Utility: DirMon2

[geogecko]

Originally Posted by 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.

My post #127 contains my setting for DirMon. The HTPC is in use right now, otherwise, I could post some more screenshots.

It sounds like you do not have DirMon setup correctly.

Is this you?

http://www.dragonglobal.org/forums/showthread.php?t=346

I assume you set it up as in this thread?

http://www.dragonglobal.org/forums/showthread.php?t=312

That's a good place to start, if you haven't already seen it.

Are you running DM as a service? I'd try running it NOT as a service, at least, until you get this figured out. A lot of things have to be working for the service mode to work right.

[AHX]

I copied your setting. the only difference between yours and mine was my resources were 100 so i changed them to match yours. Over the last few days SA is now crashing when it runs. again, if i go and delete teh txt files for the shows it crashe don and restart dirmon it runs fine. when i then leave it alone to do it's thing it crash's.

[Jere_Jones]

0.5.5 - 20 Apr 2006
- Added setting to adjust delay on drive idle check and file finished check.
- Fixed bug preventing custom command lines from working.
- Added DirMon2Hidden.exe for those of you that want to use DirMon2 in the same way as the original DirMon (i.e. NOT as a service)

This release address the two largest complaints that I have seen:
1) Wait until the drive and or file aren't being used wasn't working.
Thanks to a very astute user that noticed write caching was probably causing this. If the wait check marks aren't working for you, try increasing the wait times. It has been reported that times of up to 5 minutes may be required depending on your specific write caching.

2) Figuring out the permissions and service login's is too friggin' complicated! Why can't it work like DirMon1?
Now it can. Simply run DirMon2Hidden.exe and it will start DirMon2 as a hidden program. You will need to use the task manager to kill it though.

Jere

[grooves12]

Sweet, jerejones, you rock...any chance we should see an updated SA that has a similar variable on wait time beforeclosing in-progress files...

The wait until complete is a good workaround for now, but being able to fully process in-progress files would be really sweet.

[Jere_Jones]

Originally Posted by grooves12

Sweet, jerejones, you rock...any chance we should see an updated SA that has a similar variable on wait time beforeclosing in-progress files...

The next version of SA will include a similar setting.

Jere

[bobrap]

This is probably a dumb question (I know...), If I put both comskip and SA in dirmon2, will it run both programs or what will happen? I'm just looking for a good way to switch between them to see which I want to use.

[geogecko]

Originally Posted by bobrap

This is probably a dumb question (I know...), If I put both comskip and SA in dirmon2, will it run both programs or what will happen? I'm just looking for a good way to switch between them to see which I want to use.

Sure, just clear out all the "Triggers" in the one that you DO NOT want to use.

For example, I have mine setup to Trigger on Does Not Exist "txt." If you wanted to disable that one, just clear the "txt" part. Make sure and save your changes.

Keep in mind, you couldn't have both setup to run, otherwise, you wouldn't know which one is getting run, unless you looked at the current jobs being processed, since both would have the same trigger.

In fact, I might try the same thing, just to experiment on some HDTV files. Although, it would appear that Jere is working on a new version of SA...hopefully!?

[bobrap]

Thanks, that's just what I needed. I use the paid version of SA and sometimes I can't get it to do as good a job as comskip. Then again, the opposite is sometimes true.

[blade]

Originally Posted by bobrap

This is probably a dumb question (I know...), If I put both comskip and SA in dirmon2, will it run both programs or what will happen? I'm just looking for a good way to switch between them to see which I want to use.

Under what program to run just point it to comskip instead of SA. You won't have to bother adding and deleting the triggers.

[bobrap]

You mean in Dirmon2 GUI just highlight the program I want to run?

[blade]

Originally Posted by bobrap

You mean in Dirmon2 GUI just highlight the program I want to run?

What you were talking about is creating 2 different jobs. One for comskip and one for SA. As already mentioned, this will require you to edit the triggers of both jobs each time you want to switch between the programs.

What I'm suggesting is using the job you already have setup for SA. In the Dirmon2 GUI go to the "job management" tab and select "show analyzer" or whatever you named the SA job. Then under "program to run" select comskip instead of SA.

SA and comskip require the same triggers so all you have to do is change the program dirmon2 launches. You can setup 2 seperate jobs like you were planning and modify the triggers each time, but it seems kind of pointless since only one will be running at a time anyway.

[geogecko]

What blade said is true, however, if your SA and ComSkip are not in the same directory, then browsing to each of those places would take longer than deleting txt from one process, and typing txt in another...

Just my $0.02.

[ToxMox]

Originally Posted by Jere_Jones

0.5.3 - 5 Mar 2006
- Added "Allow interaction with desktop" setting

I'm feeling a little dumb. Why can't I find this setting?

[geogecko]

Originally Posted by ToxMox

I'm feeling a little dumb. Why can't I find this setting?

Probably because I don't think it exists...ha. I looked around, and couldn't find it either.

[Jere_Jones]

The "Allow interaction with desktop" setting is on the global page. It has to do with the service settings.

Jere

[ToxMox]

Originally Posted by Jere_Jones

The "Allow interaction with desktop" setting is on the global page. It has to do with the service settings.

Jere

I'm sorry I just don't see it. Here is a screen cap.

[Enormous]

I was having trouble finding it as well, but it's right under the option to run as LocalSystem (it's grayed out in your cap).

[ToxMox]

Ah hah! Mystery solved. Thanks Eric

[geogecko]

LOL, like playing hide and seek...

[bgorrell]

I am trying to run DirMon2 with triggers set to "must not exist" txt OR vprj. The logic seems to be broken. If I omit the vprj extension, behavior is as expected, only files that don't have txt counterparts are processed. However, when I add vprj, DirMon2 processes all files, including ones with txt files.

Any thoughts? Thanks.