Looking for help on setup.

[rashire]

Originally Posted by Jere_Jones

There is a setting on the service configuration page (in Windows, not DirMon) that is something like "Allow service to interact with the desktop". That has to be enabled or the windows get shunted to another desktop session.

Jere

I see I'll just have to do output via log files. Still having a issue of SA not running from DirMon though.

Originally Posted by spockers

That setting is only available if the service is running as "local system account" though, not if running as a user. Why MS does this is anybody's guess...

It seem from google that it allows the service code to be exposed to the user, and thus exploitable. Seems like a good idea to keep services from being infected by viruses. Though i suppose a dll replacement will do the same.

Anyways, Guess I'll edit my app to write args to file.

Edit: What options do I need to successfully run SA via Command line? just SA.exe and Pass it the video File path?

[rashire]

Ok well I found out why SA wasn't running for me.

Apparently it checks against history and doesn't run on the same file twice. Which makes sense but didn't help that i was testing by removing resulting files after running everything manually to see how it worked.

Now just to make sure it works automated and get VRD executing.

[Jere_Jones]

Originally Posted by rashire

Apparently it checks against history and doesn't run on the same file twice. Which makes sense but didn't help that i was testing by removing resulting files after running everything manually to see how it worked.

That is configurable in the settings for SA. It can look for artifacts, a history entry or either.

Jere

[spockers]

I found a way to enable a service to interact with the desktop, via a registry hack. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\servic es and find the entry for dirmon. Find the "Type" value, and in hex, flip the third bit from the right. For example, if the type is 0x00000010 (dec 16), change it to 0x00000110 (dec 272). Found this at InstallUtil.exe - Allow Service to Interact with Desktop? - GameDev.Net Discussion Forums and Interact With Desktop when Installing Windows Service - CodeProject

[rashire]

Originally Posted by Jere_Jones

That is configurable in the settings for SA. It can look for artifacts, a history entry or either.

Jere

Ya, it make sense not to run it multiple times. Now that I realized this it worked from DirMon automated.

Originally Posted by spockers

I found a way to enable a service to interact with the desktop, via a registry hack. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\servic es and find the entry for dirmon. Find the "Type" value, and in hex, flip the third bit from the right. For example, if the type is 0x00000010 (dec 16), change it to 0x00000110 (dec 272). Found this at InstallUtil.exe - Allow Service to Interact with Desktop? - GameDev.Net Discussion Forums and Interact With Desktop when Installing Windows Service - CodeProject

Thanks for looking that up, but looks like I may not need it after all.

[spockers]

Originally Posted by rashire

Ya, it make sense not to run it multiple times. Now that I realized this it worked from DirMon automated.



Thanks for looking that up, but looks like I may not need it after all.

It's something I've wondered about before; you just gave me a reason to look it up

[rashire]

Pretty close to getting this, I'll update another post in a few.

Think i might be having issues with variables in command line for DirMon sending /'s instead of \'s though.

[rashire]

OK it seems VRD and SA xml/vprj files are not compatible.

Can SA handle outputing a new file minus the commercials?

Jere's Post here shows this feature:

Example
Command Line Options: -i [[%FULLFILESPEC%]] -o [[%PATH%/%BASENAME%.avi]]
Result: ShowAnalyzer -i X:/Directory/file.mpg -o X:/Directory/file.avi

but SA just exits when i use that

FULLFILESPEC also seems to return a incorrect path. I got 'D:d\My Recordings\...' instead of 'D:\Ed\My Recordings\...' when checking with my application.

[Jere_Jones]

Originally Posted by rashire

Can SA handle outputing a new file minus the commercials?

No.

Originally Posted by rashire

Jere's Post here shows this feature:

Example
Command Line Options: -i [[%FULLFILESPEC%]] -o [[%PATH%/%BASENAME%.avi]]
Result: ShowAnalyzer -i X:/Directory/file.mpg -o X:/Directory/file.avi

That was just an example of the types of substitutions that can be made. SA doesn't actually support those parameters.

Originally Posted by rashire

FULLFILESPEC also seems to return a incorrect path. I got 'D:d\My Recordings\...' instead of 'D:\Ed\My Recordings\...' when checking with my application.

That is interesting.... I wonder if I still have the source code to DirMon around here somewhere....

Jere