(2012-09-17, 17:54)davematt0709 Wrote: Hey bluray I have been recommended to ask you on this thread to help me sort out a problem with my new HTPC setup. I am using TMT5 with the bluray drive in my HTPC to watch blurays and DVDs. The program looks great and has a nice user interface (it seems to use uTotalMediaTheatre5.exe launcher). However, I really would like to be able to launch it from within xbmc, since I boot straight into xbmc it makes sense. However, I have read on here and elsewhere that I need to place a playercorefactory.xml file in the AppData\Roaming\XBMC\userdata folder. I have tried using one I downloaded here but I cannot get it to work correctly.

This is what I have tried last
<playercorefactory>
<players>
<player name="TMT5Player" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<filename>C:\Program Files (x86)\ArcSoft\TotalMedia Theatre 5\uTotalMediaTheatre5.exe</filename>
<args>"{1}"</args>
<hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
<hideconsole>true</hideconsole>
<warpcursor>none</warpcursor>
</player>
</players>
<rules action="prepend">
<rule name="Blu-Ray" protocols="bd" player="TMT5Player"/>
</rules>
</playercorefactory>

However, although when I click on "play disc" in xbmc the movie starts there is a large band across the middle and the screen flashes all different colours, plus it goes straight into the directors commentary and not the bluray menu!! The other thing i notice is that it is not the same menus as when going straight into TMT5 - it looks more basic. Infact looking in the TMT5 folders I see that there are multiple exe files. The one it appears most like is uMCEPlayer5.exe and not uTotalMediaTheatre5.exe as in the playercorefactory file!

I am trying to end up with xbmc playing all my ripped movies whether blurays or DVDs and want my external bluray player (drive "D") to play original discs (again bluray and DVD) from within xbmc. I hope you can help, it would be really appreciated - I have been trying to sort this out over the whole weekend and got nowhere with it. The virtual mount drive appears to be drive "E".
Cheers
Dave

(2012-09-17, 23:26)davematt0709 Wrote: Thanks ibleedspeed. Will try the codes tomorrow, wife is watching a film just now! For ripped dvd and blurays I don't want an iso image as the files are huge, prefer to just take main film, audio and subtitles in mkv container. I think I saw some codes for those as well as iso in some posts after the one you mentioned. Boy this is a bit of a steep learning curve!

(2012-09-17, 23:22){{INX}} Wrote: Bluray,
As I said before, the setup seems to be working now but I have some small issues.

1. The audio seems to be out of sync in TMT5 by quite a large amount (400ish m/s) when playing any 3D mkv's and when I tweak my amp to correct it, it then puts the audio out of sync in the XBMC player for 2D films. Any ideas hows to fix the issue?

(2012-09-17, 23:22){{INX}} Wrote: 2. Any idea if you can change the shortcut keys in TMT5 to the same as XBMC so my remote will work the same or is there another solution that everyone uses? (I use a Harmony remote btw)

(2012-09-17, 23:26)davematt0709 Wrote: Thanks ibleedspeed. Will try the codes tomorrow, wife is watching a film just now! For ripped dvd and blurays I don't want an iso image as the files are huge, prefer to just take main film, audio and subtitles in mkv container. I think I saw some codes for those as well as iso in some posts after the one you mentioned. Boy this is a bit of a steep learning curve!

(2012-09-18, 03:51)ibleedspeed Wrote: hey bluray while your here did you notice my question about using my xbox 360 controller to control tmt5? any help or advice you could offer?

(2012-09-18, 00:22)bluray Wrote:

(2012-09-17, 17:54)davematt0709 Wrote: Hey bluray I have been recommended to ask you on this thread to help me sort out a problem with my new HTPC setup. I am using TMT5 with the bluray drive in my HTPC to watch blurays and DVDs. The program looks great and has a nice user interface (it seems to use uTotalMediaTheatre5.exe launcher). However, I really would like to be able to launch it from within xbmc, since I boot straight into xbmc it makes sense. However, I have read on here and elsewhere that I need to place a playercorefactory.xml file in the AppData\Roaming\XBMC\userdata folder. I have tried using one I downloaded here but I cannot get it to work correctly.

This is what I have tried last
<playercorefactory>
<players>
<player name="TMT5Player" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<filename>C:\Program Files (x86)\ArcSoft\TotalMedia Theatre 5\uTotalMediaTheatre5.exe</filename>
<args>"{1}"</args>
<hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
<hideconsole>true</hideconsole>
<warpcursor>none</warpcursor>
</player>
</players>
<rules action="prepend">
<rule name="Blu-Ray" protocols="bd" player="TMT5Player"/>
</rules>
</playercorefactory>

However, although when I click on "play disc" in xbmc the movie starts there is a large band across the middle and the screen flashes all different colours, plus it goes straight into the directors commentary and not the bluray menu!! The other thing i notice is that it is not the same menus as when going straight into TMT5 - it looks more basic. Infact looking in the TMT5 folders I see that there are multiple exe files. The one it appears most like is uMCEPlayer5.exe and not uTotalMediaTheatre5.exe as in the playercorefactory file!

I am trying to end up with xbmc playing all my ripped movies whether blurays or DVDs and want my external bluray player (drive "D") to play original discs (again bluray and DVD) from within xbmc. I hope you can help, it would be really appreciated - I have been trying to sort this out over the whole weekend and got nowhere with it. The virtual mount drive appears to be drive "E".
Cheers
Dave

Create the 3 files below and store all 3 files in \AppData\Roaming\XBMC\userdata\ folder. You need to replace "xxxx" in playercorefactory.xml with the correct user name from your computer.....

Playercorefactory.xml:

<playercorefactory>
<players>
<player name="BDMV_Player" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<!-- You can place your PlayBDMV file anywhere -->
<filename>C:\Users\xxxx\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\userdata\PlayBDMV.bat</filename>
<args>"{1}"</args>
<hidexbmc>false</hidexbmc>

</player>
<player name="Disc_Player" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<!-- You can place your PlayDisc file anywhere -->
<filename>C:\Users\xxxx\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\userdata\PlayDisc.bat</filename>
<args>"{1}"</args>
<hidexbmc>false</hidexbmc>

</player>
</players>
<rules action="prepend">
<!-- Bluray BDMV -->
<rule filenames="bdmv" filetypes="bdmv" player="BDMV_Player"/>
<!-- Bluray Disc -->
<rule filenames="BD" name="D:\\.*" filetypes="bdmv" player="Disc_Player"/>
</rules>
</playercorefactory>


PlayDisc.bat:

@echo off
"C:\Program Files (x86)\ArcSoft\TotalMedia Theatre 5\uTotalMediaTheatre5.exe" D:

PlayBDMV.bat:

@echo off
set pth=%1
set pth=%pth:BDMV\index.bdmv=%
"C:\Program Files (x86)\ArcSoft\TotalMedia Theatre 5\uTotalMediaTheatre5.exe" %pth% exit

(2012-09-18, 00:54)azula Wrote:

(2012-09-17, 23:26)davematt0709 Wrote: Thanks ibleedspeed. Will try the codes tomorrow, wife is watching a film just now! For ripped dvd and blurays I don't want an iso image as the files are huge, prefer to just take main film, audio and subtitles in mkv container. I think I saw some codes for those as well as iso in some posts after the one you mentioned. Boy this is a bit of a steep learning curve!

Glad you found your way here bro. I am in the exact same boat as you! I've been using Makemkv to rip just the main title of a bluray 1:1. The sizes of the movies I've ripped have been anywhere from 18g-28g. I am just now wanting to start ripping some 3d movies and I was told that Anydvdhd is good for ripping ISO's. I will also download Clownbd so I can extract the main feature ISO like i was doing with Makemkv. Hopefully all this makes sense because it doesn't to me, lol.

(2012-09-18, 03:41)ibleedspeed Wrote:

(2012-09-17, 23:26)davematt0709 Wrote: Thanks ibleedspeed. Will try the codes tomorrow, wife is watching a film just now! For ripped dvd and blurays I don't want an iso image as the files are huge, prefer to just take main film, audio and subtitles in mkv container. I think I saw some codes for those as well as iso in some posts after the one you mentioned. Boy this is a bit of a steep learning curve!

I too was confused at first but once you understand where to put the files and which lines need to be altered to match your drive paths it as easy as it gets. however I am not too sure why you want to use an external player for mkv files..... the built in xbmc player works great for those. the only reason to use an external player is to either have access to all the original bluray menus and content or to have bitstreaming hd audio. imho if your enough of a cinefile to just have to have bitstreaming audio then bluray menus should also be desired....

there are only 2 things the xbmc dvd player can not do.... BD menus and hd audio.... For me I store full blurays and dvds because i like menus and special features but i can live with dts audio just fine since my system is not even hd audio ready....

If hd audio is a must then this is the solution until xbmc can manage licensing for hd audio and bluray... which from what i understand is very expensive... that is why there are only a few standalone media players which have the bluray licensing... last i checked it was only popcornhour and dune hd.

and after buying a high end dune hd player the damn thing sat there doing nothing for a year until i sold it because the user interface is crap when compared to xbmc... my old dell laptop can do everything the dune did and.....run xbmc

but again if mkv were my target media i certainly would not bother driving myself nuts trying to use an external player just to have 2 more audio channles

(2012-09-18, 20:07)robl45 Wrote: could anyone tell me if there is a way to use the external player just for certain framerates? like can I specify it to go external only if playing 24fps or 23.976fps movies that won't work correctly with sync to display in xbmc?