[vlc] Re: VideoLAN as default player under W2000

[Fabien ILLIDE]

Hi André,

Thanks very much !
In fact, I can Drag&Drop, but the file association works too !

(May be put it on a FAQ somewhere guys ?)

Thanks again, I'm so happy WMP won't start so often on our windows 
stations ;-)

Bye,
Fabien

Andre Cretegny a écrit:
> Fabien,
> You can try that:
> 
> @echo off
> start /D"C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VideoLAN
> Client-041\" vlc.exe %1
> 
> with this, I can drag and drop a movie file onto the
> vlc.bat icon, and vlc starts and immediately the movie
> window starts too...
> 
> André
> 
> --- Fabien ILLIDE <fillide.cambrai at nordnet.fr> wrote:
> 
>>Olivier Teulière a écrit:
>>
>>>On Tue, Oct 08, 2002, I wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>@echo off
>>>>cd "C:\your\path"
>>>>vlc "%1"
>>>
>>>
>>>With 'start vlc "%1"' instead of 'vlc "%1"', the
>>
>>dos dialog box
>>
>>>disappears immediatly.
>>>
>>>Hope this helps,
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>I've try to include the VLC path to Path sys
>>variable.
>>Not working
>>
>>
>>I've try your solution with the .bat
>>Doesn't work too.
>>
>>I see quickly appear a DOS box, but nothing is
>>launched.
>>
>>When you say >>cd "C:\your\path"  is it the path for
>>VideoLan ?
>>
>>I think so, cause you say that it was a plugin
>>problem.
>>
>>Here what I've done :
>>@echo off
>>cd "C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VideoLAN Client\"
>>vlc.exe "%1"
>>
>>(or 'start vlc', it's the same)
>>
>>Well, I just try another thing :
>>Launch directly the .bat
>>This make VLC open.  (so the path is good)
>>
>>But if I launch the .bat by a file association, It
>>(w2000) say (in french, 
>>so my translation may not be exactly the same as on
>>EN-US Windows2000) :
>>"The file 'vlc.exe' (or one of is components) can't
>>be found. Check the 
>>path and name are good, and all other required
>>librairies are available"
>>
>>Strange that it launch VLC but not the file.
>>
>>Have you test the .bat on a W2000 ? Or other windows
>>?
>>
>>Well, another test :
>>By typing in a console :
>>vlc.bat Z:\MyPathToTheFiles\File.mpeg
>>it works...
>>
>>Bye,
>>Fabien
>>
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