Feature Requests and Response Status

[Ryland]

Your test VAP6 detects commercials and saves the vprj file. I will test more tomorrow since I found that the input file seems to have an error which causes VRD to crash on output.

Edit: I had another video which I was able to use and VAP shows VRD as having stalled even though it never looks like it did (The bar kept moving and the file size was increasing). The output file was successfully created using VRD and the vprj file that VAP6 made.

Log:
10/8/2019 10:16:57 PM VideoReDo said: INFO: VideoReDo version 6.60.3.805 - Oct 4 2019
10/8/2019 10:17:02 PM VideoReDo said: INFO: VideoReDo opened file: \\TOWER\public\RecordedTv\NCIS (2003) - S17E03 - Going Mobile.ts
10/8/2019 10:28:20 PM VideoReDo completed VideoReDo AdScan on input: \\TOWER\public\RecordedTv\NCIS (2003) - S17E03 - Going Mobile.ts
10/8/2019 10:30:37 PM 0 file ignore keys were read
10/8/2019 10:30:37 PM 0 file wildcard match keys were read
10/8/2019 10:30:37 PM Read 0 input filename metadata parsing template(s)
10/8/2019 10:30:37 PM Read 0 title translation data lines
10/8/2019 10:30:37 PM Read 0 profile match list items
10/8/2019 10:30:37 PM Metadata-based templates:
10/8/2019 10:30:37 PM Series Output Folder = ""
10/8/2019 10:30:37 PM Series Output file = "{title} {seasonnum}x{epnum} {eptitle}"
10/8/2019 10:30:37 PM Movie Output Folder = ""
10/8/2019 10:30:37 PM Movie Output File Name = ""
10/8/2019 10:30:37 PM Title = ""
10/8/2019 10:30:37 PM Started auto-cuts, input: NCIS (2003) - S17E03 - Going Mobile
10/8/2019 10:30:37 PM Using profile: *MP4-H264
10/8/2019 10:30:49 PM VideoReDo said: INFO: VideoReDo version 6.60.3.805 - Oct 4 2019
10/8/2019 10:34:39 PM STALL ERROR: VideoReDo process stalled -- killing it
10/8/2019 10:34:39 PM Moving input file: NCIS (2003) - S17E03 - Going Mobile.ts
10/8/2019 10:34:39 PM Started moving stalled file: "NCIS (2003) - S17E03 - Going Mobile.ts"
10/8/2019 10:34:44 PM Finished moving "NCIS (2003) - S17E03 - Going Mobile.ts" to stalled folder
10/8/2019 10:36:58 PM H.264 is encoding for: NCIS (2003) - S17E03 - Going Mobile.ts
10/8/2019 10:37:26 PM Stopped program

 

[dlflannery]

Your test VAP6 detects commercials and saves the vprj file. I will test more tomorrow since I found that the input file seems to have an error which causes VRD to crash on output.

Edit: I had another video which I was able to use and VAP shows VRD as having stalled even though it never looks like it did (The bar kept moving and the file size was increasing). The output file was successfully created using VRD and the vprj file that VAP6 made.
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On the "Other" tab of the Advanced Configuration page there is a checkbox to disable stall detection.

Stall detection occurs if either of these two conditions are met::
1. If no progress is made over two 2-minute intervals
2. The total CPU time for the TVS6 COM process is less than 10% of time elapsed since the process started.

These parameters are not adjustable in the VAP6 UI, but they are in the VideoFileManager.xml file and changes can be edited (recommend edit this file only when VAP6 is not running, and save off a copy before editing)..

<MaxStalledFileRetries>1</MaxStalledFileRetries> See note 1
<StallCheckIntervalSeconds>120</StallCheckIntervalSeconds>
<StallRetryIntervalMinutes>10</StallRetryIntervalMinutes> See note 1
<StallCpuUseThreshold>0.1</StallCpuUseThreshold>

Note 1: The current settings mean the file moved to the stalled folder will be retried (moved back into the monitored folder) one time after a ten minute interval.

Obviously there is no algorithm/settings combo that can be guaranteed correct for any possible setup and contingency (e.g., CPU busy with too many other processes).

BTW, saving from VRD using the VAP6-created project file is not the identical task because you had to be using a different Output Profile. The *MP4-H264 is defined only within VAP6. It was created in TVS6 by starting with its MP4 profile then forcing the output codec to H.264 and setting the quality to 50, then exporting. You could of course create the identical profile in your TVS6.

EDIT:
The process you provided the log excerpt for went almost 4 minutes before stalling. What percent completion was it showing before the stall detection? Was it nearing 100%?

 

[Ryland]

EDIT:
The process you provided the log excerpt for went almost 4 minutes before stalling. What percent completion was it showing before the stall detection? Was it nearing 100%?

I will try again after disabling stall detection. It was probably around 60% done. Having it take awhile saving over the network is fairly normal for me.

 

[dlflannery]

I will try again after disabling stall detection. It was probably around 60% done. Having it take awhile saving over the network is fairly normal for me.

Don't know if you are aware of this VAP feature, or if it would help regarding your network situation:

If VAP terminates itself due either to -maxIdle or -shutdown times (while running with the -hotStart CL arg), it will launch a script named VAPonShutDown.cmd (or .bat) – if it finds the script in the configured Output Folder. VAP then terminates immediately (without waiting for the script process to complete). No arguments are sent to the script. A message telling whether the script was launched is logged. This script is a convenient place to execute clean-up operations that apply to many output files that have been processed, e.g., moving them to a network drive.

 

[Ryland]

My last usage of VAP6 went without a hitch without disabling the stall detection. I might just increase the timeout to 3 minutes and see how it goes. Thanks!

 

[dlflannery]

Just released Beta #3 of VAP6, which is a .NET 4.0 program built in Visual Studio Community. The integrated ability to use a free Git repository on Azure.com is nifty!

 

[minimeh]

Awesome, glad that worked out for you!

 

[dlj9999]

Just wanted to say i was having the same problem with "Comskip cannot process current file type -- reverting to VRD AdDetective ".
i inserted the xml dlflannery posted and everything works.
So thank you.

 

[dlflannery]

Just wanted to say i was having the same problem with "Comskip cannot process current file type -- reverting to VRD AdDetective ".
i inserted the xml dlflannery posted and everything works.
So thank you.

Glad it's working for you but confused by what you said. The xml file I attached earlier in this thread would have no connection with the Comskip message AFAIK. That message means just what it says. Typically it occurs when you try to use the free version on a file containing H.264 video.

 

[Bradj@mira.net]

Feature Request:
please add a “pre-processing” option, like post-processing but it is the first step executed.
this is so I can use the trim script as part of my workflow instead of having to do it in 2 passes (Trim only, then a second pass with QSF, AdScan and encode.

 

[dlflannery]

Feature Request:
please add a “pre-processing” option, like post-processing but it is the first step executed.
this is so I can use the trim script as part of my workflow instead of having to do it in 2 passes (Trim only, then a second pass with QSF, AdScan and encode.

This would be a major coding effort. However, it may be possible to configure VAP6 to make it do what you want without mods.

Could you give several examples of the sequence of file names for a video as it goes through your flow, i.e.,
Input file name
File name after trimming.
File name after QSF, Adscan and encode

Also, how are you doing the trim? Is this a script using VRD COM functions?