Comskip 0.81.018 Crashing when starting to process

[electronicbuff]

Eric,
I hope you can tell me how to correct this. I've replaced my older version of comskip when I switched to DirMon2 from ComskipMonitor. I upgraded to 0.81.018 at the same time.

Comskip 0.81.018 said it ran but didn't remove any commercials so I compared the .ini file from the old version to my new one and adjusted to match. It started working beautifully and was removing all of the commercials for a day.

Now, after 1 day of success, I'm get a Comskip crash reports from Microsoft every time Comskip tries to process a new file. I've included a sample of a program log and .ini below.

I'm sure I goofed something up, can you see what I need to tweak to correct this?

I'm using DirMon2 to start Comskip within SageTV.

Sample Log File:
################################################################
Generated using Comskip 0.81.018
Time at start of run:
Sat Nov 19 06:37:33 2011
################################################################
Mpeg: F:\TV2\SaturdayNightLive-2925669-0.mpg
Exe comskip.exe
Logo: F:\TV2\SaturdayNightLive-2925669-0.logo.txt
Ini: C:\Program Files\comskip81_018_donators\comskip.ini

Detection Methods to be used:
1) Black Frame
2) Logo - Give up after 2000 seconds
3) Resolution Change
4) Aspect Ratio


ComSkip throttles back from -0001 to -0001.
The time is now 0637 so it's full speed ahead!

Settings
--------
[Main Settings]
;the sum of the values for which kind of frames comskip will consider as possible cutpoints: 1=uniform (black or any other color) frame, 2=logo, 4=scene change, 8=resolution change, 16=closed captions, 32=aspect ration, 64=silence, 255=all.
detect_method=43
;Set to 10 to show a lot of extra info, level 5 is also OK, set to 0 to disable
verbose=10
;Frame not black if any of the pixels of the frame has a brightness greater than this (scale 0 to 255)
max_brightness=60
maxbright=1
;Frame not pure black if a small number of the pixels of the frame has a brightness greater than this. To decide if the frame is truly black, comskip will also check average brightness (scale 0 to 255)
test_brightness=40
;
max_avg_brightness=25
;
max_commercialbreak=600
;
min_commercialbreak=25
;
max_commercial_size=125
;
min_commercial_size=4
;
min_show_segment_length=125
;
max_volume=500
;
non_uniformity=500
[Detailed Settings]
min_silence=20
noise_level=5
brightness_jump=200
fps=25
validate_silence=1
validate_uniform=1
validate_scenechange=1
global_threshold=1.05
disable_heuristics=4
[CPU Load Reduction]
thread_count=1
play_nice_start=-1
play_nice_end=-1
play_nice_sleep=10
[Input Correction]
max_repair_size=200
ms_audio_delay=5
volume_slip=150
variable_bitrate=1
lowres=0
[Aspect Ratio]
ar_delta=0.08
cut_on_ar_change=0
[Global Removes]
padding=0
remove_before=0
remove_after=0
added_recording=14
delete_show_after_last_commercial=0
delete_show_before_first_commercial=0
delete_show_before_or_after_current=0
delete_block_after_commercial=0
min_commercial_break_at_start_or_end=39
always_keep_first_seconds=0
always_keep_last_seconds=0
[USA Specific]
intelligent_brightness=0
black_percentile=0.0076
uniform_percentile=0.003
score_percentile=0.71
[Main Scoring]
length_strict_modifier=3
length_nonstrict_modifier=1.5
combined_length_strict_modifier=2
combined_length_nonstrict_modifier=1.25
ar_wrong_modifier=2
excessive_length_modifier=0.01
dark_block_modifier=0.3
min_schange_modifier=0.5
max_schange_modifier=2
logo_present_modifier=0.01
punish_no_logo=1
[Detailed Scoring]
punish=0
reward=0
punish_threshold=1.3
punish_modifier=2
reward_modifier=0.5
[Logo Finding]
border=10
give_up_logo_search=2000
delay_logo_search=0
logo_max_percentage_of_screen=0.12
ticker_tape=0
ignore_side=0
subtitles=0
logo_at_bottom=0
logo_threshold=0.75
logo_filter=0
aggressive_logo_rejection=0
edge_level_threshold=5
edge_radius=2
edge_weight=10
edge_step=1
num_logo_buffers=50
use_existing_logo_file=1
two_pass_logo=1
[Logo Interpretation]
connect_blocks_with_logo=1
logo_percentile=0.92
logo_fraction=0.4
shrink_logo=5
before_logo=0
after_logo=0
where_logo=0
min_black_frames_for_break=1
[Closed Captioning]
ccCheck=0
cc_commercial_type_modifier=4
cc_wrong_type_modifier=2
cc_correct_type_modifier=0.75
[Live TV]
live_tv=0
live_tv_retries=1
dvrms_live_tv_retries=300
standoff=0
dvrmsstandoff=120000
require_div5=0
div5_tolerance=-1
incommercial_frames=1000
[Output Control]
output_default=1
output_chapters=0
output_plist_cutlist=0
output_zoomplayer_cutlist=0
output_zoomplayer_chapter=0
output_vcf=0
output_vdr=0
output_projectx=0
output_avisynth=0
output_videoredo=0
videoredo_offset=2
output_btv=0
output_edl=1
edl_offset=0
output_edlp=0
output_bsplayer=0
output_edlx=0
output_cuttermaran=0
output_mpeg2schnitt=0
output_womble=0
output_mls=0
output_mpgtx=0
output_dvrmstb=0
output_dvrcut=0
output_ipodchap=0
output_framearray=0
output_debugwindow=0
output_tuning=0
output_training=0
output_false=0
output_aspect=0
output_demux=0
output_data=0
output_srt=0
output_smi=0
output_timing=0
delete_logo_file=0
cutscene_frame=0
cutscene_dumpfile=""
cutscene_threshold=10
cutscenefile1=""
cutscenefile2=""
cutscenefile3=""
cutscenefile4=""
cutscenefile5=""
cutscenefile6=""
cutscenefile7=""
cutscenefile8=""
windowtitle="Comskip - %s"
cuttermaran_options="cut=\"true\" unattended=\"true\" muxResult=\"false\" snapToCutPoints=\"true\" closeApp=\"true\""
mpeg2schnitt_options="mpeg2schnitt.exe /S /E /R25 /Z %2 %1"
avisynth_options="LoadPlugin(\"MPEG2Dec3.dll\") \nMPEG2Source(\"%s\")\n"
dvrcut_options="dvrcut \"%s.dvr-ms\" \"%s_clean.dvr-ms\" "
[Sage Workarounds]
sage_framenumber_bug=0
sage_minute_bug=0
enable_mencoder_pts=0

Comskip ini:
detect_method=43
validate_silence=1
validate_uniform=1
validate_scenechange=1
verbose=10
max_brightness=60
test_brightness=40
max_avg_brightness=25
max_commercialbreak=600
min_commercialbreak=25
max_commercial_size=125
min_commercial_size=4
min_show_segment_length=125
non_uniformity=500
max_volume=500
min_silence=20
ticker_tape=0
logo_at_bottom=0
punish=0
punish_threshold=1.3
punish_modifier=2
intelligent_brightness=0
logo_percentile=0.92
logo_threshold=0.75
punish_no_logo=1
aggressive_logo_rejection=0
connect_blocks_with_logo=1
logo_filter=0
cut_on_ar_change=0
delete_show_after_last_commercial=0
delete_show_before_or_after_current=0
delete_block_after_commercial=0
remove_before=0
remove_after=0
shrink_logo=5
after_logo=0
padding=0
ms_audio_delay=5
volume_slip=150
skip_b_frames=0
max_repair_size=200
disable_heuristics=4
delete_logo_file=0
output_framearray=0
output_data=0
output_videoredo=0
output_womble=0
output_mls=0
output_cuttermaran=0
output_mpeg2schnitt=0
output_mpgtx=0
output_dvrcut=0
output_zoomplayer_chapter=0
output_zoomplayer_cutlist=0
output_edl=1
output_edlx=0
output_vcf=0
output_bsplayer=0
output_btv=0
output_projectx=0
output_avisynth=0
output_vdr=0
output_demux=0
sage_framenumber_bug=0
sage_minute_bug=0
live_tv=0
live_tv_retries=1
dvrms_live_tv_retries=300
standoff=0
cuttermaran_options="cut=\"true\" unattended=\"true\" muxResult=\"false\" snapToCutPoints=\"true\" closeApp=\"true\""
mpeg2schnitt_options="mpeg2schnitt.exe /S /E /R25 /Z %2 %1"
avisynth_options="LoadPlugin(\"MPEG2Dec3.dll\") \nMPEG2Source(\"%s\")\n"
dvrcut_options="dvrcut \"%s.dvr-ms\" \"%s_clean.dvr-ms\" "
windowtitle="Comskip - %s"

[erik]

Comskip build 0.81.018 crashes on dvr-ms after finding a logo
Suggest you try the new build 0.81.019, even though you are using .mpg

Could you invoke comskip from the command line and see for any error messages? Not everything gets logged into the log file.