I have been trying to set up a player which can be used in Active Desktop to play back local files from a playlist held on the local drive as a screensaver/desktop and am experiencing some issues:
I have seen that the M3U format for the playlist is recommended earlier. I have been using ASX type in the format which Microsoft show on their web site along the lines of:
<ASX version = "3.0">
<TITLE>Basic Playlist Demo</TITLE>
<REPEAT>
<ENTRY>
<TITLE>LIST1</TITLE>
<AUTHOR>LANDSCAPE</AUTHOR>
<COPYRIGHT>(c)2005 Landscape Channel</COPYRIGHT>
<REF HREF = "c:\screensaver\L0036.MPG" />
</ENTRY>
<ENTRY>
<TITLE>LIST1</TITLE>
<AUTHOR>LANDSCAPE</AUTHOR>
<COPYRIGHT>(c)2005 Landscape Channel</COPYRIGHT>
<REF HREF = "c:\screensaver\L0006DVD.MPG" />
</ENTRY>
<ENTRY>
<TITLE>LIST1</TITLE>
<AUTHOR>LANDSCAPE</AUTHOR>
<COPYRIGHT>(c)2005 Landscape Channel</COPYRIGHT>
<REF HREF = "c:\screensaver\L0005DVD.MPG" />
</ENTRY>
</REPEAT> </ASX>
What is the benefit of M3U as against ASX?
However this has a number of problems - fade to black flips through white at the end of every clip and we use MPG and WMV files. We want to deliver a new list every day to our users who cache the files on their local hard drive using some management software.
Second problem is startup is at the same point if you stop the player again. We would like it to start where you left off - is that possible?
regards
Nick
Landscape