Comskip and Windows Server 2008 R2 Core Standard

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Comskip and Windows Server 2008 R2 Core Standard

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Will comskip run on this type of server?
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Re: Comskip and Windows Server 2008 R2 Core Standard

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Can't think of any reason why not.
It just a 32 bit console application doing very basic file IO with a bit of multi threading.
Just take the free version and let it process a video file.
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Re: Comskip and Windows Server 2008 R2 Core Standard

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How much bandwidth does comskip need? Thinking about doing this through my network and trying to lay out a network plan.
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Re: Comskip and Windows Server 2008 R2 Core Standard

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Where are the recordings stored and where will you run comskip (which CPU, local to the drives, that is on the file server, or remote).
Comskip will read once sequential the entire recording for analysis. The other file IO done by comskip can be ignored compared to reading the recording.
Comskip is normally either IO limited (can't read the recording faster) or CPU limited
Running one or multiple comskip in parallel can make a huge difference as the additional head movement of having two or more recordings read in parallel can kill the read speed of a single disk.
This is because comskip does not read with big buffers so it can follow real time a recording.
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Re: Comskip and Windows Server 2008 R2 Core Standard

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The recordings are stored in the living room on the media center attached to the TV. I will run comskip through the MoCA network on a networked Domain core server (not a DC).. The server is just something I'll be running Comskip on, it's not a NAS or anything. The Media Center is an i2-3220 and the Core Server is i5-3570k. I doubt it matters but the Media center is running independant graphics not Integrated.

I am guessing that I'd need to put the HDHR Prime in the living room rather than on the MoCA network to give the most amount of available throughput for ComSkip to run.
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Re: Comskip and Windows Server 2008 R2 Core Standard

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How will you be recording?
h.264 or mpeg2 video?
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Re: Comskip and Windows Server 2008 R2 Core Standard

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I believe cable is mpeg-2 on FiOS using Windows Media Center
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Re: Comskip and Windows Server 2008 R2 Core Standard

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For mpeg2 the CPU will never be the bottleneck.
I guess even the i3 will be fast enough, even with 4 stream being recorded in parallel
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Re: Comskip and Windows Server 2008 R2 Core Standard

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I finally got around to setting this up on a VM Core server. It doesn't work very well with DVRMSToolbox or DirMon.

What directory monitoring tool should I use?
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Re: Comskip and Windows Server 2008 R2 Core Standard

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I installed a regular server version and Dirmon2 worked fine. That was an all afternoon project! (Not to mention the deployment of a second (backup) DHCP server.)

22Mb (Not MB) ps average for 2 workers. Not congesting my network with 3 tuners in use.. Good stuff. Looks like I don't have to change my network layout afterall.
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Re: Comskip and Windows Server 2008 R2 Core Standard

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Comskip starts and it never finishes.. What's up with that?

www.tinozplace.com/Rules of Engagement_WGNHD_2013_03_03_23_59_00.zip
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Re: Comskip and Windows Server 2008 R2 Core Standard

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Recording ...0 did finish (look at the log file)

Recording ....1 is not concluded yet (processing during the recording?) Or comskip did crash
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Re: Comskip and Windows Server 2008 R2 Core Standard

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Do not see anything like that in the log.
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Re: Comskip and Windows Server 2008 R2 Core Standard

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You included .log files in the zip file.
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Re: Comskip and Windows Server 2008 R2 Core Standard

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erik wrote:You included .log files in the zip file.
And I searched it, there was no "Recording" line on the log file.
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