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[PATCH] LaunchPlayer - External Video Player Launcher (to launch third-party players) - Printable Version

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- konfoo - 2008-12-06

ashlar Wrote:But what about Zoomplayer starting in the background no matter what? Did WiSo indication help in any way?

Hopefully (will test in a few).

- konfoo - 2008-12-07

Patch updated and available on trac. Please also see the first post.

- Jester - 2008-12-07

konfoo Wrote:Patch updated and available on trac. Please also see the first post.

Good one, thanks, i'll do a test build with this included

- Jester - 2008-12-07

Upped Rev16481 with externalplayer and krickers installer patch
its in the Test folder

PLEASE CHECK OUT THE FIRST POST DUE TO THE CHANGES IN NAMES IN ADVANCED SETTINGS etc.

- konfoo - 2008-12-07

Good job Smile

- PantsOnFire - 2008-12-07

I followed your advice konfoo, and unticked the 'save to ini' option.

But still the player dosen't launch on fullscreen. In addition, keypresses that normally work in MPC, dont work. Which suggests xbmc has stolen the focus back from MPC. Sad

- konfoo - 2008-12-07

PantsOnFire Wrote:I followed your advice konfoo, and unticked the 'save to ini' option.

But still the player dosen't launch on fullscreen. In addition, keypresses that normally work in MPC, dont work. Which suggests xbmc has stolen the focus back from MPC. Sad

Using the latest patch build? All questions for old builds will not be answered since the lockforegroundwindow mechanism has been changed.

- alanwww1 - 2008-12-07

I am testing svn 16481 for me all works fine with MPC HC except there is alittlw probem. I know it is not a major one, but i thought i share it if something could be done to solve it.

I am from Hungary and when i select a file with some Hungarian characters in it (eg. ő,ö,í,ú) MPC HC does not start playing them. All these files working ok with the internal player i think XBMC passes the filename in a wrong character coding.

Just a notice. Maybe it is also the case with French, German or other special characters.

- Jester - 2008-12-07

@konfoo

maybe when you get back, can you rename the thread topic name to externalplayer, just so we have all the renaming done.
Might help to convince the team to include this into the SVN Wink

- Jester - 2008-12-07

I think this is now mature enough to be added to the SVN
check it out:
http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/5300

- ashlar - 2008-12-07

Fixed the defaultplayer, now it works as it should.

Nothing changed on the stay on top front.

ZoomPlayer 6, with Stay on top and fullscreen correctly set, starts in the background and stays in the background. There's no ALT-TABing to it.

And sorry to reiterate but there's nothing wrong with ZoomPlayer, that having been using for the same exact task for more than a year under Media Portal (Sad)

I'll try to add a new log to the ticket.

Edit:
Log http://pastebin.com/f552213a4

- dpassent - 2008-12-07

i can confirm - ZP 6, MPC-HC both acting the same - stays in the background. I can hear audio but XBMC stays on top

DP

- ashlar - 2008-12-07

dpassent Wrote:i can confirm - ZP 6, MPC-HC both acting the same - stays in the background. I can hear audio but XBMC stays on top
XBMC stays on top even when run in windowed mode, not fullscreen. I can see the "borders" of the movie in the background and no amount of ALT-TABing changes a thing.
ALT-TABing makes XBMC lose focus, but it remains on top just the same.

Edit
IMPORTANT (maybe) FOR KONFOO
If you check my message here: http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=242860&postcount=28 I was not having this problem with ZoomPlayer in the past. Since then I have not changed graphic drivers, I have not changed nor updated ZoomPlayer and I am launching the same exact file I had on my desktop then (as I'm waiting to configure network shares).
With the first version everything was working great in ZP.

- ashlar - 2008-12-07

Here's a picture of what happens. The black border on the outside of XBMC is instead the video playing in the background, you can see from the right click menu on the left that "Stay on top" is selected, to no avail.

I post the url, since it's a 1366x768 picture: http://i35.tinypic.com/28ilvth.jpg

I was afraid that the problem was the "Full Screen" stuff, but the picture above has been taken with XBMC running at 1280x720 in windowed mode. And from what you see above, alt-tabbing only switches the focus to Zoom, but XBMC remains on top (although the fact that the external player starts without focus is a problem in itself).

- konfoo - 2008-12-07

Fixed zoom player issue, it works for me now: externalplayer-16492.patch on Trac #5300.
See first post for new configuration settings.