NghtShd
17th February 2007, 02:24
Is there an app that will take multiple files needing multiple processing steps and create a VirtualDub jobs or script file to do the work? The reason I'm asking is I had over 50 xvid files I needed to reencode. I decided to do x.264 3 passes and it was going to be a tedious mess setting up all the jobs. I looked around found a VB script (VirtualDub.vbs) and also an app (VDubBatcher) that take a VCF file and creat a jobs list, but (correct me if I'm wrong) I don't think these are any good for doing multiple passes unless maybe I could set VirtualDub up for the first pass, save the settings, run the script/apps, process the files, make a new settings file for the nth pass and run the script/app on that.
In the end I wrote my own program which takes a VirtualDub.jobs file (with an arbitrary number of jobs presumably to be performed on a single file), a filespec, and an output directory and builds a new jobs file for all of the files matching the filespec. So my 3 step single file jobs file became a 159 step 53 file jobs file.
This worked and 20 hours later I had my deinterlaced and reencoded files, but I wonder if there is another way. Is there something out there which would have done what I want? If not, I thought maybe this little app may be useful to others. If so, I'd like to know for future reference.
In the end I wrote my own program which takes a VirtualDub.jobs file (with an arbitrary number of jobs presumably to be performed on a single file), a filespec, and an output directory and builds a new jobs file for all of the files matching the filespec. So my 3 step single file jobs file became a 159 step 53 file jobs file.
This worked and 20 hours later I had my deinterlaced and reencoded files, but I wonder if there is another way. Is there something out there which would have done what I want? If not, I thought maybe this little app may be useful to others. If so, I'd like to know for future reference.