MPUI-hcb (MPlayer GUI) can it be made portable????

[Island Boy]

Remember MPUI ? This a new powerful MPlayer frontend based on MPUI called MPUI-HCB.

http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=717260

''MPUI-HCB (½ circle back ?) is an easy-to-use Windows frontend for MPlayer. Plays files, network streams and discs (such as (S)VCD or DVD). Drag&Drop supported. Plays hundreds of different video and audio formats, including MPEG-1, -2 and -4 (DivX), H.264, MP3, Ogg Vorbis and AAC. Support for multiple audio and subtitle tracks on DVDs, lyric in rar, 7z, zip and multi-volume archive.''

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mpui-hcb/

Unlike MPUI it does NOT Writes settings to Application folder. :-(

Can this be made portable?

[ashghost]

I can at least tell you what "hcb" stands for: Huang Chen Bin.

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http://sourceforge.net/users/hcb428/

(Or maybe you were just trying to turn it into something catchy in English.)

Also, it looks from this thread that MPUI-hcb looks for a file named "mpui.ini" in its own directory, or at least the developer was getting advice on how to write the code to do that (scroll down to the post from December 13 at 21:17):

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http://forum.doom9.org/archive/index.php/t-143286.html

I was just curious enough to poke around a little bit. What I saw didn't make me think it would replace SMPlayer as my MPlayer front end of choice (which I only use if I can't get VLC or KMPlayer to do what I want), so I'm not going to try it out. Hope it works for you, though. If not, contact the developer on the project's forum on SourceForge. There aren't many messages there, but s/he seems pretty responsive.

[Island Boy]

@ ashghost

thanks for the doom9 forum link, explaines alot.

[toomuchjunk]

Speaking from experience. SMplayer is almost untouchable. This is coming from somebody that used Mplayer a lot in the past. Every time I have tried to use an alternative I have found myself running disaster recovery software over and over and over again. For me, the experimentation is not really worth is in this instance. If disaster recovery software and some helpful IT staffing resources didn't come to my rescue, this situation would be kind of out of hand.

[lautrepay]

Added here: http://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=2555.
Please, vote!

[billon]

I use MPUI-hcb long time, it's the best front-end for MPlayer, but not with mplayer which come with hcb installer, i download just GUI itself (MPUIxxxx.exe, approx. 500 KB) and regularly updated MPlayer builds from Redxii - http://mplayerwin.sourceforge.net/
MPUI itself portable but MPlayer create folder fontconfig (with font cache) in LOCALAPPDATA even with -nofontconfig parameter
and dvdcss folder in APPDATA (if watch DVD)
Anyway, MPlayer and MPC-HC (and maybe FFplay from Zeranoe FFmpeg builds - http://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/) - everything you need for multimedia (IMO)

[lautrepay]

and dvdcss folder in APPDATA (if watch DVD)

Correct. I use to play the vob files directly and didn't notice that. Entry updated.

MPlayer create folder fontconfig (with font cache) in LOCALAPPDATA even with -nofontconfig parameter

I think that depends on the Mplayer build. When using the MPlayer that comes with the MPUI-hcb installer no font cache is created. Can you test it?