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ms10380
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Oct 22, 2009, 6:48 AM

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I am trying to start windows media player from the command line to play a file, but I do not want to wait for the process to complete. Is there anyway to do this. My code right now is

system("C\\Program Files\\Windows Media Player\\wmplayer.exe $mediaplaylist");

but this does not continue to the next line of my script as it is waiting for media player to complete playing all file and for me to manually close it. Is there some command/flag for system which can help here?

Thanks

shawnhcorey
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Oct 22, 2009, 6:57 AM

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Re: [ms10380] system call [In reply to]	Can't Post

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Is there some command/flag for system which can help here?

No. The best way to do something like this in Windows is to use threads.

See:
perldoc -f exec http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/exec.html
perldoc perlthrtut http://perldoc.perl.org/perlthrtut.html
perldoc threads http://perldoc.perl.org/threads.html

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