What is --slave ?

[thany]

I noticed when running jobs from within avidemux_jobs.exe, it starts avidemux_cli with an argument --slave followed by a number. What is it, and should I use it too, when manually batch processing? I also noticed it's not in the documentation (hint hint )

Moreover, I cannot get any help by executing "avidemux --help" or "avidemux_cli --help". The former one starts the GUI and immediately exits it, and the latter one does this.

Running 2.6.4 r8884 x64 on Windows 7.

[bernd_b]

This is what I get at the end of calling

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avidemux3_cli --help
Directory /home/bernd_b/.avidemux6/ exists.Good.
Using /home/bernd_b/.avidemux6/ as base directory for prefs, jobs, etc.
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  Avidemux v (r8884)
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http://www.avidemux.org
Code      : Mean, JSC, Grant Pedersen
GFX       : Nestor Di, nestordi@augcyl.org
Design    : Jakub Misak
FreeBSD   : Anish Mistry, amistry@am-productions.biz
Audio     : Mihail Zenkov
Mac OS X  : Kuisathaverat, Harry van der Wolf
Win32     : Grant Pedersen

Compiler: GCC 4.7.3
Build Target: Linux (x86-64)
User Interface: CLI

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Time: Sat Aug 24 09:13:51 2013

0: avidemux3_cli
1: --help

....

Command line possible arguments :                                                                                                             
    --nogui, Run in silent mode  ( no arg )                                                                                                     
    --slave, run as slave, master is on port arg  (one arg )                                                                                   
    --run, load and run a script  (one arg )                                                                                                   
    --save-jpg, save a jpeg  (one arg )                                                                                                         
    --begin, set start frame  (one arg )                                                                                                       
    --end, set end frame  (one arg )                                                                                                           
    --save-raw-audio, save audio as-is   (one arg )                                                                                             
    --save-uncompressed-audio, save uncompressed audio  (one arg )                                                                             
    --load, load video or workbench  (one arg )
    --load-workbench, load workbench file  (one arg )
    --append, append video  (one arg )
    --save, save avi  (one arg )
    --force-b-frame, Force detection of bframe in next loaded file  ( no arg )
    --force-alt-h264, Force use of alternate read mode for h264  ( no arg )
    --audio-delay, set audio time shift in ms (+ or -)  (one arg )
    --audio-codec, set audio codec (MP2/MP3/AC3/NONE (WAV PCM)/TWOLAME/COPY)  (one arg )
    --video-codec, set video codec (Divx/Xvid/FFmpeg4/VCD/SVCD/DVD/XVCD/XSVCD/COPY)  (one arg )
    --video-conf, set video codec conf (cq=q|cbr=br|2pass=size)[,mbr=br][,matrix=(0|1|2|3)]  (one arg )
    --reuse-2pass-log, reuse 2pass logfile if it exists  ( no arg )
    --autosplit, split every N MBytes  (one arg )
    --info, show information about loaded video and audio streams  ( no arg )
    --output-format, set output format (AVI|OGM|ES|PS|AVI_DUAL|AVI_UNP|...)  (one arg )
    --rebuild-index, rebuild index with correct frame type  ( no arg )
    --var, set var (--var myvar=3)  (one arg )
    --help, print this  ( no arg )
    --quit, exit avidemux  ( no arg )
    --probePat, Probe for PAT//PMT..  (one arg )
    --avisynth-port, set avsproxy port accordingly  (one arg )

[thany]

avidemux3_cli ?
How/where/what/why/when???

Anyway, your response is appreciated, but of very little help for now.

[bernd_b]

here/ avidemux 2.6.x / because it it the hottest stuff around /whenever you feel ready

http://www.avidemux.org/smf/index.php/topic,6885.0.html