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Hello I've been 'improving' (!) my system for the first time in six months or so. There's some programmes I want to record regularly, from international channels that aren't on Digiguide. I've already set up mplayer to record any stream I ask. So, I wrote a little batch file to launch DABdig, which contains the following code.. dabdig.vbe RECORD "KCRW" "Stream+Stream-http://www.kcrw.com/pls/kcrwsimulcast.pls" "Morning Becomes Eclectic" "%date:~-4,4%" "%date:~-7,2%" "%date:~-10,2%" "17" "00" "180" "" "" That does the job perfectly - I schedule it using the Windows Task Scheduler - but the dos window that runs the batch file stays there for the entire duration of the recording. This isn't really a DABdig question - it's more to do with launching programmes in Win XP - but I was wondering if you had any ideas of how I could launch DABdig in a more elegant way? Magic! The following code does the trick.. START wscript //b dabdig.vbe RECORD "KCRW" "Stream+Stream-http://www.kcrw.com/pls/kcrwsimulcast.pls" "Test" "%date:~-4,4%" "%date:~-7,2%" "%date:~-10,2%" "20" "34" "1" "" "" The problem with minimising was that I have so many automated scripts running at some times (automatically encoding video and audio for my ipod) that my desktop becomes unusable. So I need to find ways of keeping them as out of the way as possible. Thanks for the help, yet again! Re cscript/wscript - .vbe/.vbs files are handled by cscript.exe or wscript.exe - since you mentioned cscript then I presumed that you were launching it directly. In any case - you can prefix dabdig.exe with cscript or wscript. If start /min reduces the window to the task bar then what is the remaining problem? DABDig creator Edited by Paul Webster on Tuesday, July 18, 2006 - 8:06:54 PM i'm showing my lack of understanding here.. my command line starts 'dabdig.vbe', not cscript.exe (i presumed that dabdig called cscript) - so would that parameter do anything? there is a windows trick to minimise the window - but minimising isn't really enough.. i do have a 3rd party programme that can hide a window, but i was trying to avoid that route How about cscript //b dangerous though since you won't get anything if it goes wrong. Does wscript.exe have the same problem? Is there a Windows trick available to make it run minimised? DABDig creator Edited by Paul Webster on Tuesday, July 18, 2006 - 2:53:33 PM thanks for the reply. start was a good idea. it does the trick - but cscript.exe then launches a dos window of its own, so back to square one will look into creating a simple user channel instead. Perhaps preceding the dabdig.vbe with "start " (no quotes) might work (i.e. the batch file would continue to the next line and presumably exit). Another approach would be to create a simple User Channel ... something like this ... KCRW.tsv 18/7/2006<tab>1600<tab>180<tab>KCRW<tab>Morning Becomes Eclectic<tab>ENTERTAINMENT<tab><tab> 19/7/2006<tab>1600<tab>180<tab>KCRW<tab>Morning Becomes Eclectic<tab>ENTERTAINMENT<tab><tab> etc KCRW.dgc ################################################ # KCRW Listings [info] Name=someone Email=someone@somewhere HomeURL=http://somehwere Description=KCRW ChannelCount=1 [channel1] Name=KCRW DaysBetweenUpdates=4 LogoURL=file://KCRW.png DataURL=file://KCRW.tsv ChannelURL=http://www.kcrw.com DABDig creatoraarons aarons Paul Webster
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