HCBatch help

[TekenBro]

Hello All,

Yes I know its a weak opening line but everything else sounded lame!

Anyway, I have recently been playing around with the whole freeware
mpeg-2 encoders and finally got my hands on HC encoder. Anyway after much distress playing around with the paramaters versus plain commands found in the template i was able to encode 1 file using an ini file where i wrote 3 to encode!

If anyone who has experience using this program would care to copy some lines into a reply to help those less experienced that would be greatly appreciated!

I kept on having errors and it closed when i tried using parameters
-i h:\000000... BLBLA\file1.avs -o

Still anything would be appreciated!
:confused:

[hank315]

Every encode requires a separate ini file.
So if you want to do multiple encodes create an ini file for each encode which atleast should specify inputfile, outputfile, bitrate and maxbitrate:

*infile <pathname>\file1.avs
*outfile <pathname>\file1.m2v
*bitrate 3000
*maxbitrate 8000

and save it as HC1.ini, next as HC2.ini etc.
For all other commands you might need, see the manual.

Then create a bat file like this:

HCbatch_014 -ini <pathname>\HC1.ini
HCbatch_014 -ini <pathname>\HC2.ini
etc...

And just run it.

If you have other questions about HC, think it's better to ask them in the Other MPEG1/2 encoder forum.

[TekenBro]

Thank you Hank!

And thank you for the amazing job you did on your encoder!

I wasnt absolutely sure on whether I should have posted this thread in the "Other Mpeg1/2" section! Due to its nature; kind of simple in comparison to what the other users seemed to have posted :o

Thank you for the clarification I kind of lost between flipping between the manual, template, and dvdrebuilder posts which werent as relevant... mind you I probably read over the answer a few times!

Have a good night!

Edit:
Lol I read through your manual again and saw much of the contained information and hadnt read into the fact the parameters had to run in a bat file... in addition I initially struggled as hcbatch just looks for a hc.ini file unless you state the path with parentheses... go figure :o