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- bluray - 2012-01-22 18:43

robl45 Wrote:with xbmc remote, if you hit stop, that should exit you out and back to xbmc, at least it does for me, but you still need another app to control the external player so i'm switching back and forth between xbmc remote and mpc-hc remote on my android phone for now.
No, I don't use another app. I use the same MCE remote with MPC-HC keys, and here is what I did- post #11.


- bluray - 2012-01-22 18:44

robl45 Wrote:biggest problem i have with this external setup is it seems quite finicky, it works when it feels like it, sometimes no problem, othertimes errors pop up from windows that it can't do something or other, tonight i had to reboot the system so it would work again.
I'm not sure why, because I don't have any error in 3 HTPC's using XBMC external player (MPC-HC, TMT5, PDVD10).


- intertan - 2012-01-22 20:51

tmt5
using beta 2
playing everything
got it to work sometimes. can't play flac music. Remote does not work but it didn't work properly before.

for now I may have tmt5 just play blu-rays and xbmc everything else. Now I need to figure out how to get that to work.

still would like to get tmt5 play my dvd iso and blu-ray so I can play with the 3d feature.


- jzh797s - 2012-01-22 21:35

Is 2shared.com (source for the OP links) down? I have been unable to download any of the files to test w/ PDVD11. If Boxee can support HD Audio why can't XBMC?

I miss my True HD!


- bluray - 2012-01-23 00:45

intertan Wrote:for now I may have tmt5 just play blu-rays and xbmc everything else. Now I need to figure out how to get that to work.

still would like to get tmt5 play my dvd iso and blu-ray so I can play with the 3d feature.
Yes, you can with these playercorefactory codes:

<playercorefactory>
<players>
<player name="ISO_Player" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<filename>C:\Users\[COLOR="Blue"]Dell
\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\userdata\PlayISO.bat</filename>
<args>"{1}" /fullscreen</args>
<hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
<hideconsole>true</hideconsole>
<warpcursor>none</warpcursor>

</player>
<player name="Disc_Player" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<filename>C:\Users\Dell\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\userdata\PlayDisc.bat</filename>
<args>"{1}" /fullscreen</args>
<hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
<hideconsole>true</hideconsole>
<warpcursor>none</warpcursor>

</player>
</players>
<rules action="prepend">
<!-- Bluray ISO -->
<rule filename=".*iso.*" player="ISO_Player"/>

<!-- Bluray Disc -->
<rule protocols="bd|dvd" player="Disc_Player"/>
</rules>
</playercorefactory>[/COLOR]


- bluray - 2012-01-23 01:34

jzh797s Wrote:Is 2shared.com (source for the OP links) down? I have been unable to download any of the files to test w/ PDVD11. If Boxee can support HD Audio why can't XBMC?

I miss my True HD!
Sorry guys...I didn't know 2shared have limited downloads. I used another site to upload Playercorefactory, PlayBDMV, PlayDisc & PlayISO. All the files in post #1 are updated with a new site. You can try to download it again! Smile


- robl45 - 2012-01-23 14:34

bluray Wrote:No, I don't use another app. I use the same MCE remote with MPC-HC keys, and here is what I did- post #11.

he was talking about using the app on the phone I believe. you can only do that if you have dedicated mce remote I assume.

Irule looks like a solution, new app that can work from phone or tablet and merge multiple remotes and types wifi/ir etc all together.


- bluray - 2012-01-23 15:53

robl45 Wrote:he was talking about using the app on the phone I believe. you can only do that if you have dedicated mce remote I assume.

Irule looks like a solution, new app that can work from phone or tablet and merge multiple remotes and types wifi/ir etc all together.
Here is his quote "you still need another app to control the external player so i'm switching back and forth between xbmc remote and mpc-hc".

For me, I'll never use a $500 smartphone for remote controller when it work fine with a $20 MCE remote controller. For MCE remote controller, you can simply use the same remote controller to control XBMC & MPC-HC!


- edd247 - 2012-01-26 01:26

Hi bluray, thank you for all your info and resources.
I am using your bat and playercore files to play dvd and bluray discs using powerdvd 11. Powerdvd is launching correctly but even though I have assigned the correct drive letter to load, nothing happens when it pops up. I have to manually press play with the mouse in order to play it. Is there something I am missing or is this a limitation of powerdvd 11? As a reference, this was not an issue in powerdvd 10. Thanks for your help.


- archedrapier - 2012-01-26 01:47

hello i want to have the built-in dvdplayer as my default player and i want to be able to right-click and press "play using..." and use mpc-hc only for those that i chose. They will not always be a certain file type or name. So how do i go about doing that in the playercorefactory.xml file?

Thanks in advance!