Utility: DirMon2

[bentheo]

i'm trying to use dirmon2 to try just send me a message each time a show has started recording.

the problem i'm getting is that since the .mpg files are staying in the directory, it keeps sending me updates multiple times. is there any way i can set dirmon2 to ignore files it has already processed?

[briands]

a work around would be to have your process create a dummy file of some odd file extension that you could use as the exception rule. This should prevent it from rerunning on the same file.

[bentheo]

Originally Posted by briands

a work around would be to have your process create a dummy file of some odd file extension that you could use as the exception rule. This should prevent it from rerunning on the same file.

thats what i actually ended up doing after i posted here. still, i wish there was a better way. thanks.

[lstepnio]

I'm trying to use Dirmon to scan my recordings and queue up recordings older than x days for transcoding and cleanup tasks. Also, removing any empty "show name" directories where the episodes have all been removed but the folder remains.

Any suggestions?

[lstepnio]

Originally Posted by lstepnio

I'm trying to use Dirmon to scan my recordings and queue up recordings older than x days for transcoding and cleanup tasks. Also, removing any empty "show name" directories where the episodes have all been removed but the folder remains.

Any suggestions?

Here's a work-around to queue to encode recording based on how old they are.


This example bash script looks for any recording (*.ts in this case) older than 7 days (ctime) and creates a blank file with the filename.dirmon extention. You'll need cygwin installed along with find,awk and crontab. I scheduled this to run once a day out of a cronjob.

#!/bin/bash

IFS=$'\n'

for i in $(find /cygdrive/p -type d \( -name "RECYCLER" -o -name "System Volume Information" \) -prune -o -type f -name '*.ts' -ctime +7 -print | sed 's/.ts/.dirmon/g'); do
	touch "$i"
	echo "$i\n"
done

next; i simply setup dirmon:

target = ts
must exist = dirmon
must no exist = avi

This works perfectly.

I also setup windows to create <filename>.dirmon with right-click, open-with Transcoder to allow me to easily queue recording manually prior to the 7 days I setup in the script.

[mikesm]

I seeing a weird problem today - for the first time since it was installed, it's not doing anything. Not scanning for new recordings, not firing up showanalyzer, etc... very weird. Start/stop, uninstall/install, nothing seems to get it going. Is there a log file somewhere that I can look at to figure out what's going on?

thx
mike

[mikesm]

Originally Posted by mikesm

I seeing a weird problem today - for the first time since it was installed, it's not doing anything. Not scanning for new recordings, not firing up showanalyzer, etc... very weird. Start/stop, uninstall/install, nothing seems to get it going. Is there a log file somewhere that I can look at to figure out what's going on?

thx
mike

Never mind, it was DST problem. Nice of the MSFt to not include the DST patch in SP3...

[geogecko]

LOL, Y2K8?

[gndprx]

Anyone know where I can get dirmon while dragonglobal's website is unavailable? Was trying to get a project finished up this weekend.

Thanks!

[mcaron1234]

I have a copy of dirmon2 (v0.5.0) and dirmon (v0.2.5) saved, I'd be glad to email it to you. I don't think its the latest version, but if you want it I'd be glad to mail it to you. Send a private message, if interested.

Matt

[gndprx]

Originally Posted by mcaron1234

I have a copy of dirmon2 (v0.5.0) and dirmon (v0.2.5) saved, I'd be glad to email it to you. I don't think its the latest version, but if you want it I'd be glad to mail it to you. Send a private message, if interested.

Matt

That would be great. PM sent.

Thanks

[m1abrams]

Dragon's Forum site has been hacked. Hopefully he can resolve that quickly. I suspect that may be linked to his mysql errors on the download page.

[mcaron1234]

Appears to be up again. Grats for Jere for getting it going (although sorry you had to).

Matt

[gndprx]

[Jere_Jones]

Apparently, I am the victim of someone getting root access on a shared server. I am going to move dragonglobal to a virtual private server so this shouldn't happen again.

My main disappointment is in the customer service of Canaca. It took them over 14 hours to respond to my "Emergency" ticket.

Ugh.

So, yeah, it's back up.

Jere

[Humanzee]

Dirmon2 is not cleaning up the new .aspects files. Yes, they are added to the Global Settings tab under clean up with all the other extensions. Any ideas?

[Humanzee]

Changed to UNC paths instead of mapped drives for cleanup, will see if this helps. Saw errors in the activity logs saying the path couldn't be found. Don't know why only its only the .aspects though, maybe an earlier clean up tool is still running on the server and catching the other orphaned files.

[Humanzee]

yup that was it, needed unc paths for clean up too.

[Jere_Jones]

*OFF TOPIC*

Is anyone taking advantage of the .aspects files yet?

Jere

[Humanzee]

I've been patiently waiting for a .aspects plug-in as well, I even downloaded the studio manual to think about trying to make a plug-in myself. But I only got to page 12 of 154 before other duties prevailed. Not sure if I'd have to go and learn Java first anyhow.