I have pretty low end hw in my mce, and haven't seen any issues with memory usage, or HD overutilzation...

there might be other factors at play on your box.

which feature are you using that causes this problem?

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Removing commericals from about 25 programs using the directory process.  It is using the "remove commericals and copy files to the recorded tv folder" profile.  I have it setup to delete the original also but that wouldn't cause this issue.

Double post for some reason

1) I've been meaning to add tooltips to the settings, to explain at a higher level what they do. I will probably add this to the next rev. Regarding other documentation; I don't plan on doing much of that (I hate writing documentation). I would be happy to facilite documentation creation by other parties if there are any takers.

2) Can you add more detail for how you would like it to work, and what would happen when the update button was clicked?

3) This would be difficult because the FW doesn't explicitly track what files have been processed or what file is beeing processed. Queued files could be exposed, but it would be much more complicated now that the FW is a windows service. All of the information that you're looking for exists, admittly not in the most consumable format.

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in your case instead of using the do nothing profile, use the profile that writes an empty commercials file (can't remember what it's called and I forgot to add it to the change log).

I probably not going to write any UI code for MCE, the process sucks for doing it.

I have thought about adding a wizard type application for creating processing conditions. Where you would select a file, then ask which of the major metadata attributes you wanted to use (station, title, channel, etc), then which profile to associate with the PC. Then the tool would generate a PC based on the information found in the file. Would that meet your needs? Would anyone else use something like that?

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as a work around, you could create a bat/cmd file that called dvrmstompeg.exe w/o specifing the /act parameter this would accomplish the same thing, but the process would get torn down after each file is processed. I had meant to implement this pattern internally in the folder processing tool, just didn't get around to it last time.

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Ok I looked at the help file and found a sample cmd for the workaround

FOR %%1 IN (*.dvr-ms) DO DVRMSToMPEG /wd="d:\RecordedTV" /of="%%1.mpg" /if="%%1" /cs /ntsc

If I understand it right it will make an mpg of the file without the commericals.  What do I do to make the files dvs-ms again?  It isn't a simple "ren" command is it?

I had to re-install MCE and now the CommercialSkip Add-in won't work unless your an administrator. I did an install for all users, with permissions being set, and it still won't work. I get the following error.

The error is from an 360, but it also happens directly from the MCE machine. I've been changing permissions, and finally got all file permissions set (although they are too liberal for my liking), but it's still failing.

It worked before I did the re-install, but I had installed the previous version, so I'm wondering if some permission got set before that isn't set now.

Any ideas?

I had to re-install MCE and now the CommercialSkip Add-in won't work unless your an administrator. I did an install for all users, with permissions being set, and it still won't work. I get the following error.

The error is from an 360, but it also happens directly from the MCE machine. I've been changing permissions, and finally got all file permissions set (although they are too liberal for my liking), but it's still failing.

It worked before I did the re-install, but I had installed the previous version, so I'm wondering if some permission got set before that isn't set now.

Any ideas?

 

 

Forgot the error message. It looks like it can't create a Memory Mapped file.

User: MCX1

Unable to launch. System.Exception: Could not initialize MceState

at babgVant.MediaCenter.MceState.MceStateConsumer.MceState..ctor()

at babgVant.MediaCenter.CommercialSkipAddIn.CommercialSkip.Microsoft.MediaCenter.AddIn.IAddInEntryPoint.Launch(AddInHost host)

What if I am using XP Pro SP2 with Meedio instead of MMCE? Will this be supported?

when a file gets added a message is written to the windows event log, assuming that the application is configured to do so. in a previous post in this thread I explained what the different options are, thre are other options for what to log that will provide insite into what's in the log and why it's acting the way it does.

fw works by watching the configured folder (it uses a built in class in the .net framework to do this). If it receives a file created message it adds the file path and last modified date to the watch list (a hashtable), if it is a file updated message it will update the item in the watch list that corresponds to the file path with the new last modified date (there is an option to add updated items to the watch list if they don't exist, in which case it acts like the create), if the message is a file deleted and monitor deletes is selected it will attempt to delete the related commercial file.

when there are files in the watch list a background thread polls each item in the watch list to see if the last modifed date has past a threshold (the default is 5 min) at a specific interval. If it hasn't then nothing happens, if it has then it is removed from the watch list and added to the process list (a queue). The process list is monitored by another thread which detects that an item has been added to the list removes item and runs the processexe on it.

only one file at a time can be processed, so if there are multiple files in the process list the other files will not be processed until the currently processing file has finished.

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FOR %%1 IN (*.dvr-ms) DO DVRMSToMPEG /of="%%1.dvr-ms" /if="%%1"

should work

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has anyone else using an extender seen this problem?

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