UNIX quicktime question....
If I wanted to open a movie in terminal, I would write...
$ open movie.mov
...and it would be opened by quicktime nice and easily. Which is good. But how do I find out what flags need to be entered to make it open it in full screen? I tried
$ man Quicktime\\ Player.app
... but it is coming up with no manual for Quicktime player. So how do I go about find ing out flags for the app and/or for others?
At work we use '-fs' with mPlayer, but I'm not sure if that is some script that someone in the building wrote.
Thanks.
$ open movie.mov
...and it would be opened by quicktime nice and easily. Which is good. But how do I find out what flags need to be entered to make it open it in full screen? I tried
$ man Quicktime\\ Player.app
... but it is coming up with no manual for Quicktime player. So how do I go about find ing out flags for the app and/or for others?
At work we use '-fs' with mPlayer, but I'm not sure if that is some script that someone in the building wrote.
Thanks.
Comments
open is just a CLI replacement for double-clicking the icon in the Finder - you can't specify fullscreen when doing that, so you can't do it using open either.
'open foo.mov' says "Go open foo.mov with whatever application you think is right."
mPlayer is a CLI tool with a GUI wrapper over the top, so it has strong flag support.
'mplayer -fs foo.mov' says "mplayer, I want you to open foo.mov, and do so in fullscreen."
With open, you don't know what app it's going to use, you're asking it to select one. <-- document centric
With the second form, you're telling the app to open a particular file, so you can send it flags. <-- application centric
There's probably other ways but I'm sure this would work.