Programmatically controlling LosslessCut / API / CLI

[mifi]

Suggested ways to programmatically control LosslessCut. Feel free to add suggestions in comments below.

command line arguments

• [x] open file or multiple files on launch
• [ ] seek to specified time value after file opened on launch #1204
• [ ] …

API / actions / macros

I could imagine some API that allows automating actions in LosslessCut, internally and externally. This could be tied to custom keyboard mappings #254

• [x] HTTP API
• [x] allow executing keyboard actions from command line
• [x] seek to specified time value #2087

Run a custom command from segments

See also afterExport event #974 #1347

Ability to press a button in losslesscut and have it run a custom command line (or more commands, e.g. one cmd per segment) and with ability to inject information about the current segments into this command. I think this requires some coding in one way or another by the user.

I think such a «hack» can currently be achieved by creating a custom bash script. Losslesscut will auto save a project .llc file with json5 containing information about each segment. You could create a bash script that you trigger by a keyboard shortcut (outside losslesscut). Then this script will then read the .llc file and run the desired commands. The workflow would be:

1. Edit segments in losslesscut
2. once you’re done, trigger your bash script

[mifi]

this was closed by accident

[mifi]

there's now a new http api