Plugin: Sage Job Queue (SJQ) v3

[Taddeusz]

What version of VideoReDo is everyone using who has it working? I had upgraded to the latest version of VideoReDo Plus. Right now I have the previous version, 3.10.1.587. I think I'm going to try a 2.5 version and see how that goes.

EDIT: Ok, downgrading to VideoReDo 2.5 seems to have done it. Apparently v3 doesn't like to be run like that.

[Taddeusz]

I'm not sure if other people have dealt with this or not but I've run into a snag with regard to VideoReDo and SJQ. I've had two occasions where the process messed up and I'm not sure quite why. The first time VideoReDo ran properly, the batch file successfully deleted the original but then failed to move the new file to replace the old one. I was able to rename the file and re-run the process and it worked correctly the second time through.

The second time, according to the log in SJQ, VideoReDo claims it successfully processed the fiile but no file for that recording exists after the process was done. Which means that the original file was deleted properly but there was no file to move.

I am definitely going to edit my batch file so that it checks to make sure that the new corrected file exists before deleting the original but I'm wondering if there is a better way to make sure VideoReDo has done its job before proceeding with replacing the original with the corrected copy?

However, it seems to work correctly most of the time. I'm not sure why there are those few instances where it fails.

[nyplayer]

I steer the output of Videoredo to a log.. Then Is use windows findstr.exe to look in the log for Output Complete. Also my first step on my Videoredo batch is to check for use of the file.

check use below first statements on my batch file.

move "%~f1" "%~d1%~p1"
set checkuse=%ERRORLEVEL%
if %checkuse% NEQ 0 exit 1

[Taddeusz]

I'm not that familiar with the batch language. What do %~f1, %~d1, and %~p1 do?

[nyplayer]

Originally Posted by Taddeusz

I'm not that familiar with the batch language. What do %~f1, %~d1, and %~p1 do?

 
Parameter 	Description 	   
%1 	The normal parameter.	   
%~f1 	Expands %1 to a fully qualified pathname. If you passed only a filename from the current directory, this parameter would also expand to the drive or directory.	   
%~d1 	Extracts the drive letter from %1.	   
%~p1 	Extracts the path from %1.	   
%~n1 	Extracts the filename from %1, without the extension.	   
%~x1 	Extracts the file extension from %1.	   
%~s1 	Changes the n and x options’ meanings to reference the short name. You would therefore use %~sn1 for the short filename and %~sx1 for the short extension.	 
The following table shows how you can combine some of the parameters.
 
Parameter 	Description	   
%~dp1	Expands %1 to a drive letter and path only.	   
%~sp1	For short path.	   
%~nx1 	Expands %1 to a filename and extension only.	 
To see all the parameters in action, put them into the batch file testing.bat, as follows.
@echo off
echo fully qualified name %~f1
echo drive %~d1
echo path %~p1
echo filename %~n1
echo file extension %~x1
echo short filename %~sn1
echo short file extension %~sx1
echo drive and directory %~dp1
echo filename and extension %~nx1 
Then, run the file with a long filename. For example, the batch file run on the file c:\temp\longfilename.long would produce the following output.
fully qualified name c:\TEMP\longfilename.long
drive c:
path \TEMP\
filename longfilename
file extension .long
short filename LONGFI~1
short file extension .LON
drive and directory c:\TEMP\
filename and extension longfilename.long 
This method also works on the second and subsequent parameters. You simply substitute the parameter for 1 (e.g., %~f2 for the second parameter’s fully qualified path name).
The %0 parameter in a batch file holds information about the file when it runs and indicates which command extensions you can use with the file (e.g., %~dp0 gives the batch file’s drive and path).

It does a fake move... does not really move the file just check for use.

this is part of my videoredo check code.

set vrdqfixerror=1
START /B /W /MIN  cscript.exe //nologo "c:\program files\videoredoPlus\vp.vbs" "%~f1" "%~d1%~p1tmpEncode\%~n1.mpg" /t1 /d /na /q /e >"c:\temp\%~n1.vrd.log"
c:\tools\findstr.exe" /I /C:"complete" "c:\temp\%~n1.vrd.log"
set vrdqfixerror=%ERRORLEVEL%
if %vrdqfixerror% NEQ 0 del "%~d1%~p1tmpEncode\%~n1.mpg"
if exist "c:\temp\%~n1.vrd.log" del "c:\temp\%~n1.vrd.log"
if %vrdqfixerror% NEQ 0 exit 1
if %vrdqfixerror% EQU 0 move /Y "%~d1%~p1tmpEncode\%~n1.mpg" "%~d1%~p1%~n1.mpg"
exit 0

[doncote0]

I am using version 4. (VideoeRedo TVSuite H.264)

Version 4 can handle most problems and does H.264 very well.

[HuMan321]

When using the file cleanup in SJQ will it go back and delete all the unassociated files, or just from that point on?

It it won't back back and perform cleanup can someone suggest a good method to do that?

Thanks,

[Slugger]

SJQv3 file cleaner will cleanup the specified file types as long as there is no files of the other type present (i.e. delete edl files if no mpg file exists, etc.).

[graywolf]

I might finally be getting a little free time to upgrade Sage V6 to V7.
And I plan to do a clean install then copy the wiz.bin over.

Problem is, I don't have the time (nor desire) to upgrade both Sage and SJQ at the same time.

I would like to run Sage V7 with SJQ V3 (if possible).

Is it possible?

Would I be able to use the plugin manager for SJQ V3? Thought I recalled some talk about that but can't find it now in the thread.

Or would/could I do the old fashioned install method?

What would be the best course of action?
Understand that SJQ V3 isn't currently supported, but I have it currently rock solid and wouldn't want to mess that up right now.

[razrsharpe]

@graywolf - See here

[graywolf]

Thanks razrsharpe. Knew I saw it somewhere but wasn't finding it in this thread.


Definitely have that bookmarked now

[Taddeusz]

I realize this version is outdated. I'm still using it though.

Is there a way to specify wildcards in the rules? Say I want to create a rule for all channel names that start with "KETA". Is there a way to do that?

[Slugger]

Use the regex operator with a regex of "KETA.*"

I'd give you more details, but I'd actually have to go and read my docs as I basically think in terms of SJQv4 anymore.

$.GetAiringChannelName{} =% "KETA.*" should do what you want.

[Skirge01]

I've got one that looks like this:

if [IsObjMediaFile == true && $.IsTVFile{} == true && $.IsNotManualOrFavorite{} == false && $.GetAiringChannelName{} !% "WNYWDT|WABCDT|WCBSDT|WNBCDT|WPIXDT|SYFYHD|TNTHD|USAHD|HSTRYHD|HBO.*|MAX.*|MOMAX|STZ.*|ENC.*|SHO.*|TMC.*|PPV.*" && MediaAge < "10D" && FileExists != "%d%/%p%.edl"] {
   :PRIORITY 20
   :FAILALERT "TRUE"
    COMSKIP
}

Among other things, this covers all the HBO, Cinemax, Starz, etc that I have.

[Taddeusz]

Thank you very much! That simplified my rules and allowed me to exclude all the movie channels as well as all the PBS channels from getting scanned with Show Analyzer.

Now that I'm looking at the wiki I see where the ".*" is used but I don't see it explicitly mentioned as being a wildcard.

[Slugger]

Originally Posted by Taddeusz

Thank you very much! That simplified my rules and allowed me to exclude all the movie channels as well as all the PBS channels from getting scanned with Show Analyzer.

Now that I'm looking at the wiki I see where the ".*" is used but I don't see it explicitly mentioned as being a wildcard.

You need to read up on regular expressions. Regular expressions are a very useful, powerful tool to have in your toolbox when scripting just about anything.

[Spectrum]

Originally Posted by Slugger

You need to read up on regular expressions. Regular expressions are a very useful, powerful tool to have in your toolbox when scripting just about anything.

Obligatory xkcd comic

My biggest gripe with regexes is every language does them just different enough to make me have to look up the basics EVERY time I want to do something

[Slugger]

I used to work with that guy on the rope!!!

[tmiranda]

Originally Posted by Slugger

I used to work with that guy on the rope!!!

EvilPenguin?

[davephan]

I switched back from SJQ4 to SJQ3 to get the web GUI back. The SJQ4 web GUI does not have the way to monitor the Comskip file processing status like the SJQ3 web GUI. The lack of a good monitoring GUI in SJQ4 from the perspective of the files being processed is important to me. This important feature is missing from SJQ4.

I recovered my system back with an image taken before SJQ4 was installed. I have everything working again with SJQ3, except for one problem. The successfully processed files are being displayed in the "Failed Tasks" web GUI section, even though they were successfully processed with Comskip. I'm don't know what controls the SJQ3 web GUI to display the completed files as "Successful" or "Failed". Is there something that I could change to get the successfully processed files to display in the "Completed Tasks" section instead of the "Failed Tasks" section?

Dave