Edward Troxel

ChrisFontenot13 · Joined: 11 Nov 2004 Posts: 7 Location: Lafayette, LA

I have some scripts that rely on being able to open files in a directory sequentially... is there any way to have Vegas 7.0 detect when a file is already open by another program (such as if it is being encoded/trancoded into the directory by another process)? Otherwise it throws an error when it tries to open it and drops an error.

I managed to hack some bits together that tests to see if the file contains a video stream and if that stream isn't there, move right along, but this seems clunky. Any ideas?

Edward Troxel · Site Admin Joined: 14 Jul 2004 Posts: 5476

Put it in a try - catch. Then when you try to open the file, if you can't you could output a message saying which file(s) couldn't be opened (if you wanted) but at least processing could continue.

ChrisFontenot13 · Joined: 11 Nov 2004 Posts: 7 Location: Lafayette, LA

That's basically what I'm doing right now (if it catches the file existing without a video stream, it throws an error).

It seems strange to me that I couldn't find a simple "File In Use" test in the API somewhere, rather than having to open the file, test for a video stream, etc. Then again there might be one and I didn't see it... or there might be one and it's undocumented. You used to be able to use OpenProject to open a video file (Vegas 4), but that wasn't documented either.

Otherwise, I could set up the machines to not encode into those directories, but that would require some re-writes I don't know if I have time for right now.