Utility: DirMon2

[blade]

Thanks for the help guys. It's working with UNC paths now. Still not working with mapped drives, but I can live with that.

I had installed Dirmon to an account that didn't have a password. I had since added a password to the account and Dirmon wouldn't let me install the service since the password was added. I uninstalled Dirmon and reinstalled and everything went smoothly. I don't know if this is normal behavior or not when dealing with services.

[stanger89]

Jere,

DM2 Gui is crashing when adding a source folder since I re-installed my PC. I gmailed you details (if you haven't checked your gmail lately).

[cslatt]

DirMon2 is totally rocking my world Jere! Three cheers for multi-processing! I can finally live-showanalyze shows for both my tuners.

[Jere_Jones]

All,

I know that setting up a service and the requisite permissions can be a pain. It is especially irritating when if you run DirMon2.exe from the command line it works perfectly. That's good and all, but it does create this console window that can be annoying. So, the next version of DirMon2 will include a DirMon2Invisible.exe that will run under the same permission set as the original DirMon did. That way, those of you that want it to run as a service can and those that don't care can simplify their life by using DirMon2Invisible.exe.

Stanger,

I haven't seen it. I know there was one version release that did that. Are you using the latest version?

Jere

[stanger89]

Originally Posted by Jere_Jones

Stanger,

I haven't seen it. I know there was one version release that did that. Are you using the latest version?

Jere

No, you snuck a couple versions out on me I'll give the latest one a try.

[blade]

I'm not sure if this should be a Dirmon2 or a SA question. Everything is working great except that sometimes SA hangs. The file is completely processed but SA keeps running for some reason. Is there a way to make the SA process time out after a certain amount of time so that it's killed if it's hung up?

[geogecko]

Originally Posted by blade

I'm not sure if this should be a Dirmon2 or a SA question. Everything is working great except that sometimes SA hangs. The file is completely processed but SA keeps running for some reason. Is there a way to make the SA process time out after a certain amount of time so that it's killed if it's hung up?

I think you're in the right place, and while I'm not positive of this, I will take a stab.



I believe what you want is the Timeout.

Be careful how you use this though, because the Timeout works either if SA is locked up, or if it's working correctly. In other words, if you set the timeout to 1 hour (in seconds), and you are recording a 2 hour show, SA gets killed while working on the 2 hour show. Get what I mean? So you'll want to setup the timeout to be greater than the length of shows you normally record.

[blade]

Originally Posted by geogecko

I believe what you want is the Timeout.

Be careful how you use this though, because the Timeout works either if SA is locked up, or if it's working correctly. In other words, if you set the timeout to 1 hour (in seconds), and you are recording a 2 hour show, SA gets killed while working on the 2 hour show. Get what I mean? So you'll want to setup the timeout to be greater than the length of shows you normally record.

That makes sense, I'll give it a try and see how it goes.

[antplugger]

Hi Guys,

Does anyone know how the black section works ? Its is 24 hour clock ?

I set it to start at 0500 and end at 2359 - Hoping that it would only run between midnight and 5am but it seems to be running within the black out

Thanks

[geogecko]

Originally Posted by antplugger

Hi Guys,

Does anyone know how the black section works ? Its is 24 hour clock ?

I set it to start at 0500 and end at 2359 - Hoping that it would only run between midnight and 5am but it seems to be running within the black out

Thanks

Might be a bug that no one has found. Blackout to me, means a start time to NOT be processing, and a stop time to RESUME processing...

[Soulive]

I seem to have a problem with dirmon2 and comskip_024 (varient). Dirmon2 starts the process correctly but it seems that comskip ends execution prematurely. So I will have many 0 length .txt files or .txt files with just 1 commerical found. The activitly log will show comskip starting and finishing in roughly 2 minutes.

If I delete the offending .txt file, stop and start the comskip service from dirmon2 GUI it works, finding commericals fine. The activitly log will show comskip starting and finishing in roughly 7 minutes.

Any ideas?

[Jere_Jones]

antplugger, Soulive,
can you share your ini?

Jere

[Soulive]

I've included my dirmon2.ini file renamed as dirmon2.txt for attachement restrictions.

[antplugger]

Here is mine

Thanks

[Global]
Polling Time = 600
Available Resources = 100

[Service]
Start Automatically = 1
Run as Local System = 1
Allow Interaction With Desktop = 0
Run as User = 0
User Name =
User Password =

[Job Description 1]
Name = ComSkip
Processor = C:/Program Files/SageTV/COMSKIP/comskip.exe
Command Line Options = --videoredo
Must Exist 1 =
Must Exist Logic = OR
Must Exist 2 =
Must And Or Must Not Exist Logic = AND
Must Not Exist 1 = txt
Must Not Exist Logic = OR
Must Not Exist 2 =
Directory 1 = //MediaServer/Recording
Processee Extension 1 = mpg
Resources Needed = 100
Timeout Enabled = 1
Timeout = 14400
Priority Boost Due To Job Description = 0
Priority Boost Due To Age = 1
Priority Boost Due To Name = 0
Process Subdirectories = 1
Wait Until File Is Finished = 1
Wait Until Drive Is Idle = 0
Hide Console = 0
Blackout Enabled = 1
Blackout Start Time = 500
Blackout End Time = 2359

[Humanzee]

Jere,
Can you add some items to the Current Status tab so we can get a better idea of what our detectors are doing?
I was thinking of stuff like

1) The Qued Jobs File Attributes I.e. Modification Date, maybe file size so that we can se at a glance when the file was recorded and possibly how long it might take to run.

2) Date/Time Job added to Queue. I have run into scenario's where jobs will not queue or not start or just process really slowly if I am playing a video game or something. Curious to know when they were detected.

3) Date/Time Active Job Started, Similar to above, curious to know how long a job has been running, ocationally I find that SA has hung up on one program for who knows how long.

4) Active Job Duration so far. Similar to above.

5) An option to auto refresh the Active Jobs list every 'X' seconds, or every 'X' seconds while the DirMon2 window is active.

6) More Status Clue's I.e. "Waiting for SA to finish." etc.

I was also speculating about some other features like, changing the "Resources Required" dependant on the time of day, or the status/size of other files in the queue, or if the target file/drive is being written to.

That way you could set up some criteria for when/how/if jobs get processed concurently

Just some thoughts

[AHX]

I seem to be having an issue getting this to work with comskip. If i choose detect comercials from inside sagetv it creates teh .txt and .log file which in turn works fine. if i use dirmon it does not create the log file. after this i can not start the detect form sage unless deleting the .txt file that dirmon creates. I am sure i did not set soemthign right . please help and thanks.

[geogecko]

Originally Posted by AHX

I seem to be having an issue getting this to work with comskip. If i choose detect comercials from inside sagetv it creates teh .txt and .log file which in turn works fine. if i use dirmon it does not create the log file. after this i can not start the detect form sage unless deleting the .txt file that dirmon creates. I am sure i did not set soemthign right . please help and thanks.

DirMon seems to be working correctly, it's ShowAnalyzer that does not appear to be working correctly, although you do say you get the txt file. Why do you need the log file?

If using DM and SA, you do not use the detection inside of SageTV, those settings should be left turned off. The only setting that works with DM and SA is the "Auto ComSkip Enable/Disable."

There appears to be no .log file setting inside of SA anymore, so I'm not sure it's needed.

[AHX]

i am not using SA I am using Comskip.exe. i jsut noticed that the ones that work have .txt adn .log and the rboken ones have .txt only.

[geogecko]

Originally Posted by AHX

i am not using SA I am using Comskip.exe. i jsut noticed that the ones that work have .txt adn .log and the rboken ones have .txt only.

So you are getting the .txt file, created by using DM with ComSkip?

If ComSkip is the one generating the files, I wouldn't see why it would make a difference if Sage or DM was telling ComSkip to run...

It could be that your setup isn't quite right. If you still had ComSkip turned on inside of SageTV, then you went to delete the txt and log files, Sage would, or should, start comskip again for that show where you just deleted the txt file for...then if you turned comskip off inside of sage, while it was trying to generate that txt file again, it may stop processing it, creating a bad file, then, DM never starts comskip, because it sees that a txt file is there...Not sure.

Try turning all your ComSkip setting to OFF inside of SageTV. Make sure DM is setup so that it does NOT try to run ComSkip (CS). Now, go in and delete your log and txt files for a show. Refresh the folder several times, to make sure that something isn't trying to regenerate those files. Once you are satisfied that nothing is going to generate those files, go into DM, and set it up to run CS. You should immediatly see it generate the txt (and log) files. Does that work?

[AHX]

no matter what I do only manual starts will create the files. I even tried showanalyzer adn it works manual but not with dirmon. is there a guid on setting up eitehr of these for sage. i can not find proper documentaion on sagetv setup.