mplay from a windows cmd prompt?

[thekenny]

Hey,

Anyone try to use mplay.exe from the cmd prompt in windows? I've tried it and from the command console you get in windows.. and I've still can't get it to work. I know on windows it is the executable that needs to be able to evaluate the command line information not the shell interp'ing them (like you get in linux)

From the command line tools prompt:

"cd" to the location where you have series of directories "A","B","C" and the each have 100 frames in them. I would like to be able to go to the root directory and do something like this:

mplay *\*.0012.exr

anyone able to shed light on this?

I can specify this and it works --> mplay A\*0012.exr

So it looks like the leading wildcard is borking.

Thoughts?

-k

[Marc]

eek! I shudder at the very thought of that.

Sorry... I can't be more help, I just thought I'd express my horror and sympathise with you for a bit.

M

P.S. Could you maybe use Cygwin?

[michael]

ugh...

yeah cygwin might be the best bet...good luck getting that installed

not sure about this but...

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/management/powershell/default.mspx

it has the word "power" in it so it must be good!

[thekenny]

thanks for the sympathy....

I tried a hybrid cygwin I have access to, but no dice.

I'll try the vanilla one next, and the awesome sounding "power shell".

It's not so much the install of cygwin, but the configuration of it... I'll have to look on the odforce wiki..if memory serves me correct I think there might be a page on it there.

Thanks.

-k

[Alanw]

thanks for the sympathy....

I tried a hybrid cygwin I have access to, but no dice.

I'll try the vanilla one next, and the awesome sounding "power shell".

It's not so much the install of cygwin, but the configuration of it... I'll have to look on the odforce wiki..if memory serves me correct I think there might be a page on it there.

Thanks.

-k

This works for me with cygwin, which is fairly default I think. I'm pretty sure it's picking up %PATH% from my standard windows location, but I know you can add your own in C:/cygwin/etc/profile or the Cygwin.bat file itself can be edited. Mine had this in it, which I can't remember doing so it must have been one of many things I attempted.

@echo off

set IS_UNIX=
set DEV_ROOT=C:/myuserdata/data_root/shaders
set JAVA_HOME=C:/Progra~1/Java/jre1.6.0_05

C:
chdir C:\cygwin\bin

bash --login -i

Also, you should be able to go into $HFS/bin and execute csh.exe. I just launched it and navigated to a dir with multiple folders containing sequences and mplay A/*.pic works.

-Alan

[stevenong]

There is a csh which installs with Houdini so launch the Command Line Tools command prompt, type csh to start it and mplay *.exr should work now.

Cheers!

steven

[thekenny]

ugg,

nadda in the power shell.

to the cygwin...(sigh)

it has the word "power" in it so it must be good!

spoke too soon..

seems they have a csh & bash on my cmd prompt path.. so when I type either one.. i'm in a shell.

NOW.. mplay works like I remember...

oh the joy...

now I get to totally geek out and customize it...

-k

Edited September 23, 2009 by thekenny