CD Starting Utility

[Ron]

The plugin skeleton cannot call dll ?? What do you mean, Girder is designed to call dlls. Did you export the functions as stdcalls ?

[Ron]

Sadly ( or luckily depends on point of view ) I have no experience with the recent Visual Basic stuff, all my experience with that dates back at least 7 years, so no help here.

[Wykat]

Any progress ? :wink:

Wykat

[Wykat]

Yes this would help me. DVDspy does recognize CD in/out correctly, but it doesn't help me to start the ideal program for the CD inserted. Brauche es fur DVD, Divx und photo's.

I don't know with DVD drive you have, but I bought a Pioneer 116 because there is a special utitlity to slow down the drive (and noise). For other drives there should be a utility called cd-bremse. Have to look for a link however.

Wykat

[Wykat]

Pioneer link: http://212.105.197.47/53/cgi-local/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=5;t=59;hl=

Edit: forget the link above and use http://www.artec.org/DE/ie4/def/treiber . Only via this seach you will find the driver.

rgrds,
Wykat

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[Wykat]

und CD-bremse http://home.t-online.de/home/Joern.Fiebelkorn/

[FGordon]

Before I go and programm this myself, I thought it would be a good idea to see if such a tool already exists :smile:).

I'm looing for a tool that is started by girder and looks at the cd tha is in the drive. If it's e.g. a .avi it copies it to the harddrive and then starts the associated player. If mp3s are on the cd it generates a play-list and starts winamp.

Most of my CDs don't have Autorun.inf and I don't like autoinsert on because this comp also works as a digital VCR (dbox-1 streaming)

My CD-ROM is not supported by "CD-Bremse" and it's quite noisy (at least too noisy when playing DivX)

[FGordon]

Hmmm I finished univ. and went to a long looooooong holiday (raced through Africa :smile:) ... hmmm I'll start programming the util I want/need and will give notice if it's done, maybe someone can use it too....

Uaaa changed the CD-ROM on my video-comp to a DVD 16x/48x and..... it's even noisier (about 3 times at least), aaaaaaahhhhhh !!!

[reflexnpg]

hi!
i'm working on an extended cd notification plugin which will do what you want.

it was a standalone vb app and i transfered it to a vb dll. the problem is that the girder plugin skeleton can not call dll's and i dont want to rewrite it in c. maybe ron knows a solution.

c ya

[reflexnpg]

well...i should say: i dont know how to call my dll from the skeletion. CreateInstance returns "interface not supported". i've tested it with a standard c app from the wizard and a vb app and it worked. export is not necessairy i think because i use the calls in the device notify skeleton: in DeviceChange():
_MediaclassPtr ptrMC;
res = ptrMC.CreateInstance _T"Mediadll.Mediaclass"));

it would be nice if you can help!

c ya

[reflexnpg]

ok maybe i find it by myself or maybe its not possible with this kind of skeleton. anyway i think vb has also advantages like c or java or assembler or any other language. it depends what you want to do. and for this kind of functionality (reading cd content, parsing a ini file, scripting) i prefer a higher level language then c.
only my 2 cents
c ya