DOCa Cola
7th March 2003 11:05 UTC

Music in background
Is there a way to play a wave file (or better an mp3 file) in loop during an installation?

Sunjammer
7th March 2003 11:24 UTC

Ugggh... okay if you really have to do something like that (god I wish you wouldn't) you'll need to find some sort of command line playback tool to do it for you, and then launch that from NSIS. Alternatively you could try hacking apart one of the splash plugins, I seem to remember that they contain code to play sounds.

kichik
7th March 2003 11:27 UTC

BgImage can play sounds :)

Have a look at the example under Contrib\BgImage. Just remove the image code if you don't want a background image. The only problem is that it can only play wave files.

DOCa Cola
7th March 2003 11:30 UTC

@sunjammer
it's for a game mod, and the installation takes about 5 minutes (it extracts some stuff from the game files). so why no background music from the game.
i am no c programmer, so i can't rewrite this plugin.

DOCa Cola
7th March 2003 11:32 UTC

@kichik
yea, i have tried that, but it cannot play wave files in loop

kichik
7th March 2003 11:41 UTC

Add a feature request at SourceForge. BgImage will get some attention soon so I'll this one too. In the mean while you can used the attached file. It will always play the wave file in a loop and will only stop when you call BgImage::StopSound. The /WAIT flag won't work with BgImage::Sound because you can't wait for a loop.

DOCa Cola
7th March 2003 11:43 UTC

great thanks!