fuathurio Wrote:jondr13,

Here is what I've got in my advancedsettings.xml file, located in %user%\Application Data\XBMC\userdata folder

Code:

<advancedsettings>
<video>
  <defaultplayer>externalplayer</defaultplayer>
</video>
<externalplayer>
  <filename>C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe</filename>
  <forceontop>true</forceontop>
  <hidexbmc>false</hidexbmc>
  <hideconsole>false</hideconsole>
  <hidecursor>false</hidecursor>
</externalplayer>
</advancedsettings>

fuathurio Wrote:ashlar,

1. 9.04 Babylon
2. WinXP SP3. (32bit)
4. 1GB
5. AT HD3400 - Driver 8.591.0.0
6. Intel Onboard (Realtek) - 5.10.0.5123
7. EventGhost (I was able to replicate the error when sending a "Enter" through a remote press via event ghost but not by hitting enter on the keyboard)
8. 9.04 Babylon
9. See above
10. http://pastebin.com/f6ee5a8f3
11. (one example)

plight Wrote:I have been trying to get External player to work launching my blue ray ISOs from PowerDVD. Powerdvd launches like a champ, but the movie never begins playing. Upon closer inspection Powerdvd says no disc is inserted.

Is there an extra configuration step I missed that tells it where to access the ISO from?

jondr13 Wrote:plight
This is exactly the problem Im having.....only difference is that Im using TotalMedia Theatre 3. The issue is, the ISO is not being mounted to a drive. In my case, I use Virtual Clone Drive. I have been asking repeatedly on how to get this to work and have yet to get a response. I read at the beginning of this thread to create a "batch file" for anything you want to do. But I certainly dont know the first thing about creating something like this and where to put it!

jondr13 Wrote:Bottomline - we need to have something that automounts the ISO file to Virtual Clone Drive, Deamon Tools, etc when the movie is selected.

jondr13 Wrote:On another note, is XBMC crashing once you get PowerDVD to come up? For some reason it is for me when TMT3 comes up.

moby-uk Wrote:You can put the batch file anywhere you like, you should then invoke that as the ExternalPlayer instead of invoking TMT3 directly. In the batch file you'll need to do whatever the mount the ISO and then launch TMT3.

To be explicit, the ExternalPlayer functionality supports invoking a single executable, period. If your particular flavour of player needs some action to be taken prior to it being able to play some particular type of media, it's up to you to arrange for that to happen.

I know this sounds harsh but this functionality is in advancedsettings for a reason , see my next point ...



... that's the crux of the issue of wanting that type of functionality builtin; you want Virtual Clone Drive, someone else wants Daemon Tools, someone else will want something else ....

If someone is motivated to build in support for n different virtual DVD drive applications then cool, but I'm afraid I'm not. My take is that XBMC is first and foremost a media player, not a launcher; for me personally, this is strictly a workaround for the fact that until XBMC has some GPU-acceleration it can't handle HD on my little EEE Box, so I have to use MPC-HC+CoreAVC.



crashing? or do you mean it looks like it hanging? In order to not consume CPU-cyles XBMC locks its graphicscontext a short time after the externalplayer starts. If the externalplayer hasn't got itself together enough to open its window in that time then it'll appear behind XBMC and you'll think it's hung. You can try increasing this time from its default of, IIRC, 2000ms by adding

<startuptime>nnnn</startuptime>

inside your <externalplayer></externalplayer> element in advancedsettings, where nnnn is a number of milliseconds, e.g. <startuptime>5000</startuptime> is 5 seconds.

If you want to use the externalplayer as the default for DVDs/ISOs then you need to have:

<defaultdvdplayer>externalplayer</defaultdvdplayer>

inside the <video></video> element in your advancedsettings (

moby-uk Wrote:crashing? or do you mean it looks like it hanging? In order to not consume CPU-cyles XBMC locks its graphicscontext a short time after the externalplayer starts. If the externalplayer hasn't got itself together enough to open its window in that time then it'll appear behind XBMC and you'll think it's hung. You can try increasing this time from its default of, IIRC, 2000ms by adding

<startuptime>nnnn</startuptime>

inside your <externalplayer></externalplayer> element in advancedsettings, where nnnn is a number of milliseconds, e.g. <startuptime>5000</startuptime> is 5 seconds.
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Quote:... that's the crux of the issue of wanting that type of functionality builtin; you want Virtual Clone Drive, someone else wants Daemon Tools, someone else will want something else ....

plight Wrote:I have been writing batch files for a while now but I am having a bit of a problem. I dont know how to pass the variable that XBMC uses for the ISO name to the batch file.



I dont think it is a matter of creating a different function for every image mounting program out there. All you would really need is a single function in the advancedsettings file to put the path of your mounting program along with any arguments. Then it could automatically mount and then launch the external player that is specified.

Im sure it is not as cut and dry as that as my greatest programming achievement is a pong game in which only one paddle moved.

jondr13 Wrote:I know XBMC will play ISO files without the use of an external player right? Does the inner workings of XBMC mount the ISO file to a virtual XBMC drive to play that ISO?

plight Wrote:I have been writing batch files for a while now but I am having a bit of a problem. I dont know how to pass the variable that XBMC uses for the ISO name to the batch file.

plight Wrote:I dont think it is a matter of creating a different function for every image mounting program out there. All you would really need is a single function in the advancedsettings file to put the path of your mounting program along with any arguments. Then it could automatically mount and then launch the external player that is specified.

Im sure it is not as cut and dry as that as my greatest programming achievement is a pong game in which only one paddle moved.