ashlar Wrote:You are looking for a configuration that allows you to do what you stated in post #448? Do I get that correctly?

jondr13 Wrote:EXACTLY and thanks for responding....hopefully you have some info for me.

Here is what I want to be able to do:

- when a movie (ISO file is selected), automatically mount that file to Virtual Clone Drive

- use TotalMedia Theatre 3 as my external player / use it for the default player where I dont have to continually go to the context menu to select "play using"

- when the movie is stopped or if I either press backspace or Esc, it reverts back to XBMC

ashlar Wrote:1) There is work going on in having different players for different extensions. It might be possible, at that point to launch ISOs with Virtual Clone Drive.
2) You could then have TMT set up as to autoplay on disc insertion (which would be what the system registers when Virtual Clone Drive mounts the image.
3) You could create a macro for this in EventGhost, that assigns AlLT-F4 to the Esc remote key (or key on the keyboard) when TMT is running.

Edit: I checked #6383 and... wow! Lots of work by moby-uk is happening. I guess many people will be pleasantly surprised by this. Also, sniff might be grumpy, but he's definitely an open minded person. Kudos!

ashlar Wrote:jondr13, you might want to read all this thread (I know, it's long), because people have experimented with the different options and there might be somebody who devised what you need.

On the other hand, yes, development is underway that could lead to a much more powerful "instructions set".

Wizard1969 Wrote:Just wondering if anyone has successfully setup Arcsoft TMT as the externalplayer? If so would you mind sharing your setup info? Here is what I have in advancedsettings.xml in the userdata folder...

<advancedsettings>
<loglevel>1</loglevel>
<video>
<defaultplayer>externalplayer</defaultplayer>
</video>
<externalplayer>
<filename>C:\Program Files\ArcSoft\TotalMedia Theatre\uDTStart.exe</filename>
<forceontop>false</forceontop>
<hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
<hideconsole>false</hideconsole>
<hidecursor>false</hidecursor>
</externalplayer>
</advancedsettings>

If I play a DVD (ripped to HDD) without selecting via context menu it still plays using the internal dvdplayer. If I context menu, I get the "play using..." option which brings up choices for dvdplayer (default) and externalplayer. If I chose externalplayer nothing happens. I'm running in windowed mode so I can see that TMT never gets fired up. Any help/input appreciated. Cheers.

alex.reusch Wrote:I did not see any answers. I have exactly the same problem, no solution found yet. Anyone

alex.reusch Wrote:I don't use virtual clone drive. I have ripped my DVD's in the normal TS folder structure. I works perfect with the XBMC internal player and also works for TMT when I test it within Vista MediaCenter (using mymovies plug-in). So TMT can handle TS folders and files.

fuathurio Wrote:My apologies if this was mentioned before but I wanted to get it out there. I have my external player (WMP, for now) configured and it seems to work fine when I bring up the context menu and say play using External player (default). Obviously, I've configured WMP to be the default. However, when I simply select the file from the list of videos to allow it to launch in the external player without bringing up the context menu, xbmc locks up and I have to kill the application. Once, my system didn't even respond to ctrl-alt-delete to bring up the task manager.

If I can supply any other info, I'd be happy to.