rungq — run an image viewer with a local slide show of Wacs image sets
runmp — run a movie player with a local list of Wacs video clips
rungq [modifiers] argument
runmp [modifiers] argument
tagnumber
specifies that the tag set (aka Saved Search) of the number given should be used. This can be abreviated to t and the number or even just the tag number on it's own.
connnumber
specifies that the connections set of the number given should be used. This can be abreviated to c and the connection set number.
modelnumber
specifies that the complete portfolio of the model specified should be used. This can be abreviated to mod or even m and the model's number.
--cat= specifies that only a single category of
sets should be shown from those that would otherwise match - this uses the
standard values for scatflag. The values are as follows:
F for Straight, G for Group Orgy, M for Masturbation, L for Lesbian, S for
Solo and T for Toys. Thus --cat=T will show only toy
sets.
--excl= specifies what categories
of sets should be excluded - the default is Backstage and Duplicate.
These are provided as a comma separated list.
To show only solo sets you would specify --excl=F,G,L,B,D.
To cancel the default exclusions, specify a blank exclusion list:
--excl=.
--skip= specifies how many of the sets that would otherwise have
matched should be skipped.
This allows you to restart partway through a particular set of matching
sets/clips, eg
--skip=15 starts at the 16th matching set.
While the Wacs system is primarily web-based, through tools like rungq and runmp, it is possible to access both the underlying database and image files/video clips in the WACS archive directly within the Linix/Unix shell environment. This offers some advantages in terms of speed and flexibility of display over accessing it through a web-browser but of course looses both the ubiquity and just-works aspects of using the web interface. Using rungq or runmp is very much an optional alternative with restricted functionality to using the full web interface.
In order to use rungq or runmp
you will need to have the
appropriate access at the operating system level to the database and to
the files themselves; this is normally achieved through being a member
of the Linux/Unix group wacs.
It is also possible to make this work on a workstation or laptop computer
on the local network through a combination of NFS and network transport of
the SQL requests to the database.
More information on how to configure these is given in the Configuration
Manual for the WACS system.
In essence what rungq does is retrieve the full pathnames of the directories containing the image sets specified and invokes an image viewer on those. It opens the first image at which point it is normal to fullscreen the viewer and either page through the images using the space bar or left mouse click, or set a slideshow going with a fixed interval between images. rungq can play in this way saved searches (aka tag sets), connections or a specific models complete portfolio. Various modifiers described above can make further sub-selections based on set type or skip over a number of the entries if these have been recently viewed. The runmp command works in a very similiar way but passes the full path names of the video clip files instead.
rungq conventionally uses gqview because this viewer will let the user browse through a slideshow of image directories specified in this way. This behaviour was added to gqview at our request by the original author - many if not most other image viewers require explicit specification of the image files themselves or open all the files at once (eog used to do this although by GNOME 2.26 it seems to work correctly).
runmp uses the mplayer but could easily use a different movie player if that is prefered.
rungq t23 - show the image sets in saved
search number 23
rungq --cat=T t23 - show the image sets
of category Toys from saved search 23
rungq --excl=B,D,F,G c7 - show the
image sets from connection set number 7 skipping Backstage, Duplicate and
Straight Sex sets.
rungq --skip=15 mod17 - show the
portfolio of model number 17, starting from the 16th set.
runmp --cat=L m23 - show the Lesbian
movies featuring model number 23.