What gets opened where?

JW · 23rd November 2004, 23:45

Here's today's stupid question - How does Winamp determine where to open a particular media type? For example, load a video file and it opens the video window. Is that internal to the program or handled through scripting?

PulseDriver · 24th November 2004, 00:23

It's not in the scripting, no.

JW · 24th November 2004, 00:42

I'm still trying to come up with a way to open JPG's. You can display JPG's in the browser/media library, but only if they're dragged in. The HTML Viewer plugin from WA2 days allows you to associate JPG's with Winamp, but it causes the player to crash when you try to open one that way.

There's gotta be a way to display a graphic when it's included in the playlist

Mr Jones · 24th November 2004, 07:52

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Originally posted by JW™
I'm still trying to come up with a way to open JPG's. You can display JPG's in the browser/media library, but only if they're dragged in. The HTML Viewer plugin from WA2 days allows you to associate JPG's with Winamp, but it causes the player to crash when you try to open one that way.
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All you are doing there is dragging a jpg file into a internet explorer window, the media lib uses the IE engine to render it's HTML pages.

Let me guess you use Firefox or something as your default browser so normally a JPG would open with that right and not IE?

HTML viewer plugin?, not sure what you are talking about, not the old Minibrowser is it?, again, that's only a shell for IE.

You could in theory load a jpg via XML, define the images in your standard XML elements list and use it that way, I believe jpgloader.wac still comes packaged with winamp5, however I'm not sure what you mean by 'show a graphic when it's included in the playlist' are you adding .jpg's to playlists?, what for?

JW · 24th November 2004, 14:49

http://www.winamp.com/plugins/details.php?id=97638

I have that plugin on my 2.91 installation. In addition to all my playlists for all the CD's I have, I created little HTML files that display the album cover in JPG format. All that is saved on the local machine. So, I can have a playlist like the following:

\Covers\Eagles - Hotel California.html
\mp3\Eagles\Eagles - Hotel California.mp3
\mp3\Eagles\Eagles - New Kid In Town.mp3

...and so on. What the plugin does is take the HTML file (or just about any graphics file format) and open it in the minibrowser, then proceed to play the files. I created them in HTML originally so I could place the image centered in the browser window, which couldn't be sized infinitely like you can in Winamp 5.

In the skin I'm building now, I have a small 200x200 area dedicated to the media library display. But, the only thing I'd like it to do is pop an album cover JPG in there when the playlist is loaded, like the plugin above.

IE is the current browser but my JPG's are associated with Paint Shop Pro.

If I use the plugin above with WA5 it causes the behavior described. The media library seems to loop over and over again, attempting to display the graphic, and the player never gets to the MP3 files.

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24th November 2004, 00:42	#3
JW Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Valencia, CA Posts: 304	I'm still trying to come up with a way to open JPG's. You can display JPG's in the browser/media library, but only if they're dragged in. The HTML Viewer plugin from WA2 days allows you to associate JPG's with Winamp, but it causes the player to crash when you try to open one that way. There's gotta be a way to display a graphic when it's included in the playlist

24th November 2004, 14:49	#5
JW Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Valencia, CA Posts: 304	http://www.winamp.com/plugins/details.php?id=97638 I have that plugin on my 2.91 installation. In addition to all my playlists for all the CD's I have, I created little HTML files that display the album cover in JPG format. All that is saved on the local machine. So, I can have a playlist like the following: \Covers\Eagles - Hotel California.html \mp3\Eagles\Eagles - Hotel California.mp3 \mp3\Eagles\Eagles - New Kid In Town.mp3 ...and so on. What the plugin does is take the HTML file (or just about any graphics file format) and open it in the minibrowser, then proceed to play the files. I created them in HTML originally so I could place the image centered in the browser window, which couldn't be sized infinitely like you can in Winamp 5. In the skin I'm building now, I have a small 200x200 area dedicated to the media library display. But, the only thing I'd like it to do is pop an album cover JPG in there when the playlist is loaded, like the plugin above. IE is the current browser but my JPG's are associated with Paint Shop Pro. If I use the plugin above with WA5 it causes the behavior described. The media library seems to loop over and over again, attempting to display the graphic, and the player never gets to the MP3 files.