How to do simple multitasked loop processing over filenames with PowerShell?
- by Ville Koskinen
I'm batch transcoding some 50 GB of video files on a USB hard disk which is connected to a wlan router. The drive is mapped as a network drive on my Windows 7 laptop.
The speed handicap of the wlan causes some parts of the processing to become unnecessarily slow, so I would like to do the following with PowerShell:
List the names of the files on the network drive to be transcoded
Copy the first file to a temporary folder on my laptop
Simultaneously
Transcode the file in the folder
Begin copying the next file from the network drive to the temporary folder
After transcoding and copy have both ended,
Delete the file which has been transcoded from the temporary folder
Begin transcoding next file in the temporary folder
Loop until all files have been processed
How would I be able to do this with PowerShell? The multitasking part is an obstacle for my skill/persistence combination.
