Running a Windows program in Batch mode
We keep getting asked this
question, usually about JPGVideo, our standard answer is to suggest
that the shareware version JPGAvi has this built in, therefore please
buy it, after all we do need the money, not enough people are giving us donations!
HowTo
But if you don't want to
buy JPGAvi it is fairly easy, download this zip file, it
contains a vbs script, a command line program, with source code, the
exe program will start JPGVideo, press run and wait until it has
finished before closing it.
The vbs script is simpler
way of doing it, but will need editing for your system, just use any
text editor such as Notepad.
Software
The programs, deliberately
have some magic number for the control IDs, this is to show a generic
way of implementing this technique, These have been found using WinSPy
(freeware), also the error trapping is very poor, look at the
source code for more information.
Usage
This method does require
some programming knowledge.
The basic concept is that any Windows program can be run in 'batch' mode by calling it via a separate program which will start the program and then close it when it has 'finished', with JPGVideo I know that it has finished when 'Finished' is displayed, I then close JPGVideo. So to use the exe program, assuming that JPGVideo has been installed it the default directory, copy the following line, with the double quotes, and run in a Windows Console (DOS Box), in the directory you have installed RunJPGVideo.
Generally speaking this command would be called by a batch file, probably automatically at a specific time, the batch file would probably rename the resulting AVI file and move the JPG files from the input directory.
The VBS file is just to show how 'easy' it is, the .CPP source code for RunJPGVideo is supplied as well.
Have fun!
The basic concept is that any Windows program can be run in 'batch' mode by calling it via a separate program which will start the program and then close it when it has 'finished', with JPGVideo I know that it has finished when 'Finished' is displayed, I then close JPGVideo. So to use the exe program, assuming that JPGVideo has been installed it the default directory, copy the following line, with the double quotes, and run in a Windows Console (DOS Box), in the directory you have installed RunJPGVideo.
RunJPGVideo "C:\Program
Files\NDW\JPGVideo\JPGVideo.exe"
Generally speaking this command would be called by a batch file, probably automatically at a specific time, the batch file would probably rename the resulting AVI file and move the JPG files from the input directory.
The VBS file is just to show how 'easy' it is, the .CPP source code for RunJPGVideo is supplied as well.
Have fun!
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