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Title: Batchenc
Post by: Speek on 2003-07-16 12:12:44
Batchenc (http://home.wanadoo.nl/~w.speek/batchenc.htm) is a free and very flexible Windows front-end for all console encoders and decoders. It's not for newbies because the user has to know the command line syntax of the back-end programs. But a configuration file with a lot of examples is included to make it a bit easier.
Title: Batchenc
Post by: ak on 2003-07-16 18:29:18
Great tool.

I wonder would it be possible to have multiple jobs, say something like 'append to batch' button?
Title: Batchenc
Post by: wagner reatto on 2003-07-17 22:05:09
as always, good work.
Title: Batchenc
Post by: fedaykin on 2003-07-18 20:18:16
hi

the tool is nice and i would find it really useful but everytime i try to encode a file which name contains language specific characters
(like "01 - Mesmerisa - Róża Luksemburg - Transelected by DJ Sesis - 1997 - Mesmerisa - Róża Luksemburg.wav" for example)
i get error messages from encoders ("ERROR: Unable to read or decode: [...]" - that's mppenc). MPC Batch Encoder works fine.

.mataglap
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Title: Batchenc
Post by: silver_cpu on 2003-07-20 23:40:19
I like your program, it's soooo tidy and small, yet very useful  Just one question, though.  Is there any way to implement a process priority flag?  I mean, MPC is great, but the encoder completely hijacks your system while it's encoding, unless you bring the priority down.  This is a simple thing to solve in Linux, as BASH is a fantastic shell.  However, the Windows command line interpreter isn't as robust.  I'd like to be able to set the encoding to a lesser level, say below normal or idle, so that I can do other things while my system cruches the numbers.  Is this possible?
Title: Batchenc
Post by: ssjkakaroto on 2003-07-22 18:19:40
this frontend is excellent speek! it's so flexible that not only it works great with audio encoders but i'm using it to convert a bunch of .avi files i got to other formats like ogm and mkv 
thx a lot m8!
Title: Batchenc
Post by: Speek on 2003-07-22 19:18:09
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the tool is nice and i would find it really useful but everytime i try to encode a file which name contains language specific characters
(like "01 - Mesmerisa - Róża Luksemburg - Transelected by DJ Sesis - 1997 - Mesmerisa - Róża Luksemburg.wav" for example)
i get error messages from encoders ("ERROR: Unable to read or decode: [...]" - that's mppenc). MPC Batch Encoder works fine.

Hi fedaykin,

Which Windows version do you use?
Batchenc doesn't use the win2dos program like MPC Batch Encoder when used in win2k/xp, but uses codepage 1252. This is pretty technical to explain, but if you're in win2k/xp, please send me an email and I'll send you a version of Batchenc that does use win2dos. That will probably fix the problem.

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Is there any way to implement a process priority flag?

Hi silver_cpu,

I don't think it can be done with the current version of Batchenc, but I'll make a version with a idle priority option tomorrow and post it here.

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I wonder would it be possible to have multiple jobs, say something like 'append to batch' button?

Hi ak,

I don't think so. I like to keep it simple.
Title: Batchenc
Post by: silver_cpu on 2003-07-23 05:44:55
Speek, if you would do that I would worship the ground you walked upon

Now if only I can get that to work with Audiograbber...
Title: Batchenc
Post by: Speek on 2003-07-23 10:30:11
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Speek, if you would do that I would worship the ground you walked upon

That won't be necessary. 
Get the version with idle priority option here (http://home.wanadoo.nl/~w.speek/download/Batchenc1.01idle.zip). It only works in win2k/xp.
Title: Batchenc
Post by: silver_cpu on 2003-07-23 17:16:54
Thanks, Speek  I'll give it a few tries and try to remember to tell you my findings.
Title: Batchenc
Post by: ssjkakaroto on 2009-11-29 18:58:16
Hi there, I'm sorry for resurrecting such an old thread but I'm setting up a Ubuntu PC to completely replace my Windows box and since I use batchenc on a daily basis, I'd like to know if you guys know an alternative for it in linux.

Thanks in advance!