Why display command doesn't work?

[Barabba]

Hi everyone, I kindly need your help

I would like to display an image under win10, I start this command line from a dos prompt with administrative privileges:
magick display c:\users\admin\desktop\1.jpg eventually I tried also:
magick display -size 1280x1024 -window root c:\users\admin\desktop\1.jpg like in the examples to give some arguments, in result I have only a scroll with all list of the possible commands. Why display doesn't work?

My purpose is to display a fullscreen picture over a video playing in fullscreen (from mediaplayerclassic). Would be nice to close the picture after some seconds and it would be nice to have alpha blending effect or whatever fading/transaction in and out if it is possible. Purpose is to advertise something over video.

May somebody kindly write me the adeguate command line? Thank you!

[fmw42]

Moved from Consulting to Users forum, since the Consulting forum is only for paid consulting.

[fmw42]

I believe that the display command is only for Unix systems. For Windows, you must use some other tool or something like IM_display. Any Windows user should correct me since I do not use Windows.

[snibgo]

"display.exe" is for X-terminals, or something, that Unix has but Microsoft Windows doesn't. The Windows distribution of IM comes with imdisplay.exe.

Many programs are available to display images, but if you want to fade the image out, or apply transitions, this sounds more like a "slide-show" program.

[Barabba]

hi mates, thank you very much for answering me
Probably you didn't understand my questions completely, and I'm sure it's because I haven't expressed myself right.

there is not display.exe, neither IM_display.exe, there is only magick.exe, also magick im_display c:\users\admin\desktop\1.jpg doesn't work.

There is any way to use magick.exe to display fullscreen and always on top an image under Windows? If not I can't use it at all.

My purpose is this:
I have a laptop connected to a projector playing a playlist of videos. Over the vide I want to display an image evary 2-3 minutes with some advertising, after some seconds the image will disappear and the background video showed as before. I can manage with a batch file to load the image every xx seconds, I can automatically chose the filename, I just need an image viewer who is able to overlay the video player and better if uses a fading effect in and out.
Can you suggest me a way for doing it? Thank you a lot!

[snibgo]

The obvious method is to edit the movie, inserting your images at suitable points.

[Barabba]

unfortunately movies and images change.. I already considered that
There should be an image viewer who do that..

[snibgo]

unfortunately movies and images change..

So? So re-edit the movie. In batch, of course. ffmpeg would do the job.

I can't think of an easier way. Of course, there is software that will fade a movie in and out, fade stills in and out, and so on. Adobe software can do that (at a price). Action Script can do that (free, last time I used it, but not easy to learn).

[Barabba]

thank you for your kind suggestion but for me it is not an option.. for different reasons of flexibility (image where put on shared folder and overwritten anytime, according to next events)
I'm looking for an image viewer which I can start from command line, has someone an idea? Thank you

[Barabba]

I would ask the last question, is it true that under windows Magick can't display the images?

[fmw42]

I would ask the last question, is it true that under windows Magick can't display the images?

Yes and no.

The function "display" does not work for Windows. It is a unix function only.

But there is an imdisplay.exe for Windows.

I do not know windows, so do not know if you can do

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magick.exe imdisplay.exe yourimage.suffix

in the same way in Unix you would do

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magick display yourimage.suffix

Try and see if it works. Otherwise, one of the Windows users might fill in more details on my comments.

[snibgo]

On Windows, this ...

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magick rose: win:

..., or using "show:" instead of "win:", will invoke imdisplay.exe to display the image. Or delegates.xml can be changed so "win:" or "show:" will use any other image viewer. Or imdisplay.exe can be called directly:

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imdisplay rose:

But imdisplay.exe doesn't have a "transparency" option to see through the image to a program that is behind it.

[GeeMack]

I would ask the last question, is it true that under windows Magick can't display the images?

A typical Windows IM installation should include ImageMagick's "imdisplay.exe". It's a bare bones viewer with no configuration options, no slide shows or full screen viewing or anything. If you're running "magick" from the command line, "imdisplay" is already in your path, so you should be able to just run it from a command prompt with "imdisplay anyimage.jpg". You could also create a shortcut to it same as you would any other Windows program.

To do what you've described you'll probably need more specialized software, maybe even for video viewing rather than stills. There are video tools like "ffmpeg" and "avisynth" that can be integrated into scripts for near-real-time dynamic content, but the learning curve can be daunting and they're unrelated to this ImageMagick forum.