Using PDPlayer as a slap system

Deadline
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Hi guys,

We’re looking at using PDPlayer as a slap comp system. Basically - whenever we open a render from Deadline, to have the option of launching PDPlayer with a specific (per user and per shot) set of cmd line options. How do we do that? Some hint at where to start would be great.

Thanks!

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Hello,

We do have settings that can be done on a per user on each machine basis that can set the output viewer, which is detailed here: docs.thinkboxsoftware.com/produc … job-output

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Cool. So how do I send these to PDPlayer? Monitor script? I’m really new to deadline scripting. The reference file is just reference, kinda hard to see where to get started from :slight_smile:

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PDPlayer probably has some command line functionality you can tap into thru job scripting. docs.thinkboxsoftware.com/produc … gjobs.html

Check the ScriptUIExample.py in "repository\Scripts\general" for good example on creating the UI. Once you got that (if needed) and have collected all the data you need you can send your arguments through command line.

for example

subprocess.call(str("START " + PDPlayerpath + ' ' + PDPlayerFileSeqAndArgs), shell=True)
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Cool, I’ll check these out. Thanks!