Comskip Monitor: Announcement

[vividweb]

Thanks for the reply hemicuda. I do have it setup for UNC paths, the service was working in the past so I'm not sure. I will have to double check which user the service runs under.

[phelme]

Originally Posted by hemicuda

after you ran the setup.bat for CSM did you go into control panel.. services and set it to run as a user that has r/w access on the server? also, it won't work with mapped drives. have to use UNC paths. there's a post further up in this thread about how to do that by editing csm.properties.

let's see if I have this right. basically each time one runs setup.bat to change something, it resets the service owner back to Local System. so you'll have to go in to the services CP again to change it back to the user with r/w access. at least this is what I am experiencing.

[hemicuda]

you are correct. it unloads and reloads the service into the list and the batch file doesn't know how to or isn't written to use a specific login. that's why I try to edit the properties file manually. it's not an overly complicated file except for the extra \ needed in paths. must be a java thing.

[vividweb]

It definitely was the service not set up to run as a user. I didn't realize that it changed after running setup.bat. I think that definitely needs to be a change to the features (if possible). All is working perfectly again.

[JREkiwi]

Steep, found an interesting situation while trying to do some tuning of comskip.

I changed cleanup.file.extensions so that the .log files would not be deleted.

Following that, Comskip Monitor continuously runs comskip, reprocessing all my recordings, including all the ones that already have been processed, again and again.

I've tried doing a manual delete of the .log files to see if that stop sit from reprocessing the recordings, but it makes no difference.

Setting the cleanup.file.extensions to include .log files returns Comskip Monitor to it's normal operation of only processing unprocessed recordings.

John

[mightyt]

Downliaded and ran setup ...

DOS Box opened up and gave me the followiong Exception Error ??

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: CSMConfig
wrapper | OpenSCManager failed - Access is denied. (0x5)
wrapper | OpenSCManager failed - Access is denied. (0x5)
Press any key to continue . . .
The service name is invalid.

More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 2185.

Press any key to continue . . .


Note; Running Vista, Sage 6.2.4 Client Beta and Java 6.1.

Any Ideas??

Thanks, T.

[Steep]

Originally Posted by mightyt

Downliaded and ran setup ...

Note; Running Vista, Sage 6.2.4 Client Beta and Java 6.1.

I can't think of anything off the top of my head. I'm still running Windows XP at home and work. I don't have access to a Vista box to test on.

You have Java installed correctly since you're getting a Java generated message NoClassDefFound.

CSM =
1) Native Windows program that runs as a service.
2) That service wraps a Java program that just monitors the directories, launches Comskip and cleans up files.
3) Comskip.

I'm guessing the problem has to do with the Windows Service Wrapper #1 which may not work on Vista the same way as XP. If I can ever get my hands on a Vista machine, I can try to test this out, but until then, I'm kind of stuck. Sorry

-Hayden

*UPDATE:
Googled turned up this post at Sun's website about Java services not working.

Looks like only Java ver 5 or 6 is compatible with Vista. CSM is compiled using JVM 1.4 in order to be the most compatible. I can try compiling the program in Java 1.6 and see if that helps.

[roxy99]

Originally Posted by Steep

*UPDATE:
Googled turned up this post at Sun's website about Java services not working.

Looks like only Java ver 5 or 6 is compatible with Vista. CSM is compiled using JVM 1.4 in order to be the most compatible. I can try compiling the program in Java 1.6 and see if that helps.

It can't hurt to have 2 versions on CSM- 1 for JVM 1.4 and another for JVM 1.6. This way everyone can enjoy CSM.

[mightyt]

Originally Posted by Steep

Looks like only Java ver 5 or 6 is compatible with Vista. CSM is compiled using JVM 1.4 in order to be the most compatible. I can try compiling the program in Java 1.6 and see if that helps.

Yes... I did have to upgrade Java to 6.1.1 in order to be compatible with Vista.

I did a poll a while ago ...

http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/show...hlight=comskip

... and everyone talked up your ComSkip Monitor.

I have only had exerience with the ShowAnalyzer / DirMon Comskip, but wanted to give yours a try since it was suppose to be simple and reliable.

If it wouldn't be too much trouble and you can find a box to recompile, that would be great for those of us with Vista. Certainly would be appreciated!

Thanks, T.

[jkohn]

Originally Posted by mightyt

Downliaded and ran setup ...

DOS Box opened up and gave me the followiong Exception Error ??

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: CSMConfig
wrapper | OpenSCManager failed - Access is denied. (0x5)
wrapper | OpenSCManager failed - Access is denied. (0x5)
Press any key to continue . . .
The service name is invalid.

More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 2185.

Press any key to continue . . .

A Java
Note; Running Vista, Sage 6.2.4 Client Beta and Java 6.1.

Any Ideas??

Thanks, T.

My guess is that UAC is getting in the way. You probably need to run the setup as an administrator since it's installing a service. I think an app compiled for Java 1.4 should run fine under Java 1.6, aren't the runtimes supposed to be backwards compatible for the most part? Sage 6.x isn't compiled for Java 1.6 after all. I'm running Java 1.6 on my machines and have no problems with Compskip Monitor.

[mightyt]

Originally Posted by jkohn

My guess is that UAC is getting in the way. You probably need to run the setup as an administrator since it's installing a service. I think an app compiled for Java 1.4 should run fine under Java 1.6, aren't the runtimes supposed to be backwards compatible for the most part? Sage 6.x isn't compiled for Java 1.6 after all. I'm running Java 1.6 on my machines and have no problems with Compskip Monitor.

Good point ... but unfotunately ... same error ...

Thanks, T.

[hemicuda]

would there be an easy way to make CSM wait on autocompress to finish before running? Thanks to the way Sage renames the files the first pass on the original is wasted clock cycles. This may not be possible since I run comskip while recording. Right now I just have one show that gets recompressed to SD from HD, but if there were an easy way to do it I'd try.

[mightyt]

Originally Posted by Steep

Looks like only Java ver 5 or 6 is compatible with Vista. CSM is compiled using JVM 1.4 in order to be the most compatible. I can try compiling the program in Java 1.6 and see if that helps.

Hayden ...

Not pushing, jut wondering is this a big effort (compiling the program in Java 1.6) and take a while or something that can be done fairly easily?

Thanks, T.

[kevpriest]

Just a note to say this solution has been working flawlessly for me for several months now, and my wife just loves the transparency of it. It took me a little while to get everything set up, as I had some confusion with the paths and the owner of the process, but once that was sorted, it's been perfect. Very easy to configure, other than the service ownership.

[Muchacho]

Is comskip monitor able to start multiple instances of comskip simultaneously? While comskip monitor is working great for me I would like to have multiple shows processed at the same time.

Thanks

[CollinR]

I have XP Pro with java 1.6 and my service doesn't start either. Also SageTV is going to start including v1.6 in the installer in 6.3.7RC so I really hope getting java 1.6 support isn't too bad.

I like this Commskip/Monitor combo so much I may find a 1.4 version copy to get my new server going.

[gplasky]

Make sure you're using a user with a password and admin privileges or the service won't start.

Gerry

[FidgetyRat]

Originally Posted by CollinR

I like this Commskip/Monitor combo so much I may find a 1.4 version copy to get my new server going.

I'm running XP with the newest versions of sage, comskip, comskip monitor, and java 6. I have no problems with my services. I haven't even had to change the owner at all.

[lotusvball]

Me too. I even updated to java 1.6 after I had installed comskip monitor. no problems.

[CollinR]

Did you remove the version of java Sage tries to install?

You see I stopped my installation and then manually installed only v1.6 so I don't have 1.2 or 1.4 also installed.


I'm pretty sure the login only effects shared drives and read protected files. However CommSkip Monitor is configured to login using the same user as the SageTV service does.

Here is my config maybe I botched something else.

#csm.properties
#Wed Jan 23 23:49:22 CST 2008
time.between.checks=1
comskip.config=C\:\\MediaServer\\ComskipMonitor\\comskip79_76\\comskip.ini
process.file.extensions=.mpg, .mpeg
execute.during.record=yes
slow.hours=1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24
related.file.extensions=.avi
comskip.parameters=
exclude.hours=
file.directories=\\\\Srv1\\Media, \\\\Srv1\\Media two, \\\\Srv1\\Media Three
cleanup.file.extensions=.txt,.log,.edl,.csv
comskip.location=C\:\\MediaServer\\ComskipMonitor\\comskip79_76\\comskip.exe