Avidemux scripting help

[Nick]

I'm running Avidemux 2.4.1 in Ubuntu Gutsy.

I'm not desperately happy with the MPEG2 output so I use HC_Enc through Wine for my video encoding, which works very well.

So my process, which I'm trying to automate goes like so:

Load an AVI into avidemux and demux the audio file.
Expand to WAV and normalise with ffmpeg
Encode to AC3 with Aften
Encode the video to MPEG2 with HC_Enc
Author with MuxMan (using BatchMux to give it a comprehensive CLI)

Now I have made a bash script to do this. However, I have to input certain parameters about the AVI file manually, these being:

Duration
Framerate
Resolution
Interlaced y/n

My script uses these for calculating bitrate and generating an avisynth script and HC.ini file.

Now looking at the Avidemux scripting reference here (http://avidemux.org/admWiki/index.php?title=Scripting#Avidemux_video_functions) I see that I can access most of the parameters I need.

My question is, is there any way to script avidemux to export these variables to an ini file that my avisynth and HC script generators can use?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Maybe use the print() command and capture/redirect/parse the console output?

[Nick]

I like it.

I haven't got it working yet but it seems sound in principle and will just take a bit of work to implement.

Thanks

Nick