Could you please provide a little more information, such as as what your settings are on the external slide? When you want to use Videolan to play a video, make sure that Videolan is installed and configured correctly in OpenSong.
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2020-10-30
how do you configure it correctly in open song .At the moment it is in opening general settings .Location of videolan is - applications/VLCapp/contents/MacOS/VLS.
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Anonymous
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2020-10-30
Thanks for your reply.
I have attacthed a screen shot of the settings ? It works fine on a pc but the exact same settings on the Mac it just wont start the video.
Hi,
in your screenshot you chose "Manual" as your preset, but you did not provide any parameters in the "Manually adjusted parameters" textbox. With the setup as is, vlc will not be told what video you want to play and thus does not play any.
Please chose "Fullscreen video on presentation screen as your preset and try again.
If you want to use manual settings, I advise to always choose one of the "real" presets first as a starting point. When you then start to edit the parameters provided, the preset will automatically change to Manual.
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I cant get OpenSong for Mac to play video either. I understad that Powerpoint does not work through OpenSong on Mac. Should VLC work?
When choosing a file to play I get
--no-video-deco --no-video-title-show --no-osd --one-instance %s
in the line for manual after having choosen Fullscreen video on presentation screen.
When trying to show Open Song just jumps past the post.
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I started doing some work to get VLC integration done with the Mac. It hasn't gotten any attention in a long time. If I recall correctly, there was an issue with old-style file paths (using the ":" separator) and the new-style paths ("/" separator like Unix/Linux) when saving the information about the media file. I will have to pull that up and try it again.
I was also playing with using a library I found that would allow OpenSong to have better control over VLC than through the command line. I hit a roadblock on that about the time I stopped working on this.
Let me take a look at it. If it is an easy fix I'll roll it into the next update.
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Anonymous
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2023-04-29
Has there been any update on this? Having the same issue...I wonder if it's a mismatch between the filepath that comes up through using the browse button and the path that would actually get VLC to load? The path doesn't seem to include the equivalent of 'C:' on Windows, and there's no option to edit the filepath manually. We need to play videos quite regularly, so a solution or workaround would be really helpful!
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Hi
You must select the "Launch Videolan" radio button in order to show a video. If you do, the "Path to media file to play" textbox gets editable. Also all the other settings relevant to starting VLC get enabled.
It is a bug that the file selection dialog button is enabled without "Launch videolan" beeing selected.
You seem to be on a system which is not Windows and it looks like you are not familiar with how path look on that system. Drive letters (C:) are a DOS / Windows thing. MacOS and Unix/Linux use a root for the file system (/) and everything below this root is a name which, while browsing, looks like a file or a folder. Disks are 'mounted' somewhere into this tree of folders with a freely chosen name, and then are essentially indistinguishable from any other folder on any (mounted) disk. So those path use forward slahes (/) not backslashes () like Windows does. A full path (absolute path) there starts with / where a Windows path would start with something like C:\
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2023-10-17
Can not go back far enough in the system to get to the exe type file.....
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Anonymous
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2023-10-17
Only goes back to vlc.desktop. Not vlc.exe
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Hi, this is an old thread, and I can't figure out, how your statements are related to the topic of the thread.
Please, if your statements are related to this topic, be more specific. If they are not, please start a new thread and give some more context.
If you need to set up your system , you can't do this from the set. You configure the path to vlc.exe in Settings | General Settings... | tab File Locations.
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Anonymous
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2026-03-20
Any progress on playing video in Open Song on the mac?
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Could you please provide a little more information, such as as what your settings are on the external slide? When you want to use Videolan to play a video, make sure that Videolan is installed and configured correctly in OpenSong.
how do you configure it correctly in open song .At the moment it is in opening general settings .Location of videolan is - applications/VLCapp/contents/MacOS/VLS.
Thanks for your reply.
I have attacthed a screen shot of the settings ? It works fine on a pc but the exact same settings on the Mac it just wont start the video.
also i have been to the settings - general setting - file locations - location of vlan client
Thanks
Hi,
in your screenshot you chose "Manual" as your preset, but you did not provide any parameters in the "Manually adjusted parameters" textbox. With the setup as is, vlc will not be told what video you want to play and thus does not play any.
Please chose "Fullscreen video on presentation screen as your preset and try again.
If you want to use manual settings, I advise to always choose one of the "real" presets first as a starting point. When you then start to edit the parameters provided, the preset will automatically change to Manual.
I cant get OpenSong for Mac to play video either. I understad that Powerpoint does not work through OpenSong on Mac. Should VLC work?
When choosing a file to play I get
--no-video-deco --no-video-title-show --no-osd --one-instance %s
in the line for manual after having choosen Fullscreen video on presentation screen.
When trying to show Open Song just jumps past the post.
I started doing some work to get VLC integration done with the Mac. It hasn't gotten any attention in a long time. If I recall correctly, there was an issue with old-style file paths (using the ":" separator) and the new-style paths ("/" separator like Unix/Linux) when saving the information about the media file. I will have to pull that up and try it again.
I was also playing with using a library I found that would allow OpenSong to have better control over VLC than through the command line. I hit a roadblock on that about the time I stopped working on this.
Let me take a look at it. If it is an easy fix I'll roll it into the next update.
Has there been any update on this? Having the same issue...I wonder if it's a mismatch between the filepath that comes up through using the browse button and the path that would actually get VLC to load? The path doesn't seem to include the equivalent of 'C:' on Windows, and there's no option to edit the filepath manually. We need to play videos quite regularly, so a solution or workaround would be really helpful!
Hi
You must select the "Launch Videolan" radio button in order to show a video. If you do, the "Path to media file to play" textbox gets editable. Also all the other settings relevant to starting VLC get enabled.
It is a bug that the file selection dialog button is enabled without "Launch videolan" beeing selected.
You seem to be on a system which is not Windows and it looks like you are not familiar with how path look on that system. Drive letters (C:) are a DOS / Windows thing. MacOS and Unix/Linux use a root for the file system (/) and everything below this root is a name which, while browsing, looks like a file or a folder. Disks are 'mounted' somewhere into this tree of folders with a freely chosen name, and then are essentially indistinguishable from any other folder on any (mounted) disk. So those path use forward slahes (/) not backslashes () like Windows does. A full path (absolute path) there starts with / where a Windows path would start with something like C:\
Can not go back far enough in the system to get to the exe type file.....
Only goes back to vlc.desktop. Not vlc.exe
Hi, this is an old thread, and I can't figure out, how your statements are related to the topic of the thread.
Please, if your statements are related to this topic, be more specific. If they are not, please start a new thread and give some more context.
If you need to set up your system , you can't do this from the set. You configure the path to vlc.exe in Settings | General Settings... | tab File Locations.
Any progress on playing video in Open Song on the mac?