ffplay: AmiTCP message?

[Weaselrama]

Mods: Please move this elsewhere if you feel it appropriate.

I have the latest ffplay from Aminet. It runs very well but I get about 5 messages before the video finally plays, "Please insert volume AmiTCP in any drive" which I have to cancel past several times. Any one else getting this or know how to get rid of it?

I've assigned an icon to it and I did a search on tooltype possibilities but came up with nothing. Thanks in advance.

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by Weaselrama

Mods: Please move this elsewhere if you feel it appropriate.

Definitely not Amiga scene, how about support.Apps instead.

Moved

[Hedeon]

EDIT: DamienD was there sooner. And my comment was really superfluous.

[Weaselrama]

Ok - I just found something that I need to explore before anyone tells me something obvious. I flew right by it in the docs and I've been running it for months. It needs to be run from AREXX. I'm going to set up the script and execute it properly first to see if that gets rid of the message. My apologies - RTFM!

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by Hedeon

EDIT: DamienD was there sooner. And my comment was really superfluous.

I liked your comment, you should have left it

[Weaselrama]

Originally Posted by DamienD

Moved

Many thanks!

[AMIGASYSTEM]

Assign the AmiTCP volume, you can also do it in Ram

Assign AmiTCP: RAM:

[Weaselrama]

Originally Posted by AMIGASYSTEM

Assign the AmiTCP volume, you can also do it in Ram


Assign AmiTCP: RAM:

I'd actually considered this, but I didn't want to set another Assign without knowing *why* I had to set an Assign when it's not documented. I may do so if nothing else works.

Ok - so I didn't actually miss anything in the docs - I know I'd seen this:

* from WB

ffplay's icon clicked - the tooltype "STARTPATH" will be read from ffplay's icon
and if the dir
does exist, the requester will be opened there, otherwise the requester will be
opened in the
current WB directory.

Ok - so you *don't* have to run an AREXX script - it should work as documented from the WB.

Anyway - thanks, AMIGASYSTEM - I may have to set the Assign but I think I'll play with the AREXX script option and see what that does.

[AMIGASYSTEM]

Radme FFPlay reports:

f) grab the network stream (requires correct assign to amitcp package):

Assign amitcp: <path>:amitcp

I usually run videos from Icon through PlayVideo scripts, this way I can see the video without the ugly GUI.

Assignment is important to watch videos from the Web with IBrowser, NetSurf etc..

[Weaselrama]

Originally Posted by AMIGASYSTEM

Radme FFPlay reports:

f) grab the network stream (requires correct assign to amitcp package):

Assign amitcp: <path>:amitcp

Yes, but that's actually part of the FFmpeg instructions, not FFplay. I'm not using FFmpeg or AmiTCP. However, it appears this was the intention of the developers and how FFPlay was coded to interact with FFmpeg. Very interesting.

Ok...I'm still working with it, thanks!


EDIT: This actually answers the question, "why add an Assign?" Thanks for your help, AMIGASYSTEM. That's what I'll do and consider the matter closed.

Moving on...

[AMIGASYSTEM]

Originally Posted by Weaselrama

Yes, but that's actually part of the FFmpeg instructions, not FFplay. .

No, the AmiTCP volume: it is required by the "ixnet.library" library, if you try to rename this library you shouldn't have that request anymore but FFPlay might have problmi On-line

[Weaselrama]

Originally Posted by AMIGASYSTEM

No, the AmiTCP volume: it is required by the "ixnet.library" library, if you try to rename this library you shouldn't have that request anymore but FFPlay might have problmi On-line

I do have an ixnet.library. I meant the documentation called out FFMpeg, not FFPlay for AmiTCP but this explains totally why I was getting that message.

So - for online videos, and since I don't have AmiTCP, (I went ahead and put the assign for AmiTCP in SYS:S/user-startup), with ixnet.library, I should be able to setup iBrowse now for other video (without installing FFmpeg, which I don't need)?

This is a step I was missing.

[Weaselrama]

Originally Posted by AMIGASYSTEM

No, the AmiTCP volume: it is required by the "ixnet.library" library...

It worked like the proverbial charm. Many thanks. No AmiTCP message and videos come up in ffplay now from iBrowse. Outstanding! Thanks again!