Showanalyzer settings?

[MrApollinax]

Are there any settings that I should be using with show analyzer? It seems that it only catches 15% of the commercials in my MEPG2 files. Also SA crashes before it finishes processing the file. So for a 2GB mepg i'm getting txt files of less than 30 bytes. Something must be wrong since it seems this is what everyone is using for commerical skipping. I'm also thinking of getting videoredo to edit the files for me using SA output. But first I need to get SA up and working as advertised.

[Jere_Jones]

The txt files created by SA are small since they only contain a series of numbers. 30 bytes sounds about right.

Regarding the crashing: Can you elaborate on what it is doing?

Jere

[MrApollinax]

Windows tells me that showanalyzer.exe has experienced some problems and must shut down and then it asks me to go through the bug reporting process:

Originally Posted by Data in Bytes

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Application Error
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1000
Date: 1/2/2006
Time: 10:55:43 PM
User: N/A
Computer: LOGOS
Description:
Faulting application showanalyzer.exe, version 0.5.10.336, faulting module showanalyzer.dll, version 0.5.10.247, fault address 0x000325ec.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74 Applicat
0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c ion Fail
0010: 75 72 65 20 20 73 68 6f ure sho
0018: 77 61 6e 61 6c 79 7a 65 wanalyze
0020: 72 2e 65 78 65 20 30 2e r.exe 0.
0028: 35 2e 31 30 2e 33 33 36 5.10.336
0030: 20 69 6e 20 73 68 6f 77 in show
0038: 61 6e 61 6c 79 7a 65 72 analyzer
0040: 2e 64 6c 6c 20 30 2e 35 .dll 0.5
0048: 2e 31 30 2e 32 34 37 20 .10.247
0050: 61 74 20 6f 66 66 73 65 at offse
0058: 74 20 30 30 30 33 32 35 t 000325
0060: 65 63 0d 0a ec..

Originally Posted by Data in Words

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Application Error
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1000
Date: 1/2/2006
Time: 10:55:43 PM
User: N/A
Computer: LOGOS
Description:
Faulting application showanalyzer.exe, version 0.5.10.336, faulting module showanalyzer.dll, version 0.5.10.247, fault address 0x000325ec.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 6c707041 74616369 206e6f69 6c696146
0010: 20657275 6f687320 616e6177 657a796c
0020: 78652e72 2e302065 30312e35 3633332e
0030: 206e6920 776f6873 6c616e61 72657a79
0040: 6c6c642e 352e3020 2e30312e 20373432
0050: 6f207461 65736666 30302074 35323330
0060: 0a0d6365

I've attached two text files generated for the show "24" where SA missed a good majority of the commercials.

[MrApollinax]

Looking at my txt files generated I see that i either have on or two lines of numbers or I have no numbers at all with the words "FILE PROCESSING COMPLETE" in the text. Is this normal?

[MrApollinax]

In addition to this i have noticed the SA leaves phantom icons in my systray. If i hovermy pointer over them they go away. This to me usually means a process didn't terminate correctly. Any suggestions?

[Jere_Jones]

What you are experiencing is definately not normal. If you can be patient with me for just a little while longer. I will get an update out Sunday {fingers crossed}.

Then we can see if that one crashes on you. If it doesn't, great. If it does then we can troubleshoot from there.

Jere

[MrApollinax]

Sorry if i sounded impatient. I really do appreciate all the work you've done with this software and the interface. I know what it's like to have a lot of projects on your plate and trying to get them all done in a timely fashion is hard. I'll check back on this thread on sunday!

[Stuntman]

Originally Posted by Jere_Jones

I will get an update out Sunday {fingers crossed}.
Jere

Which Sunday? Is this update for registered users or is it a alpha to the beta?

OR is this the big enchilada.. the RELEASED version??

FWIW I am quite happy with the current BETA, but better is always better! Looking forward to your next rev!!

[MrApollinax]

Is there any debugging you would like me to do to get you more info? I'm not afraid to tinker with my system if it means getting you the info you need to troubleshoot my issue. My system specs are in my sig.

[Jere_Jones]

Originally Posted by Stuntman

Which Sunday? Is this update for registered users or is it a alpha to the beta?

OR is this the big enchilada.. the RELEASED version??

FWIW I am quite happy with the current BETA, but better is always better! Looking forward to your next rev!!

I suspect that a RELEASE version (i.e. Version 1.0) is many moon away. However, a real, supported, not crazy acting 0.6.0 is just around the corner. And the detection is not as accurate, but it handles the misdetections better.

See, in my experience, SA is either dead on or way, way off. SA is much better behaved now. It doesn't go crazy and mark half the show as a commercial. The registered version is also about 50-80% faster.

Jere

[MrApollinax]

Excellent! I've already registered my copy and I can't wait to get this up and running correctly