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Seemingly simple media player request

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mouser:
There are video players that have playlists and that handle stills (so that would handle most of what you want).
I expect the difficulty you might have is finding one that will let you pause for a specific time on the stills.

Another alternative would be to have someone make a simple tool that could send commands to a separate video player, and thus queue up the stills and videos and tell the video player to play them.
This would have the advantage of letting you have a nice playlist on one screen while the video player ran full screen on another monitor, and being able to set times for the image stills, etc.
A tricky part of coding that would be finding a video player that could report when a video was done playing, etc..

Wayne Bertram:
Thanks to all that have replied.  I will look at a couple of those suggestions.  No problem converting the still(s) to short videos if required. 

I don't think Powerpoint is good enough with it's video support and scaling. I tried a movie in it and was very unimpressed. 

One problem I have as far as simply compiling it all on a timeline is a bunch of different frame rates and I don't want to get into framerate conversions when a player will not care when files are played individually. 

I'm happy to have interaction for the stills to go to the next movie.   I will look at ALShow as suggested since I've not heard of that one.  I also didn't realise that Media Player Classic would display stills so I'll have a look at that as long as I can play out to a secondary monitor. I prefer to see playlists rather than fly blind once I've started.

Re Mouser's reply, the alternative of a simple tool to send commands to a seperate player etc sounds pretty much like it would do the trick.

The key going to black is simply for presentation as the films need to be shown in front of an audience and by being able to go to black you can just finish off nice withour dropping back to Windows or if something goes wrong you can blank out and fix it.

I will mess around a bit more with some of these and also post the request to the other forum as suggested.

Again, thanks to all for your very quick replies. Just thought I'd check before going to bed (In Australia) but only posted the question a couple of hours ago.

Cheers

Wayne

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