It only happens with the Sony 777es changers. I will send you the rs232.bat and the playfromdisk.bat files I'm using. I'm working from a totally different system at this time and I don't have access to the actual system it's failing on. Like I said I backed down to 1.43 and still had the issue. 1.4 seems ok, actually I think I posted my playfromdisk.bat back on page 17 or 18, I will send all I can tomorrow for you.

Thanks

Art

Location rs232
Slot 202

Options Default changer is set to SonyCX777es

Text for disc selection

Media Dog,
The good news, I no longer get that error.
The bad news, with the following,

Location rs232 com2
Slot 24

The com2 does not seem to work anymore and It goes to com1 slot number,ie(24)

Thanks

Art

Quoting mediadogg:

Quote:
Quoting brabandt:

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Can I setup an intro to movie AVI file to play then follow with the actual movie from my HDD on my computer with your plugin?

Yes. Use the PlayFromDisk.bat option which means you put the word "play" in the location field, and the filepath in the Notes field, using the documented syntax (see post#1). You can have a filepath for each disc in the profile. In your case, wanting to immediately follow one file with the other, setup the filepath without the extension, such as [filepath disc=1]c:\myfolder\mymovie[/filepath]. Then code PlayFromDisk.bat as:

@echo off
%6.avi
%6.ISO

Depending on your player, you will either get them queued up, both playing simultaneously, or the second one interrupting the first.

Try it, and then we'll augment the script to accomodate your player (for example, we could cause the script to create a simple playlist before calling the player to load the playlist).

Here is my bat file:

@echo off
%6.wmv
%6.ifo
rem %1 DescriptionSideA
rem %2 profileid - this is usually the UPC code
rem %3 disc#
rem %4 slot# or collection#
rem %5 Title or Sort Title or Label Side A
rem %6 filepath
rem %7 mediatype = "DVD", "HD" or "BluRay"
rem %8 and thereafter - remainder of Location field
echo %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
if %7=="DVD" echo %6
if %7=="HD" echo Do whatever for an HD disc
if %7=="BluRay" echo c:\program files\powerdvd\powerdvd.exe %6
pause

This is from my collection list:

[filepath disc=1]C:\Documents and Settings\bbrabandt\My Documents\My Videos\countdown01[/filepath]
[filepath disc=2]\\Adstech\share\2 FAST 2 FURIOUS\VIDEO_TS\VIDEO_TS[/filepath]


When I play from collection list, it only plats first file.
I'm using  WMP11 to play files. What should I try to get one file to play after the other?

Quoting brabandt:

Quote:

Here is my bat file:

@echo off
%6.wmv
%6.ifo
rem %1 DescriptionSideA
rem %2 profileid - this is usually the UPC code
rem %3 disc#
rem %4 slot# or collection#
rem %5 Title or Sort Title or Label Side A
rem %6 filepath
rem %7 mediatype = "DVD", "HD" or "BluRay"
rem %8 and thereafter - remainder of Location field
echo %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
if %7=="DVD" echo %6
if %7=="HD" echo Do whatever for an HD disc
if %7=="BluRay" echo c:\program files\powerdvd\powerdvd.exe %6
pause

This is from my collection list:

[filepath disc=1]C:\Documents and Settings\bbrabandt\My Documents\My Videos\countdown01[/filepath]
[filepath disc=2]\\Adstech\share\2 FAST 2 FURIOUS\VIDEO_TS\VIDEO_TS[/filepath]


When I play from collection list, it only plats first file.
I'm using  WMP11 to play files. What should I try to get one file to play after the other?

Several comments:

(1) No need to keep all those rem statements after your code, unless that is your way of keeping the examples around

(2) The way you have the filepaths coded, you will always get:

C:\Documents and Settings\bbrabandt\My Documents\My Videos\countdown01.wmv
C:\Documents and Settings\bbrabandt\My Documents\My Videos\countdown01.iso

when you click on the disc 1 icon, or:

\\Adstech\share\2 FAST 2 FURIOUS\VIDEO_TS\VIDEO_TS.wmv
\\Adstech\share\2 FAST 2 FURIOUS\VIDEO_TS\VIDEO_TS.iso

when you click on the disc 2 icon.

The reason for the pause is for when you use play/s, the window will stay open and you would have seen that. It is for testing. Otherwise, you don't need the pause.

You seem to have created another kind of scenario - making up "playlists" from the filepaths saved in Notes. I would have to put some kind of new code in for that, but I'm not si sure how many people would need it. Interesting idea though.

[Edit: I got it. Something like code play or play/s followed by %fp%. When I see the %fp%, I will send all the remaining filepaths in notes, one after the other as %8, %9, .... (of course you have to use SHIFT after %9 ) Could that work?]

Otherwise, you need to use Giga's technique.

Quoting abierce512:

Quote:
Media Dog, Remember these?

I finally got around to using them and all is working. Just thought I would let you know that I am fooling around with REXX and doing some different things to try and automate the process, I will keep you informed as I progress (or digress) with it.
Art

Yeah, actually I do. And I was hoping that you would do exactly what you are doing. None of us has the time to try everything, so we count on others to contribute to the knowledge base.

@jankri,

Let' see, let me do the easy one first:

(1) Shortcut: LoadDVD Options panel has an option to switch from the default context play menu, to an item off the DVD menu. When you do that, your remote control sequence becomes "Alt-D, Shift-P, Shift-P, Enter " if you have only one disc, or if you have more than one disc, you will have to "down arrow" and then press enter. That should be enough for you to finalize it. The exact sequence will depend on if you have other plugins that start with "P" on the DVD menu also.

(2) Now the other issue. If I understand you correctly, you suggest that I recode the plugin to support play2, etc. How far should I go? Play3, Play99? The whole point of this option is to allow you to do your own thing. Call as many .bat files as you want. Think about it: wouldn't you prefer to have only 3 scripts to manage verus programming play or play2 or whatever in each Location field?

Correct me if I got the scenario wrong, and I'll try again, but contrary to your view, I think the posted solutions are exactly what you need. I use them an all my systems, some XP and some Vista - eactly the same script. The issues you have with Vista have to do with its wierd new way of doing file associations. Everybody has trouble with it, and trust me, if there was an iron-clad way for me to fix it by re-programming the plugin, it would have been done, because I want it too! If you read some of the posts, you'll see where somebody came along and blasted my way of doing it, and gave me the "correct way". I re-programmed and got exactly the same results. (Haven't heard from that guy since.)

Bottom line: use "play" everywhere. If you code %6, it basically works just like "file", otherwise you can put additional code to overcome file association issues, and if you need two versions, just call another .bat from within PlayFromDisk.bat, or use IF statements inside it, like the posted solutions. At this point, I don't see the justification for me to change the plugin, but if I have misunderstood something, please try again to help me understand.

(Giga ... my hero ...  and BTW if detecting the OS is the issue as Giga has shown, then take a look at the tutorial on XP commands - there are environment variables and other things available in a .bat file that could help you make the OS determination - I'm editing, cause I hate always being the last poster in my threads ...  )

OOOps,

I did not mean to offend you, Mediadogg.
To be honest, your plug is the only reason I use DVD Pro. I have ripped quite a few titles to disk, and my main goal is to be able to call them from within DVD Pro using a remote signal.
I realize, of course, that no software will be written or rewritten to suit my demands, so , being new at this program, my questions are just about what is possible and what is not, given the tools at hand.
That being said, your answers will help me write the code in Girder necessary to select and play titles with my remote. I thank you for that.
As for the batch files, I have already written those, and I use Girder to switch between the OS`s and play the selected file after reboot. This requires the media files to be associated with one of two batch files (it`s a triple boot machine), hence my original question.
Actually, only two of my three OS`s are used for playing files. The third is used exclusively for BD and HD-DVD playback. This is the only OS that requires association with two batch files, so it`s not crucial, but user friendliness and WAF plays a part here.
Anyway, I will try out using conditionals in the PlayFromDisk batch file. That may solve it for me.
Once again, a big thanks to you both for helping me out!!!

Jan.