This is why I hate Windows - I had to spend hours just trying to find ways around annoying Windows shortcomings and often realising there is no work around.
cliver;608022 Wrote: > I still can't get the VLC command line to stop throwing up a gui. From > what I have read -I dummy seems to work for others but surely it is > meant to do as it is doing in my case, i.e. show a dummy DOS shell to > run VLC through? VLC cannot produce a dos shell. The "-I dummy" relates to the VLC window which has drop down menus with close, minimise etc. icon in the title bar. The dos box comes from the method you use to start vlc.exe > Also having trouble with the cmd.exe in a shortcut... > Am I supposed to put the cmd.exe /c vlc ........etc all in the target > on the properties>shortcut tab? I think it will be in the Target box but I have a feeling that a dos box will always pop up because Windows does not provide an option to suppress it. The TunerPlay plugin uses a Perl library to create processes and I think this is why dos box doesn't appear. > > If so it won't take the string length and truncates it. The easiest way to get around this is to put the command line in a BAT file and use a command something like "cmd.exe /c vlcmd.bat". If dos box popping up is a big negative, it may be worth looking at hstart. -- bpa ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21804 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
