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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Bobboau on October 09, 2005, 12:25:38 am

Title: re-assigning shortcut keys
Post by: Bobboau on October 09, 2005, 12:25:38 am: I want to change the comands on some of the shortcut keys on my keyboard, and I don't want to install the logitech drivers to have to do it. there has to be a registry setting somewere that has the comands for launching a media player or email client (ect). does anyone know were to find what I'm looking for?
Title: re-assigning shortcut keys
Post by: Sesquipedalian on October 09, 2005, 01:49:06 am: TweakUI has a section for that, but it only works on some keyboards. You could try that.
Title: re-assigning shortcut keys
Post by: Bobboau on October 09, 2005, 02:14:38 am: sweet! works! thanks!

I now can get wmp to play a specific playlist by hitting a single button :D
Title: re-assigning shortcut keys
Post by: WMCoolmon on October 09, 2005, 02:33:13 am: http://www.foobar2000.org/
Title: re-assigning shortcut keys
Post by: ZylonBane on October 10, 2005, 12:00:36 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Bobboau
I now can get wmp to play a specific playlist by hitting a single button :D
How nice for you.

Now you just need to configure a button to DELETE Windows Media Player.
Title: re-assigning shortcut keys
Post by: Bobboau on October 10, 2005, 12:08:55 pm: why bother? all I want is an media player that has all my codecs working, I remember asking last time I reformated for my options, and I think winamp was the only real competition (VLC was also mentioned, and I do use it for corupted files, but I don't like it, the seperate controles and viewer, the way the viewer doesn't close all the time when the rest of the program does, ect)
Title: re-assigning shortcut keys
Post by: kode on October 10, 2005, 12:36:55 pm: Quote
Originally posted by ZylonBane
How nice for you.

Now you just need to configure a button to DELETE Windows Media Player.

are there any other buttons for once-per-install tasks?
Title: re-assigning shortcut keys
Post by: Sandwich on October 10, 2005, 12:50:59 pm: A "Media Player" is, IMO, a bad idea - or, at the very least, a hard-to-implement properly one. Think about it (I had to think about this very thing recently when designing a site for streaming audio as well as streaming video): when listening to audio, you generally want the program to be as unobtrusive and... backgroundy as possible. But when watching video, you generally aren't doing something else, so having features up front is more acceptable.

This is why I use Winamp for audio, and Media Player Classic for video.

But that's just me.
Title: re-assigning shortcut keys
Post by: Fury on October 10, 2005, 01:05:53 pm: Sandwich hit the bullseye, exactly the reason why there is no "ultimate" media player to play both video and audio. Personally I use Windows Media Player classic for video and foobar2000 for audio. (Along with ffdshow and vsfilter of course.)
Title: re-assigning shortcut keys
Post by: Flipside on October 10, 2005, 01:07:12 pm: The later MPlayers, 9 & 10 in particular are an absolute nightmare to use, they are crashy and don't get on very well with Explorer on either of my computers. Mplayer classic though is still a very handy piece of kit.
Title: re-assigning shortcut keys
Post by: aldo_14 on October 10, 2005, 01:28:48 pm: Incidentally and entirely irrelevantly, has anyone else had a problem playing videos with newer nVidia drivers? I can't get the colours to show properly (it's shown in cga/vga by the looks of it) unless I turn down the hardware acceleration from maximum.
Title: re-assigning shortcut keys
Post by: ZylonBane on October 10, 2005, 01:46:50 pm: It's shown in CGA? What the hell? That's like saying a DVD is "playing in VHS".
Title: re-assigning shortcut keys
Post by: Sandwich on October 10, 2005, 05:50:00 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Mr. Fury
...Windows Media Player classic...

ARGH!!! Pet peeve alert!! :hopping:

:p
Title: re-assigning shortcut keys
Post by: vyper on October 10, 2005, 05:51:49 pm: How come?
Title: re-assigning shortcut keys
Post by: Sandwich on October 10, 2005, 05:58:26 pm: The media players that came with Windows, or that were produced by Microsoft, are the Windows Media Player v6.4 (mplayer2.exe) or Windows Media Player versions 7-10 (wmplayer.exe). Version 6.4 was the version that inspired the open-source (I think... it's third-party, at least) Media Player Classic (mplayerc.exe), which surpasses ANY Windows Media Player in video playback by far.

In short, there was never any such thing as "Windows Media Player Classic". :p
Title: re-assigning shortcut keys
Post by: ZylonBane on October 10, 2005, 06:31:59 pm: Ummm, WMP 6.4 didn't just come out of thin air. There were obviously versions 1-5 of WMP too. The last pre-6.4 version should still be included with Windows, as "mplayer.exe".
Title: re-assigning shortcut keys
Post by: Sandwich on October 10, 2005, 06:42:24 pm: Quote
Originally posted by ZylonBane
Ummm, WMP 6.4 didn't just come out of thin air. There were obviously versions 1-5 of WMP too. The last pre-6.4 version should still be included with Windows, as "mplayer.exe".

Those versions weren't really worthy to be called media players, but strictly speaking, you're right. I was just limiting my list to programs that are still bundled with Windows XP (mplayer.exe isn't, AFAIK).
Title: re-assigning shortcut keys
Post by: mikhael on October 10, 2005, 07:24:12 pm: Hrm. Let me see what I can make of this. A bit OT, though

Quote
Originally posted by Sandwich (adjusted by Mik to make a point)
A "Single Unified Linux" is, IMO, a bad idea - or, at the very least, a hard-to-implement properly one. Think about it (I had to think about this very thing recently when designing machines to be webservers and firewalls): when serving webpages, a server needs to push pages almost promiscuously. But when acting as a firewall, promiscuous data trasfer is less acceptable.

This is why I use OpenBSD for firewalls, and SuSE Linux for webservers.

But that's just me.

I'll paste this over into the appropriate thread, so reply over there. ;)
Title: re-assigning shortcut keys
Post by: CP5670 on October 10, 2005, 10:23:33 pm: What is the mplayer32.exe thing in XP? That reminds me of the old Win95 media player, although I'm not sure if it's actually the same thing.
Title: re-assigning shortcut keys
Post by: Grey Wolf on October 10, 2005, 10:27:20 pm: mplayer2.exe is WMP 6.4.
mplayer.exe is WMP >7.
mplayerc.exe is a third-party utility that resembles WMP 6.4 cosmetically, but beats it in many feature areas. (Link: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82303&package_id=84358 )
Title: re-assigning shortcut keys
Post by: ZylonBane on October 10, 2005, 10:36:36 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Grey Wolf
mplayer.exe is WMP >7.
Not under 95/98/NT/2000 it isn't.
Title: re-assigning shortcut keys
Post by: Grey Wolf on October 10, 2005, 10:51:08 pm: True. I was referring to WinXP, sorry for not stating that.
Title: re-assigning shortcut keys
Post by: Sandwich on October 11, 2005, 01:12:33 am: Erm, even under XP, mplayer.exe is not > 7. mplayer.exe is < 6.x, I believe. What you're thinking of is wmplayer.exe.
Title: re-assigning shortcut keys
Post by: Fury on October 11, 2005, 01:30:20 am: Quote
Originally posted by Sandwich

ARGH!!! Pet peeve alert!! :hopping:

:p

There's only Windows build. No linux or osx, just Windows. :p