lavagre.blogg.se - What is vlc media player windows 10

It's basically: program.exe will just launch the program, while program.exe "do-this" "do-that" launches the program with given instructions. It's an old method of interacting with programs, that even worked with text-only operating systems. What you do to "tell" a program a command is called "using a command line argument". Some programs can be launched with lots of commands to execute, others can't be told to do anything. What a program can do using such a launch method or not, is totally up to the developers. Info, for a better understanding what you will do:

Right now, you only have a shortcut launching VLC, doing nothing else. Point this shortcut to the vlc.exe in the directory where you installed VLC.

Right-Click on an empty space on your desktop, select new > shortcut from the context menu.

So i don't understand why you're creating a shortcut for the Internet Explorer - doesn't seem to make sense for me. You mention a playlist file that you launch with VLC. If you want a shortcut to launch a certain program doing things, you need:ġ) A shortcut that points to the program you want to use.Ģ) "Telling" the program shortcut what things should be done. anyone have a lead to the site I found with this tip, or perhaps the missing parameter? Seems like something others would find useful, loading a playlist from the taskbar. It must be some kind of switch or parameter that I am not remembering.

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" D:\backup\radio.xspfĪnd this works except for the extra step of selecting 'open' from the 'view downloads' window that appears. I am almost there with a shortcut to iexplore.exe which has a target of: When looking into this, I found one workaround that involved creating a shortcut of iexplore.exe that actually pointed to the intended file and it worked, but alas, I overhauled my computer since then and forget the method. In Windows 10, for some reason when pinning this file to the taskbar it changes to a shortcut for the associated program. I have a playlist file of radio streams saved and associated with VLC media player that would usually be a one-click operation from the taskbar. Recently made the switch to windows 10 from xp and am running into an issue with the functionality of the new taskbar.