[RESOLVED] how to set up VLC

[drunkenpirateking]

Im trying to set up VLC to play videos through Game EX and when I do, here's what I get

File reading failed:

VLC could not open the file "C:\GameEx\[path]\\dell\movies\video\movies\2046\2046.avi".

Your input can't be opened:

VLC is unable to open the MRL 'file:///C:/GameEx%2F%5Bpath%5D//dell/movies/video/movies/2046/2046.avi'. Check the log for details.

now, my video is over the network, and the actual path to it is //dell/movies/2046/2046.avi I have my command as

c:/program files (x86)/videoLan/vlc/vlc.exe [PATH]

I'm absolutely positive my problem is in the command line, I just have no idea how to fix it. Any ideas?

[fRequEnCy]

Im trying to set up VLC to play videos through Game EX and when I do, here's what I get

File reading failed:

VLC could not open the file "C:\GameEx\[path]\\dell\movies\video\movies\2046\2046.avi".

Your input can't be opened:

VLC is unable to open the MRL 'file:///C:/GameEx%2F%5Bpath%5D//dell/movies/video/movies/2046/2046.avi'. Check the log for details.

now, my video is over the network, and the actual path to it is //dell/movies/2046/2046.avi I have my command as

c:/program files (x86)/videoLan/vlc/vlc.exe [PATH]

I'm absolutely positive my problem is in the command line, I just have no idea how to fix it. Any ideas?

Thanks for the details as it makes it easier to troubleshoot. [PATH] is not a valid parameter which proves since it shows in the error. Simply remove it and just use the parameter.

c:/program files (x86)/videoLan/vlc/vlc.exe [VIDEO]

[drunkenpirateking]

Ok, so that works part of the time. If my video file has no spaces between words (2046.avi) it works great. but if the file does have any spaces or parenthasis or anything, vlc gets hung up. I've noticed in the emulator section the ability to replace spaces with underscores or whatever, is that what I need to do in the multimedia section? If so...how do I go about it? I haven't seen the option. Also, I'm not completely stuck on vlc, if saomeone has another suggestion of a better video player that can play a lot of different formats and supports subtitles and multiple audio/video streams, im all ears.

[fRequEnCy]

Ok, so that works part of the time. If my video file has no spaces between words (2046.avi) it works great. but if the file does have any spaces or parenthasis or anything, vlc gets hung up. I've noticed in the emulator section the ability to replace spaces with underscores or whatever, is that what I need to do in the multimedia section? If so...how do I go about it? I haven't seen the option. Also, I'm not completely stuck on vlc, if saomeone has another suggestion of a better video player that can play a lot of different formats and supports subtitles and multiple audio/video streams, im all ears.

In that case try:

c:/program files (x86)/videoLan/vlc/vlc.exe "[VIDEO]"

Quotes around the file should correct this. Sorry. Don't use this feature so wasn't sure it was required.

[drunkenpirateking]

You know, the farther I get into this the more I'm starting to understand it. Good to know, works perfectly. Thanks.

[fRequEnCy]

You know, the farther I get into this the more I'm starting to understand it. Good to know, works perfectly. Thanks.

No problem. Marking this one as [RESOLVED]. It's just a matter of knowing DOS. Rule of thumb: Always use quotes around the file name so it will read everything in between. Else it will read only to the first space. This applies to pretty much everything in GameEx since it's way of launching things is done via command-line.