Play A Movie Using JB and VLC

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I am creating a JB program to launch movies. I want a specified movie to play using VLC with just one click of a button in JB. I have already successfully used the "run" command to open the VLC movie player.

Does anyone know how would I go about automatically playing a movie that is in a file on my computer?

[Rod]

You should be able to add the file path and name to the command line.

So %vlc filepath/filename.ext

You may have to surround the whole command with quotes to stop Windows truncating the command at the space character if there is one in the file spec.

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I am assuming this is what you are refering to as the command line in my program

-- run "C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" --

where in that line would I add -- %vlc filepath/filename.ext -- ? (after the .exe? New quotes? )

Sorry, I really am that much of a novice.

Edit** I meant to add something I also tried.

I "associated" the movie file to open in VLC, then did a "run" on the file itself. It returned an "out of memory" error.

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I thank you for helping. I can't seem to get it to run and open a movie, yet.

this is the line in my program that launches the VLC player,

-- run "C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" --

I copied the movie I wanted to the same file that "vlc.exe" resides and this is now the path to the movie I want to play,

-- "C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\Brooklyn.mkv" --

What should the finished command line look like?

[Rod]

run "C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe ";chr$(34);"C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\Brooklyn.mkv";chr$(34)

note the space after vlc.exe

the spaces in the program files directory name cause windows to truncate the argument unless it is all wrapped in quote characters.

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Thank you so much Rod!! 

That solution worked the very first time for me and is exactly what I wanted.