play to menu?

[frenky]

Hi *,
when calling pop-up menu on media file, I can't see "play to"?
E.g. in Windows Explorer it is shown as well as in one other x64 file manager.

Is this another x64 issue?

[MVV]

If you can see this item in X64 submenu of context menu - yes, it is 64-bit item.

[HolgerK]

2frenky

Are you talking about this Window 7 feature : Using the Play To feature to stream media

It may be an effect of network connections established as non elevated user while TC is running "as Adminstrator".
Similar effect with mapped drives: http://ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?p=207401#207401

Regards
Holger

[frenky]

2HolgerK
Using the Play To feature to stream media
-> yes that is the feature I'm speaking about. Interesting link, thanks for that
I'm not running TC with elevated rights, I'm running it as a non-privileged user.

2MVV
-> No I can't see this item in X64 sub-menu of context menu, this appears to be another issue.

[HolgerK]

Unfortunately i do not have a media streaming client (or another Windows 7 computer running a media player as client) here.
In consequence the "Play to" is neither shown in Explorer nor in TC.

Maybe its just a problem that Explorer scans the network once at startup and all available media clients are known in Explorer process.

Does it help if you navigate once into TC's "Network Neighborhood"?

Regards
Holger

[frenky]

No, it does not help...

But this is almost certainly x64 issue.
- WindowsExplorer 64bit -> OK
- Some other 64bit file manager -> OK
- Some other 32bit file manager -> NotOK
- TC 32bit -> NotOK

So I guess until someone "invents" Delphi compiler for x64, no luck with "Play to"

[HolgerK]

So I guess until someone "invents" Delphi compiler for x64, no luck with "Play to"

Lazarus

Regards
Holger

[frenky]

Very nice
Hopefully we get to see x64 version soon.

[ghisler(Author)]

I'm working on it. But doesn't the entry exist in the "x64" submenu?

[frenky]

2ghisler
Nice to hear you are working on it, wasn't active here on forum for a while so this was news to me when I've seen the post HoglerK referred to.

As to your question - no it does not:
Image: http://image.to/out.php/i465_tc.png -> Total commander
Image: http://image.to/out.php/i466_winexp.png -> Windows Explorer

Win7 Pro

Edit: I've seen you have release newer version of TC, so I've checked with the 7.55a and I can observe the same behaviour.

[ghisler(Author)]

Strange, you should get the exact same menu items here as in Explorer. Maybe you are running TC with Admin rights? Try running it with normal user rights instead.

[frenky]

2ghisler(Author)
No, I'm seldom running TC as admin, almost always as non-privileged user.

But for the sake of the argument, I've tried running it as Admin and I've observed same behaviour - so I can conclude that it does not matter if I run TC as admin or not.

In now three 64bit file managers I've tried I got this menu.

But here are some details when I call context menu:
http://rapidshare.com/files/421756583/Capture201009_27222752.rar

You may notice a bit different search path through registry...

I believe that %PROGRAMFILES%\Windows Media Player\wmpnssui.dll is the dll to be loaded when constructing PlayTo menu. Also query for HKCR\SystemFileAssociations\video\ShellEx\ContextMenuHandlers\PlayTo is missing in TC trace...

[ghisler(Author)]

I think I understand now - these are NOT shell extensions, they are verbs like "open" or "print"! The x64 submenu doesn't list verbs because all I tested work also in 32-bit.

[frenky]

2ghisler(Author)
Hi, I'm sorry but I do not fully understand the answer...
Will you implement the "verbs" operations for x64?

[ghisler(Author)]

No, currently this isn't planned, sorry. If you can find them in the registry, you can modify them yourself to point to the right location. I guess that they start something in system32 - just change that to SysNative, and it will work with both 32-bit and 64-bit programs.