unattended Window media player 10 setup?

[Rico.JohnnY]

Window Media Player 10.0.0.3473 Technical Beta,released recently,how to do the unattended setup of that?what are the relevant switches?

i have tried /Q:A /R:N ,but that didnt work...can someone tell how to do that?

[wyattXP]

try just /qb or /qn or even -s, i havnt tried to add it yet to my DVD but those will be the ones i try

[Rico.JohnnY]

i tried all you had mentioned above.... but didnt work either.....and it prompted syntax error...

the problem is..when i used /Q:A /R:N,it poped up an annoying EULA window...

i just dont know how to skip over that...

[Alanoll]

have you tried a simple /? on the extracted archive (that's what the initial download is BTW

[Rico.JohnnY]

yes...i have already tried it...none worked..

the situation is similar to the installation of MDAC hotfix..

but for the earlier versions...the /Q:A /R:N switch works fine...

annoying..

[Joe User 99]

I don't have switches, but here is what I am playing with so far:

Use WinRAR to extract the MP10Setup.exe to a folder. Inside will be all the source files

Deleting Eula.txt will bypass the EULA screen and start installing automatically.

Problem is that Eulat.txt is required to install (It is copied during install.)

So delete the line "eula.txt" from the [V9Copy.Core] section of WMP10.INF and save the file.

Then try installing by running "setup_wm.exe"

I can't get it to work on a SP2 system, I get a "This program has not passed Windows Logo Certification..." error.

But I don't have a SP1 system to try the results on.

[Rico.JohnnY]

I don't have switches, but here is what I am playing with so far:

Use WinRAR to extract the MP10Setup.exe to a folder. Inside will be all the source files

Deleting Eula.txt will bypass the EULA screen and start installing automatically.

Problem is that Eulat.txt is required to install (It is copied during install.)

So delete the line "eula.txt" from the [V9Copy.Core] section of WMP10.INF and save the file.

Then try installing by running "setup_wm.exe"

I can't get it to work on a SP2 system, I get a "This program has not passed Windows Logo Certification..." error.

But I don't have a SP1 system to try the results on.

Not work...

Prompted

"an unexpected error has occured.Setup was not able to detect any Windows Media updates.Please try again later."

any suggestion?

[wyattXP]

went to microsoft.com and got some useful info about this per the website:

For unattended installation with no UI and no restart or restart prompt:

MPSetup.exe /q:A /c:"setup_wm.exe /Q:A /R:N /P:#e"

[wyattXP]

sorry here is the URL to the site:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wmplay/mmp_sdk/mpsetupexeandmpsetupxpexecommandlineparameters.asp

[Joe User 99]

Not work...

Prompted

"an unexpected error has occured.Setup was not able to detect any Windows Media updates.Please try again later."

any suggestion?

I got that too, if I ran it from a commandline from outside the source directory.

If I changed to the source folder, then ran it, it seemed to work better.

went to microsoft.com and got some useful info about this per the website:

For unattended installation with no UI and no restart or restart prompt:

MPSetup.exe /q:A /c:"setup_wm.exe /Q:A /R:N /P:#e"

I think that is for 9.0, cause for 10, I still get the EULA dialog even using these commandlines. If you notice the exe name is different too. For 10, it is MP10Setup.exe, not MPSetup.exe

[wyattXP]

right but on that page from microsoft it states WMP 9 + so i would assume that it would run with 10, im going to work on it tonight

[Joe User 99]

I did notice in that document that it mentions that the /P:#e is not needed for WMP10, but that is the only mention of 10 that I see.

Oh well....I guess we all will keep looking....

[Rico.JohnnY]

right but on that page from microsoft it states WMP 9 + so i would assume that it would run with 10, im going to work on it tonight

i tried that parameter and it didn't work with WMP10

Maybe there are some other new parameters for it but i just can get nothing after look through the WMP 10 SDK,except for the one you mentioned above

[wyattXP]

so far i used wmp10.exe /Q:A /R:N and it got me to the Accept the license agreement screen so it did bypass the "Next" screen, still testing it...

[wyattXP]

has anyone had any luck with this one, i know that /Q:A is all u need to get to the "I Accept" screen, but i cannot get past that, i dont know what it is, any help here would be great.