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

[Eric Tullock]

Paolo,

That is what I was hoping. I am doing some testing with it now. I have it running and also having a powershell script check it every minute and it will notify me if it stops.

I'll let everyone know what I find out. If it doesn't stop in 25 hours I'll call that "never ending".

Thanks for the advice and help. Greatly appreciate it.

Eric 

-----Original Message-----
From: MPlayer-users [mailto:mplayer-users-bounces at mplayerhq.hu] On Behalf Of Paolo Bolzoni
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2017 10:24 AM
To: Phil Rhodes <phil_rhodes-at-rocketmail.com at ffmpeg.org>; MPlayer usage questions, feature requests, bug reports <mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu>
Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] Question: making mplayer run as a windows service

I am fairly sure mplayer will continue to work in idle mode until:
-it receives a quit command,
-some kind of error happens in mplayer,
-some kind of error happens in the OS,
-the system get shut down,
-the universe ends.



On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 1:13 PM, Phil Rhodes <phil_rhodes-at-rocketmail.com at ffmpeg.org> wrote:
> If that's the mode it stays in when it's in slave mode, it certainly used to be many hours.
> P
>
>       From: Eric Tullock <etullock at blackberry.com>
>  To: "MPlayer usage questions, feature requests, bug reports" 
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> windows service
>
> Paolo,
>
> Do you know how long MPlayer will stay in the "idle" mode? Does this need to be refreshed every so often?
>
> 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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