ShowAnalyzer and DVRMSToolbox problems

[hossnine]

All,

I've run into a problem with DVRMToolbox FileWatcher and ShowAnalyzer that I'm hoping some of the great minds on this forum might be able to help me with. I've installed a fresh copy of DVRMSToolBox 1.2.1.5, Show Analyzer 0.9.7.290 on 32bit VMC (6.0.6001.18000 - longhorn_rtm.080118-1840). Seems to be that no matter what I try, I can't get FileWatcher to use Show Analyzer. I registered Show Analyzer based on the feedback I read in the forums about its performance vs. comskip and don't recall if Show Analyzer was working before I registered it or not. I've tried various options recommended in the forums including introducing delays and using the Comskip proxy without any luck. ShowAnalyzer works just fine manually (start - programs - Dragon Global -).

What I'm trying to do is come up with a configuration that will analyze a recording after it is completed, create the necessary skip files so that if I decide to watch the show in MCE it will skip the commercials and create VideoReDo files so that I can review each recording (make any necessary adjustments) and then cut out the commercials. Based on feedback in the forums and short personal experience trying to tune Comskip and ShowAnalyzer it has become apparent that there isn't a magic config that will work perfectly for all programs so the best (easiest) way I've seen to do this is to use ShowAnalyzer with VideoReDo. Given the luck I've had tuning ShowAnalyzer and having paid for VideoReDo I'd like to stick with these tools. As for the mechanics of how to make them work, I'm wide open.

My current configuration is pretty simple. I have DVRMSToolbox, Show Analyzer, and VideoRedo installed on my C:\ drive. MCE records to ...\Public\Recorded TV\. I have the ...\Public\DVRMSToolbox folders (w/CommercialsXml, DTBTemp, FWJobs, FWLogs, Output, VidoBookmark). I also have an M: drive where I copy videos off to for archival (free up space on C). These are videos with commercials trimmed out.

Frustrated with trying to figure out why FileWatcher won't use ShowAnalyzer (set as default) I downloaded SysInternal ProcessMonitor. Taking a process snapshot was rather revealing and confusing at the same time. Process monitor shows reading all of the DVRMSToolbox registry entries including the one that specifies using Show Analyzer. It then shows DVRMStoMPEG looking and finding the ShowAnalyzer.dll but then going/reverting to Comskip. The thing that was confusing was that there were a number of entries for a video on the M: drive that I wasn't using/watching/??.

I've created a zip file that has a log file for a recording (deleted all of the xml and log files then launched one of the recording inside VMC to initiate commecial scanning), a SysInternals Process Monitor Log (PML) file (meat of the log starts at 9:05:17.54... through 9:05:17.84...), Doc with Show Analyzer config screenshots and Doc with DVRMSToolbox config screenshots. The zip file 'FWLogs.zip' is attached to this post.

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Jere, I know you've been away for a bit. Hope everything is well. If you can take a look at this too then I'd be grateful.

Sincerely,
Allen