toggle play pause in media portal??

[yakovyarmo]

i want to use the same button for toggling play and pause ( of course depends on the movie situation , paused or not ).
how can i do it??

[yakovyarmo]

any one knows??

[jonib]

You could try something like this:

EvenGhostPlayToggle.PNG (9.69 KiB) Viewed 2852 times

It will toggle between Play and Pause.

jonib

[yakovyarmo]

but if it is already playing or in pause mode??
now i do it simply by emulating the space key stroke.
isn't there any other elegant way???

[jonib]

but if it is already playing or in pause mode??

What happens if you press pause when it is paused?

now i do it simply by emulating the space key stroke.

If it works by sending space, why do you what to change it?

isn't there any other elegant way???

I have not used Media portal so I don't know if there is a more elegant way, sorry.

jonib

[jitterjames]

yes, I think you can do this by configuring the message plugin in media portal. Keep the setup in eventghost as it is.

i.e when you press play send the play command and when you press pause send the pause command.

go to mediaportal configuration then in process plugins you can select the message plugin and then click configure.

You will see a tree. OPen the Microsoft MCE remote branch. Then open the Pause branch.
You will see that it allready has 2 actions. One is conditional if the slideshow is running.
You want one action that performs a pause on the condition that video (or music is playing) and one action that performs Play on the condition that you are paused.

Click on the words "No Condition" under "Slideshow" then click the button near the bottom labeled "New". You should now have 2 branches labeled "no Condition". On the right sidepanel you can set the conditions and actions for each.

under condition click "playing" radio button then select "media is playing" from the drop down. This one should have the "Pause" action.

hmmm they don't seem to have a specific condition "media is not playing", but maybe you can figure something out.

btw I have been using space for this toggle pause function and never had a problem, but I HAVE had problems using other keys because they are case sensitive and CAPSLOCK can screw you up.

J