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Helix Mobile Producer On-Demand User’s Guide➤ To set the path to Helix Mobile Producer On-Demand:To avoid navigating to the directory that contains Helix Mobile Producer On-Demand, include the path to the executable (.exe) file in your Path variable.For example, enter the following command at the command prompt:set PATH=%PATH%;D:\Program Files\Helix\Helix Mobile Producer On-Demand;Basic Encoding CommandsYou can use the command-line interface to encode streaming media in offline(file input to file output).To run a job file from the command line, use the following syntax:hmprod -j [input] [destination] [options]A job file is an XML file that specifies all settings related to an encodingsession. Job files can be created via the GUI application (see Chapter 5), oredited with any text or XML editor.You can specify additional arguments and flags on the command line. Theseare described in the next section, “Command-Line Reference” on page 56.Batch encodingTo perform batch encoding of many input files, use a directory name as theinput and a directory name as the output. For example:hmprod -j myjob.xml -i c:\inputs\ -o c:\outputs\ ...This creates one output file for each input file using the same settings forevery file. Each valid source file in the input directory will be encodedsequentially.Command-Line ReferenceThe command-line interface has several flags and arguments that you shouldbe familiar with before doing any encoding from the command line. Tosimplify command-line use and to make it easier to reuse encoding settings,you can use job files to define all of the encoding settings.56