[MPlayer-users] MPlayer-users Digest, Vol 161, Issue 6

Wed May 24 17:55:45 EEST 2017

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Today's Topics:

   1. Re: Question: making mplayer run as a	windows	service
      (Eric Tullock)
   2. Need help shortening MPlayer load time (Eric Tullock)
   3. Re: Need help shortening MPlayer load time (stan)
   4. Re: Need help shortening MPlayer load time (Eric Tullock)
   5. Re: Question: making mplayer run as a windows	service
      (Paolo Bolzoni)

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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 00:20:36 +0000
From: Eric Tullock <etullock at blackberry.com>
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
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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
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

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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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 00:25:44 +0000
From: Eric Tullock <etullock at blackberry.com>
To: "mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu" <mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu>
Subject: [MPlayer-users] Need help shortening MPlayer load time
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Right now I am running mplayer in idle mode,  so that it is already up and running when I send it something later on. My problem now is that it is taking the program 8-10 seconds just to load up all of the codecs, drivers, etc. that it loads up when it starts. Is there any way to keep if from loading everything, because all I want it to do when I send it something is to play a simple wav file. I don't need all of the codecs for video, streaming, all of the fonts for sub-titles, etc.

I just want it launched bare-bones as quickly as possible just to play wav files.

Any help would be much appreciated.
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 17:49:34 -0700
From: stan <RegBur_Flydan8 at q.com>
To: mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu
Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] Need help shortening MPlayer load time
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On Wed, 24 May 2017 00:25:44 +0000
Eric Tullock <etullock at blackberry.com> wrote:

> Right now I am running mplayer in idle mode,  so that it is already
> up and running when I send it something later on. My problem now is
> that it is taking the program 8-10 seconds just to load up all of the
> codecs, drivers, etc. that it loads up when it starts. Is there any
> way to keep if from loading everything, because all I want it to do
> when I send it something is to play a simple wav file. I don't need
> all of the codecs for video, streaming, all of the fonts for
> sub-titles, etc.
> 
> I just want it launched bare-bones as quickly as possible just to
> play wav files.

What happens if you give it the -novideo option, so it knows it is only
dealing with audio?  On my linux box, it plays a wav file in less than
a second the first time with that option, and nearly instaneously on
subsequent plays.  Admittedly, linux organizes its dynamic libraries
differently than windows, so my experience might not be relevant.

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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 00:55:43 +0000
From: Eric Tullock <etullock at blackberry.com>
To: "MPlayer usage questions, feature requests, bug reports"
	<mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu>
Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] Need help shortening MPlayer load time
Message-ID:
	<B090B70B85A3294E9DF263CB3D1F175B01B82940 at XMB116CNC.rim.net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"

Well, that did it.

It was almost instantaneous. Thanks for the help.

-----Original Message-----
From: MPlayer-users [mailto:mplayer-users-bounces at mplayerhq.hu] On Behalf Of stan
Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2017 8:50 PM
To: mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu
Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] Need help shortening MPlayer load time

On Wed, 24 May 2017 00:25:44 +0000
Eric Tullock <etullock at blackberry.com> wrote:

> Right now I am running mplayer in idle mode,  so that it is already up 
> and running when I send it something later on. My problem now is that 
> it is taking the program 8-10 seconds just to load up all of the 
> codecs, drivers, etc. that it loads up when it starts. Is there any 
> way to keep if from loading everything, because all I want it to do 
> when I send it something is to play a simple wav file. I don't need 
> all of the codecs for video, streaming, all of the fonts for 
> sub-titles, etc.
> 
> I just want it launched bare-bones as quickly as possible just to play 
> wav files.

What happens if you give it the -novideo option, so it knows it is only dealing with audio?  On my linux box, it plays a wav file in less than a second the first time with that option, and nearly instaneously on subsequent plays.  Admittedly, linux organizes its dynamic libraries differently than windows, so my experience might not be relevant.
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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 10:16:13 +0200
From: Paolo Bolzoni <paolo.bolzoni.brown at gmail.com>
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
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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
> 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
>
> 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.
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> MPlayer-users mailing list
>>> MPlayer-users at mplayerhq.hu
>>> https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users
>>
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Not sure if it will help or not, but if all you need to do is quickly play a wave file, without any bells or whistles, you could try this...

http://www.horstmuc.de/wminis.htm#playwav

It's just about the smallest wave play there is.