I can't find a way to prevent the viewer pane to autoplay movies and audio files.
The autoplay is useful occasionally, but it can be very annoying, if you double click to open a file in its proper player, and the file starts playing BOTH in the player AND inside dopus.
I looked around but couldn't find a solution to this.
Any ideas?
thanks
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You can change this in the Movie Plugin configuration which is in Preferences / Plugins / Viewers.
[Oops, I started replying before Steve's post appeared. Steve's suggestion above is probably much better than mine below. I didn't realise/remember the movie plugin had an autoplay option.]
You could disable the Movie plugin, and configure the ActiveX plugin to remove all of the video/audio extensions from its "Generic ActiveX" line.
Note: I think disabling the Movie plugin will prevent Opus from extracting information about video files. So the Duration, Video Codec, etc. columns in Opus will be blank.
If you are on Vista or Windows 7, you can turn on the Windows Media Player preview handler in the ActiveX plugin to enable a viewer which does not auto-play.
[quote="leo"][Oops, I started replying before Steve's post appeared. Steve's suggestion above is probably much better than mine below. I didn't realise/remember the movie plugin had an autoplay option.]
You could disable the Movie plugin, and configure the ActiveX plugin to remove all of the video/audio extensions from its "Generic ActiveX" line.
Note: I think disabling the Movie plugin will prevent Opus from extracting information about video files. So the Duration, Video Codec, etc. columns in Opus will be blank.
If you are on Vista or Windows 7, you can turn on the Windows Media Player preview handler in the ActiveX plugin to enable a viewer which does not auto-play.[/quote]
Thanks for your suggestions! Also anwsering to the previous advice:
I am NOT using the movie plugin... does enabling it overrides the generic activex plugin? or should I disable it (what then for other media files?)
about the generic activex plugin: I don't want to remove the avi or other extensions from the generic activex plugin because I still want to be able to use the viewer, I just don't want it to autoplay media files is all.
About the windows media player activex, I suppose enabling is not enough, I should also add to it all the extensions, right? Honestly I was reluctant to do this as well because of the "superior viewer via generic activex" warning.
Yes, but only for files that the movie plugin handles. Opus goes down the list of plugins from top to bottom when asking them if they can view a file. You can rearrange the list but some plugins, including the ActiveX one, are set so they are always below most of the other plugins.
(The idea is that plugins written specially for Opus, like the movie plugin, will usually work better and more predictably than things like ActiveX controls. So if there's the option of using both, the Opus viewer plugin is usually the best choice.)
Is there a reason you don't want to use the Movie plugin? If not, enabling it and turning off its autoplay option might get what you want.
The main reason I put the "superior viewer" warning in is that I didn't like the way the WMP Preview Handler doesn't autoplay. If that's what you want, ignore the warning.
(Another reason is it doesn't seem to scale the video above 100%.)
BTW, there's no need to remove the extensions from the Generic ActiveX line if you enable the WMP Preview Handler. Like the list of plugins in Opus, the ActiveX plugin works through its own list from top to bottom. It will prefer using the WMP preview handler (in the top part of the list) over Generic ActiveX (bottom part of the list) if a file extension is assigned to both.
leo thanks a lot, your explanation made it perfectly clear now.
I am using the movie plugin with autoplay turned off and leaving all the other settings as default, everything works.
