Help out a N00B w/skip and transcode? (I've done the research)

[-Oz-]

i'm wondering if you could do something like:
%~dpnnew'

or if that doesn't work instead of having the variable new make it like 3 or something and then do %~dpn3

Just ideas

[pointlisse]

Possibly. I'll give that a shot and report back. Thanks!

[pointlisse]

No luck so far. I added to the pp.bat file:
echo %~dpnnew% >>dpnTest.log

It must have errored out as it did not continue processing, nor did I get a dpnTest.log file as expected. If you have any suggestions, let me know.

Andrew
http://www.pointlisse.com/PMA430/

[zehd]

copy "%~dpn.mpg%" "%~dpn.avi%"

or

move "%~dpn.mpg%" "%~dpn.avi%"


Don't forget the quotes

[pointlisse]

zehd,

Thank you...
Would that really work? As it's renamed by the time it's in avi format, won't that retain the original name of the file, prior to addepisode?

At this point, I have (examples used for simplicity):

C:\Videos\Show\show_20070429_22302300.mpg
C:\Videos\Show\show - episode.mpg
C:\Videos\Show\show - episode.avi

I want to move the avi file to another directory, something on the order of:

move "%~dpn%"*.avi "C:\Videos\Transcoded\"

Unless I don't understand %~dpn (and I may not), won't your suggestion just rename 'show_20070429_22302300.mpg' to 'show_20070429_22302300.avi' in the same directory?

Andrew

[pointlisse]

Just thinking on it a bit more... I only need the working directory at this point, something similar to the unix command cd or cwd. If I had the working directory (without the filename), I could just wildcard the avi file I already have and copy it anywhere I wanted.

[zehd]

zehd,

Thank you...
Would that really work? As it's renamed by the time it's in avi format, won't that retain the original name of the file, prior to addepisode?

At this point, I have (examples used for simplicity):

C:\Videos\Show\show_20070429_22302300.mpg
C:\Videos\Show\show - episode.mpg
C:\Videos\Show\show - episode.avi

I want to move the avi file to another directory, something on the order of:

move "%~dpn%"*.avi "C:\Videos\Transcoded\"

Unless I don't understand %~dpn (and I may not), won't your suggestion just rename 'show_20070429_22302300.mpg' to 'show_20070429_22302300.avi' in the same directory?

Andrew

You're not quite catching it. Here's your line

Code:

move "%~dpn%"*.avi "C:\Videos\Transcoded\"

And the fixed one...

Code:

move "%~dpn.avi" "C:\Videos\Transcoded\"

Will move the renamed file to the transcoded folder...


Or something like this:

Code:

Comskip "%~dpn.mpg"

call comclean "%~dpn.mpg"

Transcoderthingamjig "%~dpn.mpg" "%~dpn.avi"

move "%~dpn.avi" "C:\Videos\Transcoded\"

I think I know why you're having trouble though. The whole addepisode implementation may not want to work easily in this fashion.

[pointlisse]

Thank you again! Yes. the addepisode part is what is giving me grief. I think I found a way for it to work, though:

If I use %~dp1 it will Expand %1 to a drive letter and path only (without the filename), then I can wildcard the new (addepisode renamed) .avi file to the directory of my choosing.

Reference:
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/docum...x?mfr=true

I'll try this tonight and report back... and thanks again for taking the time to reply.

Andrew

[zehd]

Thank you again! Yes. the addepisode part is what is giving me grief. I think I found a way for it to work, though:

If I use %~dp1 it will Expand %1 to a drive letter and path only (without the filename), then I can wildcard the new (addepisode renamed) .avi file to the directory of my choosing.

Reference:
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/docum...x?mfr=true

I'll try this tonight and report back... and thanks again for taking the time to reply.

Andrew

Or you can try my new rename that I'll be releasing in a couple of days. It will take care of your pathing for you...

[pointlisse]

Or you can try my new rename that I'll be releasing in a couple of days. It will take care of your pathing for you...

Nice! Can't wait.

Thanks