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Bitstreaming - behavior during pause (WASAPI exclusive issue)
htnut:
JimH, yes that works but then we have to endure all of the FBI warnings and menus again when resuming (I choose to always launch with BD menus because this way we always can rely on forced subtitles to appear).
Awesome Donkey:
--- Quote from: htnut on March 03, 2023, 12:28:27 am ---we have to endure all of the FBI warnings and menus again when resuming
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Makes me wonder how we all got through the late 90s to the late 2000s using DVD and BD players. ::)
htnut:
Awesome Donkey, I did just during those years! I was set up with TheaterTek and it’s DVD auto movie start point bookmarking. My first HTPC was built in 2002 driving a Sony 1272 CRT in a dedicated HT.
Launch the movie with the menu, configure the desired audio track, when the actual movie would start use CTRL-B, and then TT would set a bookmark at 0:00:00 of the playing title.
Worked with 100% reliability next time the movie starts it begins at that timestamp with the correct audio track. (This is important, as with DVD the “default” audio track would often not be the DD or DTS track).
It seems that functionality may be impossible with the complexity of BD menus/Java. Up until now, for BD/UHD my solution has been to play the “main feature playlist” only in MPC-BE. But of course the experience is poor when you realize halfway through a movie that there’s a foreign language scene and there should be forced subtitles. So I’m thrilled that JRiver has solved the BD menus resulting in (so far) 100% reliability with forced subs and also not running into screenpass issues.
This leads me to my reasons for asking for the open audio path on pause: I have collected thousands of trailers from Apple, add add batches of new ones regularly. I’ve also made some “movie theme music” by taking some surround sound music from closing credits of favorite movies and making them separate audio files. Then, before I start a movie for friends and family I “queue up” the movie (setting masking on my “constant area” projection screen, setting to start point of the movie, etc.) and then Zoom Player plays (with a black screen) the theme music randomly to create ambiance as people come in, get their snacks, etc. Then with one button on my remote I wrote a script so my HTPC dims the lights to 50%, stops the music, launches 3 trailers at random, after zoom finishes it gracefully closes - the script dims the lights off - and the main movie starts with no menus or FBI warnings.
Oh, and I’ll add that a while ago, in a thread here “MC30 requested enhancements” (can’t find that now) I mentioned the desire for MC30 to also auto-quit upon main movie completion (instead of returning to the menus which is the default behavior). Because, with MPC-BE when the movie would end (credits end, of course, a true movie enthusiast always stays for all of the credits!), the player would quit and my script would take over, bring up the lights and start the theme music again at a reduced volume.
JimH:
Pause and stop are different and that won't change.
Stop does set a bookmark in MC. Play should start there again.
Double stop clears the bookmark or you can edit the tag.
htnut:
JimH, maybe I’m doing something wrong. But when playing from menus I cannot find how to get MC to resume from the stop point without navigating the menus to resume.
I appreciate the attention and respect if you don’t wish to add functionality for my “edge case”.
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