If this has been posted already, please let me know where. I did a search on scripts and found nothing about this.

I have looked at the help file for the command line options on automating VirtualDub and was wondering if someone could clarify the options

This was from the help file:

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VirtualDub supports limited control via command line options. Allowable switches:

· /bsource_dir,dest_dir adds a batch of jobs to translate from one directory to another, using the current options. (Note: there are no spaces in the switch.)
· /c clears all jobs in the job list.
· /r runs the job list.
· /sscript_name runs a script.
· /x forces an exit after the job list has run.

The order of the switches matters, since switches are run from left-to-right. Because VirtualDub configuration files are simply Sylia scripts, just like the job list, they can be invoked using the /s option to set the dub processing parameters. So to do automated processing of video files, you can set the parameters you want and save them in a configuration file, and then have a scheduling program invoke VirtualDub using a command line like this:

virtualdub /sparms.vcf /b”f:\ready”,”f:\output” /x /r

VirtualDub will then run the script to load parameters, scan the f:\ready directory and add job entries to process files there to f:\output, run the job list, and then exit.
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Does parms.vcf have to be in the same folder as virtualdub.exe?
Does /r run the default jobs file in the vdub folder?
What does it mean in the statement "scan the f:\ready directory and add job entries to process files "? Is this where the .jobs scripts should be?

I have some specific job scripts for processing certain shows I record and would like to setup a schedule for kicking off vdub and running the script. It seems possible, I just don't follow the syntax.

Thanks
Gary