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

[Eric Tullock]

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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