VLC Media Player

[joeblow]

Anybody using this. It functions in windows exactly how I want. If I launch a video file and leave VLC running and launch a second, it is added to the now playing list along with the first.

In XLobby, when I play a video, it launches vlc as expected. However, if I play a second, it closes the original VLC video and launches the second alone. Is there a way to get XLobby to work more like windows and simply launch the second video file rather than closing VLC first?

Thanks again.

[asc99c]

Try adding the following to the command line for VLC player:
--one-instance --playlist-enqueue

The following is a decent list of command line attributes for VLC player:
http://wiki.videolan.org/index.php/VLC_ ... -line_help

Another parameter I tend to add is --file-caching=3000 which allows even Superbit DVDs to stream nicely over a Wireless LAN

[S Pittaway]

i had a look at vlc but it did not look as good as thertertek...

can you get it tou use other codecs? (ie nvidea pure-video) ?

sorry for jumping in on someones thread

[joeblow]

Unfortunately VLC does not seem to support codecs installed. It appears to support only the codecs built into it. On its behalf though, it seems to play everything I've thrown at it except Real Media files. Even installing Real Alternative doesn't work. I may have to resort to Media Player classic for those files.

I'm not really interested in Theatertek because I'm looking for free solutions. However, I do realize that sometimes with free solutions come some limitations so I guess I'll have to live with that.

Thanks asc, I'll try that.

[joeblow]

asc, I tried adding those switches so here is exactly what I have in there

"%parameter%" --one-instance --playlist-enqueue

and still each time a video is opened, the one that is currently playing is closed and the new one opened. Any other ideas.

[joeblow]

upon tinkering a bit, I think I determined the reasoning for the behavior. What Xlobby does is call the vlc executable and add the file to parameters. So everytime a new video is opening, it opens vlc.exe first then plays the vide rather than simply launching the avi file. Does anybody know of a way to get around that?

[asc99c]

For the codecs, try the --codec <codec list> command line option (apparently Media Player classic can list the codec names in the required format for this command). I believe it can use just about anything. Let me know if it works - my media centre has a very limited set of installed codecs to avoid problems, but it might be nice to just install everything and use this option to select the right one.

In Windows, the commands set up to use when running a filetype are visible in Windows Explorer - use the Tools Menu -> Folder Options, and click the file types tab. Select the avi extension, click on Advanced, then check the actions - it should say exactly what happens when the item is clicked on through explorer. Hopefully copying whatever it does there into the XLobby options should do what you want.

[asc99c]

Quick update, this info may be hard to find out. For some reason, when a file extension is opened by a non-Microsoft application, instead of an 'Advanced' button, you get a 'Restore' button - so when it's Windows Media Player, you can see that it does :prefetch=8 ... sort of options, but you can't go and nosy into it for VLC - you can just reset it to it's rightful Microsoft equivalent. I'm sure the information is present somewhere in the windows registry but I'm not sure where - regedit and Google may help you more than me here