Allows you to play your video clips from foobar playlist with an external player. Foobar2000 v0.9.4.2.
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Download (version 0.1.3) (http://www.savefile.com/files/427592)
New version with config form.
Please, post any ideas to improve my plugin
- Check for input_flag_playback to avoid opening videos when you attempt to run the Replaygain scanner or the converter on them.
- Get rid of the frequent crashes. This normally doesn't happen the first time I open a video, but the second or third attempt to open any video using your plugin will normally crash foobar2000 here. It's even the annoying kind of crash where the foobar2000 process stays in memory, so you have to use task manager to kill it.
Supported extensions: avi, mpg, mpeg, wmv, flv. Foobar2000 v0.9.4.2.
what about support for mkv ?
I'd like to request support for .ifo files.. specifically video_ts.ifo so that I can launch my dvd image directories :)
Also, how does this plugin deal with tags? Is any support provided for reading and/or writing tags from avi etc (I would assume not considering remuxing is such an intensive task)?
what about support for mkv ?
I can simply add support to all video types in Media Player Classic (for example), but i not sure this is best solution.
Also, how does this plugin deal with tags? Is any support provided for reading and/or writing tags from avi etc (I would assume not considering remuxing is such an intensive task)?
As I know, from this formats only WMV contains tags, and you already can edit it.
Supported extensions: avi, mpg, mpeg, wmv, flv. Foobar2000 v0.9.4.2.
what about support for mkv ?
An even better way to deal with the issue would be to allow the user to add the support for any extension he wants. I assume it would be possible since the plugin only forwards the file to another app.
I'm idly curious what situation the poster and others use this in. I am unable to dream up any way in which this makes more sense than picking them out in explorer and putting them in a playlist in the video application you use.
This plugin not work on my PC (XP +SP2, check all video formats in mpc).
When I push "play button" on avi file - name of avi file appears in foobar title bar for one moment and it is all.
The only reason i can see to use foobar to start playing videos would be to use its great possibilities of managment. That would mean following:
1. Something like a tag editor for videos but written only to database because not all file formats are taggable. I am thinking of a box where you can create own fields that are typical for videos (director, actor, ... ) and that can be used in media library viewers inside tagz scripts.
2. Masstagger/Massrenamer funcionality
Then i would create a second install of foobar just for organizing videos.
By the way: When i doubleclick a video file nothing happens although Media Player Classic is installed.
I'm idly curious what situation the poster and others use this in. I am unable to dream up any way in which this makes more sense than picking them out in explorer and putting them in a playlist in the video application you use.
i use foo_dop to import my ipod library. it will be handy to play the videos directly from foobar, instead of right clicking open dir > then double clicking the file in explorer. As iTunes hides the files away in a random folder!
By the way: When i doubleclick a video file nothing happens although Media Player Classic is installed.
Check file associations in MPC. And try new version (i 've made some minor fixes)
Interesting. Rather than launching the default video player, would you consider a switch that would allow your plugin to set a path to Portable VLC (http://portableapps.com/apps/music_video/vlc_portable) (the switch could simultaneously enable support for any video format extensions VLC is able to play)?
- M.
is there any where to configure the plugin? i couldn't find anything
My foobar don't play avi with version 0.1.1 plugin also.
My sugestion - in propeties set video player and its path.
My foobar don't play avi with version 0.1.1 plugin also.
My sugestion - in propeties set video player and its path.
Mine doesn't play any AVI files either. I have them associated with DivX currently.
I second the request to choose the video player path !
well i installed it, added video files and none of them played and i couldnt find any config to help? am i missing something obvious?
@2Pacalypse: Add Videofiles to your playlist then dubleclick
The standard media Player should open then.
Some Requests:
- Add Videoplayer path
- more Videoextension support: .rm and .mov would be great
Question:
-Every Time I use this plugin Foobar shuts down. Is this the wanted behaviour?
When yes: Request: Only make Foobar pause while playing video
- Why is there no opportunity to configure this plug-in?
Thanks for this plug-in Santa Sam
The idea is really great
-Every Time I use this plugin Foobar shuts down. Is this the wanted behaviour?
When yes: Request: Only make Foobar pause while playing video
Then you dbl-click on your video in playlist, plugin gets it path, stops playback and executes that path - very simple. It works stable for me since first version, so its hard to find bugs.
BTW. I've made new build in full version of Visual Studio with some fixes in code. I should learn SDK more to make the config (will be 'extensions' and 'player path' fields)
I will try the new version
If the same behaviour appears I will post it
An Off-Topic question:
How can I made my wanted player default player?
How can I made my wanted player default player?
You can make it in preferences of that player, or associate wanted file extension with it - right-mouse-click in explorer -> open with -> choose application -> ..etc
I just updated to the version 0.1.2 and there is a bit of a change. Instead of double clicking the file in my playlist and it doing nothing, I get my cursor changed so it has the hour glass beside it, but then nothing happens.
So in short, still doesn't work.
My .avi files are associated with DivX player. I'm not to sure whats going on...
I am using Columns UI, double clicking the playlist entry. Windows XP SP2. Foobar2000 0.9.4.2.
I dont understand why people are against foobar managing your video files. I think its a great idea (as long as its forwarded to your default player). "Whats the point?" I hear alot of you say. Simple; foobar is AWESOME at managing and categorizing a music collection and it stands to reason that some people may want the same for their video collection. I for example have videos spread over 3 external HD's (and some internals aswell as networked computers) and it would be far easier and convinient for me to find my videos via foobar than explorer. Would you rather select the track you want to play using explorer everytime? No. Same reason with videos.
I think this has great potential, perhaps in time allow users to assign an album art for each season of a tv series/DVD etc.
Anyway, I tried using the plugin however it doesnt seem to work at all. I've tried playing avi's and wmv's but when I click on them, nothing happens at all. Do you know whats wrong? BTW my default player is VLC.
Keep up the work Santa Sam.
Is there a possibility to use this plug-in with runservices to add Videos to a playlist?
Which Videoplayer would allow that? MPlayer?
Is there a possibility to use this plug-in with runservices to add Videos to a playlist?
Which Videoplayer would allow that? MPlayer?
Did you mean "Enqeue in foobar2000" string in the explorer context menu? It works for files types that associated to foobar2000 in its preferences. Also you can drag&drop videos to playlist.
No that wasn't that what I intended: I want it this way:
Klick something in the Videoplaylist in foobar and my Gom Player will start playing but when I mark some video then have a special hotkey that the second Video in Gom will be in that playlist enqueued.
But I think this wil only work with special Videoplayers. I tried several codes in the runservices component but nothing worked . I believe it is the way Gom is Porgrammed but it should be possible to reach this behaviour with other media players.
But there is also the easy right klick way to enqueue a video.
could you add mkv extension support?
If only it can play electric sheep's mpeg file (http://electricsheep.org/) like sheepWMP (http://www.codeproject.com/audio/SheepWMP.asp).
Could you post a sheepmpeg?
I couldn`t find some.
Could you post a sheepmpeg?
I couldn`t find some.
removed
The "few clips" are working for me
And the Samples are .mov which aren't supported by this plugin
Which default Video player are you using?
I'm using Gom and it works
The "few clips" are working for me
And the Samples are .mov which aren't supported by this plugin
Which default Video player are you using?
I'm using Gom and it works
I haven't tested the plugin cos it uses a popup window and involve two apps, great for playing videos. but for the nature of electricsheep is a lot better to integrate with Columes UI as foo_uie_vis_projectm.
The problem is that there seems to be no interest in developping visualization plugins or not the know how.
just wanted to say that i've used foobar2000 for my music for a year or so, but i have a very large collection of music videos i always wanted to organize using foobar.
this plugin is a step in the right direction! i've always wanted to be able to view my music videos just as i do music but most video players only have a basic playlist function for videos. if you could somehow find a way to be able to tag the video files like music, and have an options screen for a little customization, then this would become my dream plugin.
anyways, even though i don't think many people need or will use this plugin there will always be someone like me who've wanted a plugin like this since day 1.
thanks!
i'm using version 1.2 it shows up in the pref > components
Double click a video file - nothing happens. VLC is my default player. Is it VLC or is there a bug. I tried loads of dif formats, avi, mpg, 3gp etc
Edit: uninstalled VLC and now it all works fine.
Request - a way to test if a mp4 is a video or mp3 eg mp4 - audio play in foobar, video play in foobar
Version 0.1.3 with config form released. Now you can config prefered file types and videoplayer.
btw...there is a problem with playing wmv by foobar instead of videoplayer, by now i don't know how to solve it.
Version 0.1.3 with config form released. Now you can config prefered file types and videoplayer.
btw...there is a problem with playing wmv by foobar instead of videoplayer, by now i don't know how to solve it.
Maybe you shouldn't associate WMV with Foobar.
In the filetypebox it is only *.* shown. How must I write filetypes?
.avi .mov ?
First bug report:
I am using Gomplayer. So now when I use your plugin to open a video. The screen starts flickering and I here music but I am not able to see anything while manually open videofiles with gom are shown normal.
O I found ouit I am wrong. It seems to be a problem with Gomplayer when having Foobar open.
Maybe you shouldn't associate WMV with Foobar.
I dont associate WMV with foobar. It seems like playing wmv is internal ability of foo_input_std.
In the filetypebox it is only *.* shown. How must I write filetypes?
.avi .mov ?
Thanks for your notice, this default value is incorrect . You should write like that:
(http://pics.livejournal.com/negao/pic/0000d34z/t9678z.jpg) (http://pics.livejournal.com/negao/pic/0000d34z.jpg)
These problems with my player are really annoying.
-I dont know it its just your plug-in or what it is caused from.
Opening file manually works
Open the file with your plugin causes problems but only when Foobar is not minimized
This is really strange
The same behaviour appears with VLC so I guess it is not my media player
2 Spirit_of_the_ocean
I've just tried Gomplayer 2.1.2.3406 and it works fine with my plugin.
I updated my columns ui the last days maybe thats the problem?
Under dafault ui everything works fine.
Now I am trying to find out what could be the problem.
The effect only seems to appear if foobar is maximized
works perfect here, thanks santa sam
Another thing I recognized using panel ui works also normal.
Problematic flickering appears only when using a foobar2000 with Columns ui with maximized window.
Hi guys! This is a plugin with insane possibilities. I will explain how you can get this to work. I've found out myself:
#1 First off all, you need to install this great plugin
restart foobar2000 and make a new playlist for your mpg's or avis (and so on).
Put them in there.
#2Then open mplayerc.exe
Press O (not 0 )
Go to Player-<formats and select these Codecs: avi mpg flv wmv and mpeg
(or just press the "Video" button, if you just use this player for videos)
#3
Go to foobar again
Press CTRL + P and browse to Tools -> Default Videoplayer
Put this in "file types" : avi;mpg;flv;wmv;mpeg;
then select your path to Mplayerc.exe
Mine is C:\Appz\MPC\Mplayerc.exe
Then you are set! Enjoy foobar's possibilities!
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Note: i can see that some guys here wan'ts to edit the tags for videofiles.
How about a txt file tha stores all info from vidz so you may change title
and artist for music videos, And the plugin looks up via i.e a little adress like this:
-start-
[Mvideos]
#1="C:\Videos\videofile.mpg"- [A="Artistname"] - [T="titleofsong"] - [O1.2.3.4.5.6.7="otherinfo"]
#2="C:\Videos\videofile.avi"- [A="Artistname"] - [T="titleofsong"] - [O1.2.3.4.5.6.7="otherinfo"]
[movies]
#1="C:\movies\moviefile.iso"- [A="name of movie"] - [T="year of production"] - [O1.2.3.4.5.6.7="otherinfo"]
#2="C:\movies\moviefile.iso"- [A="name of movie"] - [T="year of production"] - [O1.2.3.4.5.6.7="otherinfo"]
-end-
Just an idea!
This would not write to the mediafiles themself, but be stored in the TXT-file VideoMeta.txt (or something).For the plugin to look up and send to playlist.
If someone haxxor could implent this! That would help alot.
I'm unable to get foobar to import all of the video filetypes I specify into the media library. It seems to bring in wmv and mp4 files successfully, but it's not bringing in avi, mpg, or mkv even though I have those extensions specified in the "Restrict To" field on the Media Library prefs page.
Jugdish, I have tried foobar with components that you listed in PM, I added to my components:
ABX Comparator 1.3.1 (foo_abx.dll)
Audioscrobbler 1.3.5 (foo_audioscrobbler.dll)
RAR reader 1.1, ZIP/GZIP reader 1.0 (foo_unpack.dll)
ReplayGain Scanner 2.0.2 (foo_rgscan.dll)
I thought reason was in conflict with other components but, media library still work fine with them.
What happens then you drag&drop file to foobar playlist? can you play it?
in my case the plugin works well with both mplayerc and gom player... but it only plays one video at a time... and the title of the video does not appear in the foobar title bar...
and i would be more than happy to play my videos from foobar... cuz i could keep them organized in the cool playlist tabs.. but its annoying to hit play on each video.
is this normal?? or the videos should play one after another like the audio files do?
2 haste
It is exactly that i want to implement - title of video file in foobar titlebar and normal playback
i think i should do something like monitoring and controlling videoplayer window for playback status, i think its possible, but not universal for all players, and now i have no idea how to do it..
Better solution would be a plugin for foobar that plays video in a panel. But if there will be such plugin, then Media Player Classic will be not needed for me.
Monitoring would be difficult to do universally. However, controlling playback might not be. All you would have to do is make it so the extension projects keyboard shortcuts when in video mode. The users can then set the shortcuts to be whatever they want. So for instance if the extension has sent a video to the external player, pushing the pause button does not cause Foobar to pause but instead types out a user-defined set of keyboard commands that correspond to the "pause" keyboard shortcut for the external player, thus pausing the movie. The same could be done for fast-forward and rewind. This could be extended to Foobar's own custom keyboard shortcuts, so pressing the pause keyboard shortcut for Foobar causes Foobar to then "press" the pause keyboard shortcut for the video player.
Whether next, previous, shuffle, and repeat buttons should be based on keyboard shortcuts or control the playlist should probably be user-defined. For instance I use KMplayer, which does a good job of automatically grouping videos that might want to be played in a sequence into a playlist. For that reason it would be better for forward, back, shuffle, and repeat to control that player rather then my foobar playlist. But other people would probably feel differently or organize their videos differently, so for them it might be better for the buttons to control the Foobar playlist.
You could even include the default shortcut keys for a variety of popular video players from a dropdown menu. But you will still need to let users input their own.
One complication is telling Foobar when to use the shortcut and when to use the commands normally. The only way I can think of to do this is for the plugin to simply remember the last files that was played. If that file was a video file then the plugin uses the shortcuts. If the last file was an audio file then buttons operate normally. This obviously wouldn't work if you start a video and then play music while the video is still going, but I don't see any way around this short of monitoring the video player.
The second complication is the play/pause button. If you hit the play/pause button and a video is not playing you want it to be sent to the external player. But if a video is playing and you hit the play/pause you want it to pause or unpause. The only thing I can think of is for the plugin to remember the video that was last played and compare that to the currently selected video in the foobar playlist. If these are the same the play/pause button acts as a pause/unpause button. If they are different it sends the video to the external player. Once again this not the optimal solution but I see no other practical way to do it. This doesn't matter for the play button, which always causes the file to restart anyway.
I wouldn't think this would be that hard to do, and would allow you to control the external video player with foobar. I'm not sure how easy it is for the plugin to remember what the last file played was, but I can't imagine it being that difficult and could simply be based on the filename and full path of the video (not more than a few hundred bytes and readable off titleformat). Obviously this isn't a perfect solution since Foobar cannot actually tell what is happening in the other player. But it is simple, universal, and better than nothing.
Hi
I can`t run this plugin, it says it`s incompatible with foobar2000 0.9.4.5 and also foobar2000 0.9.4.2.
Plugin isn`t loading at all on foobar start
Failed to load DLL: foo_default_videoplayer.dll
Reason: This component is missing a required dependency, or was made for different version of foobar2000.
Any suggestions, what i`m doing wrong ?
Thanx
I needed "vcredist_x86.exe" - now it`s working but i thought that foobar gona decode sound, and he is not, it would be great to decode sound from video in foobar and get 5.1 on headphones with dolby headphone plugin...
I needed "vcredist_x86.exe" - now it`s working but i thought that foobar gona decode sound, and he is not, it would be great to decode sound from video in foobar and get 5.1 on headphones with dolby headphone plugin...
I guess this component is not being developped any more?
I think it's not compatible with 9.5 neither. A pitty, it seems cool...
Sorry for bringing up an old thread, just have a question
Can anyone confirm that avi and wmv files work with this component?
I'm able to get m4v (mp4 with different extension), flv, mov files working, but avi's and wmv's play in foobar i.e. not in external player.
I'm using mplayer (command line version, not the GUI). The files open fine on their own.
Thanks for any help!
This plug-in works great, except that when the videofile has finished playing, foobar doesn`t continue with the next song in the playlist. It just stops. Is it possible to fix this?
This plug-in works great, except that when the videofile has finished playing, foobar doesn`t continue with the next song in the playlist. It just stops. Is it possible to fix this?
from my experience, foobar never starts playing the file to begin with. when i double click a video file, it doesn't play in foobar, it launches my external video player. in order for foobar to know when to launch the next video, i imagine the external player would have to tell foobar to do that (i don't think any player is equipped to communicate with foobar). however, i have a workaround made possible by my video player. i use MPC homecinema (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=170561) which accepts command line parameters. using the run command (http://foosion.foobar2000.org/components/) component, i can add video files to MPC's playlist.
This plug-in works great, except that when the videofile has finished playing, foobar doesn`t continue with the next song in the playlist. It just stops. Is it possible to fix this?
from my experience, foobar never starts playing the file to begin with. when i double click a video file, it doesn't play in foobar, it launches my external video player. in order for foobar to know when to launch the next video, i imagine the external player would have to tell foobar to do that (i don't think any player is equipped to communicate with foobar). however, i have a workaround made possible by my video player. i use MPC homecinema (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=170561) which accepts command line parameters. using the run command (http://foosion.foobar2000.org/components/) component, i can add video files to MPC's playlist.
I don`t think they need to comunicate other than foobar launching a process (say vlc or mpc with some video) and then waits for the process to finish before it goes on with what it was doing(playing the next song). I made a simple program once that actually did this with QT (an infoscreen for my workplace).
http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/qprocess.html (http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/qprocess.html)
http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/qprocess.html#waitForFinished (http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/qprocess.html#waitForFinished)
Replying myself...:
Ok, maybe this is exactly what QProcess is doing
"The QProcess class is used to start external programs and to communicate with them"
So maybe it`s not possible with foobar
Hi, I would greatly appreciate using foobar to listen to concerts (like "Tiesto in concert 2" ^^) for I love fb2k's style, besides the audio seems to be a bit better and I'll be able to bookmark my videos ^^.
The link is alas dead . The site has been in maintenance for sooo long I wonder when it will work......
Could someone that has already downloaded this component reupload it on depositfiles.com / rapidshare.com / megaupload.com ?
It's only a matter of seconds for a so tiny file. I only need to play a basic AVI video so I don't care if it's not the latest version.
Thank you very much,
Thib
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XLTGCCNO
Ty very much but it doesn't work ... It keep saying :
Unable to open item for playback (Unsupported file format):
"F:\Musique\Clips\[HD] [HQ]\Tiesto In Concert 2\Tiesto In Concert 2.avi"
Unable to open item for playback (Unsupported file format):
"F:\Musique\Clips\[HD] [HQ]\Tiesto_In_Concert-Live_at_Gelredome_Arnhem_10-05-2003-DVD-TRANCEZONE\Tiesto_In_Concert-Live_at_Gelredome_Arnhem_10-05-2003-DVD-TRANCEZONE\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_2.VOB"
Unable to open item for playback (Unsupported file format):
"F:\Musique\Clips\[HD] [HQ]\Muse - Knights of Cydonia.divx"
It cannot open any video...
Allows you to play your video clips from foobar playlist with an external player.
Oh my gosh, this is the best plug-in idea ever. I have so many videos on my computer that I would just love to be able to sort with the beautiful simplicity of Foobar2000. Support and refinement of the plug-in appears to have tapered away, though. Is there any chance that an earlier suggestion about a supplementary file being added so that I can tag AVI files and others that do not naturally support metadata? I would love love love it. I just need a good way to tag all my movies and be able to sort them by those tags. There must be someone out there interested in the same thing and with the skills necessary to pull it off, right?
This plug-in works great, except that when the videofile has finished playing, foobar doesn`t continue with the next song in the playlist. It just stops. Is it possible to fix this?
from my experience, foobar never starts playing the file to begin with. when i double click a video file, it doesn't play in foobar, it launches my external video player. in order for foobar to know when to launch the next video, i imagine the external player would have to tell foobar to do that (i don't think any player is equipped to communicate with foobar). however, i have a workaround made possible by my video player. i use MPC homecinema (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=170561) which accepts command line parameters. using the run command (http://foosion.foobar2000.org/components/) component, i can add video files to MPC's playlist.
I managed to get the component starting my video player (I use VLC), and VLC has an option to exit when done, but this issue (and this explanation) beats me.
How do I?
And:
Is there any way to extract foobar 2000's current volume setting? I'd like to use it -- or a mathematical function thereof -- as input to my video player (when that bug in VLC is resolved ...)
Hey guys - simple workaround which will make this plugin usable for everyday life. Instead of stopping playback let's mute in a background and unmute it when the track ends. Video should be normally played.
By doing that we will gain more or less continuous playback.
I think that is easy to implement.
I am also very interested in trying this plugin however it seems all uploaded locations are unavailable. Could someone please re-upload the dll file? Many Thanks
Considering that the OP has not been seen on the forum since January 2008, I highly doubt any further development has occurred on this plugin and it would probably have some problems running with the latest version of foobar.
That being said, being able to load a library of video files into a playlist and then opening them with an external video player would be a bonus IMO.