How to Use Command Line Arguments¶
Fast video cataloger can be started with command line arguments. If an instance of fast video cataloger is running and you start a new instance with arguments, these arguments will be passed to the running instance.
Catalog¶
You can give a .vcat file as argument to load a video catalog.
Write Protected catalog¶
If you name the catalog .vcatp it will be opened as a write protected catalog that can not be written to.
Argument format¶
Arguments to Fast video cataloger starts with -.
If a value needs to be passed to the argument you write it together with the argument separated with a :.
Arguments¶
-video:[id] Select the video with the provided id.
-search:[term] Search the catalog with the provided search term.
-playlist:[name] Select a playlist matching the name.
-playplaylist:[name] Play a playlist with a given name
-play:[id] Play a video with the given id. The video needs to be in the active filter.
-addvideo:[path] Add a video file to the videos to add in the Add Videos window, as the File button does. Indexing does not start: click Start in the Add Videos window, or start it from a script. Put the whole argument in quotes when the path has spaces.
-fullscreen Toggle fullscreen mode
-ignoresettings Skip loading setting files.
-ignorelayout Skip loading layouts at startup
-safemode Skip loading plugins at startup
-run:action_name Run a named action on startup. The name must match the action's title exactly, capital letters included.
If you provide a filepath with the .cs extension, the program will load and try to run it as a script, once it has started.
The arguments passed to Fast Video Cataloger are printed in the script console window.
Examples¶
Play video with id 2 in fullscreen
Search the catalog for videos from 2021
Add a video to the Add Videos window
Installer arguments¶
The installer can run silently, for example when you deploy Fast Video Cataloger to several computers.
/S Run the installer silently, without any dialogs. Note the upper-case S.
/D=[folder] Install to another folder. It must be the last argument, and the path is not quoted even if it contains spaces.