rflores2323 Wrote:thanks.. I have tried that but it doesnt work for me. when you get some time can you post a screen shot of how you have it and your command lines. thanks

willcmuk Wrote:Can someone help me out have svn 22451 I had external player working with advancedsettings.xml method but then stopped working, presume because using the latest svn? anyway followed the wiki heres what i've done (using vista 32bit):
deleted advancedsettings.xml and installed playercorefactory.xml to appdata/roaming/xbmc/userdata and it looks as follows:

<playercorefactory>
<players>
<playername="MPC-HC" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<filename>c:\Media Player HC\mplayerc.exe</filename>
<args>/fullscreen /close /fixedsize 19200,10800</args>
<hidexbmc>false</hidexbmc>
<hideconsole>false</hideconsole>
<hidecursor>false</hidecursor>
</player>
</players>
<rules action="prepend">
<rule filetypes="*.*" player="MPC-HC">
</rules>
</playercorefactory>

but it's not working what have I done wrong?

tiben20 Wrote:at line 3
you forgot a space it should be
<player name not <playername

joesmokey Wrote:I'm new to XBMC and I'm having trouble setting this up properly.

I am using Moby's latest revision and I'm running Windows 7 Professional 64-Bit Edition and am storing my XML file in:
C:\Users\Default\AppData\Roaming\XBMC

I created a playercorefactory.xml file with:

Code:

<playercorefactory>
  <players>
    <player name="MPC-HC" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
      <filename>C:\MPCHC\mplayerc64.exe</filename>
      <args>/fullscreen /close</args>
      <hidexbmc>false</hidexbmc>
      <hideconsole>false</hideconsole>
      <hidecursor>false</hidecursor>
    </player>
  </players>
  <rules action="prepend">
    <rule video="true" player="MPC-HC"/>
  </rules>
</playercorefactory>

However whenever I play a video file it always loads in the internal player and I can never get it to load into MPC HC. I've tried using the advancedsettings.xml file as well but that didn't do anything either.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated as I'm not sure what I am missing from the Wiki write up.

goose61282 Wrote:I've had this problem since external player was started. (I believe in the jester build). I just thought I'd check to see if this was something someone managed to solve.

When starting a video in the external player MPC-HC the window opens behind XBMC. I just updated from jester to the latest SVN a few days ago and built a core factory file. Now, unlike before, if I press exit after the movie starts (I can hear the movie) then MPC-HC will close and XBMC will resume (did freeze).

My workaround has been for remoteghost to kill XBMC upon MPC-HC launch and vise-vera. This isn't ideal, and at times it fails to close XBMC which causes the video to play poorly.

h3llsp4wn Wrote:Just some comments on the changes from 22423 and befor. For me they lead to stuttering playback in zoomplayer and in mpc. I guess it´s related to the changes as xbmc is somehow interrupting the playback by toggeling between zero and 1% of cpu usage in the background. Before the change it staid at zero. I went back to an older xbmc compile (r22051) and there is no stuttering in external players.

Any else experiencing this behaviour?



H3ll

zoing Wrote:I have an weird problem with the the new svn releases (SVN22451) with the new external player patch. When I play an file with MPC-HC, this is my external player, I have the strange phenomenon that the playback starts and then the screen flashes between the video and the XBMC. It seems as someone switches with ALT-TAB between the MPC-HC and XBMC.
I have changed settings in the playercorefactory and MPC-HC with no luck.
When I go back to SVN 24410 all works perfectly.

goose61282 Wrote:As suggested I updated to the latest nightly and this served the purpose of breaking it more. Now the windows still appears behind xbmc, but a message pops up telling me that a video is playing in the external player. And now eventghost will no longer terminate the xbmc window. I've tried <forceontop/> and <hidexbmc/> neither of which solved the problem.

Is there a log file I can get information from somewhere that can help solve this problem? As of now xbmc is unusable for me.

torva Wrote:I wold like to have my external player as my second hand chosen player, and have the original xbmc player (dvdplayer) as the defult. What shuld i change in my commands in playercore.xml?

Code:

<rules>
    <rule video="true" player="MPC-HC">
    </rule>
  </rules>

moby-uk Wrote:Do you have an Intel GPU by any chance? I think maybe the workaround for Intel's Vsync being broken is interfering here.
@goose61282 instructions for generating a debug log are here

zoing Wrote:Hi moby-uk,

I have an Ion plattform running. So no Intel GPU.
I can post a debug log when its necessary.

moby-uk Wrote:Take out the rules, you only need to add them to change the default player, simply defining the player with video="true", as you've done, will make it appear in the Play using... menu for video