2009/11/18 mzatanoskas <mzatanos...@googlemail.com>: > Thanks for the help Peter, > > I tried it with windows media player and the program did start, but > wmp claimed it couldn't play the file?! > I tried again with media player classic and hooray, it seems to work!! > > Only problems now are that you have to close media player classic in > order to carry on using mnemosyne, so when all your flashcards are > doing this, you waste a lot of time starting and stopping programs. > Also if you get the answer wrong and it immediately repeats, it won't > run the plugin again. You have to go through another flashcard first.
You might be able to work around this with some kind of batch file hack. In Windows, you can use the "start" command to launch a program in the background... if you had a file called playmedia.bat with the line: start c:\Program Files\MediaPlayer\wmplayer.exe /play %1 Or whatever... then you could call that from the plugin by setting tag_program to point to your playmedia.bat and it would return immediately. Maybe :D > > Of course I realise this is just a plugin and is not fixable/a > priority but it leaves me with a little dilemma: > > I have a lot of vocabulary mp3s that don't seem to work with > mnemosyne's in built mp3 support. I have two choices: > > 1. Wait for 2.0 to come out and hope the mp3s are playable. Pros: > creating and using flashcards will be much easier and smoother. Cons: > waiting, will mp3s be playable? > > 2. Fiddle about with the plugin and mpc. Pros: I can start learning > now. Cons: It's fiddly and takes time to create cards and to use them. > In the future I will have to go through all the flashcards and change > them in order to use in built audio in 2.0. > > So I guess you can see where I'm going with this... is there an eta on > a alpha/beta 2.0 with new mp3 support?!! > > On Nov 18, 6:46 pm, Peter Bienstman <peter.bienst...@ugent.be> wrote: >> > lol, I tried a number of different syntaxes, but nothing like that! >> >> > So now I've got: >> >> > tag_name = "vlc" >> > tag_program = """\"C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe\"""" >> >> > Unfortunately though I still get the same problem. Command prompt pops >> > up and vanishes and nothing happens... >> >> > Can anyone else get it to work? >> >> I haven't tried vlc, but I was able to get Windows Media and Quicktime to >> work >> somewhat , although both had different other annoyances. >> >> Perhaps vlc does not allow to be started from the command line with an >> argument... >> >> Peter >> >> ------------------------------------------------ >> Peter Bienstman >> Ghent University, Dept. of Information Technology >> Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, B-9000 Gent, Belgium >> tel: +32 9 264 34 46, fax: +32 9 264 35 93 >> WWW:http://photonics.intec.UGent.be >> email: peter.bienst...@ugent.be >> ------------------------------------------------ > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. > To post to this group, send email to mnemosyne-proj-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > mnemosyne-proj-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users?hl=en. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To post to this group, send email to mnemosyne-proj-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to mnemosyne-proj-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users?hl=.
