SWEET!  Now I need to go buy a bigger HDD

Quoting Agrare:

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mediadogg,

I may be able to help you with intercepting keystrokes if your are interested as I've done some work where I needed to do such a thing. If you want some information/help let me know and I'll see if I can assist.

-Agrare

As a result of your help, I was able to adapt the code you found on the net, but so far the only key that I can reliably intercept is "Escape". This is perfect for my other plugins that need a way to interrupt a looping process, but I have not yet been able to intercept a "Ctrl" or "Alt" key sequemce.

Thanks! I also got some code form tlevel that he has already used with the plugin API. Hopefully, I've got what I need now. Just have to rip out all what I've been trying and put in the new ...

I'll keep you posted!

Glad to have you on board. Soon you will be cheering.

Perhaps the documentation and all the prior examples aren't clear, but what you should have in the notes field is:

[filepath]C:\Documents and Settings\Jim_Bruce\My Documents\Temp DVD Creation\To Watch\Sunshine.avi[/filepath]

and Location should have the word "file" (no quotes).

You are not required to have an empty Notes field. That string can be embedded anywhere in the field. Ok, try that! 

Oh man you are really testing the old Dogg today:

Well, I'm viewing a video as we speak that started up with vlc player (via file associations), and the filepath has spaces.

The problem you are experiencing seems strangely like what you would get if you had a .BAT file named vlc.bat.

If that's not it, try checking windows XP (I assume) "command extensions". It should be turned on by default. But if not, weird things can happen.

If you are not cheering by now - we might need to go to the "brute force" method and use PlayFromDisk.bat.

Meanwhile, I'll download the plugin from the web site, install it on the machine I'm using, and make sure that we are using absolutely the same code. As you might guess, I sometimes have multiple copies of my own code kicking around. Edit: ok, worked OK. (whew) 

Quoting JimBruce:

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Jim

Thanks again, however this time no joy !!!

I have no VLC.BAT file on my machine, and I can't see how to change command extensions.

However before you get all down about this... LOL, not that if there are no spaces in my file path or filename, then LoadDVD work like a treat, so there is a little cheer

Jim

Thanks, but I cannot rest until you are jumping up and down screaming with joy. 

Seriously though, what this means is that there is something going on that causes my program not to work for you that I don't understand. Not a good thing - imagine the hours I've spent making this thing so it would work for people. Let's switch back to PM mode, and when we solve it, we'll come back and post results - I wanna see you dance! (I'll PM you later after I give it some thought).

In the meantime, you might try PlayFromDisk.bat - with this option, you code "Play" (no quotes) in the location field. Then PlayFromDisk.bat is called, and the path is passed to as a quoted string - see the relevant posts in this thread where this has worked for others who had file assiociation problems. The solution is easy to implement.

For a future release, I will look into allowing quotes in the Notes-embedded filepath. Maybe that would help in situations such as yours.

Whenever I can't find something in windows - I just "Google" - nearly 100% I get a tutorial on just what to do.

Good luck - keep us posted.

Quoting JimBruce:

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Hi Jim

What's the form with the playfromdisk.bat file.

Does Play in the location field automatically kick off the bat file, and do I need to make any modifications to the notes field or the batch file itself?

Once this is resolved, is the playing of the AVI file kicked off with the same button as LoadDVD

Thanks

Jim

You know I really want to help you, but I have a bit of frustration. Because everything you are asking has been discussed several times in this thread with examples. I'm not trying tio be rude, but I'm not sure if it means that all that other stuff is unclear, or you just didn't see it? I mean, I could just cut and paste the answer from there - so could you let me know if you already read that stuff - and maybe I need to find a different, better way to explain it?

BTW, what are some of the details of your system? Are you running XP, XP Pro, Vista?  Did you make sure to turn on command extensions? I'm still perplexed as to why you are having the original problem.

Quoting BrokenVisage:

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Hey MediaDogg, thanks for the help, here's my question..

Perhaps you've answered this somewhere in the thread, but when I use your plug-in to Play/Retrieve a movie I keep getting the message "Disk Eject Failed". My unit is able to load discs no problem, so could you point me in the right direction on how to fix this?

Thanks

Ok, I need to know what you put into the "Location" and "Slot" fields.