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

Discussion:

Eric Tullock

2017-05-21 20:48:18 UTC

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.

Paolo Bolzoni

2017-05-22 07:50:19 UTC

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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?

Post by Eric Tullock
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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Eric Tullock

2017-05-22 11:21:33 UTC

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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

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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?

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Richard Kuenz

2017-05-22 11:52:55 UTC

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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
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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?

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Paolo Bolzoni

2017-05-22 16:24:46 UTC

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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.

Post by Richard Kuenz
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-----
Paolo Bolzoni
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2017 3:50 AM
To: MPlayer usage questions, feature requests, bug reports
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?

Post by Eric Tullock
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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Richard Kuenz

2017-05-22 17:36:11 UTC

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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.

Post by Paolo Bolzoni
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.

Post by Eric Tullock
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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Paolo Bolzoni

2017-05-23 07:35:09 UTC

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Are you sure the problem is on the mplayer side?

Post by Richard Kuenz
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.

Post by Paolo Bolzoni
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.

Post by Richard Kuenz
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-----
Paolo Bolzoni
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2017 3:50 AM
To: MPlayer usage questions, feature requests, bug reports
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?

Post by Eric Tullock
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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Paolo Bolzoni

2017-05-24 14:23:49 UTC

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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

If that's the mode it stays in when it's in slave mode, it certainly used to be many hours.
P
Sent: Wednesday, 24 May 2017, 11:59
Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] Question: making mplayer run as a 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-----
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2017 12:25 PM
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.

Post by Richard Kuenz
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.
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-----
Behalf Of Paolo Bolzoni
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2017 3:50 AM
To: MPlayer usage questions, feature requests, bug reports
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

Post by Eric Tullock
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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Eric Tullock

2017-05-24 14:28:51 UTC

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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

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Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2017 10:24 AM
To: Phil Rhodes <phil_rhodes-at-***@ffmpeg.org>; MPlayer usage questions, feature requests, bug reports <mplayer-***@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.

If that's the mode it stays in when it's in slave mode, it certainly used to be many hours.
P
To: "MPlayer usage questions, feature requests, bug reports"
Sent: Wednesday, 24 May 2017, 11:59
Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] Question: making mplayer run as a 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-----
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2017 12:25 PM
To: MPlayer usage questions, feature requests, bug reports
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.

Post by Richard Kuenz
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.
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-----
Behalf Of Paolo Bolzoni
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2017 3:50 AM
To: MPlayer usage questions, feature requests, bug reports
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

Post by Eric Tullock
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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Paolo Bolzoni

2017-05-24 08:16:13 UTC

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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.

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-----
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2017 12:25 PM
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.

Post by Richard Kuenz
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.
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-----
Behalf Of Paolo Bolzoni
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2017 3:50 AM
To: MPlayer usage questions, feature requests, bug reports
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

Post by Eric Tullock
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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