On demand RealMedia content requires activation through so called metafiles to ensure that the player starts without any problems on all platforms. This application automates the tedious task of generating the metafiles referencing clips in a RealMedia server storage. The utility also allows specification of the initial state of the player window.
The Windows Script Host environment provides support for describing scripts, passing parameters, including external source files and loading type libraries. Here is the output which the framework shows to guide proper usage of the program:
metafiles - Prepares metafiles for published RealMedia content
Usage: metafiles.wsf /input:value /url:value /output:value [/display:value]
Options:
input : i - Reference of RealMedia source directory
url : u - URL for content on media server
output : o - Reference of metafile target directory
display : d - RealPlayer display arguments
Example:
cscript metafiles.wsf /input:\\netcast /u:rtsp://www.server.fi/clips/ /o:\\pages\clips
The utilities of the Virtuosi Digital Video Processing Environment all share a common set of functionality provided by source code templates and a modular support library. This basic functionality is generated by a Windows Script Host application wizard which provides handlers for optional and mandatory command line arguments. The framework supports short mnemonic aliases for named arguments. Programs generate standard errorlevel responses to problems during validation of arguments, file paths, file structure or ActiveX component loading.
Here are the specific capabilities of the metafiles utility: