Video Archive -- use external player

[chud]

i'm super impressed by most of the plugins that people have taken the time to write to extend GBPVR. really good stuff.

i currently find myself in the situation where i use both My Videos and Video Archive to sort through, select, etc, the recordings and movies on my system. i like aspects of both of these plugins.

what would really do it for me with Video Archive is if i could specify an external player to view videos (i use Zoom Player) as can be done in My Videos. my second request would be to make it a bit snappier, but i can live with that...

m.

[Jeff]

I only use GBPVR with the mvp using a remote for all input, which is why my plug-ins are optimized for this usage. I'd be willing to dd support for external players if someone was to help explain to me how to do this within GBPVR (that is, what api functions do I call) and if others would help test it since I can not.

Jeff

[chud]

jeff,

i'd certainly be up for testing, not much help on the programming details. i know that Reven's "My Videos" plugin has the option to fire up an external player.

mike

[reven]

the way i do is just let the user specify a exe file, and command line arguments for that other app. and then just replace a keyword with the selected filename eg
exe : "C:\program files\zoom player\player.exe"
args : "-file %FILENAME% -fullscreen"

then just instead of using
pluginHelper.playvideofile(filename)
i setup a seperate process

Code:

Process p = new Process;
p.StartArgs.Filename = exe;
p.StartArgs.Arguments = args.Replace("%FILENAME%",filename);
p.Start();

the code is from memory (so probably wrong) but you should get the idea.