Batch script #368
Description
I believe it was you who posted a batch script many years ago to enable the processing of multiple files based on a list of mkv files contained in a separate text file. That script made video_transcoding much easier to use, especially for newcomers to your scripts (as I was almost a decade ago). I'm hoping you can post it with instructions and pin it so it could be useful to others.
THE BATCH.RB SCRIPT:
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
batch.rb
QUEUE_PATH = 'queue.txt'
while true
content = File.read(QUEUE_PATH)
input = content.match(/^.*\R/).to_s.chomp
break if input.empty?
queue = File.new(QUEUE_PATH, 'wb')
queue.print content.sub(/^.*\R/, '')
queue.close
break unless system('transcode-video.rb', *ARGV, input)
end
THE QUEUE.TXT FILE:
The file is empty until a user drags and drops a list of files into the opened queue.txt file, which inserts the file names including their paths (especially useful!).
Regards,
Brian