Client problems

[HarryH3]

Nice try but it won't work. The FOR command is saying ... Run the batch command at "in (blah -bling)" and examine the messages that the command would have sent to the screen ... In my silly example, it is as if we ask the FOR to run the command "blah" with a parameter of "-bling" ... This is only useful if the "blah" command is programmed to recognise and respond to the parameter "-bling".

Sadly, comskip is not programmed to recognise the parameter "-isinuse".

I was afraid of that. The string for NSHelper didn't make sense to me. Is there a way to query the system to see if the process "comskip.exe" is still running? (That's what I look at in Task Manager if I want to make sure that comskip isn't running before a manual reboot).

[Graham]

Is there a way to query the system to see if the process "comskip.exe" is still running?

I am sat on the sofa (watching tv as it happens) So this is a quick untested guess ... in bat file, before comskip, SET /a comskipactive = comskipactive +1 and after comskip SET /a comskipactive = comskipactive - 1 ... This might allow reboot bat file to have a IF comskipactive = 0 to test if comskip is inactive ... I have guessed the syntax ... I use ss64.com for info on batch commands.

[p37307]

Couldn't you do a tasklist find comskip and put it to sleep for 200 seconds and then recheck and when it is done, continue the script like I do to make limit the number of tasks for Handbrake transcoding? (Not sure if I got this code here or another site for Handbrake.


:CHK_HANDBRAKE
REM Loop until no HANDBRAKE processes are running
tasklist | find /c "Comskip" > c:\Users\Public\NPVR\Scripts\Loop\%OID%.post.txt
set /p count= <c:\Users\Public\NPVR\Scripts\Loop\%OID%.post.txt
if %count% geq 3 (
::echo ...%count% HandBrakeCLI running now, waiting 200 secs >> %waiting%
::Call :LOGMSG3 %FILENAME% Waiting, things too busy
sleep 200
goto :CHK_HANDBRAKE
)
del c:\Users\Public\NPVR\Scripts\Loop\%OID%.post.txt

:: EX: Place your system specific commands here...


Couldn't you do a tasklist find comskip and put it to sleep for 200 seconds and then let it recheck and when it is done, continue the script like I do to make limit the tasks for Handbrake transcoding? In my example, 3 Handbrake tasks can be open and postprocessing checks every 200 seconds before allowing the completed recording to move on to Handbrake.

I'm not a coder so can't help you figure the actual task find script.

[mvallevand]

Here you go

Code:

tasklist /nh /fi "imagename eq comskip.exe" | find /i "comskip.exe" > nul
echo %errorlevel%

%errorlevel% will be 0 if it is running

Martin

[HarryH3]

Here you go

Code:

tasklist /nh /fi "imagename eq comskip.exe" | find /i "comskip.exe" > nul
echo %errorlevel%

%errorlevel% will be 0 if it is running

Martin

Thanks Martin! Like most things in life, it's easy when you know how.