HC interface to mimic QuEnc?

[FredThompson]

There used to be some form of mimic interface to let HC be used in place of QuEnc with front ends like DVD2SVCD. Where is that beast and does it work with HC 016?

For that matter, is there a "newbie" frontend to make muxed MPEGs using HC and BeSweet? I'm looking for something which can be given to folks who are just getting started. All it really needs to have is some way to set audio and video bitrates and audio freq. It doesn't need to be complex, just something to let them make a few basic multiplexed encodes so they won't be overwhelmed with more powerful methods.

[Inc]

Re_1: Something like a simple CLI Wrapper which receives/supports CLI parameters the same like Qenc but internally starts HCEnc by RunProgram() using HC's native parameters with the same meanings. That wouldn't be difficult.

Re_2: Also here a simple WindowUserInterface which takes the source avs and the separate audiosource. The encoding would be started using a predefined ini file. The imported audio would be send to besweet if supported. IF the audio should be the one served by the avs script, then (if not hardlinking to avisynth.dll) a presaved wav file using makeavis.exe by the Appl. will be the solution as final source to be send to besweet.
Finally a mplex.exe call would mux the stuff into one mpeg finally.

All this is in a way "a like" done in Qenc itself but using Libavcodec for enc/muxing which is capable getting the a/v streams via vfw-API out of the avs. But we want HC to be the encoder, so ... the way in the lines above would be a solution.

[Rumbah]

If I'm not mistaken HC is command line compatible to QuEnc already.
You can choose it in the free version of DVD-RB instead of QuEnc in QuEnc mode and it works perfectly.

[manolito]

If I'm not mistaken HC is command line compatible to QuEnc already.
You can choose it in the free version of DVD-RB instead of QuEnc in QuEnc mode and it works perfectly.
Right! When HC appeared first, it had no command line interface whatsoever. At this time I did write a wrapper (like Incredible suggested) called HC_CLI which made HC compatible with DVD2SVCD and DVD-Rebuilder. Soon afterwards Hank added command line capability to HC. Today HC comes with two different executables. HC.exe is for user interaction, and HCBatch.exe is for use with D2S and DVD-RB. Works right out of the box, no wrapper needed. Also have a look here: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=732563#post732563

Cheers
manolito

[Inc]

Ahh good, then the first Q is answered by itself ;)