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Title: Another use for lazarus
Post by: Mike on March 23, 2003, 09:53:15 am

Because I'm lazy I didn't want to write a frontend for a movie machine that I wanted to hook up to my living room tv. So I started jacking around with lazarus and the wrappers. And guess what you can use it to play divx movies no problem. I'm still working out a few things and designing a skin to use but once I get it done if anyone wants the config files or skin let me know.

Title: Re:Another use for lazarus
Post by: Howard_Casto on March 23, 2003, 05:44:33 pm

This is very true and believe it or not it also works with windows media player....

Many people don't realize this but wmp has various command line options you can send to it, such as a song to play and to start in full screen ect.   I don't have them off hand, but I believe msdn gives a bunch of examples.  

Title: Re:Another use for lazarus
Post by: )p( on March 24, 2003, 12:53:27 am

Quote from: Howard_Casto on March 23, 2003, 05:44:33 pm

This is very true and believe it or not it also works with windows media player....

Many people don't realize this but wmp has various command line options you can send to it, such as a song to play and to start in full screen ect.   I don't have them off hand, but I believe msdn gives a bunch of examples.  

i thought only wmp 6 could be run from the commandline without the gui popping up adn closing the video autom atically?

If that is still true then first install the latest wmp with all latest codecs after that install wmp 6.x on top of that.

then use these commandline options to run wmp fullscreen without the guit popping op and slosing itself after the video has ended:
/play /close /fullscreen

peter

Title: Re:Another use for lazarus
Post by: Howard_Casto on March 24, 2003, 01:30:49 am

I just tried it... it still works only you call mplayer.exe instead of the usual mplayer.exe.  
It does show the controls while the media is loading though, which is kinda lame.

btw installing wmp6 isn't required as it's included with media player 7 or higher

just type run mplayer2.exe and watch the nostalga begin :)

Title: Re:Another use for lazarus
Post by: )p( on March 24, 2003, 01:35:35 am

Quote from: Howard_Casto on March 24, 2003, 01:30:49 am

I just tried it... it still works only you call mplayer.exe instead of the usual mplayer.exe.  
It does show the controls while the media is loading though, which is kinda lame.

btw installing wmp6 isn't required as it's included with media player 7 or higher

just type run mplayer2.exe and watch the nostalga begin :)

hehe you are right...actually i prefer the old player..hate the bloated newer skins...so I now made it my default one  ;D

peter

Title: Re:Another use for lazarus
Post by: Howard_Casto on March 24, 2003, 01:51:53 am

agreed, but the problem with that is the classic player doesn't support some files (like divx) and neither players will play music files full screen


ugh maybe if i get enough time i'll make another jukebox program