wine users - Jan 2012 - Alternative to windows media player?

Hi,

I'm installing Wine for the first time on my Mac through MacPorts.

I've been reasonably successful and the application that I wanted to use, a
training program, runs almost flawlessly :-)

It does ask to use Windows Media Player and I did install WMP9 and this
installed fine and the application does play the videos. However, these are
thumbnail sized. While this isn't a big deal, I was wondering if I could
install an alternative media player into Wine and get that to run my videos
instead of WMP and potentially get full screen video.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Vlc player.

Thanks, I gave that a try, however - the application seems unaffected and the
embedded video still tries to run WMP.

How do I tell Wine to use VLC rather than WMP for embedded video playback?

On Tue, 2012-01-24 at 15:58 -0600, winepunk wrote:
> Vlc player.
> 
Agreed, with Mplayer as 2nd choice. 

Martin

I'm sorry, I guess that I didn't explain myself very well

I was given some training materials, all windows based. The training application
makes use of embedded video clips. When I first attempted to install it, it
failed because I needed WMP. So I installed that. Now, when it opens the video
clips, they open as a thumbnail size and when I right click the videos it says
windows media player.

How do you do that?

Martin Gregorie wrote:
> try installing the Windows version of VLC in the
> same Wine prefix as the training app and configuring that as the app's
> video player. 

How do you do that?

> Have you tried using a virtual desktop to rescale the WMP images? If not,
do so. Winecfg controls that. Instructions are on the main WineHQ
> site.

The video is embedded inside the training application, it does not launch the
media player outside of the app. Having the training app run within a virtual
desktop makes no difference to the embedded video.

> If "How do you do that" refers to installing VLC, heres how. This
is the general process you'd use for installing anything, so remember it for
> future use.
> 
> Use Wine's regedit to examine the wine registry to see if any for your
> app entries name the media player and set the path to it.

Couldn't find anything in the registry that seemed to point towards media
player.

> Look at the directory structure where the app is installed to see if
> there are any .INI files or similar and examine those too.

There are no ini files that I can find either, even with a search.

> Windows VLC: Get the Windows package as described above. If your app is in
the default Wine prefix (.wine) simply install it there too. If you used a
different prefix to install your app, make sure you use the sale
> prefix when you install VLC.

The windows version of this software installed without a hitch in Wine. However,
the training application throws up the following error when I try and use it
without media player installed at all:

This product may require a newer version of Windows Media Player OLE Error
80040154

Which I'm going to see if I can find some examples of online. Any thoughts
are helpful, I appreciate them.