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Title: Start in Theater View (Quick One)
Post by: thurston on June 30, 2008, 10:55:40 am

How do I create a desktop icon that will start MC in theater view?

I've seen this somewhere before but I now can't find it anywhere in the forum or wiki.

Thanks

Title: Re: Start in Theater View (Quick One)
Post by: gappie on June 30, 2008, 11:45:49 am

make a new shortcut to mc on your desktop. change the target to
MC12.exe /Mode Theater

more command lines here: http://wiki.jrmediacenter.com/index.php/The_Command_Line

 :)
gab

Title: Re: Start in Theater View (Quick One)
Post by: thurston on June 30, 2008, 12:26:27 pm

This is what I was looking for!

Note to others attempting to accomplish this:
The shortcut must be created from the file called MC12.exe in the folder C:\WINDOWS\system32 (not the file called Media Center 12.exe in folder C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center 12).

Once the shortcut is created, right click on the shortcut, select Properties, select the Shortcut Tab, change the Target box to C:\WINDOWS\system32\MC12.exe /mode theater

Thanks Gappie!

Title: Re: Start in Theater View (Quick One)
Post by: glynor on June 30, 2008, 05:30:36 pm

Quick note... Since System32 should be in your search path in Windows, you don't need to specify c:\windows\blah\blah, just paste exactly what Gappie posted into the Shortcut's target box and it'll work.

Unless, of course, you've done some really weird stuff and excluded System32 from the search path.  Seems unlikely though.

Title: Re: Start in Theater View (Quick One)
Post by: JONCAT on July 07, 2008, 05:54:01 pm

Do you guys see this bug?
 
When using a shortcut for C:\Windows\System32\MC12.exe   (with MC12.exe /Mode Theater as target in shortcut):

I get crashes on startup when the settings for

Options>Startup are anything other than Start.

Location doesn't seem to matter.

I'm setting up a remote to use a hotkey to load in Theater View (with above command line) for my wife with Zone 2 enabled, and then I can manually start MC (normally) in standard mode/audio when I'm using it. This should be possible right?

DC

Title: Re: Start in Theater View (Quick One)
Post by: gappie on July 08, 2008, 03:46:11 am

no crashes here. but on my system the letters in standard view are all messed up, or the pip is not visible in playing now theaterview. happens when using the command line or when you select thv as startup in options. i reported this several times on the beta forum, but i guess not much people have the same problem.
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=44823.0

 :)
gab

Title: Re: Start in Theater View (Quick One)
Post by: JONCAT on July 08, 2008, 09:18:23 am

Thanks Gappie. Using Start as the startup location is the only way I can use the command line to load into Theater View or else it crashes.

DC

Title: Re: Start in Theater View (Quick One)
Post by: gappie on July 08, 2008, 11:27:02 am

one thing you could try is making a bat file. it does the same as i do with girder to ommit the display bugs. it starts mc in standard view, wait 2 seconds, and switches to Theater view.
(thanks benn600 for the ping command)

Code: [Select]

mc12.exe /start
ping -n 2 127.0.0.1 >NUL
MC12.exe /Mode Theater

 :)
gab

edit:
you could also use

Code: [Select]

mc12.exe /start
ping -n 2 127.0.0.1 >NUL
MC12.exe /mcc 22001,1
where you could change the mcc command to startup in theaterview in for instance playing now. mcc 22001,2