Issue with creating a basic-ish .bat file (Win7 64bit)

[GWARslave119]

Ok I can't for the life of me figure this out. I've asked a few others that deal with ffmpeg and they dont know either. Maybe we're all stupid. I haven't written a batch file in years. What I'm doing with ffmpeg is irrelevant. It's the fact that I can't figure out why the PAUSE command isn't working.

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Ok, in the Control Panel , under the Environment Variables, user variables section, I have a variable called PATH, with the value as E:\FFMPEG , so i can run E:\FFMPEG\ffmpeg.bat wherever. I have, well had, several .flv files in the root E:\ directory, along with a .bat file I created. It's stated as follows:

 

@ECHO OFF

ffmpeg -i %~n1.flv -vcodec copy -acodec copy %~n1.mp4

PAUSE

 

That way I just dragged a file onto the .bat and it converted them one at a time. Worked fine,...'cept it wouldn't PAUSE. The CMD just shut down right after it was done so I couldn't read anything if I needed to. I've tried several different approaches but nothing works. What am I missing?

 

 

[Shiranui]

Does the command "ffmpeg -i %~n1.flv -vcodec copy -acodec copy %~n1.mp4" acutally work, or give an error?

If it does work, try this:

@ECHO OFF
call ffmpeg -i %~n1.flv -vcodec copy -acodec copy %~n1.mp4
PAUSE

[Torolol]

or use:

start /WAIT ffmpeg ...
PAUSE

[GWARslave119]

No, the batch file itself works fine, I just can't get it to pause when it's done doing what it's doing. I'll try both and see what happens.

[GWARslave119]

Awesome. It was CALL. I've never used that before, but I looked it up and it makes sense. I'm running a script within a script with all those parameters for ffmpeg. Thanks!