Apple Compressor 3 - Manual (Page 364)

Description Submission command option
Displays information regarding the required parameters for the
Compressor command.
-help
Example of Compressor Command XML
The code below is an example of XML code for submitting a Compressor command.
Notice that because it needs to be entered as one command line, every character after
-options
that isn’t alphanumeric must be preceded with a backslash (\).
./Compressor -clusterid tcp://127.0.0.1:51737 -batchname myBatch -jobpath
/Volumes/Source/ShortClips/NTSC24p.mov -settingpath
/Users/stomper10/Library/Application\ Support/Compressor/PhotoJPEG.setting
-destinationpath /Users/machinename/Movies/myDestinationFilename.mov.
This command has the following elements:
• Cluster address is tcp://127.0.0.1:51737.
• Batch name is myBatch.
• Job path is /Volumes/Source/ShortClips/NTSC24p.mov.
• Setting path is /Users/stomper10/Library/Application
Support/Compressor/PhotoJPEG.setting.
• Destination path is /Users/machinename/Movies.
Shell Commands for Submitting Apple Qmaster Jobs
You can use the Apple Qmaster command,
Apple Qmaster
, with a number of
command-line options for submitting jobs.
In the command-line descriptions below, angle brackets < > indicate a mandatory
argument in a command, and brackets [ ] indicate an optional argument.
Synopsis
Below is a synopsis of the command for submitting a job to a cluster. The
Apple Qmaster
command is located in /Applications/Apple Qmaster.app/Contents/MacOS/.
Apple Qmaster [-clustername <name>] [-clusterid <user name:password@IP
address:port number>][-command <command type> -options <XML command>
[-wd<working directory>] [-timeout <seconds>] [-show] [-batchname <name>]
[-help]
Once the job is submitted successfully, this command displays the batch ID (identifier)
and job ID (identifier) in the shell.
Command Options
This table provides information about each of the command options for submitting jobs.
364 Appendix C Using the Command Line