does Video container select make a actual file

[flashandpan007]

Can you please copy and paste the text or take a screenshot of the bat file and post here?

[flashandpan007]

Try to remove the ~ in the path, but if I look at it, I think you have more than 256 letters in the pathname. Try to short it down.

[RBCC]

@echo off
for %%a in (*.avi) do ("D:\Applications\video\editors\MKVToolNix32\mkvmerge.exe" -o "%%~na.mkv" "%%a" )
pause

should this work??


@echo off
for %%a in (*.avi) do ("D:\Applications\video\editors\MKVToolNix32\mkvme rge.exe" -o "-o "K:\Scooby Doo\13 Ghosts\%% na.mkv"" "%%a" )
pause

[jagabo]

Why don't you turn echo on so you can see the exact command lines generated by the batch file?

[RBCC]

S:\temp\TVShows\Scooby\Scooby-Doo's\~Series\Scooby Doo 13 Ghosts>("D:\Applications\video\editors\MKVToolNix\mkvmerge.exe" -o "K:\Scooby Doo\13 Ghosts\% na.mkv" )
mkvmerge v9.2.0 ('Photograph') 64bit
Error: No input files were given. No output will be created.

How do I save the files in K:\Scooby Doo\13 Ghosts directory??

[jagabo]

You've specifed where to put the output but you haven't specified the input file.

[RBCC]

if It is mkvmerge -o Output.avi input.avi then would that make the line in the batchfile:

D:\Applications\video\editors\MKVToolNix\mkvmerge -o K:\Scooby Doo\where\Season1\"%%~na.mkv " " S:\where\Season 1\%%a"?

[jagabo]

You're missing the leading quote on the output filename. And there's an extra space between the end of the output filename and the closing quote.

[RBCC]

Mkvmerge -o "k:\scooby doo\where\season1\%%~na.mkv" "k:\where\season 1\%%~a " is this right. So %%a is the file name?

[jagabo]

%~ syntax: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Windows_Batch_Scripting#Percent_tilde

That is for a file name passed as the first argument on the command line. When using it within a FOR loop you use "%%" instead of just "%", and the FOR loop token instead of "1", in your case "a". So "%~n1" becomes "%%~na".

[RBCC]

Can u rewrite to show me what your saying?

[jagabo]

The batch file in post 28 was almost right, it was just missing the input filename:

for %%a in (*.avi) do ("D:\Applications\video\editors\MKVToolNix\mkvmerge.exe" -o "K:\Scooby Doo\13 Ghosts\%%~na.mkv" "%%a")

[RBCC]

flashandpan007:
I am trying to modify :

@echo off
for %%a in (*.mp4) do ("C:\Program Files\MKVtoolnix\mkvmerge.exe" -o "MKV/%%~na.mkv" "%%a")

pause
with :
-o "D:\Folder\%%~na.mkv" to save the files in L:\Scooby Doo\where\Season 2 can you show the line with modification?

Thank you jagabo & flashandpan007

RBCC

[flashandpan007]

@echo off
for %%a in (*.mp4) do ("C:\Program Files\MKVtoolnix\mkvmerge.exe" -o "L:\Scooby Doo\where\Season 2\%%~na.mkv" "%%a")
pause

Try this, i only have my phone now.

[RBCC]

This is What I get when I take put the @echo off

R:\where\Season 2>for %a in (*.avi) do ("D:\apps\Video\Editors\MKVtoolnix\mkvmerge.exe" -o "L:\Scooby Doo\where\Season 2\%~na.mkv" "%a" )

R:\where\Season 2>pause
Press any key to continue . . .

[jagabo]

I give up.

[RBCC]

Could this be a windows 10? It seems if i reinstall windows it works withmkv/ instead of the l:\ in the output file. But when i add the drive param it farts!

[jagabo]

Could this be a windows 10?

No.

[RBCC]

Should this :
R:\where\Season 2>for %a in (*.avi) do ("D:\apps\Video\Editors\MKVtoolnix\mkvmerge.exe" -o "L:\Scooby Doo\where\Season 2\%~na.mkv" "%a"

be this:

for %%a in (*.avi) do ("D:\apps\Video\Editors\MKVtoolnix\mkvmerge.exe " -o "L:\Scooby Doo\where\Season 2\%%~na.mkv" "%%a"

[jagabo]

You have different typos in every post. If you can't be bothered to check your syntax and cut and paste properly you're never going to get this working.

[Krispy Kritter]

NM

[flashandpan007]

NM

??

[RBCC]

huh?

[Krispy Kritter]

NM = never mind

it was a free bump after I decided not to get involved.

[RBCC]

I just cant get this right

[Krispy Kritter]

Based on the comments above, either copy and paste (preferred) or take screenshots of your scripts.

If you are already using copy & paste, you need to double check/proof read, and correct the typos. If you are simply reading and typing into your replies, you have typos (which copying will prevent) and someone can actually help you (as opposed to trying to help fix typos and the actual problem).

[RBCC]

The only thing I need to know is : in batch file language are variable declared with two (%%) percentage marks and what is the first (%) percent for if (%a) is the variable in the second line above? John

[jagabo]

http://www.robvanderwoude.com/escapechars.php

[RBCC]

Ok, so the first (%) is an escape character? So now I haveta figure out escape characters! John

[jagabo]

Escape characters are characters that indicate the following character(s) is not to be treated as literal text but rather a special command or alternate symbol. In the case of batch files the % sign is an escape character. Since % is an escape character you need a way to include % as literal text. So %% is used.