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- jonnyboom - 2010-01-06
thanks i will do later
- jonnyboom - 2010-01-07
here is my debug log
http://pastebin.ca/1740769
no blu ray - jonnyboom - 2010-01-08
Ok, what i have found is that xbmc sees D drive and lables the blu ray ie D (the dark knight) but when i click play nothing happens. click again it says something like cannot find file. however if i left click i can explore the disk to the stream folder right click and it gives me dvdplayer(default) and tmtmc. click the latter. and it plays with arcsoft.
seems that is the problem but where do i go from here
thanks for your time
- mindweaver - 2010-01-09
Here is the playercorefactory.xml for external player with PowerDVD 9
Code:
<playercorefactory>
<players>
<player name="PDVDCinemaPlayer" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<filename>C:\Program Files\CyberLink\PowerDVD9\PowerDVD Cinema\PowerDVDCinema.exe</filename>
<hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
<hideconsole>true</hideconsole>
<warpcursor>none</warpcursor>
</player>
</players>
<rules action="prepend">
<rule name="Blu-Ray" protocols="bd" player="PDVDCinemaPlayer"/>
</rules>
</playercorefactory>- bollerfant - 2010-01-09
@mindweaver:
Hi,
when i pasted your Code into my playercorefactory.xml and now it lookes like that:
Code:
<playercorefactory>
<players>
<player name="PDVDCinemaPlayer" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<filename>C:\Program Files\CyberLink\PowerDVD9\PowerDVD Cinema\PowerDVDCinema.exe</filename>
<hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
<hideconsole>true</hideconsole>
<warpcursor>none</warpcursor>
</player>
</players>
<rules action="prepend">
<rule name="Blu-Ray" protocols="bd" player="PDVDCinemaPlayer"/>
<rule filetypes="mkv|ts|mts|m2ts" player="DSPlayer"/>
</rules>
</playercorefactory>That part <rule filetypes="mkv|ts|mts|m2ts" player="DSPlayer"/> is working, but i cannot play a BD from inside my XBMC. I can open the BD and i can browse in the folders, but i cannot start it with PDVD. The path for the exe file is correct (i checked it with windows-run) and when i start is manually then the BD works fine.
Maybe the XML is wrong?
- mindweaver - 2010-01-10
bollerfant Wrote:@mindweaver:
Hi,
when i pasted your Code into my playercorefactory.xml and now it lookes like that:
Code:<playercorefactory>
<players>
<player name="PDVDCinemaPlayer" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<filename>C:\Program Files\CyberLink\PowerDVD9\PowerDVD Cinema\PowerDVDCinema.exe</filename>
<hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
<hideconsole>true</hideconsole>
<warpcursor>none</warpcursor>
</player>
</players>
<rules action="prepend">
<rule name="Blu-Ray" protocols="bd" player="PDVDCinemaPlayer"/>
<rule filetypes="mkv|ts|mts|m2ts" player="DSPlayer"/>
</rules>
</playercorefactory>
That part <rule filetypes="mkv|ts|mts|m2ts" player="DSPlayer"/> is working, but i cannot play a BD from inside my XBMC. I can open the BD and i can browse in the folders, but i cannot start it with PDVD. The path for the exe file is correct (i checked it with windows-run) and when i start is manually then the BD works fine.
Maybe the XML is wrong?
How are you trying to access it? You shouldn't browse it. There are two ways to play it
1. in videos - file mode you press PLAY when you have highlighted/marked/standing on top of the blu-ray drive in the list.
2. in main menu if you are using Aeon (maybe available in other skins too) press on "PLAY DISC".
- bollerfant - 2010-01-10
mindweaver Wrote:How are you trying to access it? You shouldn't browse it. There are two ways to play it
1. in videos - file mode you press PLAY when you have highlighted/marked/standing on top of the blu-ray drive in the list.
2. in main menu if you are using Aeon (maybe available in other skins too) press on "PLAY DISC".
I tried both. Nothing happens when i press "PLAY".
- jonnyboom - 2010-01-11
@bollerfant
SAME WITH MINE
- ethanmcdonald - 2010-01-12
I noticed there is a "protocals" attibute in the RULE tag.
How is this attibute determined?
Is there a list of all the protocals?
Can specifi your own?
Code:
<rules action="prepend">
<rule name="Blu-Ray" protocols="bd" player="PDVDCinemaPlayer"/>
</rules>- spiff - 2010-01-12
what's a protocal?
no you cannot. that is determined by the code and is the means by which the bd's are identified.
Should this method work with the official Camelot release? - catdroid - 2010-01-14
The only thing I changed in the xml file was from D: to E:
Everything else should be correct on my system. (I verified the path to TMT3)
When I put in The Hangover Blu-Ray disc, XBMC sees it, then if I "play disc", the counter in the bottom left starts and the disc starts reading.
TMT3 does not open and XBMC does not close.
I installed XBMC in portable mode and placed the xml file in the c:\program files\XBMC\userdata folder.
Any clues? Anything jump out that says I'm doing this wrong?
- jonnyboom - 2010-01-14
Changed from latest xbmc release to the one at the start of the tutorial 25821.
now it works
- catdroid - 2010-01-14
jonnyboom Wrote:Changed from latest xbmc release to the one at the start of the tutorial 25821.
now it works
Good tip. I switched to the latest build (26787) and it worked.
But I noticed the movie didn't automatically play in TMT3. Anybody know the argument for this?
- mindweaver - 2010-01-15
catdroid Wrote:Good tip. I switched to the latest build (26787) and it worked.
But I noticed the movie didn't automatically play in TMT3. Anybody know the argument for this?
I have also noticed that it does not play automaticly when launched from XBMC. if you launch it stand alone it auto plays. I have tried to search for it but can't find anything.
I can live with pressing play on the remote, but please tell us if you find a solution.
- jonnyboom - 2010-01-15
strange how yours works with 62787 and mine wont, i tried both versions and mine will only work with 25821