XP-sp3 - seeking a fifo queue batch job scheduler

[hydra3333]

Greetings, I am seeking a (free of course) fifo queue batch job scheduler. Javascript or VBscript (rather than an untrusted binary) woulld be nicest.

I have many .mpg captures I need to do "stuff" with via .BAT files.

I hope to add .bat files with passed parameters to one or more queues, whereby I can dynamically set the number of running concurrent jobs and they'll start executing as soon as there's a free "slot" from a previous one finishing. Using the Task Scheduler as the executing agent would be fine I guess.

Hope for the obvious things like starting in the a specified folder, executing as the user who submitted the job, etc... sort of like what VMS has in the early 80's with SYS$BATCH :)

Anyone have any info which could help ?

[Blue_MiSfit]

Good question. I messed with developing something like this pretty recently using Python, and the very cool job queue "beanstalkd".

http://github.com/kr/beanstalkd/wiki/faq

Take a look, and post if you find something that's dead easy to implement.

Derek