Pre My Vids 3.2

[KingArgyle]

Reven, doesn't look like the Plugin is checking to see if the external player should be used. I checked it in the option, added the necessary information to the Path (the button next to the program selector doesn't bring up a dialog so I entered the path manually). When I go into My Videos, and select a file to play, it still launches the built in player. Which for most cases is fine, but Zoom Player has the ability to queue up several movies or videos so I could do something like:

Play an Intro
PLay a couple of trailers
Play the movie I selected.

Eventually it would be nice to enable a button to Play the video straight out, or Play with Trailers. I have this setup on Meedio right now with PlayMe and it works very well.

Let me know when you have another version to test.

[reven]

i just looked at the code, and this is the check i do before launching the external player

Code:

if(USE_EXTERNAL_VIDEO && EXTERNAL_VIDEO_EXE != "" && EXTERNAL_VIDEO_ARGS  != "" && File.Exists(EXTERNAL_VIDEO_EXE))

you sure have set the exe and args ?

[KingArgyle]

Okay, I fixed the problem. I had quotes around the full path the the EXE because I didn't know how My Videos would handle spaces in the path. Once I removed the quotes it worked alright.

Here is the argument line I'm using for launching Zoom Player:

"%FILENAME%" /F /Q /MOUSEOFF

Again, it would be nice if someway could be added to allow configuration of multiple play buttons. That way I could set one up for playing the video and the other for playing the video plus some trailers if wanted.

It does work, just have to make sure you put Zoom Player into full screen mode, otherwise GBPVR and MY Videos comes back to the foreground.

[reven]

yeah c# doesnt need quotes around a filename, but most players need it for command line switches (ive fixed a bug in the config app which didnt popup a file browser to select a external exe, of course youve been doing this directly into the config.xml file )

ill have a go at implementing more options now, maybe if using an external player, pushing play on a file pops up another menu showing options like
- play movie
- play with trailers
- play with errr something else

and if only one option is set, just play the movie with no menu. now comes the hardest part, doing the damn config app

[reven]

updated again, multiple options for external video player, read first post for info + download.

ps SKIN CHANGES!!! :p

[reven]

ive added to the next version the ability to add "GBPVR.exe" to the of available video options, and multiple options for dvd playback. if gbpvr.exe is selected it will play the files internally within gbpvr.

[KingArgyle]

The new external player options seem to work. One thing though, can you add the ability to edit a confguration entry. Currently, there is Add, Remove, but no Edit. I entered some values wrong, and wanted to go back and chang them, but the only way to do that is to remove and then re-add.

[reven]

god it never ends with you

yeah i can probably add edit really easily, someone just requested it for my programs, i forgot i actually did the code for the add quite smartly (the form extends "ok box" or something along those lines, which well makes things really easy). the only problem is, well sub has pretty much made the external player unnecessary with the next release, balls.

[KingArgyle]

Actually, I'd keep the external player support in there, just as another option. I know codecs should be codecs, but for some reason, I find Zoomplayer to be the best option for me when playing videos. It just handles things more gracefully.

[markm]

Reven,

Could you toss up a snippit of code for reading the poster images out of the DB and into a picture box?

I've been beating my head against this all night. It's probably simple, I'm just not getting it.