Drughi Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 Hi how to start Mplay from the command line so that it has 2 sequences loaded ready to compare them. If you do it by hand the steps would be: "File->Open" Sequence 1, "File->Merge" Sequence2 In the help there is: Quote -g Group the command line images into separate sequences, based on base name and extension. but I don't know to use it properly. Also there is the hscript command "appendseq" wich sounds promising. What I tried but doesn't work was basically: mplay -g /FolderA/*.jpg /FolderB/*.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fsimerey Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 I tested your command line and it's works fine. Are you sure is not a problem with your path ? /FolderA/*.jpg why do you start with / ? That means your folder is at the root of your file system. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drughi Posted October 8, 2019 Author Share Posted October 8, 2019 Thanks for checking! You are right, its working XD. I was working with absolute pathes and this somehow didn't work. Anyways, thanks again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drughi Posted October 8, 2019 Author Share Posted October 8, 2019 (edited) Ok, strange. It kind of worked before as well. What I was not recognizing because it shows all black in mplay, but in the sequemce view it loads both sequences. The Problem is it only loads frame 0 and the range 0. If I change the length(playbar and sequence viewer or with -f aswell) its just showing black. When I changed to using relative pathes on mac it somehow worked. On Windows still not. If I remove the -g command it is importing them correctly, but obviously its not doing the sequence functionality Edited October 8, 2019 by Drughi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drughi Posted October 8, 2019 Author Share Posted October 8, 2019 @fsimerey what os are u running. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fsimerey Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 Do you render frames with $F or $F4 ? I think about each system sort file numbers. 0001, 0002..., 0010 or 1,10,2 etc... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fsimerey Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 2 minutes ago, Drughi said: @fsimerey what os are u running. Linux Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drughi Posted October 8, 2019 Author Share Posted October 8, 2019 $F4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drughi Posted October 8, 2019 Author Share Posted October 8, 2019 (edited) 18 minutes ago, fsimerey said: Do you render frames with $F or $F4 ? I think about each system sort file numbers. 0001, 0002..., 0010 or 1,10,2 etc... Yes, thats it I guess. I just checked a test folder with just Folder A & B + files inside named 1.jpg 2.jpg etc. and it worked. So it must be releated to my naming. The files im working with are flipbooks wich have a timestamp as name. File names are like "19-10-04_142558_0004.jpg" But I expected it to work if I write 19-10-04_142558_*.jpg? When I do that in Mplay it shows 19-10-04_$F_*.jpg Do you have an idea on how to fix it without renaming the files? Edited October 8, 2019 by Drughi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drughi Posted October 8, 2019 Author Share Posted October 8, 2019 nevermind, I just remove the time from the file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fsimerey Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 I think the problem is dash symbol. I'm pretty sure that interpreted as a minus sign by mplay. To avoid this kind of problem, I'm never use dash, space or accent in my naming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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