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mynewusername

14th April 2010, 06:27

Hi,

Can anyone recommend a video player that can play avisynth files and be opened and closed from the command line? It also needs to be able to close after it finishes playing the video to return focus back to my scripts.

I have been using windows media player but I am reworking my scripts to be more automatic. Since newer versions of wmp cannot be told to close after playing (atleast from my google searching since like wmp9), it doesn't work for me anymore.

So I need a player that can:
1) be opened and closed from the command line
2) auto closed on completion of video script when opened from the command line

Vitaliy Gorbatenko

14th April 2010, 07:03

mynewusername

14th April 2010, 07:14

Media Player Classic HomeCinema
http://www.xvidvideo.ru/media-player-classic-home-cinema-x86-x64/media-player-classic-homecinema-x86-x64-svn-1788.html
Better to use external editor + VirtualDubMod (F5 key to reload script) Or VirtualDub (F2)
PS: VirtualDubMod has an internal script editor.

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. Most of the website is in russian so I had trouble navigating the links. Do you know the command line options to play and autoclose after the script is finished? I am making these scripts to be run unattended so I can queue them up and let them run while I am not around/sleeping/at home so the ability to open and close them from the command line is the most important part of the player to me.

Thanks

Edit: virtualdub looks like a good shot. I didn't realize it could do that. Thanks ==> http://www.virtualdub.org/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=20

mynewusername

14th April 2010, 08:10

I cannot seem to get virtualdub to run the whole avisynth script before the focus is given back to the command line. I am running it via the vdub.exe and using the /i option to load a .syl script to open the file but I still only have one frame of my .avs script rendered.

Does anyone know any tricks to get this to work? Or another player that works with little trouble to do this?

jmartinr

14th April 2010, 09:44

Media Player Classic Home Cinema -> Help -> Command Line Switches

Lynx Pardinus

14th April 2010, 22:11

In my case this is working:

vdub /s video.syl /x

Of course video.syl contents should do what you exactly need.

If you simply open the file you will only get the first frame. Depending on what do you want you will need VirtualDub to either play the file or save it as avi.