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| Raoul |
| Posted: Nov 5 2010, 05:59 PM |
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Hi there,
I have a question:
I am using Fraps to record some gameplay, Fraps uses a really low compression, for example a 15 second video is about 500MB.
I am currently using VirtualDub in combination with the Xvid MPEG-4 Codec to compress the original fraps friles from 500MB to 20MB.
I have a lot of videos so it takes ages to do this manually.
So I started searching google for command line for VirtualDub.
| QUOTE | The /p flag tells VirtualDub to add a batch job using the current settings and the given source and destination filenames. The /b flag adds jobs to process an entire directory into another.
virtualdub /s mySettings.vcf /p source.avi dest.avi /x
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I found out that I could make a .vcf file that holds my specific settings (using MPEG-4 codec for Video Compression).
I created the .vcf file, and I started reading a little more and wrote myself a little CMD:
| CODE | @echo off
TITLE Compressing video files using VirtualDub
SET WORKDIR=G:\Fraps
SET VD=%WORKDIR%\VD\VirtualDub-1.9.10-AMD64\Veedub64.exe
SET in=%WORKDIR%\Movies
SET out=%WORKDIR%\Done
SET vcf=%WORKDIR%\Movies\process.vcf
echo.
echo Working..
echo.
%VD% /s %vcf% /b %in% %out%
echo.
pause.
EXIT |
But the script doesnt work and I cant figure out what I am doing wrong.
When I run the above script, VirtualDub loads and selects the right codec, but it isnt compressing anything, I think there is something missing.
In my workdir\Movies folder I have a file called:
iw4mp 2010-11-05 16-33-00-38.avi
I need the script to select all the .avi in the Movies folder, then compress them and put the compressed output in the workdir\Done folder.
Someone knows what I should do? |
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| dloneranger |
| Posted: Nov 5 2010, 07:51 PM |
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With your script, you're adding jobs to the job list, but not processing it
You'll need the /r switch to actually run the batch jobs
It's in the help, just after the part about /b
And probably the /x to exit virtualdub after it's finished as well
Note: you're using virtualdub with a local batch list - this is fine as long as you're only using 1 instance of virtualdub, but it you run 2 at the same time the job list could end up garbled
If you want to ie: add more jobs to the list while it's already running
You can look at the help for batch operation: distributed mode
That lets you use multiple copies of virtualdub with one job list using the /master and /slave switchs
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| Raoul |
| Posted: Nov 5 2010, 09:52 PM |
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| QUOTE (dloneranger @ Nov 5 2010, 07:51 PM) | With your script, you're adding jobs to the job list, but not processing it
You'll need the /r switch to actually run the batch jobs
It's in the help, just after the part about /b
And probably the /x to exit virtualdub after it's finished as well
Note: you're using virtualdub with a local batch list - this is fine as long as you're only using 1 instance of virtualdub, but it you run 2 at the same time the job list could end up garbled
If you want to ie: add more jobs to the list while it's already running
You can look at the help for batch operation: distributed mode
That lets you use multiple copies of virtualdub with one job list using the /master and /slave switchs |
Thanks!
| CODE | @echo off
TITLE Compressing video files using VirtualDub
SET WORKDIR=G:\Fraps
SET VD=%WORKDIR%\VD\VirtualDub-1.9.10-AMD64\Veedub64.exe
SET in=%WORKDIR%\Movies\
SET out=%WORKDIR%\Done\
SET vcf=%WORKDIR%\Movies\process.vcf
echo.
echo Working..
echo.
%VD% /s %vcf% /b %in% %out% /r /x
echo.
EXIT |
Works now!  
edit:
Hmm, it looks like the script never stops, it processes all files and then starts over again. |
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| stephanV |
| Posted: Nov 6 2010, 08:20 AM |
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| QUOTE (Raoul @ Nov 5 2010, 10:52 PM) | edit:
Hmm, it looks like the script never stops, it processes all files and then starts over again. |
Did you clear up the job list? If you ran your first script multiple times than those jobs would be still be present.
You can do this with /c by the way.
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| Raoul |
| Posted: Nov 17 2010, 12:31 PM |
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Thanks! Working great now!  |
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