I'm playing with a vb6 gui frontend for ffmpeg and as of now all i can do is to call the ffmpeg via cmd.exe which will shows the command prompt while the whole process is still running. And i thought this was the norm seeing how WinFF, another pascal based frontend gui for ffmpeg works.
But i was blown away when i saw this other GVC gui which has a progress bar and everything.
So basically, i'm looking into a way how i could cleanly hide the whole command prompt and link the transcoding progress to a progress bar into my gui.
So here's my plan, I'm thinking of finding a win32 api function which i can call the cmd line and yet hide it, and from another discussion here, i think i would have to read the log file to get the ffmpeg progress information.
So which function should i call for the win32 api? And does anyone knows of a better/easier way to get this done? thanks
Updates:
In case anybody is interested, i find a nice class module on how to grab the cmd output into my vb6 app, and it's by none other than the great joacim :)