dvdspy help?

[Ron]

Yeah that should be [pld1]. [pld1] stands for payload 1. Some girder plugins send additional information along with an event. This additional information is called the payload. The DVDSpy plugin sends an payload along with the event.

[Ron]

To know what [pld#] stands for read the DVDSpy documentation.

[Ron]

I would say it is in there :-)

Check out the big table right somewhere in the middle of readme.htm

there are 4 colums in there and the last 2 are dedicated to the payload string.

[Ron]

I think that you are totally confused what payload is. you don't have to do anything really.

Please follow the getting started guide in the readme.htm, that shows you how to use the [pld#].

[Ron]

Please use the search function of your browser, type "Payload" at voila there it is. Believe me it is in there.

btw I removed the copy and paste because it was useless to add this here, it only uses diskspace.

[Ron]

Yeah that sounds about right. [pld1] is a variable ( if that rings a bell ), think of it as the memory function of your calculator, only now it also stores text instead of only numbers. If you want to learn more about this then read this page.

http://www.girder.nl/help/registers.php

It might be a little hard for first time users, so experiment around ;-)

[Ron]

Noone claimed that Girder is easy ;-)

Anyway, what information that you get depends on 2 things.

1. The program that you are running
2. The event that you catch

In the table in the readme.htm you can see what event for what program has what information. So if you would like to see the the ellapsed time of a track in ZoomPlayer, the table shows us that we need to learn the "ZoomPlayer.DVD.Elapsed" event and that the payload string 1, ( that is [pld1] ) contains New elapsed time (HH:MM:SS)

Thus using the LCD plugin ( or the Simple OSD if you want to see it on the monitor, cause if it works on the monitor it will also work on the LCD. ) you would learn the "Zoomplayer.dvd.elapsed" event and enter [pld1] in the approriate text box.

[Ron]

Maybe try to find the differences ????

[Ron]

Another thing what girder version are you running ?

[SouthyPar]

Only 3 Probs i don't know how to solve:
- showing infos of the file (Media mode) what is currently played show me e.g a d:ÖfilmeÖoctupussy.mpg instead of d:\filme\octupussy.mpg
Its not possible to display \,ö,ä and so on

Hmmmm... I remember someone saying that you can do this task (converting a file's full path to just the file name) with a filter that exists inside the LCD software... but perhaps I'm wrong. Look it up.
Anyways, you can still do this by using the Girder Variable Manipulation Script, so read up on it a bit. If you still have problems, I'll work something out for you.

- i want to display a text and the time in the first line all the time . Solved this by making an OnGirderOpen referring to an headline with LCD plugin settings -> current date/Time Text %#I:%M%p.
Works great on starting Girder. But while closing e.g. Zoomplayer the display is closed, too and it took the timeout set at OnGirderOpen to display my headline again. Any better idea?

I don't really understand how you've done the time display thing - have you just thrown it into a loop which updates the time every second, OnGirderOpen? Anyways, why can't you do the same thing on ZoomPlayer.Close and Winamp.Close?

- While playing a media file with Zoomplayer the ZoomPlayer.OSD event doesn't display anything. Pause and Play the file again in Zoomplayer will show immediatly the needed info. While playing a DVD and using the ZoomPlayer.DVD.Domain event there is no such behavior.

Well is OSD enabled in ZoomPlayer? Can you actually see the OSD text in ZoomPlayer?