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

[Paolo Bolzoni]

Check the options -idle and -slave. You will need a little client to
send commands to the mplayer service, however since you just need to
play wavs it should be fairly easy.

On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 1:52 PM, Richard Kuenz <richard.kuenz at web.de> wrote:
> 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
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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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