How do I get a program to run from postprocessing.bat?

[dvasco]

How do I get a program to run from postprocessing.bat? Do I just put the exe in the devnz folder and the name of the file in the postprocessing.bat?

[elite]

Never had to use it...

Either copy the exe to the gbpvr directory and just specify the file name or specify the complete path to the exe in the bat file

[tomlissen]

Hey

Just make a batch file, en put the full path to the program in there. for example when you want to run notepad you make a batch file call postprocessing.bat:

"c:\windows\notepad.exe"

Save it and put it in the root of the gb-pvr install.

[dvasco]

How do I get a program to run from postprocessing.bat? Do I just put the exe in the devnz folder and the name of the file in the postprocessing.bat?

I meant to write gbpvr folder. 1:28 AM it way too late.

[dvasco]

I already had a postprocessing.bat and I wanted to add mpg2srt to it. I placed mpg2srt.exe in the gbpvr folder and entered the mpg2srt into the bat file after the others. mpg2srt never ran.
Contents of the bat file are:
comskip %1
rectracker %1 > rectracker.log
rem recycler.exe
RenameRecording.exe -t %1 > rename.log
mpg2srt

Should I have placed %1 after mpg2srt?

[replaytv]

I am not sure what mpg2srt.exe does, but it should run before renamerecording because after renamerecording has change the file to a different name.

Dan L.

[pastro]

I already had a postprocessing.bat and I wanted to add mpg2srt to it. I placed mpg2srt.exe in the gbpvr folder and entered the mpg2srt into the bat file after the others. mpg2srt never ran.
Contents of the bat file are:
comskip %1
rectracker %1 > rectracker.log
rem recycler.exe
RenameRecording.exe -t %1 > rename.log
mpg2srt

Should I have placed %1 after mpg2srt?

Yes you should since this parameter is the name of the file that you are working on, and I would think mpg2srt would need it.

Also as said below the filename changes with the renamerecording call so you probably need to run mpg2srt first. Trouble is you are probably going to have to differnent names, one for the mpg file after the rename, and one that mpg2srt generates from the original name.

[mmatheny]

Also, if you are going to call another batch file from postprocessing.bat, do a call statement so when it finishes it returns to the calling file (in this case postprocessing.bat)

i.e.

do something
do something else
call another batch file
continue doing something here

[dvasco]

I didn't get an email notification of any of these responses but I did on others. I guess I don't get them when I start a thread. I will have to look into that more.

[dvasco]

Yes you should since this parameter is the name of the file that you are working on, and I would think mpg2srt would need it.

Also as said below the filename changes with the renamerecording call so you probably need to run mpg2srt first. Trouble is you are probably going to have to differnent names, one for the mpg file after the rename, and one that mpg2srt generates from the original name.

I need to figure that out, plus how to have the files from comskip renamed also so that the VRD file has the same name also. Can you help me more on that?