't run at all.
Comclean errored out (as usual), because it couldn't find the .txt that SA didn't generate.
WMP opened up, and started playing the recording. I closed it, and it opened again, and started playing the second recording, then as soon as I closed WMP, renamerecordings worked.
WTF?

[reboot]

Brainstorm...
Because using Start /wait before showanalyzer doesn't work, could postprocessing.bat be modified something like this:

Code:

"C:\Program Files\Dragon Global\ShowAnalyzer\ShowAnalyzer.exe" %1
:DO
If Exist "%~dpn1.txt" call comclean %1 >>comclean.log 2>>comclean.err
If NOT Exist "%~dpn1.txt" GOTO WAIT
RenameRecordings %1 > renamerecordings.log
:WAIT
GOTO DO

Theoretically, this would put it into a loop, until SA finished outputting the .txt
The problem is, SA outputs an empty .txt file, as soon as it starts.
I need a way for SA to finish, before comclean starts...
Any bright suggestions?

FWIW, SA has totally surpassed comskip in accuracy. Schoolhouse is a blessing Even Malore's latest comskip doesn't quite get what SA does, on every channel.
If I could only get comclean to do it's thing properly!

[jsteele]

reboot

As an interim solution maybe fire at separate batch with comclean and renamerecordings off the scheduler? The results wouldn't be available for a while but they would be done at some point.

Another way MIGHT be to create a test.bat of zero length. Then compare the test file to the target file using "FC" and then test the errorlevel depending on the result of the compare. If the target file is zero and the test file is zero just loop around (or delay it) and test it again. When the target file is larger than 0 go ahead with the rest of the batch. I have not tried this but it might work.

[reboot]

Another way MIGHT be to create a test.bat of zero length. Then compare the test file to the target file using "FC" and then test the errorlevel depending on the result of the compare. If the target file is zero and the test file is zero just loop around (or delay it) and test it again. When the target file is larger than 0 go ahead with the rest of the batch. I have not tried this but it might work.

You assume I know what you're talking about...
I understand the bit about an empty file, then only running comclean when the file is no longer 0 bytes, but how do I go about doing that?
I also figure I may be able to call a separate .bat for comclean, only after SA is done, and this may be the easiest way, but I've no idea how to write it. If I want comclean to recognize the file, and rename recordings to work properly, it must run in postprocessing, ie. right after the recording is done.

I'd like to be able to run SA, then renamerecordings, but that won't work because of the name change...
Maybe I could run renamerecordings first, then SA, then comclean???
I'd have to have comclean.bat rewritten to find the renamed show though...