Hi,
I use MC14 as a client to connect to Library Server. I also use MC14 as the default player for all audio/video files as I like its playback capabilities a lot. My default library is to connect to my Library Server.
This creates a problem when MC14 is not running and I want to play a local audio/video file (say an email attachment which has my voice mail in audio .wav file). This creates a problem that when MC14 starts, it spends couple of minutes to connect to library server machine and download the entire library before playing back my message.
The feature request I have is to see if MC14 was started to play back a local file and if so play it immediately (while downloading the remote library in background or just load another library that is local). Is this possible?
Thanks,
Osho
It's for this very reason that I have turned off
all MC file associations. I
never start playback from Explorer, I browse around my media using MC, and always start playback from somewhere or other within MC, so file associations are not a problem for me.
There's too much lag involved when I just want to see a short video clip attached to an email.
Quite often, WMP has opened and played the video\audio in the time it takes MC to start playback.
My 'playing now' list is preserved this way too, which is nice.
This subject has been touched upon in the past, where on at least one occasion, the ACD Systems approach of a fast loading 'lite' version of their image viewer was cited as a possible solution for MC.
There are so many different scenarios to consider, it's kind of hard to imagine a workable solution.
I would want my existing playing now list preserved, but how is MC to know that?
Should MC behave differently depending upon whether or not it's already running?
Initially, I'd say this one's definitely a case of 'more questions than answers'
-marko.