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

[Eric Tullock]

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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