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

[Paolo Bolzoni]

I do not use windows and in my system mplayer starts in half a second
tops. So I cannot really help you in that, and as far as I know
mplayer does not really load anything unneeded.

On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 2:20 AM, Eric Tullock <etullock at blackberry.com> wrote:
> Paolo, Thank you. This finally worked for me. I had to do some gyrations of the command within powershell but finally got it working.
>
> BTW - MPlayer is taking about 8-10 seconds to load everything before it comes up and ready to play anything. Like I stated before all I want it to do is play wav files that I feed it (no video, no translations, no sub-texts, etc.). SO is there any way to get it to load any faster by telling it not to load everything on the planet before it actually starts?
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MPlayer-users [mailto:mplayer-users-bounces at mplayerhq.hu] On Behalf Of Paolo Bolzoni
> Sent: Monday, May 22, 2017 12:25 PM
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> Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] Question: making mplayer run as a windows service
>
> 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
>> To: MPlayer usage questions, feature requests, bug reports
>> <mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu>
>> 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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