DirMon 0.2.3 not respecting "Ignore List" ??

[tomhenry]

Jere,

When I do get an analyzed and cleaned file SA has worked brilliant, so thanks in advance for all the fine work (and late hours).

My problems (and I mean MY problems, as I'm ready to learn the degree of my "newbie-ness" wrt SA and DirMon ;-)

Essentially: the DirMon processes keep looping and I can't see how to make settings to stop repeated processing of already processed files...

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Initial conditions in DirMon
Global: Directory is set - although at times this is not "saved" upon exit ;-(
Source Exts: mpg,mpeg
Target Exts: txt,log,ccyes,ccno
Check Every (1) minute
(on) Process filew if being written to
(on) Process if drive being written

Processor 1: is SA
Triggers:EXISTS mpg OR mpeg
AND
NOT EXIST txt

Ignore LIst: *_clean.mpg
*_original.mpg

Processor 2: is comclean.bat
Triggers: EXIST txt OR (blank)
NOT EXIST (blank)

Ignore LIst: *_clean.mpg
*_original.mpg

Processor 3 NONE

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ShowAnalyzer Global Settings:
Output:
(on) Comskip txt
(on) Output Commercials as they are found
(on) Use ABS PATH
ALL OTHERS (off)
Profile Selection:
Donotprocess file contains original
Donotprocess file contains clean
NOT sage TV

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comclean.bat includes:

move "%~dpn1.mpg" "%~dpn1_original.mpg"
move "%~dpn1_clean.mpg" "%~dpn1.mpg"

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When I begin processing
(1) The .log and .txt files are created
(2) The .txt does show commercial boundaries
(3) A _clean.mpg is created
(4) An _original.mpg is created
(5) The base .txt and .log are replaced with _original.txt and _original.log files

Then the cycle resumes: i.e. the _original.mpg file is processed and produces an _original_clean.mpg ... ad infinitum...

The command line during this recursion is as follows
C:\Documents and Settings\HP_Owner>"c:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr93\mpgtx.exe" -j
-f -o "K:\MyTV Programs\Test One Only\King_20050822_UNCL_original_clean.mpg" "K
:\MyTV Programs\Test One Only\King_20050822_UNCL_original.mpg"
Now processing K:\MyTV Programs\Test One Only\King_20050822_UNCL_original.mpg 1/
1 ... 26.55%

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As you can see from all the above, I "don't know what I don't know"

Any guidance will be greatly appreciated.

Sincere thanks,
TomH

[Jere_Jones]

That was an excellent post! Very clear and concise. Which makes assisting you a little easier.

On the ignore list, remove the asterisk. Your ignore list should consist of _clean and _original only.
You should also notice that the .txt file that matches a filename without _clean or _original doesn't exist at the end, so you will need to recreate it. However, since having a txt will cause processor 2 to run, we need to prevent that.

My suggestion:
Change processor 2 so that a txt must exists and a clean must NOT exist.

Then modify your comclean.bat so that these two lines:

move "%~dpn1.mpg" "%~dpn1_original.mpg"
move "%~dpn1_clean.mpg" "%~dpn1.mpg"

Look like this:

move "%~dpn1.mpg" "%~dpn1_original.mpg" >> "%~dpn1.txt"
move "%~dpn1_clean.mpg" "%~dpn1.mpg" >> "%~dpn1.clean"

Try that and let me know how it goes.

Jere

[tomhenry]

Jere

(1) Killing the asterisks (per your direction for the Ignore LIst syntax) fixed the "not ignoring" problem...

Your guidance for comclean.bat was (almost) perfect...;-)

The new line "move ... _original ..." built a loop that produced highly effective recursion ;-) !! But since your fix to the "Ignore List" syntax allowed me to see what was happening during the recursion, it was easy to see that it only required that "move ,,, _original" to be commented out = VOILA

But I _did_ need the new "move ... ... >> .clean " to both replace the source file with the newly cleaned version -as-well-as- to create the dummy file for use in triggering your recommended addition of the "Does not exist" condition for the comcleant.bat processing.

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The only remaing (but temporarily fixed) problem for me was that (v0.2.3) was _not_ retaining
(1) Global settings for directories, and was singlemindedly
(2) restoring the Process 3 (renamerecording.exe) after each time I deleted it.

On some hunch... I deleted the .ini file and loaded/saved settings in DirMon and Shazaaam All is well in the world again.

Thought you should know.

Thanks, you got me to where I am.

I'll tackle "schoolhouse" next

(1) FWIW some of my recording "start" in the middle of a commercial. Any hints on where to start looking to solve this???

(2) And if I can only find a source for learning what the "logo" file does...

Three cheers,

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