Video player opens but no video will play.

[showmethehtpc]

Hi.

I have tried to both direct all movie files to VLC than I changed to windows media player.

In both situation, I will select a movie from the Xlobby video menu and the media player will open up however, it will not play the video.

The Media player does not even have the video loaded into it, it just opens the player. thats it!

Does anyone know how to get xlobby to actually play the video with the player instead of just opening it?


thanks for your help.

[P3rv3rt B3ar]

technically... xlobby never "plays" the file... xlobby just passes filename (or whatever) as parameter to player and its up to player how it will respond to it. So... check parameter attribute of your movies (filename passed to player), other commandline parameters (on filename association tab in setup), your execute file command (unless its automatic, meaning its based on category execute), and finally your player settings (for something like "start playing when meadia loaded"). If cant find the clear culprit, open your commandline console and test launching player with parameters it will receive from xlobby, u should see that media still wont play automaticly, try look reason for this in your player... missing commanline parameter? something wrong in player settings? Finally if everything else fails... find out what windows message u need to pass your player for it to start playing... and add this command to your xlobby event which is responsible of launching a movie.

[lar282]

Hi.

I have tried to both direct all movie files to VLC than I changed to windows media player.

In both situation, I will select a movie from the Xlobby video menu and the media player will open up however, it will not play the video.

The Media player does not even have the video loaded into it, it just opens the player. thats it!

Does anyone know how to get xlobby to actually play the video with the player instead of just opening it?


thanks for your help.

* Let us know what u have in the F2-File types Box
* let us know what file extension u are trying to play

example in my File Types
Program: C:\Program Files\ZoomPlayer\zplayer.exe
Extensions:avi,mpg,m2p,mpeg,mov,ts,wmv
command Line switches: "%parameter%" /MOUSEOFF /media /f /play

Then xlobby event "Execute--> Movie" will execute the above app and command line
So u have to know what to pass to your player.


//Lasse