To anyone still looking at this and having problems with VLC minimizing the game, I found a solution that worked for me, without having to run VLC before launching the game. This also fixes VLC adding the music on top of the other playlist when switching playlist. I made a command that goes like this: When I say: "play ambiance" (or whatever you want it to be) Play sound, '{VA_SOUNDS}\hcspack\applications\playing entry.mp3' (just like the video) Close 'vlc' process (You open "Other", choose "stop a process by name" and find "vlc", (I think you maybe have to have vlc running when you setup this command, but I is only needed to be running this time)). Pause 3 seconds (just a pause to allow vlc to shutdown before starting it up again, and to let astra finish talking) Run application 'C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe' with parameters ' --qt-start-minimized' (Open "other" choose "Run application" and find you VLC.exe file, (depends on your installation). Under "With these parameters" put ind " --qt-start-minimized" (I didn't need quotation marks). Run application 'C:\Program Files (x86)\VoiceAttack\Sounds\hcspack\Music\Ambience.xspf' Just the same as in the video, choose you playlist file, where it is on you pc doesn't matter). So what all this does is that is close vlc down in case you already are playing another playlist (since else it will just add on top of the allready playing playlist), it then opens vlc minimized and then starts your playlist. I have my game in fullscreen mode and it works perfectly. I hope this helps :) ps. not native English speaker, so sorry for grammar errors.
I have had this problem, maybe this will solve it. I hate using in windowed mode and coming to compromise, as this game did not already asked to come down to many compromise so this suggestion is important. Thanks for sharing. Will try it tomorrow
You can tell VLC to stay minimized when started by opening the main vlc window then click Tools, preferences,Show Settings All at the lower left . From there scroll down to Interface/ Main interfaces/ QT. Then click the Start VLC with only a system tray icon. VLC will always start minimized without adding anything to the exe. Then I created commands Playlist 1 and Playlist 2 in VA. If you start with "close vlc process" ( it doesn't need to be running ) then add a pause and next "run application" and point it to your playlist name. It will close vlc and restart it with the new playlist and minimized. You can do this for all your playlist's. Then you can use the Command Line Media Control option to control vlc from in game. Hope this helps edit: I could not get CLMC to recognize vlc without maximizing first. I ended up not using CLMC at all and just set some Global hot keys for vlc under hotkey preferences.
I just installed Kics as i did this and i named my playlist "Awesome Mix Vol 1" and i realised theirs a custom sound that she says "Loading Awesome Mix Volume 1" and i think the gods are listening to me
I know this is an old video, but if you ever read this...thanks man! I've followed your tutorial and it helped me so much! Also, small tips time! If you want to stop what's playing while in game you can create an empty playlist and create a voice command for it, work wonder ;p
Awesome! By the way, adding an empty playlist won't work. On the other hand, for vlc, you can create a command under "other --> stop a process by name --> type "vlc" and voila! I tried it and it worked. Only downside, if you want to play your playlist again it might alt-tab your game :/, but hey that's a start!
I saw in graphics settings a new feature under screen mode you can set your gameplay to full screen, windowed or borderless. And border less will allow the game to run in a full screen window and wont flick the game away. If not theres a great program called borderless gaming that does just the same...
I wanted to play Radio Side winder but it had some issues when I tried to do it with the demo, the game went on the desktop unfortunately. I also tried to link a captain log with audacity it's an amazing thing to do .
As a little hint for everyone, make a blank playlist with no music in it, and save it. Follow this tutorial, but make a command for "Stop playing music". This will stop any music playing.
+Falcore Gaming I did this and it does work to stop playing music, But also was it does is add the blank audio file to the playlist that is currently playing. Now lets say you want to start a different play list of music up. so you command VA to play a different playlist, however when it executes this command it ADDS the playlist you commanded onto the playlist before as well as the silent audio file. So if you have VLC player set to random and you wanted to hear some Rock and roll, but were previously listening to another genre you can potentially get the other genre because it randomly chooses from this whole new playlist you have created.
+Falcore Gaming I did how ever find a solution to this problem. You have to use the "clear playlist" Hotkeys set for VLC along with playing the blank audio file Making sure you ahve checked the box that targets VLC specifically along with adding the Asterics because of name changing of VLC (Hover your mouse cursor over the second option in "Enable Process Target" and read what it talks about) . Note that this makes you lose focus from Elite dangerous (or other games) but at the very end of the "stop the music" command you should use the "Execute another command" and choose a command that grabs focus onto elite dangerous. In all you will only loose focus from elite dangerous for a milisecond and immediatly regain it. I know this is confusing and not directed at you per say but more of a Help everyone comment. Feel free to Direct message me if anyone needs help setting this up.
I got it to stop the music: Close 'vlc' process If you tell it to close a process it will see it as "vlc(your music.mp3 - VLC Media player" or something. I just deleted all of that and put in a lower case "vlc" Left everything else the same as how you open it. Hope this helps. Awesome voice pack BTW I HIGHLY recommend.
It would be awesome to have seen you do a lot of this by using Voice Attack to open the application, folders, etc. and only type select the things you have to manually. It can do non-gaming stuff too, right?
Thanks for the Video on this but this video is incompatible with singularity any chance you can make a new updated for singulairty please, side not love the packs got 9 of them now, Eli is still my favourite
If you wanna start it without it tabbing out make a bat file start /min "" "C:\ [VLC.exe location]" then attach that into voiceattack and run it before you open the .m3u playlist.
a Batch file is simply a text file that has the extension .bat on it. What you can do is create a new text file (not a word document) and then rename it, now this might not work on your computer if you don't have the option to "hide known file extensions" turned off in windows explorer. Open the batch file in notepad and copy an-Cap edits text line into it. It is now a file that windows can execute, which you can test by double clicking on it.
Believe or not you can actually download silent mp3 files. So I downloaded a 30 minute one, the player never really turns off per se. its just playing a very long track with nothing on it.
Plah! --global-key-next is the VLC command line to go to the next track so you can clone your first command to make the playlist, just add this parameter and make a new thing to say to do next track. Other commands below --global-key-next= Next --key-next= Next --global-key-prev= Previous --key-prev= Previous --global-key-stop= Stop --key-stop= Stop --global-key-play-pause= Play/Pause --key-play-pause= Play/Pause
+ThahMonkey :) - there is a way, but I havent done that yet, mostly because I never get to the point where I want it to stop - Athough, I think there is a better way to do this all now - I'll look into it all
+HCS Voice Packs Greetings... Thanks for your quick response... was not expecting one so quickly considering the age of the video. I have since found how to get music to stop playing. i used the 'Stop a process by name' command and chose VLC from the dropdown menu. Works a treat. While I have your attention, perhaps you could help me with another Astra/voiceAttack related problem. I've watched some of the available tutorials to learn how to use the voice attack software and have found them to be most helpful in setting up Astra to behave the way I want her to, and have so far been successful in doing so apart from one. I shall explain what I'm trying to get her to do in the hope you can provide me with instructions on how to accomplish it. Occasionally, Astra will pick up on an environmental sound and begin talking randomly. What I would like to do is be able to tell her to 'shut up' When I have told her to 'shut up' I would like her to stop what she is saying, pause briefly, and then respond with whatever voice response I choose. I've tried to set this up by using the 'Make VoiceAttack stop processing All Commands' command, and then following it with a voice response command. However, it seems that Issuing the 'Make VoiceAttack stop processing All Commands' command, also stops the following voice command from executing. I've tried setting this up in various other ways, using execute another command, condition values etc, but have thus far been unsuccessful. It is my hopeful wish that you will be able to send me a set of instructions on how to accomplish this. Best regards
+ThahMonkey I saw another video where someone said to only way to stop it is to instruct it to play a "blank" audio file, meaning a file with the audio muted out in an audio editor.
I would think the better way to stop playing music would be to setup a voice attack command for stopping it, and simply have voice attack issue a key stroke to VLC. there has to be a "stop" key for the program, this might cause the windows focus to switch however. will need to test it.
When I set the playlist in the commands it says the file could not be located even though the pathing is correct. Either I'm doing something wrong or VA hates me. Which it does, I'm sure.
HCS Voice Packs I managed to get it to open my the Groove player but it never wants to open the VLC playlist even if I make every playlist command the exact same VLC file.
HCS Voice Packs Neeeevermind. I had to delete all of the original .m3u files in order for it to recognize the playlist I actually wanted. It's working! :D
You forgot to tell us how to close the program, but I understand you are not Voice Attack but HCS Voicepacks which is another business. Anyway below somebody somehow explained how to do it. The point is that the VA software says that "Killing a process" needs to be used with care and not abused (it is written in brackets). Maybe because it can create issues? Or because people might use this too much ruining the computer indeed... killing processes is not really a great thing? Anyway .. it's not a very fast tool to learn to use.
Warn people that VLC is safe but that there are a lot of google results that are ads that are loaded with spyware. I was in a rush and DL'ed this from Installcat... and it almost killed my Computer...
