I have entered this in the Personal Information Notes section. [filepath]E:\DVDs\Valkyrie\VIDEO_TS\VIDEO_TS.IFO[/filepath] and play/s in the location filed.  When I select Play retreive disk from the context menu, I get the following:
"Hard Drive" 883904138143 2 0 "Valkyrie" "" "DVD" ""
Press any key to continue . . .
As you can see, there is no filepath in the command.  Why?

sorry to bug you maddog but for some reason the plugin is usieng the collection number and not the slot number. i'v checked the batchfiles and it's passing the right slot number but the plugin is usieng the colleciton number to change on the dvd changer.

a Sony CX995v

Quoting nightowl128:

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I have entered this in the Personal Information Notes section. [filepath]E:\DVDs\Valkyrie\VIDEO_TS\VIDEO_TS.IFO[/filepath] and play/s in the location filed.  When I select Play retreive disk from the context menu, I get the following:
"Hard Drive" 883904138143 2 0 "Valkyrie" "" "DVD" ""
Press any key to continue . . .
As you can see, there is no filepath in the command.  Why?

Somehow, I totally missed seeing this post. Don't know if you have solved it yet. One thing I don't see is what your .bat file looks like, e.g. the actual echo command that is displaying the parameters.

Quoting mediadogg:

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Quoting nightowl128:

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I have entered this in the Personal Information Notes section. [filepath]E:\DVDs\Valkyrie\VIDEO_TS\VIDEO_TS.IFO[/filepath] and play/s in the location filed.  When I select Play retreive disk from the context menu, I get the following:
"Hard Drive" 883904138143 2 0 "Valkyrie" "" "DVD" ""
Press any key to continue . . .
As you can see, there is no filepath in the command.  Why?

Somehow, I totally missed seeing this post. Don't know if you have solved it yet. One thing I don't see is what your .bat file looks like, e.g. the actual echo command that is displaying the parameters.

The echo command is: echo %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9

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The echo command is: echo %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9

You got me ... I have no clue. I cut and pasted from your post directly into one of my profiles and it worked fine. Maybe some wierd dependency on location in the Notes - can't imagine that, but anything is possible in the programming world. Try moving the filepath around and see what happens. It should be recognized no matter where it is, but ...

I firgured it out. I forgot the closeing (/) in [/filepath] in the notes filed.. Works like a charm. Thank you very much for the time and effort that you put into this.

Quoting Juddsin:

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Let me start by saying this a an awsome plugin and for someone to come up with, well you are as close to a God as you can get. Much props and respect. Over the last couple months I have tried several different things to get this plugin to work fully. When I right click on the movie i want to watch, the player pops up, but the movie does not play. This is awsome, but i feel that I am missing something. I am not a programmer, so most of the things that are said in this forum I don't understand. I know I'm close, just need to know the final step if any. Just lloking for some help. Thank you

In the notes field: D:\Movies\THE GOLDEN CHILD\VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.IFO (movie path)
Location: PLAY
Slot: Empty

Copy of my Batch File:
@echo off
rem %1 DescriptionSideA
rem %2 profileid - this is usually the UPC code
rem %3 disc#
rem %4 slot# or collection#
rem %5 Title or Sort Title or Label Side A
rem %6 filepath
rem %7 mediatype = "DVD", "HD" or "BluRay"
rem %8 and thereafter - remainder of Location field
echo %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
if %7=="DVD" "C:\Program Files\Nero\Nero8\Nero ShowTime\ShowTime" %5
if %7=="HD"
if %7=="BluRay" echo c:\program files\powerdvd\powerdvd.exe %6


Quoting mediadogg:

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@Juddsin

Based on your comments, I have no clue what you are trying to do. I understand you being confused from all the options and examples. That's why I tried to consolidate some of the best tips in the first post. One post. Decide what you want to do. Then read the part of that post (there is a list of things that LoadDVD can do) that relates to what you want to do. After that, if you are not sucessful, then you can come back and tell us what you were trying to do, what data you put where, and what problems you encountered. I'm not even sure that you should be using a .bat file, because you haven't mentioned what you are trying to do. (Also, this technique assumes you know how to use Windows command file scripting ".bat files". If you don't know how to do that, I suggest you Google some tutorial info and spend some time with that first. I suspect that a lot of the confusing information will sudddenly become clear, because that aspect has nothing to do with LoadDVD)

(Edit: actually the third post has additional usage details and examples, written by me.)

mediadogg what i ment was that it's sending collection # instead of slot#

so....... i'm not sure if it's a prlblem with dvd profiler or the plugin.

the batchfile seems to be send the right number but the plugin when used without calling a batchfile tried to change the changer too the colleciotn number and not the slot number.

  File Associations Smackdown - LoadDVD V1.56 

Ok, I took a fresh stab at the file associations issues, and I think I have finally nailed it. 

Anyway, after I verify that the filepath is valid, I use the MS Verbs "play", "open", "prevew", "NULL" and "openas" in succession to try and execute whatever program that has been associated with the file. Only if all of those fail, do I give up, or if the file is not found. The verb "openas" actually presents a menu to choose a program if there is no association. This solved a couple of my problems. I hope that it solves yours.

For example, on one of my systems, I associate the Slysoft Virtual Clonedrive mount process for an ISO file. Then I have PowerDVD 9 set up in the Vista AutoPlay configuration for when a new DVD is mounted in a drive. When I click the loadDVD icon, PowerDVD now plays the ISO (as a mounted DVD in the virtual drive). On my other system, ISOs are associated with vlc.exe. When I click the icon, vlc player comes up and plays the file as expected. On both systems, the filepath is a network share.

So, I apologize to all of you who have suffered as a result of this issue, and to those who have resorted to using the more complicated PlayFromDisk.bat. If you are using PlayFromDIsk.bat only for the purpose of resolving file associations issues, I encourage you to try V1.56. Test it by changing "play" to "file" (no quotes of course) in the location field and see what happens (assuming you have filepaths in the Notes field). If it works for you, then you now have the option of eliminating the PlayFromDisk.bat from your scenario.

Please report any cases of file associations not working - only if you can right click on the file in windows explorer and it works - then I claim loadDVD will now work the same way  .