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Hmm... any idea what command line options you used to buildffmpeg with the reduced content? I'm trying this all again on a fresh PC, the Windows 7 DVR machine I'll be running comskip on. Ok so I figured we need h.264 and mpeg2 decoding, so first I tried $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --disable-al...

I have no idea, I just built with default settings. Did you build ffmpeg yourself, or download windows binaries somewhere?

I think it's more likely ihat I need to build using MinGW, but without using MSYS2 at all. Is this maybe what you did?

Sorry for the delay. OK, I pretty much followed the instructions you listed at: https://github.com/erikkaashoek/Comskip Here's what I did: Install MSYS2 by following the instructions at https://msys2.github.io/ NOTE: The "msys2-i686-20190524.exe" version (Windows 7 64-bit) Ran "MSYS2 ...

Sorry, I lost the HDD on the PC I was using, so no. Maybe the key to avoiding the ReleaseSemaphore is to build it on a Windows 7 machine. You could just try running MinGW-w64 (or whatever build system) in compatibility mode for Windows 7 . Or, if you have Windows 10 Pro, you could enable Enable Hype...

Ok I finally got around to this. :? I got the source from github and built using MSYS2 and MinGW-w64. It built AND run OK on a Windows 7 machine. Problem is, the comskip.exe I built depends on msys2.dll and others. Why is that? The builds at at http://www.kaashoek.com/files/ or http://www.kaashoek.c...

Understood. I can try and investigate further... Is comskip source code still available? http://comskip.org/ says it's at svn://svn.kaashoek.com but it's not working? Also does the code include any instructions on how to set up the MINGW build? How do I get libavcodec - is it just from the ffmpeg so...

Interesting link there Menelmacar. So I think you should try to remove any dependencies on synchronization.lib (the "synchapi" module?) Here's their change for that: https://github.com/alexcrichton/parking_lot/commit/3fecbdfeceeea6446ec178e7cfa03cecb2f7b1ae#diff-9dee1a7419d98f82ac52f53b179...

I tried installing a couple of runtime updates from Microsoft: The latest supported Visual C++ downloads - "x64: vc_redist.x64.exe" https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2977003/the-latest-supported-visual-c-downloads Update for Universal C Runtime in Windows - "All supported x64-b...

Actually what I said before was incorrect. Comskip82_007 and comskip82_008 are mostly identical, according to dependency walker and dumpbin. There were just some additional differences between donator and non-donator versions. So let's see... dumpbin /IMPORTS says this about that DLL: api-ms-win-cor...

Thanks for the quick response! Sure I can test. Unfortunately I still see the same ReleaseSemaphore error on Windows 7. It does seem improved, in that the "Image Ver" column of Dependency Walker (http://dependencywalker.com/) for comskip.exe now shows "6.1" rather than "6.3&...

It looks like this was asked over on AVSForum previously, but didn't really get an answer there. https://www.avsforum.com/forum/26-home-theater-computers/3054454-new-comskip-donator-version.html I just upgraded my comskip donators version to 82_007 on my Windows 7 DVR PC, and it as soon as it runs, ...