g_player help (1 Viewer)

[jameson_uk]

Looking to use the MP internal player in a plugin but struggling to find any documentation about it...

Having been through a fair bit of code it looks like g_player is the object to use but could do with some advice on using it.

All the calls I have seen to g_player tend to be wrapped in a whole lot of other code so it is confusing what is needed and what is not.

Anyone point in the direction of some documenation or a simple plugin which makes it obvious how to use it?

Failing that can someone at least confirm that basical controls (play, stop, pause, ffwd etc) are handled by g_player itself to there is no need to cater for most of that in the plugin?

 

[gemx]

At first there is an IPlayer interface which all players wether internal or external must implement.
g_player is a singleton (only one instance throughout the whole app) which utilizes the needed "real" player and uses it's functions via the IPlayer interface.
g_player itself also implements the IPlayer interface.

So - yes - all you need to do is using the g_player class and you can control any media with it.
g_player is responsible to route a certain IPlayer interface call to the correct underlying player.

 

[jameson_uk]

so

g_player.PlayAudioStream("c:\my.mp3");

inside a plugin would be sufficient to play the mp3 file in whatever audio player the user has setup be it directshow, BASS or something like the ASIO plugin?

ie. g_player does not need defining in a plugin??

(reading the code is the method above deprecated and I should call the method with the 2nd bool argument ?)

 

[gemx]

Yep, that's right. From inside a plugin you don't need instantiate a certain player class.
Just call g_player.PlayAudioStream(...) or g_player.PlayVideo....

g_player should handle the media and hand it over to the "real" player itself.

Not quite sure about the "deprecated" msg though. Haven't touch code where this was needed for a while