scripter scriptfile [record_mode]
If record_mode is not given, the images are displayed in the PC's frame buffer but not recorded. If the PC is attached to a Panasonic recorder, record_mode can either be the starting frame number on videodisk, or -1, which indicates that the start of the first big enough unrecorded block of frames will be seeked to. If the PC is attached to a Sony recorder, any number besides "0" (preview mode) will result in seeking to the first available frame.
Valid commands in scriptfile are as follows:
connect "server" establishes the connection with the movie animation server "server". "server" is an Internet address or symbolic name.
get "file" gets the Anima-format file containing compressed images to be recorded. get can be used more than once to read more than one sequence, as in Anima files containing titles and Anima files containing images.
search "framenum" searches to the given frame number in the Anima file.
blank blanks the movie animation server's frame buffer.
playto "framenum mode videorate" records frames sequentially from the current frame up to frame number "framenum". The current frame is either the result of search or the last frame of a preceding playto. The value of "framenum" may be less than the frame number of the current frame. In this case, frames are recorded in descending (rather than ascending) order. "mode" and "videorate" will be used in the next revision of Scry.
As scripter is executing any comments (a line starting with "#") are printed out as they are arrived at, and when "playto" is encountered the frames to be displayed are printed out.
The following is a sample script file:
connect adv-pc-1.lbl.gov 300000 get movies/heart.iff search 0 playto 100 slow 3 get movies/newskull.iff search 100 playto 0 slow 3