Trouble using the music media player

[bickertn]

I store a combination of music (mp3 and wav) and music videos (mp4 and wmv) on my NAS.  I can see the music files, but not the video files, particularly wmv.  Can NPVR be configured to include these files on the list when I select "MUSIC?"

I also cannot find any controls, e.g., pause, stop, next, on the screen while the music (mp3) is playing.  Right click, pause and stop, have no effect.  I stop the music by exiting from NPVR.
I found some postings on related topics, but they are from 2008 (e.g., "Playlist (m3u) Support for Videos") and 2011 (e.g., "What music player is used? Sub response:  When you playback on a PC it uses directshow").  Task manager doesn't show any separate app playing the music.
What is the music player in v5 and how do I control it?

Thank you for any recommendation(s) that point me in the right direction
bickertn

[sub]

It doesn't show up as a separate player in the task list. It's using directshow, which is a component that Microsoft supplies, that developers can use to include playback in their own applications.

The music playback in NextPVR is fair basic. It's generally controlled by a remote, or keyboard. For example, ctrl-q will toggle pause/play, ctrl-left/right to skip to the previous/next track in the playlist, ctrl-s to stop etc.

[bickertn]

Sub, thank you once again for your quick and helpful reply.

A couple of notes about the music player (directshow), mostly for those who are not developers or who, like me, are not up to speed with many more recent generation apps***:
I was unable to succeed in Google searches for "end user commands for directshow" (everything was targeted to developers) nor was I successful with searches within the NPVR forum - BUT - I did find this posting using a Google search: https://nextpvr.com/nwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Manual.Music

MY Question: "directshow" is listed as playing both music and video and the aforementioned "manual" suggests editing config.xml to add extensions not already listed. I added .wmv but it is still NOT included in my NPVR list of music files. Will NPVR directshow play videos? and, if so, how do I get it to recognize them?

Included in the "manual.music" is a chart of directshow commands that work in NPVR Music; I added the Ctrl+q command that Sub mentioned in his prior response:

Remote Control and Keyboard Shortcuts (Music) the 3 headings are: Action Keyboard Remote Control
Plays the selected item (see this page for playlist queue behavior options). Ctrl-P PLAY button
Pause music Ctrl-Q PAUSE button
Stop music Ctrl-S STOP button
Forward one track in a playlist Ctrl-[Right Arrow] SKIP button (>|)
Back one track in a playlist Ctrl-[Left Arrow] REPLAY button (|<)
Remove selected track from the playlist Delete -
Show (hidden) menu bar Home Info
Jump to 0-90 percent of the way through the list 0-9 0-9
Jump to the first item that starts with that letter. A-Z

thanks,
bickertn
***PS: I cut my teeth on Fortran, IBM assembler language, PL1, and up through writing macros for Excel and a bit of database - but not latest generation developer apps; I can, with much effort, make sense of most - but appreciate pointers and help from the community

[mvallevand]

Perhaps for quick reference check the v4 wiki http://www.nextpvr.com/nwiki/pmwiki.php?...dReference since NextPVR.exe hasn't changed all that much and this table isn't on the v5 wiki yet.

Martin

[sub]

I was unable to succeed in Google searches for "end user commands for directshow" (everything was targeted to developers) nor was I successful with searches

Yeah, you wouldn't find anything with that type of search. From your perspective, NextPVR is the player, and it is responsible for the keys that controll playback.

It looks like you've tracked down pretty much everything. I should really have posted Martin's link above when I originally replied (http://www.nextpvr.com/nwiki/pmwiki.php?...dReference)

[bickertn]

Wow. All very helpful. Thanks

Last question (hopefully): will NPVR play .wmv videos within the music folder? If not, I will need to reorganize that folder on my NAS (lots of "stuff").
bickertn

[mvallevand]

Try adding it in this line in config.xml Not sure how videos work outside the Video Library though.

<MusicLibrary extensions="^.+\.(mp3|ogg|m3u|wma|aac|wav|m4a|fla|flac)$">

Martin

[sub]

Your should be able to. You'll need to add it's extension to the <MusicLibrary> setting in config.xml:

<MusicLibrary extensions="^.+\.(mp3|ogg|m3u|wma|wmv|aac|wav|m4a|fla|flac)$">

Don't wmv files normally have video?

[bickertn]

Before my initial post to this thread, I did edit config.xml to include "wmv" files as follows (second to last entry):
<MusicLibrary extensions="^.+\.(mp3|ogg|m3u|wma|aac|wav|m4a|fla|wmv|flac)$">
Didn't take immediately, so I tried exiting and relaunching NPVR = still didn't work. Same with rebooting the computer.
"Music" is displaying all of my "mp3" and "wav" files.
Not clear that logs would make any difference, so I haven't attached them.
Anything else I should try?
thanks,
bickertn

[sub]

Can you zip and attach your config.xml?