[MPlayer-users] Question: making mplayer run as a windows service

[Richard Kuenz]

Sorry for interrupting,
There is a very nice player
for playing audio from terminal command line called cmus.

Paolo,

Thank you for your help.

What I am trying to achieve is a quicker startup from MPlayer (like 
right after a re-boot or after MPlayer has sat dormant for a day). I 
don't want MPlayer to do anything but play wav files, I do not need it 
to play movies, weird DVDs, VHCDs, or any of that. All I need it to do 
is play wav files, period. But what happens is that if I re-boot my 
machine, or if it sits idle for a while (say 12 hours) and then I call 
on it to play a certain wav file, it can take MPlayer up to 30 seconds 
to load and play that file. It is especially noticeable after a re-boot.
So, I was wondering if there was some way to get MPlayer to either: 1.) 
boot up with support to play ONLY wav files, so that it doesn't load up 
all of the fonts, all the other drivers, etc., or 2.) load up from boot 
by running as a service in the background so that it doesn't have to 
load every time it is called upon, so that it plays the wav file almost 
immediately whenever it is called on.

Thanks,
Eric
-----Original Message-----
From: MPlayer-users [mailto:mplayer-users-bounces at mplayerhq.hu] On 
Behalf Of Paolo Bolzoni
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2017 3:50 AM
To: MPlayer usage questions, feature requests, bug reports 
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Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] Question: making mplayer run as a windows 
service

Windows services are special programs (microsoft likes complexity), but 
there are programs to execute any program as service (like 
http://nssm.cc/). Still what are you trying to achieve?

On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 10:48 PM, Eric Tullock <etullock at blackberry.com> 
wrote:
>
> Is there any way to set up MPlayer to run in Windows as a service. I have tried setting it up, and it is in the list, but the app will not launch from the services manager, powershell, command line, etc.?
>
> Any help would be much appreciated.
>
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