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

Paolo Bolzoni paolo.bolzoni.brown at gmail.com
Tue May 23 10:35:09 EEST 2017


Are you sure the problem is on the mplayer side?

On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 7:36 PM, Richard Kuenz <richard.kuenz at web.de> wrote:
> I have another question please,
>
> on a imac g5 running osx 10.5.8
> using macports could install mplayer 1.3 or similar -
> which is being used in conjunction with youtube-viewer (perl program,
> terminal based, to access youtube) -
> so happy that it playbacks https://streams.
> but the playback is somewhat differed, eg. slower than the underlying audio;
>
> does someone know of a tweak to make it more in "tune" with the played
> stream?
> it should be in tune also when playing back and skpping forth;
> it has a radeon graphics with 128mb vram
>
> thank you in advance.
>
>
> Paolo Bolzoni wrote:
>>
>> 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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