Visible console while running PostProcessing.bat

[spin35]

Not sure if this is really a wishlist item, but I'd like to find a way to be able to see what's going on while PostProcessing.bat is running e.g. checking ffmpeg's progress as it transcodes the recording.
I tried having a simple PostProcessing.bat that just had the line:
CMD /C PostProcessing-Main.bat %1 %2 
where PostProcessing-Main has all the actual code in it.  I had expected the CMD /C to open a new console window and run the main script, but it just runs the script without any window.
Is there some way to make PostProcess.bat visible while running?

[sub]

It's running as a service, so can't easily show the window on your desktop.

You could possibly see the output if you stop the service and manually run the NextPVRServer from the command line.

Alternatively, you could add logging to a file in your PostProcessing.bat

[mvallevand]

I don't comskip in post processing (I do too many test recordings) but one thing I use is a program called "tail" on the comskip log and I can quickly have a look where I am. There are CLI and GUI versions and you can close them, closing a terminal would kill the program.

If it is just status task manager will tell you quickly if ffmpeg is running. A touch more work if multiple recorings are going on but better than multiple visible terminals.

Martin

[spin35]

I do use logging to indicate where I'm up to in the process, but that doesn't give me any insight into the internal progress of comskip and ffmpeg.
I can use he task Manager to see what's running, but again not much use in relation to progress.
I'm looking into the use of Tail to examine the internal log-files.  I can see in the ffmpeg doco that there are some options I can explore there.
I've also just discovered the Notepad++ has a Monitoring (tail -f) mode which will watch a file and load changes as they come in, so I think I've got what I need to make this work.

[spin35]

I've added 2> %~dpn1_fmpg.log to the end of my ffmpeg.exe call and added -stats_period 10 in the options this gives me the progress in 10 sec intervals as the file is processed.
I've also put 2> %~dpn1_cmsk.log at the end of the comskip.exe call which gets updated every second or so but doesn't take as long to complete compared to ffmpeg, so the file sizes are relatively short and manageable.
I can watch the files grow in Notepad++ in Monitoring mode, so I've achieved what I wanted.
I've added fmpg.log and cmsk.log to the DeleteAdditionalExtensions list in config.xml, so hopefully they'll get tidied up with the rest of the support files.