CMD-Line options

[iconnorthomas]

Could we expand the command line CLI to have certain options like stereo/5.1? Currently you can only specify audio per channel and there are always 6 channels, this makes unnecessarily larger DCPs since there are 6 channels when stereo dcps only need 2, also some festivals/theaters would push back on receiving a 6 channel dcp when the metadata and file says stereo (and they are expecting only 2 channels).

It would also be nice if you could set the crop options in the command-line CLI as well. I think you can make templates that do that? But that can also become quite messy. Would be really nice if you also didn't have to specify the number to crop but just told the software to crop image to full screen. There is a similar feature in DaVinci Resolve that does it like that. Though I imagine that would be somewhat complicated to code?

It could also be nice to specify colorspace of the input file on the command-line CLI. Maybe allowing you to use your own OpenColorIO config? But that way if the file is anything other than SRGb you can tag it as such. I think for instance most files I'm trying to run a DCP of are not SRGb, but rather Rec. 709 Gammut 2.4

I also wouldn't mind helping create these changes, but I'm unfamiliar with the code of this software. I'd love to see these features added and wouldn't mind helping in anyway I can.

[cth103]

Hi, thanks for the message. I made a note on the main bug tracker about the channels option.

There is an "auto-crop" option in the GUI, which tries to auto-detect the image and set the crop accordingly - I guess a command-line option for that would help you?

I also made a note about the colourspace option - it probably would be a good idea to use OpenColorIO at some stage.

[iconnorthomas]

Hi, thanks for the message. I made a note on the main bug tracker about the channels option.

There is an "auto-crop" option in the GUI, which tries to auto-detect the image and set the crop accordingly - I guess a command-line option for that would help you?

I also made a note about the colourspace option - it probably would be a good idea to use OpenColorIO at some stage.

Having those options would be great! Anything I can do to help?

[cth103]

If you want to get into the code, let me know, and I can try to assist. Otherwise, being ready to test is a great help!

It's only a small thing, but I added --audio-channels in 2.8.11