Virtualdub - Extended Options from the Command Line

[alb]

Hey all,

I have hundreds of VOB files that I need to go through using Virtualdub. Since they're MPEG-2, I usually load them using fccHandler's old MPEG-2 plugin, which has to spend 5-20 seconds creating an index each time you load a VOB. If you know you're going to repeatedly open the same VOBs then one of the things you can do is ask for "extended options" in the Open File dialog and then choose to permanently create an "midx" file, which makes a copy of the index so that when you load the VOB again it doesn't have to re-create a new index from scratch every time.

What I'd like to do is write a little batch script to just go through my whole drive and open and close every single VOB file with the "create an index file" passed through. Then I could just run it one night and when I wake up the next morning I'll never have to sit through watching the little progress bar tick by again :)

I've done some stuff with Virtualdub via the command line in the past, but I don't know of any way to pass arguments into extended options, or even which arguments I should pass. I would ask on the Virtualdub forum, but unfortunately it shut down a few months ago.

I'm attaching screenshots of the dialogues I'm talking about. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

[_Al_]

I'd use Dgindex, it can load all possible title VOB's and it ignores if VOB is not present, nice feature,
so you can navigate into your folder by some of your script, and then you use script below, I can see there is only one title there, so it gets VOB's title number, indexes it, and makes avisynth script, so you just load those avisynth scripts into VirtualDub at your convenience

note, I just typed it, you'd need to test it, there might be syntax errors etc.

rem get VOB name
for %%a in ("*.VOB") set "file_name=%%~na" & set "folder_path=%%~dpa" & goto :name_exist
echo no VOB here
goto :eof
:name_exist
CD /d %folder_path%
rem parse title number
for /f "tokens=2 delims=_" %%m in ("%file_name%") do set "tn=%%m"
rem better check here if that just parsed string is a number

rem index the whole title
%dgindex% -IF=[VTS_%tn%_1.VOB,VTS_%tn%_2.VOB,VTS_%tn%_3.VOB,VTS_%tn%_4.VOB,VTS_%tn%_5.VOB,VTS_%tn%_6.VOB,VTS_%tn%_7.VOB,VTS_%tn%_8.VOB,VTS_%tn%_9.VOB] -OF=[%folder_path%\title] -OM=1 -IA=5 -MINIMIZE -EXIT
rem make avisynth script
echo LoadPlugin("%DGDecode.dll%")  > script.avs
echo MPEG2Source("%folder_path%\title.d2v") >> script.avs

a a matter of fact, you can add virtualdub cmd line as well and encode it at the same time, not sure what you do with it ...

[alb]

That's definitely an interesting idea, I didn't even think of that. I'll look into it, thanks :)