video program execution - seperate window VLC

[vaporhat]

can anyone tell what I am doing wrong here?

VLC opens from the event but not when a movie from the database is played.
I searched the forum and it appears to look just like other who have had success. Tried with ("") without, with %file & %path% command line switches.. nothing.

I thought I had this working in an older version of 2 .. anyone else having issues with the latest V2.0 ??

[Jay]

Not sure this helps.
I select my movie then decide whether to use the internal player (movies:play movie new) or VLC (Movies:play movie).

[lar282]

what do u mean by
-"but not when a movie from the database is played

does it work if nothing is playing?
if so, it might be a vlc setting.

//Lasse

[vaporhat]

what do u mean by
-"but not when a movie from the database is played

does it work if nothing is playing?
if so, it might be a vlc setting.

//Lasse

meaning that when I test the event in XL it opens VLC and when I play a movie from the database it still trys to play the movie in the window.

is there something I need to set in VLC??

[vaporhat]

Not sure this helps.
I select my movie then decide whether to use the internal player (movies:play movie new) or VLC (Movies:play movie).

not sure I understand how to implement that option? Can you post more details?

[Jay]

I may have not grasped ur post. I have 2 buttons to play movies. Looks like Lars is wondering too.
Anyway, your File Types association looks fine.
The items in parentheses >internal player (movies:play movie new) or VLC (Movies:play movie).
are events associated with my buttons to choose which player is used.

Please advise if I'm off-base or it's still unclear.

[lar282]

what do u mean by
-"but not when a movie from the database is played

does it work if nothing is playing?
if so, it might be a vlc setting.

//Lasse

meaning that when I test the event in XL it opens VLC and when I play a movie from the database it still trys to play the movie in the window.

is there something I need to set in VLC??

It's prob me being dumb here!!!!

if it opens vlc and plays the movie then all is OK????

let me ask this.
1: If NO vlc is open and u select play in XL, WHAT happens
2: If vlc is already playing a movie and u select a new movie what happens?


//Lasse

[Jay]

VLC will open in its own window.

If you hit Play, XL launches it's own player.
If you hit VLC in my case, it launches VLC.
The picture shows the associated F2>Skins>Movies events for each button.

[vaporhat]

ok.. getting closer now. I didn't realize i needed to change the event of the button to 'Movies:play movie' , my confusion.

so I created a second button with a click event 'movies: play movie' and now a VLC window opens but the movie does not play. Almost like VLC is being executed but it's not locating the directory of the movie.

[vaporhat]

Got it. Thanks guys for the help!

My problem was two part. I didn't have the correct click event in the skin and I didn't have the correct parameters. So this is what I have now and it works.

[Jay]

There you go
BTW, if you want VLC to launch in a 2nd screen and have probs, let us know.

[vaporhat]

There you go
BTW, if you want VLC to launch in a 2nd screen and have probs, let us know.

I saw a post about that.. using settings in VLC to control 2nd window opening.. When I went back to try it, I didn't need to. There is something already set in my graphics driver that makes the 2nd monitor show VLC in full screen only on the 2nd window even though the actual VLC application window is open on my primary monitor. I can even minimize VLC and it doesn't effect the 2nd monitor. However if I try and right click or double click on the 2nd monitor it does nothing.

Weird. I have no idea why it's doing this or how to stop it if I wanted to. It also does it with the internal video player in XL.

It works though..

I have NVIDIA driver using multiple monitors with different backgrounds and resolutions (so I can still drag my mouse over to the other screen and other applications, however not over an video).

[Jay]

Did you check XLobby F2>Display?

[vaporhat]

Did you check XLobby F2>Display?

yes, that is how I got XL to display on the correct monitor.

My PC seems to behave like this even outside of XL with any video player.. it's some setting on my PC or in the driver.. I am just not sure what is controlling that. Luckily it's working out for me at the moment.

[Jay]

Great. I admit I did get confused between separate window and 2nd monitor.

Nice to see someone else likes the highbrow flics