Auto-close a child CMD window when idle

[marky-b]

I have a vbscript that uses a WScript.Shell instance and .Run("ffmpeg.exe -params",,True) to fire off a ffmpeg video conversion.

When the conversion is complete, the cmd.exe window stays open at a typical prompt, and i was curious if it is possible to auto-close that child cmd window when it's done doing whatever it's doing.

Thanks.

Mark

[vb5prgrmr]

Well first off, how would you tell if this program is done? If you know the answer to that, switch your code to ShellExecute API and WaitForSingleObject API...

Good Luck

[marky-b]

So i solved my problem by writing out the "ffmpeg.exe -params" to a batch file and using WScript.Shell .Run to execute the batch file.

Works like a charm.