Auto Start Encoding With Windows startup!?

[David Rad]

Hi Guys :
is that possible to start encoding with windows media encoder when server
start ....?
i save my configeration to a file ( *.WME ) so i put the file in startup
and the encoder starts fine , how can i auto START ENCODING... ?

maybe i should Develop something with SDK .

[Shrivel]

create a .bat file that starts the command-line encoder that references your
.WME file.

put that .bat file into your startup group

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[Rolf Andersen]

This is exactly the problem I am faced with. The WME9
interface does not support "auto start". This would be a
great check box when creating unique wme files. Currently
I can only insert the wme files in the "start up" folder
which goes so far as loading each encode session.
However, you need to click the "start encode" button for
each broadcast, which is what I am doing. I ran across
several referneces to creating an auto start file using
the the command line sdk. Command line control is
probably more suited to my application as I want as little
overhead as possible as I'm running 8 separate WMV streams
from one box. I am wading through the documentation, but
hoped someone had already written something. An auto start
check box added to the media encoder would be a nice
feature.

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[Jeff Woiton]

That's a good suggestion, Rolf. I'm not one of toe product's designers, but I think a problem they're up against is that
when WME is set to autostart, how does it know which settings to load? You can easily pass that information to WME
through a configuration file, which is associated with WME and will auto launch WME with those settings in place, so I
think that either using the Startup group or Task Scheduler seem reasonable to me.

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From: "Rolf Andersen" <sup...@gordoncross.com>
Subject: Auto Start Encoding With Windows startup!?
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 08:59:39 -0700

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[Mark J]

You can use scheduled tasks to start mutiple encoders at
log on. The line you need is somthing like:

C:\PROGRA~1\WINDOW~4\Encoder\wmenc.exe
C:\profiledir\profilename.wme /start

[Mid]

I agree with Rolf. an auto start check box would be nice.
Even better yet, how about a built in scheduler to start
and stop that becomes a part of the wme config. This
would allow for bandwidth conservation in an unsupervised
environment. For those of us with reoccuring streaming
schedules this would be great. I'm not a developer but
I'm curious to know if this is something that can be done
with the SDK?