FFmpeg progress tracking

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C++

Windows

Visual-Studio

process

Hi all

In my main process, i create a ffmpeg child process using CreateProcess(...).
I need to track the status of converting progress to update a progress bar. To do it, I read text from ffmpeg output and extract progress status from it.

I make a sample programm like this:

HANDLE rPipe, wPipe;
CreatePipe(&rPipe,&wPipe,&secattr,0);

STARTUPINFO sInfo; 
ZeroMemory(&sInfo,sizeof(sInfo));
PROCESS_INFORMATION pInfo; 
ZeroMemory(&pInfo,sizeof(pInfo));
sInfo.cb=sizeof(sInfo);
sInfo.dwFlags=STARTF_USESTDHANDLES;
sInfo.hStdInput=NULL; 
sInfo.hStdOutput=wPipe; 
sInfo.hStdError=wPipe;

// pStr contain ffmpeg command
CreateProcess(0,(LPTSTR)pStr,0,0,TRUE,NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS|CREATE_NO_WINDOW,0,0,&sInfo,&pInfo);
CloseHandle(wPipe);

BOOL ok;
do
{
    memset(buf,0,bufsize);
    ok=::ReadFile(rPipe,buf,100,&reDword,0);
    result += buf;            
}while(ok);

But I couldnt get result interactively updated. My app is held during conversion, and result string update only after ffmpeg's process finish.

How can I have my main process and ffmpeg's run simultaneously, and interactively read from/write to ffmpeg process's output/input?


Thanks for your time!

QUy