How to open an .avi file and get the control back

Hello all,

For a project of mine, I need to open a file with windows media player (not mmplayer) and then once it starts playing, I need to do some other tasks in matlab.

I tried with the System() command but it does not return the control until it is finish playing.

Is there any way that I can work around this. Any help is much appreciated.

- Thanks in advance for your help.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

system('winplayer &')

[Varuna De Silva]

Thanks alot this worked for me. In fact the command looked like this,

system('"C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe" /open "C:\Documents and Settings\dd00028\My Documents\My Videos\Interview2.wmv" &' )