OK, I'm back to no theory other than differences between TVS5 and TVS6 COM behavior.My files have .ts extensions and are recorded using Plex on a Unraid box. Removing hotstart CL didnt change anything.
Have you looked into Visual Studio Community? If not, you might be surprised that it is a full-featured IDE for free. As a long time developer using VS (and also having locked into VS 2012 as my last paid version) I know I was pleasantly surprised. For details, see https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/community/I don't plan to upgrade to a later version of VS as my usage of it amounts mostly just to maintaining/modifying a few programs (e.g., VAP) and that doesn't justify the $45/month cost.
Thanks, that is interesting. I may try importing/converting VAP6 into that. Obviously one wonders what features are missing in a free version. I found this comparison page:Have you looked into Visual Studio Community? If not, you might be surprised that it is a full-featured IDE for free. As a long time developer using VS (and also having locked into VS 2012 as my last paid version) I know I was pleasantly surprised. For details, see https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/community/
As was I. I think you'll be surprised. You can run it side by side with VS2012 until you're convinced. I had no problems importing projects. It will save your original project files, but I made sure to back everything up so it could be restored if needed.I have to be a little skeptical of that.
EDIT:I copied a file over to a local disk and modified all of the settings to point there and VAP6 still crashed.
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So far I agree with you! I have Community VS installed and have ported VAP6 into it and it appears to be working fine (using .NET 4). I've kept the VS2008 project of course, and the two versions of VS co-exist fine with no problems. I need to test the VAP6 "community" version more before I consider it successfully ported.As was I. I think you'll be surprised. You can run it side by side with VS2012 until you're convinced. I had no problems importing projects. It will save your original project files, but I made sure to back everything up so it could be restored if needed.
Well that ArgLog.txt provides a major clue --- although I haven't been able to deduce the problem from it --- yet.The last thing I did before shutting VAP6 down was to try to process that mp4 file. Commercial detection works fine if I use VAP6 itself to do it (open the file in VAP6 then select Ad Detective from the menu).
Did some experimenting on this issue. I uninstalled VAP6 from the administrator account I normally use and deleted the entire VAP6 folder tree from Program Files (86). Then I logged in to a non-administrator account and re-installed VAP6. It forced me to enter administrator account credentials before the installer would run. Then I ran VAP6 without "run as administrator", and it failed big-time -- the TVS6 COM functions would not run. Then I ran VAP6 "as administrator" with my normal admin account credentials and VAP6 worked just as if I was logged in on the account.……………..
3. User Account permission issues? When you install TVS6 and VAP6 are you using an Administrator account, or running the installers as administrator? Same question for when you run VAP6.
1. VAP6 shows *Default which is the only option in the list.Well that ArgLog.txt provides a major clue --- although I haven't been able to deduce the problem from it --- yet.
Your ArgLog has "(not set)" as the last argument, which should be a long XML string defining the default AdScan profile, as shown in the attached file "CorrectArgLog.txt". This would cause the AdScan VBScript to fail as it is.
So far I haven't been able to induce this error in my setup, But here are some diagnostic things:
1. What is VAP6 showing in the AdScan Profile pull-down selector list? Is it showing "*Default" or "(not set)" ? If you have created modified AdScan profiles in TVS6, they also will show on the selector list.
2. I'm curious if there are any log messages indicating a problem reading the local profile XML list (which includes the *default adScan profile plus 3 other output (not adscan) profiles I have defined). Thus please look at the attached "LogStartupExcerpt.txt" file which shows my VAP6 log messages at startup. Please copy a similar excerpt from your log file and post or attach it.
3. User Account permission issues? When you install TVS6 and VAP6 are you using an Administrator account, or running the installers as administrator? Same question for when you run VAP6.