Added back rendered animation playback (in a sense), with a

customisable player.

You can choose a player in User Preferences -> File Paths. You can 
choose a plan custom command line, otherwise there are presets available
for the Blender 2.4 player or DJV (where it will give it the correct filename, 
fps, etc on the command line). So for example if you have a Blender 2.4 
version installed, you can enter the path to the blender 2.4 executable, 
and the playback will work just like before.

Any info on other frame players (FrameCycler? pdplayer?) and their 
command line settings could be useful for adding some more presets too, 
if anyone knows of them.

It's available in Render->Play Rendered Animation (Ctrl F11)

3 files changed, 21 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/source/blender/editors/screen/screen_ops.c b/source/blender/editors/screen/screen_ops.c
index b67001a454c..fe2bc58faf2 100644
--- a/source/blender/editors/screen/screen_ops.c
+++ b/source/blender/editors/screen/screen_ops.c
@@ -3877,6 +3877,7 @@ void ED_keymap_screen(wmKeyConfig *keyconf)
 	RNA_boolean_set(WM_keymap_add_item(keymap, "SCREEN_OT_render", F12KEY, KM_PRESS, KM_CTRL, 0)->ptr, "animation", 1);
 	WM_keymap_add_item(keymap, "SCREEN_OT_render_view_cancel", ESCKEY, KM_PRESS, 0, 0);
 	WM_keymap_add_item(keymap, "SCREEN_OT_render_view_show", F11KEY, KM_PRESS, 0, 0);
+	WM_keymap_add_item(keymap, "SCREEN_OT_play_rendered_anim", F11KEY, KM_PRESS, KM_CTRL, 0);
 	
 	/* user prefs */
 #ifdef __APPLE__
diff --git a/source/blender/makesdna/DNA_userdef_types.h b/source/blender/makesdna/DNA_userdef_types.h
index 82e6cebe71e..c6b1bf0b3f6 100644
--- a/source/blender/makesdna/DNA_userdef_types.h
+++ b/source/blender/makesdna/DNA_userdef_types.h
@@ -286,10 +286,11 @@ typedef struct UserDef {
 	char plugseqdir[160];
 	char pythondir[160];
 	char sounddir[160];
-	/* yafray: temporary xml export directory */
-	char yfexportdir[160];
+	char anim_player[240];	// FILE_MAX length
+	int anim_player_preset;
+	int pad;
+	
 	short versions;
-
 	short dbl_click_time;
 	
 	int gameflags;
diff --git a/source/blender/makesrna/intern/rna_userdef.c b/source/blender/makesrna/intern/rna_userdef.c
index f695936d47c..21e601c3ba3 100644
--- a/source/blender/makesrna/intern/rna_userdef.c
+++ b/source/blender/makesrna/intern/rna_userdef.c
@@ -2358,6 +2358,13 @@ static void rna_def_userdef_filepaths(BlenderRNA *brna)
 	PropertyRNA *prop;
 	StructRNA *srna;
 	
+	static EnumPropertyItem anim_player_presets[] = {
+		//{0, "INTERNAL", 0, "Internal", "Built-in animation player"},	// doesn't work yet!
+		{0, "BLENDER24", 0, "Blender 2.4", "Blender command line animation playback - path to Blender 2.4"},
+		{2, "DJV", 0, "Djv", "Open source frame player: http://djv.sourceforge.net"},
+		{3, "CUSTOM", 0, "Custom", "Custom animation player executable path"},
+		{0, NULL, 0, NULL, NULL}};
+	
 	srna= RNA_def_struct(brna, "UserPreferencesFilePaths", NULL);
 	RNA_def_struct_sdna(srna, "UserDef");
 	RNA_def_struct_nested(brna, srna, "UserPreferences");
@@ -2414,7 +2421,16 @@ static void rna_def_userdef_filepaths(BlenderRNA *brna)
 	prop= RNA_def_property(srna, "temporary_directory", PROP_STRING, PROP_DIRPATH);
 	RNA_def_property_string_sdna(prop, NULL, "tempdir");
 	RNA_def_property_ui_text(prop, "Temporary Directory", "The directory for storing temporary save files.");
+	
+	prop= RNA_def_property(srna, "animation_player", PROP_STRING, PROP_DIRPATH);
+	RNA_def_property_string_sdna(prop, NULL, "anim_player");
+	RNA_def_property_ui_text(prop, "Animation Player", "Path to a custom animation/frame sequence player.");
 
+	prop= RNA_def_property(srna, "animation_player_preset", PROP_ENUM, PROP_NONE);
+	RNA_def_property_enum_sdna(prop, NULL, "anim_player_preset");
+	RNA_def_property_enum_items(prop, anim_player_presets);
+	RNA_def_property_ui_text(prop, "Animation Player Preset", "Preset configs for external animation players");
+	
 	/* Autosave  */
 
 	prop= RNA_def_property(srna, "save_version", PROP_INT, PROP_NONE);