by Finsternis » Sun Mar 31, 2019 5:54 pm
OK, I see where I made a mistake. I can add videos to the Now Playing list and have them play in order (though it should do it automatically when I click on them in the library, as it does with music tracks). BUT it only works with the internal player. When using an external player, it does not play one after the other. This is important because the internal player is VERY limited. It has almost no controls except pause, skip, and shuffle. There is no control to skip to the next chapter, loop a section, change speed, fast forward/rewind, or anything like that. The features are extremely limited. And MM does not even seem to use all the codecs on the system, because I have video files which can play fine in any other player but when MM tries to play them, it says "Cannot find codec for this file."
Please correct MM so that when it uses an external video player, it properly enqueues all the selected files. This would also fix the missing codec issue. I haven't done Windows programming before, but it doesn't seem as if it would be too hard. It may even be as simple as just using a different system call to launch the player. When I'm in Windows Explorer and select multiple video files, I can right click, select "Play with VLC", and it adds all of them to the playlist just fine (though you do have to configure VLC to only launch one instance at a time instead of in separate windows). Can't you use the same system call Explorer does?
You may think "Meh, it's not music-related, no need to fix it." But the player is called "MEDIA Monkey", not "MUSIC Monkey." It's advertised as a full media management solution. It should have the same features and capabilities for each media type. It also needs a full-fledged video player, not treat video as a redheaded stepchild. But I'm not asking you to do that, to spend a lot of time adding all kinds of features to your media player. Just please do the minimum to let it work with a more powerful external player. If you were feeling ambitious, since VLC is open source, you may even be able to embed it as your internal media player as long as you distribute the source code along with MM. But at minimum, please enable MM to queue videos correctly with external players.
Thanks!
Thanks.
OK, I see where I made a mistake. I can add videos to the Now Playing list and have them play in order (though it should do it automatically when I click on them in the library, as it does with music tracks). BUT it only works with the internal player. When using an external player, it does not play one after the other. This is important because the internal player is VERY limited. It has almost no controls except pause, skip, and shuffle. There is no control to skip to the next chapter, loop a section, change speed, fast forward/rewind, or anything like that. The features are extremely limited. And MM does not even seem to use all the codecs on the system, because I have video files which can play fine in any other player but when MM tries to play them, it says "Cannot find codec for this file."
Please correct MM so that when it uses an external video player, it properly enqueues all the selected files. This would also fix the missing codec issue. I haven't done Windows programming before, but it doesn't seem as if it would be too hard. It may even be as simple as just using a different system call to launch the player. When I'm in Windows Explorer and select multiple video files, I can right click, select "Play with VLC", and it adds all of them to the playlist just fine (though you do have to configure VLC to only launch one instance at a time instead of in separate windows). Can't you use the same system call Explorer does?
You may think "Meh, it's not music-related, no need to fix it." But the player is called "MEDIA Monkey", not "MUSIC Monkey." It's advertised as a full media management solution. It should have the same features and capabilities for each media type. It also needs a full-fledged video player, not treat video as a redheaded stepchild. But I'm not asking you to do that, to spend a lot of time adding all kinds of features to your media player. Just please do the minimum to let it work with a more powerful external player. If you were feeling ambitious, since VLC is open source, you may even be able to embed it as your internal media player as long as you distribute the source code along with MM. But at minimum, please enable MM to queue videos correctly with external players.
Thanks!
Thanks.