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Can VLC be used as an alternate to windows media player to change the status in windows live messenger (Music we are listening to currently)?

yes, you can find the right setting in the preferences, maybe in "interface" section

Preferences, Interface, Control interfaces "MSN now-playing"

Can anyone of you guys explain in details how to do the "now playing" thing.... cause am new using VLC and I have no idea how to do it... and need to know exactly in steps what to do...
thanx alll... and appreciate your help lots
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yea.. i love this player but i cant get it to show in my msn the now playing thing.. help plz

Yea I checked that box and nothing has happened in Windows Live Messenger. Has anyone successfully completed this operation and if so can you state your steps to accomplish this. Thank you.

MSN plugin doesn't seem to print anything to messages, so I assume there are some issues.

Preferences > Interfaces > Control Interfaces > MSN Plugin... on the bottom line replace "msn" with "msnmsgr" to get it working.


P.S. You're Welcome

Worked! Cheers

hey i changed the MSN-Now Playing to msnmsgr but nothing happens to WIndows Live Messenger and I checked the button on the messenger to change my status to the music im listing too. I have the most recent version of VLC

With most recent you mean 0.9.8a?

Try using a msnplus plugin? Works for me. Here's the script if you have msnplus:
http://www.msgpluslive.net/scripts/view ... m-Playing/

Hi all,
I've checked off the correct options in VLC (I have version 0.9.9), but when I go to the option in Windows live messenger (I have version 2009, build 14.0.8064.206) it gives me an error message saying I must have at least Windows Media Player 9 installed (which I don't, nor do I want to - I removed everything WMP-related in nLite of this installation). I don't want to install MSNPlus - that'll be a last resort. Any way around this? Some crazy registry tweak that forces Windows live into thinking I do have WMP so this will work?

Thanks!

Mike

I've got the recent vlc player also but I can't find the MSN now playing thing on the vlc player interface. I followed the instructions on this forum but it is'nt on my player, can I do something about that?

recent

version number, please.

I have the latest package 0.9.9

Tools -> Preferences... (Show settings: All) Interface -> Control Interfaces and tick MSN Now-playing press Save and restart.

It doesn't appear on my player, only console, telenet interface, web interface and debug-logbook are show'n. what to do now?

Where did you download VLC 0.9.9?

On the VLC media player website, it is the original download you all got I think. Could it have something to do with windows vista?

It shows up in my Vista. You should try 1.0.0 installer.

Hi All,

I have downloaded vlc 1.0.1 and i using Windows Live Messenger 14.0.8064.206. Following advices from this page, i set from msn to msnmsgr but i am still unable to see the status change. Any suggestions? Is the status plugin actively mantained ?
Appreciate your time,

Thank you,
H

I'm having the same issue as cherryone. I have the same version of VLC and WLM, and nothing happens when I set the "Now playing" option. I tried to change from "msn" to "msnmsgr", but every time I go back to check it, VLC changes it to "msn" again. I tried the Live Messenger Plus plugin, but it doesn't work correctly. Sometimes it just shows the file name, other times it shows all the information. The "- -" in the end of the message is also not cool. Any suggestions to help us? Thank you

Nevermind, got it working now. Seems like we need to restart the computer before the plugin runs ok =)

I can not see it working. I do not have Plus addon for live messenger.
Steps i have done: changed from msn to msnmsgr and restarted vlc 1.0.1. No change in status.
Used the spy++ tool from Visual Studio 6.0 to catch the WM, i cant see anything.
I use XP SP3 up2date.
Next step for me is to comple a debug version of plugin and to see it in action. Don't know when this will happen..
Thanks for your time,
H