(2012-12-30, 23:45)CaptainKen Wrote: The movie I'm using as a test is Battleship.When I use PlayBDMV.bat outside of xbmc I'm getting file not found, so I select the disc via the menu and it plays directors comments, but no sound. With xbmc open and I insert bluray then I have sound, but still same problem of directors comments.

I tired The Avengers movie and that one does go straight to playing only the movie, so it must be something with Battleship?

BTW, is there a reason why VLC isn't used, as it plays everything and support menus? According to this article "Wonder how to get your VLC 2.0 to play encrypted blu-ray discs?" you only need two files. However, it's Interesting that VLC doesn't like it's menu either and when disc is opened without menu support it plays directors comments.

(2012-12-31, 00:23)acejh1987 Wrote:

(2012-12-30, 23:45)CaptainKen Wrote: The movie I'm using as a test is Battleship.When I use PlayBDMV.bat outside of xbmc I'm getting file not found, so I select the disc via the menu and it plays directors comments, but no sound. With xbmc open and I insert bluray then I have sound, but still same problem of directors comments.

I tired The Avengers movie and that one does go straight to playing only the movie, so it must be something with Battleship?

BTW, is there a reason why VLC isn't used, as it plays everything and support menus? According to this article "Wonder how to get your VLC 2.0 to play encrypted blu-ray discs?" you only need two files. However, it's Interesting that VLC doesn't like it's menu either and when disc is opened without menu support it plays directors comments.

The PlayBDMV bat files will not work outside of XBMC, they rely on XBMC sending the path to the movie.
VLC has very limited menu support, and will not work with many menus.

What happens with VLC and MPC, is they are unable to tell which playlist on the disc is the main movie, so they make an educated guess, 95% of the time it works fine and the main movie is selected, however some movies (Like Battleship) it gets wrong, it is quite rare though (That's why Avengers was fine)

I would recommend you do one of the following
1.
Install LAV Filters for use with MPC, this way you are able to manually change the playlist to the correct one if it guesses incorrectly (Like with Battleship)
Audio/Subtitle support is a lot better when using LAV filters too.

2.
In AnyDVD, enable "Speedmenus" this will replace the disc menus/trailers/warnings with its own simple selection menu, allowing you to quickly play the main movie from the disc, you will need to use TMT5 to play the Speedmenus, but they work great.

(2012-12-31, 01:10)CaptainKen Wrote: Thank you acejh1987 for your explanations and suggestions. I'll pass on spending $90 on TMT5 and the additional money for updates to new version as they become available, so I'll go with option 1 using Lav Filters (LF).

Does this mean that I won't need the ffdshow filter?

I assume this is where I get LAV filters?

Assuming LF requires specific settings like ffdshow does, can you please provide the required settings?

(2012-12-31, 01:49)acejh1987 Wrote:

(2012-12-31, 01:10)CaptainKen Wrote: Thank you acejh1987 for your explanations and suggestions. I'll pass on spending $90 on TMT5 and the additional money for updates to new version as they become available, so I'll go with option 1 using Lav Filters (LF).

Does this mean that I won't need the ffdshow filter?

I assume this is where I get LAV filters?

Assuming LF requires specific settings like ffdshow does, can you please provide the required settings?

I wasn't sure if you had TMT5 already, no need to buy it if you don't.
As for LF, the official page is here
This is where the developer offers support, and there are links to setup/settings guides and to download the latest version.

I would recommend LAV but it isn't a requirement, if MPC/ffdshow is working fine then you might be best leaving it as is.
You should still be able to manually change the playlist
You can try it -
While MPC-HC is playing - right click - 'navigate' - 'jump to' - You should then see the list of playlists, if by chance MPC guesses wrong then simply click another to try, they are listed by length so it shouldn't be hard to figure out which one the movie might be.
Here's a screenshot of what the playlist selection menu will look like -

(2012-12-31, 00:08)acejh1987 Wrote: Are you reading my posts at all? Or try the bat file I posted?
The PlayBDMV.bat you posted does absolutely nothing! All it does is open MPC-HC (Because the other lines do nothing)
The only reason it works with MPC-HC is because like I said it does not need a bat file for BDMV folders.
Please try the following PlayBDMV.bat file for MPC-HC, I bet it works on your 3 HTPC systems too (Just change the MPC path)

Code:

"C:\Program Files\MPC-HC\mpc-hc64.exe" %1 exit

It will work because MPC doesn't need the path changing, if you would just try it for me.

What are you expecting this line to do? Please explain.

Code:

set pth=%pth:\BDMV\PLAYLIST\*.*.mpls=%

Sorry, I'm just a little frustrated as you are not listening or answering my questions.

(2012-12-31, 04:37)bluray Wrote: I didn't want to try it again, because I tried it a long time ago. It worked either way, but I found that the codes I posted seem to start the movie faster on my HTPC's.

Here are the two .bat files-

This bat file seem to start the movie a little slower on my HTPC's-
@echo off
set pth=%1
set pth=%pth:BDMV\Index.bdmv=%
"C:\Program Files\MPC-HC\mpc-hc64.exe" %1 exit

This bat file seem to start the movie a little faster on my HTPC's. I knew that I don't need this "\PLAYLIST\*.*.mpls" in the set pth, but it seem to work better with it. I knew that MPC-HC doesn't need %pth% to change path, but it doesn't hurt to leave in it.
@echo off
set pth=%1
set pth=%pth:\BDMV\PLAYLIST\*.*.mpls=%
"C:\Program Files\MPC-HC\mpc-hc64.exe" %pth% exit

Is there a reason why you are using MPC-HC for BDMV and blu-ray disc? I don't use MPC-HC. I'm strickly using TMT5 for blu-ray folder, blu-ray disc and ISO file to enjoy the original blu-ray menu. The movies that I don't need blu-ray menu, I use XBMC internal player....

(2012-12-31, 07:52)beanie763 Wrote: At this point to get the external player to work for ISO images I had to change my video default select action from 'play' to 'choose' so that I can pick the 'Play using' option and choose one of the external player names out of a list. At least for Bluray ISO images the default in the 'Play using' list is ISO_Player. On top of that it still comes up with a popup menu to select either a title or the blu-ray menu rather than directly launching TMT5. My Blu-ray drive playback about the same too. I end up picking 'blu-ray menu' from the popup list to continue launching my external program.

Maybe someone can offer some suggestions as to where I'm going wrong with my configuration?

My first question is whether there is some way to disable the popup menu when dealing with Blu-ray source media either in a physical disk format or an ISO file and force it to parse the rules defined in the playercorefactory.xml file first? That way I could go back to having video selection do a 'play' action rather than 'choose'.

(2012-12-31, 15:23)sonic00 Wrote: Is it possible to mount an iso file with the new playercorefactory.xml in frodo?

(2012-12-31, 15:49)sonic00 Wrote: I never used BDMV folder, just iso files ... mount it with VCD and used Powerdvd as player. Worked fine with Eden, but not with Frodo (RC2). I will try your playercorefactory.xml and hope it will works again

(2012-12-31, 11:57)acejh1987 Wrote: Or like I said before, just add BDMV/MPLS to the universal player file type rule and MPC will play folders without a bat file.

(2012-12-31, 20:22)bluray Wrote:

(2012-12-31, 11:57)acejh1987 Wrote: Or like I said before, just add BDMV/MPLS to the universal player file type rule and MPC will play folders without a bat file.

I know, and I tried it all a long time ago. I found certain codes works better on my HTPC's, and I stick to it and I suggested it in this thread. I preferred the bat file route.....

(2012-12-31, 16:47)sonic00 Wrote: Seems to work, if I use the submenu "Play from here"