[addon] AutoXvid (November 12 Update)

[DonK]

Author: leecole@bigfoot.com
Short Description: Hands off Xvid encoding
Long Description: Added in 3.2.0.0 HD .tp and .mpg to Xvid
Supports HD .tp encoding to Xvid Use's MPG2Repair for HD .tp recordings
Supports French Windows XP

* Hands off AutoGK encoding to either xVid or Divx of all recordings done by Beyond TV. The encoding job is queued to AutoGK immediately when the MPEG2 recording is completed by Beyond TV. No copying to another folder, no human intervention required.

* Controls hours of execution for AutoGK. To avoid cpu contention, you may set AutoGK hours of execution.

* Moves AutoGK work files and work directorys out of Beyond TV's folders

* Cleanup of AutoGK work directorys and work files

* Cuts commercials if BTV builds Chapter files and IGCutter package is installed

* If you have MPEG2 DVD quality recordings done by a Hauppauge PVR 250 then all ecessary registry setting are done to give you subtitle support in Hauppauge drivers, WinTV32, and WinTV200 applications. In WinTv application Click Preferences and select Closed Captioning.
Note: changes to device drivers require a reboot before they take effect.

* Episode Data is retrieved from Beyond TV for the MPEG2 recording, then when AutoGK has finished encoding the AVI, the Episode data is imported back into Beyond TV for the AVI recording. Includes stars and Episode Description.

* If IGCutter package is installed, will support using BTV Smart Chapters to cut commercials then encode the _cut.mpg to AVI. see: IGCutter v0.6 beta released

* Voice announcement of failures or success of job

* For versions of Beyond TV that support Closed Captions, turns on Closed Captions for the user.

* Create subdirectories for AVIs by Genre, Title, or Genre/Title.

* Delete source MPEG2 file on completion if you desire.

* If you use SmartChapters for your MPEG2 recordings. AutoXvid will wait upon completion of SmartChapters, before deleteing any files, and export the SmartChapters to the AVI recording.

* You may "burn" subtitles into the AVI AutoGK.

* Easy to read, and understand AutoXvid.ini file. For times, use 24 hour clock, or 12 hour clock with pm or am, or keywords like Immediate, Noon, Midnight. For switch setting you may use 1 or 0, or Yes and No.

* In case of power failure while AutoGK is encoding, all unfinished jobs are automaticlly requed to AutoGK whenever you power the system back up.

* A run log may be maintained, if you desire.


Version Number: 3.2.0.0
Status: update
Last Updated: 9/30/2005
Homepage:
Installation Instructions: Version 3.2.0.0 Install to a Folder that is not shared with any other progam package. If you already have AutoXvid installed, answer each prompt, reinstalling all executables, and answer the prompt for AutoXvid.INI with NO. After all files have been unpacked, run InstallAutoXvid.
Release Notes: Donk, This version consolidates all fixes to both this version as well as the PreBeta test version.
License: none
Requirements: AutoGK, (optional) IGCutter


Download AutoXvid 3.2.0.0.zip

[leecole]

I cannot update the server, and it is only a matter of time until the site deletes the AutoXvid files there.

AutoUpdate= Off
The latest version

AutoXvid.exe 3.3.1.120
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[addon] AutoXvid (November 12 Update)

AutoUpdate.exe 3.3.1.9
- Change server for update

ReQue.exe 3.3.1.15
- Change server for update

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For latest version: AutoXvid 3.3.1.1 - Includes all fixes for AutoXvid 3.3 that are listed below
http://www.wdmbradio.com/autoxvid/Install.exe

AutoXvid 3.3
Topic: General Purpose

AutoXvid is written using a free compiler, AutoIt. AutoXvid attempts to allow the user to automate the process of locating commercials, and removing them if desired, and then re-encoding the recording to use less disk space, and for those that are hearing impaired, including captions if available. AutoXvid makes every effort to remove all work files.

It does this using free tools when available. The only tool that must be purchased that it supports, but does not require, is VideoReDo. I decided to support it because of it's popularity, and the lack of good tools that support HD. VideoRedo Plus is available as a free trial. After installing VideoReDo, you must execute it once, for it to register it's COM interface. It is this interface that AutoXvid uses.

AutoXvid supports BeyondTV and/or GBPVR.

The essential control mechanism is the AutoXvid.ini file. This ini file has sections, denoted by section names enclosed in brackets [ sectionname ] and parameter names followed by a equal sign = and a text string. A [sectionname] and it's parameter names are case sensitive, the parameter values are generally not case sensitive. An exception to that is the values given by BTVRecordFolders= and BTVRecurseFolders= and they are case sensitive only because BeyondTV uses them in a case sensitive manner. To AutoXvid and Windows, c:\beyontv and C:\BeYondTV are the same, but BeyondTV sees them as different. AutoXvid expects no quotes in any parameter value.

In an age where many malicious programs exist, I do not expect anyone to blindly trust that a program is safe. AutoIt compiler allows for password protection of the source, but none of these programs that I provide are password protected. I use SciTe as my source editor, and the SciTe package includes a AutoIt decompiler. It may be used to decompile and examine the source.


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Topic: Essential parameters
[AutoXvid]
BTVRecordFolders=
BTVRecurseFolders=
OutPutSize=
MediaTypes=
AutoUpdate=

MediaTypes= mpg, tp A comma seperated list of recording file types that AutoXvid will process. May be used to ignore SD or ignore HD recordings, by omitting that filetype. Defaults to mpg, tp

BTVRecordFolders= drive1:\path1, drive2:\path2, etc...
A list of BeyondTV folders, each seperated by a comma. If a recording is posted to AutoXvid, and that recording is not from one of these folders, it is ignored. It defaults to NULL. For AutoXvid to work, BeYondTV must use folders, because AutoXvid uses the root of each drive as a work area. So BTVRecordFolders= drive: is not valid.

BTVRecurseFolders= drive1:\path1, drive2:\path2, etc...
A list of BeyondTV folders that have the recurse property, this list is only needed if you wish AutoXvid to create subfolders. See: MakeSubDir, and SubDirFormat. It defaults to NULL.

OutPutSize= type_of_encoding_control xxx
This parameter controls the AutoGK output. type_of_encoding_control may be either "FileSize" or
"Quality". AutoGK will do two pass encoding if "FileSize" is used, and single pass encoding if "Quality" is used.
For "FileSize" the xxx may be a number of MB or may be expressed as a percentage xx% in which case, AutoXvid will calculate xx% of the input file size and convert that number to MB, and that will become the output size foe AutoGK.
For "Quality" the xxx must be expressed as a percentage. AutoGK will attempt to create a output that is based upon obtaining that degree of quality. Any value above 80% is usually not detectable.
The default is OutPutSize= Quality 75% See also OutPutSizePerMinute, DurationAdjust and RoundDuration
examples:
OutPutSize= FileSize 300
OutputSize= FileSize 20%

The "FileSize" MB value may also be overridden by a calculation based on 'play duration'. This may be the most popular way of setting output size.
DurationAdjust= (+/-)x defaults to 0
RoundDuration= xx defaults to 1
OutPutSizePerMinute= xx defaults to 0
First, AutoXvid obtains the 'play duration' from BTV's MetaData for the recording. If DurationAdjust is greater than zero, then it is added (if sign is negative it will actually subtract) to play duration.
We now have the adjusted play duration and that value is multiplied with the OutPutSizePerMinute.

AutoUpdate= Yes/No/Ask

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Topic: PreProcessing of HD recordings:
[AutoXvid]
HDStreamSnip=
VDRDQuickFix=
QuickFixHDto=
HDVideoPid=
HDAudioPid=

BTV's StreamSnip, VideoRedo's QuickFix, and mpeg2repair

AutoXvid will default to using mpeg2repair to preprocess all HD recordings if HDStreamSnip or VDRDQuickFix is not used. If you do not want any preprocessing of HD recordings, then either delete mpeg2repair.exe or rename it. Mpeg2repair will automatically determine the appropriate video and audio PIDs to use.

HDStreamSnip= Yes default is No
AutoXvid will check if BTV has a job scheduled to StreamSnip this recording, it's status, and if it replaces the original or not. If a job was scheduled and task is not completed, a Watchlist for the output file is initiated. If the job is complete, and the recording matchs the expected output, then this recording is processed as _Fixed. If the job has not completed, WatchFor.exe will watch for all files in the watchlist and will post AutoXvid with the expected output recording when it is finished.

VDRDQuickFix= Yes default is No
AutoXvid will use VideoReDo's QuickFix to processs HD recordings. See also: QuickFixHDto, HDVideoPid, and HDAudioPid.

QuickFixHDto= tp/mpg default is tp
VideoReDo will output a fixed tp or a mpg recording.

HDVideoPid= xx decimal value of primary video PID. default is NULL Most entertainment programs will have a video PID of 49 (hex 0x31). If NULL is given, VideoReDo will attempt to choose primary PID.
HDAudioPid= xx decimal value of primary audio PID. default is NULL Most entertainment programs will have a audio PID of 52 (hex 0x34). If NULL is given, VideoReDo will attempt to choose primary PID.

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Topic: Cut Process
[AutoXvid]
CutCommercials=
CutProgram=
HDCutProgram=
HDVideoPid=
HDAudioPid=

CutCommercials= drive1:\path1, drive2:\path2, etc...
A list of BeyondTV folders, each seperated by a comma. If a recording is not from one of these folders, then CutProgram parameter is ignored. No cutting takes place. It defaults to NULL.

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SubTopic: SD
CutProgram= None No cut procedures are done

CutProgram= CutterMaran This procedure uses comskip.exe to do the scan and BBDMUX.EXE to do demux, then uses CutterMaran to cut the demuxed video and audio files. It then uses mplex1.exe to remux the cut video and audio files into a new commercial free mpg. Because the cuts are done on the demuxed files individually, the closed captions, if available in the original recording, are still available in the cut mpg.

CutProgram= AdScan-VideoReDo This procedure uses VideoReDo's AdScan call to do the scan, and then uses VideoReDo to create the commercial free recording. If closed captions were available in the original recording, they will still be available in the cut recording.
Note: If BTV SmartChapters file exists for a recording, AdScan is not used, instead VideoReDo will be called to use SmartChapters instead. This may be overridden with: CutUsingSmartChapters= No

CutProgram= ComSkip-VideoRedo This procedure uses comskip.exel to do the scan, and then uses VideoReDo to create the commercial free recording. If closed captions were available in the original recording, they will still be available in the cut recording.
Note: If BTV SmartChapters file exists for a recording, comskip.exe is not used, instead VideoReDo will be called to use SmartChapters instead. This may be overridden with: CutUsingSmartChapters= No

CutProgram= ChaptersBuild This procedure uses comskip.exe to scan the recording and create a BeyondTV type SmartChapters file. If the [AutoXvid] parameter:
EDL= Yes
then instead of a SmartChapters file, a Edit Decision List (.edl) file is created. This is primary used in Europe.



CutProgram= ComSkipX This cut process uses comskip.exe to do the scan of the recording, then uses ProjectX.exe to demux and cut the original recording and mplex.exe is used to remux the commercial free recording. Any closed captions are lost during this process.

CutProgram= ProjectX This cut process requires BeyondTV to create a SmartChapters file,
then uses ProjectX.exe to demux and cut the original recording and mplex.exe is used to remux the commercial free recording. Any closed captions are lost during this process.

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SubTopic: HD
HDCutProgram= AdScan-VideoReDo This procedure uses VideoReDo's AdScan call to do the scan, and then uses VideoReDo to create the commercial free recording. If closed captions were available in the original recording, they will still be available in the cut recording.
Note: If BTV SmartChapters file exists for a recording, AdScan is not used, instead VideoReDo will be called to use SmartChapters instead. This may be overridden with: CutUsingSmartChapters= No

HDCutProgram= ComSkip-VideoRedo This procedure uses comskip.exel to do the scan, and then uses VideoReDo to create the commercial free recording. If closed captions were available in the original recording, they will still be available in the cut recording.
Note: If BTV SmartChapters file exists for a recording, comskip.exe is not used, instead VideoReDo will be called to use SmartChapters instead. This may be overridden with: CutUsingSmartChapters= No

HDCutProgram= HDTV This process will use mpeg2repair.exe to remove all extra PIDs and add/remove frames to clean up the recording. The _Fixed.tp recording is then scanned and cut by HDTV2Mpeg.exe. If closed captions were available in the original recording, they will still be available in the cut recording.

HDCutProgram= None No cut procedures are done

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Topic: Closed Captions
[SubTitles]
CCPath=
SubTitlesDesired=
BurnSubTitles=

CCPath= drive:\path Specify folder location where the srt file is to be built, and found when played. A period denotes to use same location as the recording.

SubTitlesDesired= Yes/No Create subtitles or not. Default is No.

BurnSubTitles= Yes/No Have AutoGK burn subtitles into the Video stream of the avi. In BeyondTV 3.x, when Beyond TV played a Divx, Xvid, or MWA recording, it would auto load the DirectVobSub to play a subtitles file, during playback. In BeyondTV 4.x, BeyondTV removed this feature. So the only way you can see the subtitles during playback under BryondTV 4.x, is to burn the subtitles into the video. The srt file is not needed then, and the captions become a permanent part of the picture.

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SubTopic: mpg2srt.exe
AutoXvid is installed with a copy of mpg2srt.exe already available. This program is limited to SD recordings created by a Hauppage PVR 150, PVR 250, and PVR500. No HD recordings that I am aware of. It only is able to extract closed captions from an original recording created in a BTV DVD quality mode. This makes the captions only applicable to the original mpg.

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SubTopic: ccextractor.exe and ccextractorwin.exe
[SubTitles]
CCExtractor=
Color=
Options=

CCExtractor will extract captions from SD recordings created by a Hauppage PVR 150, PVR 250, and PVR500 and from many HD recordings.
The user must obtain and install the CCExtractor package: http://ccextractor.sourceforge.net/
Once installed, under [SubTitles] section, use the CCExtractor parameter to let AutoXvid know where it is installed. If it is installed and SubTitlesDesired=Yes then AutoXvid will execute it to create a srt file whenever a cut process is used that allows captions to survive (all except ComSkipX and ProjectX).

CCExtractor= drive:\path\execuable_name.exe Path and program to use to create a subtitles file at location given by CCPath.

Color= color_name Either Yellow, Brown, Red, Blue, Cyan, or Green defaults to White

Options= -optionstring Options desired, See CCExtractor documentation for available options.

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Topic: AutoGK
[ScheduledRun]
AGKExecutionHours=
ShutDown=

ShutDown= Yes/No/Reboot/PowerDown/StandBy/Hibernate Default is No. Not all system drivers that may be installed are capable of StandBy or Hibernate.

AGKExecutionHours= Auto/xx-xx/xxam thru xxpm/Immediate Defaults to Immediate. Hours AutoGK are allowed for operation.
Keyword Auto - Uses AutoLookAhead to find a window of no recordings scheduled.
Keyword Immediate - Starts AutoGK encoding as soon as a recording is available. ShutDown will be ignored.
Keyword xx thru xx - 24 hour format of execution window for encoding.
Keyword xxam thru xxpm - 12 hour format of execution window for encoding.

AutoLookAhead= xx Specify a number of hours of no recordings scheduled to allow execution. Only applies to Auto.
DelayedAbort= Yes When Execution time is up, allow recording that is currently being encoded, to complete.

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Topic: Extras Parameters for control

[AutoXvid]
OutPutSizePerMinute= number
RoundDuration= number
NoEncodeAfterCut= Yes/No
UniqueNames= Yes/No
SeriesCutExclude= KeyWord1, KeyWord2, KeyWord3, etc...
ChannelCutExclude= ChannelNumber1, ChannelNumber2, ChannelNumber3, etc..
ChannelEncodeExclude= ChannelNumber1, ChannelNumber2, ChannelNumber3, etc..
SeriesEncodeExclude= KeyWord1, KeyWord2, KeyWord3, etc...
Encode= Yes/No
ChannelEncodeBoth= ChannelNumber1, ChannelNumber2, ChannelNumber3, etc..
SeriesEncodeBoth= KeyWord1, KeyWord2, KeyWord3, etc...
Logging= Yes/No
Quiet= Yes/No
Voice= OldMan/Female/Male
Rate= SignedInteger +-10
Pitch= SignedInteger +-50
Volume= number 0-100
AutoGKWarning= Yes/No
ShowAutoGK= Yes/No
Rename= Yes/No
Rename Template= DisplayTitle -(#EPGID EpisodeTitle)-{Genre}-OriginalAirDate
Rename NoEpisode Template= DisplayTitle -{Genre}-OriginalAirDate

Rename Keywords are:
DisplayTitle, EpisodeTitle, Genre, EPGID,SeasonNumber, EpisodeNumber
OriginalAirDate,TodaysDate, Channel, StationCallSign, Rating

To provide even more control, you can add sections to the AutoXvid.ini that may be used to override parameters, based on the BeyondTV folder that the recording originates from. For example: I may have:
BTVRecordingFolders= C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\My Videos, D:\BTV
I could then have a BTV section and a My Videos section
*************** Example INI ***************
[AutoXvid]
BTVRecordingFolders= C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\My Videos, D:\BTV
CutCommercials= C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\My Videos, D:\BTV
CutProgram= ComSkip-VideoRedo
OutPutSize= FileSize 300
OutPutSizePerMinute= 10
RoundDuration= 30
OutPutFolder=

[BTV]
CutProgram= ComSkipX
OutPutSize= Quality 75%
OutPutFolder= C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\My Videos

[My Videos]

**************** End of Example INI **************
In this example all recordings that originate in D:\BTV will be cut using ComSkipX and will have encoding ny AutoGK as single pass based on a Quality of 75%, while all recordings that originate in BTV folder will have two pass encoding and a final filesize determined by their "play duration" rounded up, to the next duration of 30 minutes, and a size of 10MB per minute. All recordings after encoding would end up in 'My Videos'.


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Topic: Obsolete Parameters
[AutoXvid]
ComSkipClip=

[Episode]
EpisodeData= Yes

[ScheduledRun]
WaitForSmartChapters=

EpisodeData= Yes/No Default Yes. MetaData is now so essential to AutoXvid that it is no longer an option. If the recordings originate from BeyondTV, AuoXvid will attempt to retrieve metadata about the recording, even if this parameter is set to No.

ComSkipClip= Yes/No Default No. No longer has any use. Early versions of comskip.exe did not handle frames close to start and end of a recording, properly, so I created my own code to create the cut list myself. Later versions of comskip.exe corrected these problems.

WaitForSmartChapters= Tes/No Default No. No longer needed. I learned how to determine for myself if BTV was or was not creating a SmartChapter file and I now override this dynamically.

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Topic: Links

comskip:
http://www.kaashoek.com/comskip/files/

VideoReDo:
http://www.videoredo.com/Download.htm

AutoGK:
http://www.autogk.me.uk/modules.php?name=Downloads

SnapStream Knowledgebase:
http://snapstream.helpserve.com/inde...1&pcid=0&nav=0

MetaDataExtractor.exe for BTV 4.8.x http://forums.snapstream.com/vb/atta...9&d=1203799034

[moonlonely]

I installed this program, and it did not auto-run after my next recording, so I went and clicked on the shortcut for autoxvid.exe, and it gave me the message "only mpg or avi filetypes supported," which is odd, because I record to mpg.

Am I doing something wrong? I also couldn't find an easy way to uninstall the program.

Thanks
--Brad

[leecole]

Originally Posted by moonlonely

I installed this program, and it did not auto-run after my next recording, so I went and clicked on the shortcut for autoxvid.exe, and it gave me the message "only mpg or avi filetypes supported," which is odd, because I record to mpg.

Am I doing something wrong? I also couldn't find an easy way to uninstall the program.

Thanks
--Brad

Did you install it by running InstallAutoxvid.exe? If so check "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Snapstream\Beyond TV\CustomPostProcessing.xml" It should read:
<CustomTasks>
<Task>
<GUID>531E0175-87F4-4d6f-B464-E603BC641DAE</GUID>
<Priority>Immediate</Priority>
<PropertyCollection>
<Property>
<Name>Command</Name>
<Value>DRIVE:/WHERE YOU INSTALLED THE PACKAGE\AutoXvid.exe</Value>
</Property>
</PropertyCollection>
</Task>
</CustomTasks>

The Desktop shortcuts are there for Drag and Drop, explore click on MPG file, hold down mouse button and drag the file to the shortcut for AutoXvid and release. But if the above file is there and has
DRIVE:/WHERE YOU INSTALLED THE PACKAGE\AutoXvid.exe in the 8th line, then Beyond TV should have executed AutoXvid and passed it the path/file.

Lee Cole
If you wish to uninstall, delete the file "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Snapstream\Beyond TV\CustomPostProcessing.xml"
and the directry where you installed the package.

[moonlonely]

Yeah, the custom post processing file looks fine. When I try to drag and drop the file, it seems to load autogk just fine, but is a bit quirky about starting the encode.

And after recording three different programs tonight, it has yet to auto-encode any of them.

This looks like a great program, but I really should wait a few days before I tinker with it. I'm actually moving tomorrow morning, and should be cleaning the kitchen sink right now.

Thanks for the quick response, and I'll probably have a few more questions later in the week.

[ThickHead]

Lee,
This sounds like it has everything I want from an automated compression utility, but I'm still trying to get it to work. I followed all your instructions for installation and "AutoXvid.ini" edits, including the steps in "mpg2srt.pdf", and verified the "CustomPostProcessing.xml" file. However, nothing happened after a BTV record finished or when I drag & dropped that recording onto the destop icon.

After doing some research, I found a gotcha... I didn't have "ssppcmd.dll" as mentioned in this KB article, so you may want to include that file in your install:

http://kb.snapstream.com/?kbid=175&p...c3RvbQ**&p_li=

I tried again, and this time it appeared to kick off ok, as evidenced by an AutoXvid icon in the system tray having a mouse-over ballon that shows the new recording's filename. I looked at "AutoXvid.log" and it has a couple lines indicating that it acknowledges the new show. BTV Smartskip is enabled, so that ran immediately after the recording ended, but AutoXvid never did anything after that finished and that's where I'm presently stuck.
Thanks!

[leecole]

Originally Posted by ThickHead

Lee,
This sounds like it has everything I want from an automated compression utility, but I'm still trying to get it to work. I followed all your instructions for installation and "AutoXvid.ini" edits, including the steps in "mpg2srt.pdf", and verified the "CustomPostProcessing.xml" file. However, nothing happened after a BTV record finished or when I drag & dropped that recording onto the destop icon.

After doing some research, I found a gotcha... I didn't have "ssppcmd.dll" as mentioned in this KB article, so you may want to include that file in your install:

http://kb.snapstream.com/?kbid=175&p...c3RvbQ**&p_li=

I tried again, and this time it appeared to kick off ok, as evidenced by an AutoXvid icon in the system tray having a mouse-over ballon that shows the new recording's filename. I looked at "AutoXvid.log" and it has a couple lines indicating that it acknowledges the new show. BTV Smartskip is enabled, so that ran immediately after the recording ended, but AutoXvid never did anything after that finished and that's where I'm presently stuck.
Thanks!

Thanks ThickHead, nice catch. I have used CustomPostProcessing for so long that I had forgotten the DLL requirement. I will indeed include the DLL and change InstallAutoXvid to check if it is already inplace and if not, put it there.

About your other problem, did AutoGK ever start running? AutoXvid should only be active for a few moments if not burning subtitles (if burning subtitles, it waits until SubTitles is finished before starting AutoGK) it then starts AutoGK, and waits on the AutoGK process, fills in parameters on AutoGk screen then starts ScheduledRun, and exits. ScheduledRun should then determine if AutoGK should be started now (AutoGKExecutionHours) if so it should start the AutoGK encoding process. If AutoXvid is setting waiting, it sounds as though
maybe InstallAutoXvid built the exection path wrong in the AutoXvid.ini?

It's great when someone debugs their on problem. I only own a single system, so I am never starting from scratch. Like forgetting about the DLL. Thanks again.
Lee Cole

[kreyz28]

ThickHead, excellent catch, I know can get the jobs queued in autoxvid.

Lee, I noticed a couple of things in my testing.

1. I can see the job queued in autogk, but it seems to never click on the "start" button to start processing
2. I started logging the processing and noticed that it has the following for epgdata:

DeleteSource=1 EpisodeData+1

is it suppose to be +1?

Excellent stuff btw, much easier to integrate with btv than the other plugins I've tried.

[leecole]

Here is the fix for missing ssppcmd.dll problem. InstallAutoXvid.exe has been updated to insure this DLL is in place. I need to find out how I provide the update to first thread entry.

[leecole]

Originally Posted by kreyz28

ThickHead, excellent catch, I know can get the jobs queued in autoxvid.

Lee, I noticed a couple of things in my testing.

1. I can see the job queued in autogk, but it seems to never click on the "start" button to start processing
2. I started logging the processing and noticed that it has the following for epgdata:

DeleteSource=1 EpisodeData+1

is it suppose to be +1?

Excellent stuff btw, much easier to integrate with btv than the other plugins I've tried.

In your AutoXvid.ini you should have a entry under [SheduledRun] that reads:
AGKExecutionHours= Immediate (I think that is what InstallAutoXvid buikds.
You can change that to
AGKExecutionHours= 10pm thru 6am (using English notation)
or to:
AGKExecutionHours= 22-6 (using 24 hour clock)
In the above two examples, at 10pm or 22 hours ScheduledRun should 'hit' the START button on AutoGK's screen, which should start the encoding. In the first example "immediate" ScheduledRun should hit the START button immediatlly.
In the AutoXvid.ini under [Episode] you should have
[Episode]
EpisodeData= Yes (or 1, 1 and yes are equivalent)
and under [ScheduledRun] you should have:
DeleteSource= Yes (or DeleteSource=1 if you want the mpg file deleted)
It will only be deleted though if AutoGK successfully builds an AVI file.
If your AutoXvid.ini tells AutoXvid that AutoGK is only to execute for the hours between 10pm and 6am, then AutoGK will set there in a wait state, with one or more files queued, but not encoding until ScheduledRun "hits" the START button at 10pm. Also ScheduledRun is loaded but does a wait until 10pm. So
neither one is using cpu cycles.
Does this help? BTV queues the file to AutoXvid, AutoXvid queues the file to AutoGK, and ScheduledRun decieds based on the AGKExecutionHours in AuutoXvid.ini when to kick the process off.
Lee Cole

[kreyz28]

I actually do have the AKGExecutionHours set to Immediate so I'm not sure why it won't start the autogk compression. Here's my ini if yo want to take a look.


[AutoXVID]
AutoGKPath= C:\Program Files\AutoGK\AutoGK.exe
BTVRecordFolders= D:\pvr
BTVRecurseFolders= D:\pvr
OutPutSize= Quality 75%
Priority= Low
MakeSubDir= No
SubDirFormat= Genre\Title
Logging= Yes
OutPutFolder= D:\pvr
Quite= Yes

[Episode]
EpisodeData= Yes

[SubTitles]
SubTitlesDesired=
BurnSubTitles=
CCPath= .subtitles
SubTitlesDesire= No


[ScheduledRun]
AGKExecutionHours= Immediate
WaitForSmartChapters= Yes
DeleteSource= Yes
ShutDown= No

[leecole]

Originally Posted by kreyz28

I actually do have the AKGExecutionHours set to Immediate so I'm not sure why it won't start the autogk compression. Here's my ini if yo want to take a look.


[AutoXVID]
AutoGKPath= C:\Program Files\AutoGK\AutoGK.exe
BTVRecordFolders= D:\pvr
BTVRecurseFolders= D:\pvr
OutPutSize= Quality 75%
Priority= Low
MakeSubDir= No
SubDirFormat= Genre\Title
Logging= Yes
OutPutFolder= D:\pvr
Quite= Yes

[Episode]
EpisodeData= Yes

[SubTitles]
SubTitlesDesired=
BurnSubTitles=
CCPath= .subtitles
SubTitlesDesire= No


[ScheduledRun]
AGKExecutionHours= Immediate
WaitForSmartChapters= Yes
DeleteSource= Yes
ShutDown= No

It would appear that I misspelled SubTitlesDesired in the InstallAutoXvid.exe, missed the d at the end. You should change the INI to read :
SubTitlesDesired= No
but that is not your problem. It would appear that ScheduledRun did not 'Hit' the START button on AutoGK. If you RESTORE AutoGK it will 'hide' itself, it's icon will pop up on the right side of the toolbar, you can then restore it. It should have the job queued. If you click START it should begin. Meanwhile I will reexamine the code that 'hits' START in ScheduledRun.
Thanks for trying AutoXvid.
Lee Cole

[leecole]

krezy28, are you sure AutoGK is not encoding? if you restore it's window, is there any data in the AutoGK log area? Do you have a subdir D:\agk_tmp? I originally had ScheduledRun hitting Start for every job submitted, but then I decided that that wasn't needed except for the first job, so ScheduledRun doesn't hit START if the root drive for the final destination, in your case that is drive D: , has a subdir agk_tmp, AutoGK's work area. AutoXvid has the AVI built in the root (a move to the proper dir only consists of the dir being updated, not moving the file itself) in order to move AutoGK's tmp files showing up in BTV's folders. Once BTV "sees" a new subdirectry in a recursed folder, ScheduledRun, or AutoGK can't delete it. The delete won't occur until BTV closes. Maybe I outsmarted myself. ScheduledRun deletes the subdir once AutoGK is finished, but I didn't anticipate that a agk_tmp subdir may already exist?
Lee Cole

[neekap]

Okay, I'm lost. I've tried the install both with and without BeyondTV running, and it gets "stuck" on the part where it opens Notepad and gathers BTV folder paths. The script gets "paused" and the install stops at that point and I can't complete the install.

The documentation is kind of lacking in information about how I need to proceed from here. Can anyone help?

[leecole]

Originally Posted by neekap

Okay, I'm lost. I've tried the install both with and without BeyondTV running, and it gets "stuck" on the part where it opens Notepad and gathers BTV folder paths. The script gets "paused" and the install stops at that point and I can't complete the install.

The documentation is kind of lacking in information about how I need to proceed from here. Can anyone help?

Let's see if the forum will allow me to post a zip file. If sussesful unzip a new version of InstallAutoXvid that doesn't use Notepad to gather the info it requires.
Lee Cole