Another External Player Code, but Very Simple to Setup

frieten Wrote:ok so in that case it should work with ISO images loaded on a virtual drive right?

It should!

bluray Wrote:I'm suggesting to replace these lines to "true" as shown below:

<player name="Disc_Player" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">

<hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
<hideconsole>true</hideconsole>

You can setup TMT5 within TMT5 settings menu for it to automatically playback in fullscreen too!

Thanks for the reply, I tried what you said and it didn't change anything. Any other ideas? Is there maybe anything in one of the three .bat files it uses that might cause it not to start tmt5 with the default interface?

Okay so I got xbmc to use tmt 5 to play blu ray thanks . Now I was wondering if I could do the same thing but I want mce player to play only my DVDs ? Anyone have any idea?
Again I want xbmc to use mce player to play my DVD movies any idea how I could do this , thanks for any help.

bluray Wrote:I don't have any issue using XBMC to playback BD in full 1080P video with DTS-HD/TrueHD audio. I want to enjoy all the original BD menus, previews, chapters, etc, and external player (TMT5) can do all of that!

Yes; if you use TMT5 as XBMC external player, you don't have to use AnyDVD HD.

If you are having problem droping frames and skips, you're more likely to have the same problem with XBMC. It's probably related to your CPU and GPU.

If you just want to pop a BD in BD-ROM, you might not even need XBMC. You can simply set your HTPC to autoplay with TMT5. TMT5 will playback BD on BD-ROM everytime, and no headache. People is using XBMC mostly for library and playback ripped BD files!

No a lot of people are having this prob with ati drivers.what kind of video card are you using and if its ati what drivers are you using ?

dawsonmobley Wrote:Thanks for the reply, I tried what you said and it didn't change anything. Any other ideas? Is there maybe anything in one of the three .bat files it uses that might cause it not to start tmt5 with the default interface?

There is nothing in the bat file to change TMT5 UI. You should be able to setup TMT5 UI within TMT5 UI. How is your UI look? If you want, you can do Alt+PrintScrees and post JPG of your TMT5 screen so I can see what it is.

After external player launch, you shouldn't see XBMC GUI.

Ryan00 Wrote:No a lot of people are having this prob with ati drivers.what kind of video card are you using and if its ati what drivers are you using ?

I'm using both AMD/ATI & Nvidia GPU's on 3 HTPC's. I'm using the latest AMD 12.1 driver. I compared my GT430 with AMD HD6450/HD5570 on several BD's, I don't see any different on my 56" HDTV. For AMD GPU, I disabled everything in CC Video->Quality and enabled Video->Quality->Enforce smooth video playback!

I know a lot of guys in here with AMD GPU's, and they are very happy with their AMD GPU's too!

Ryan00 Wrote:Okay so I got xbmc to use tmt 5 to play blu ray thanks . Now I was wondering if I could do the same thing but I want mce player to play only my DVDs ? Anyone have any idea?
Again I want xbmc to use mce player to play my DVD movies any idea how I could do this , thanks for any help.

Do you mean you want Windows 7 MCE to playback DVD and TMT5 to playback bluray?

bluray Wrote:There is nothing in the bat file to change TMT5 UI. You should be able to setup TMT5 UI within TMT5 UI. How is your UI look? If you want, you can do Alt+PrintScrees and post JPG of your TMT5 screen so I can see what it is.

After external player launch, you shouldn't see XBMC GUI.

It's not the xbmc gui. When I start TMT5 from the shortcut on my windows7 desktop it starts with the default tmt5 playback controls.
When I start it from within xbmc using the xml file in my previous post the default controls are gone and instead it has the windows7 media center playback controls in the lower right side of the screen. I don't want the windows media center controls, I want the standard ones that TMT5 has when I start it from my desktop.

bluray Wrote:Do you mean you want Windows 7 MCE to playback DVD and TMT5 to playback bluray?

Yes thanks again

dawsonmobley Wrote:It's not the xbmc gui. When I start TMT5 from the shortcut on my windows7 desktop it starts with the default tmt5 playback controls.
When I start it from within xbmc using the xml file in my previous post the default controls are gone and instead it has the windows7 media center playback controls in the lower right side of the screen. I don't want the windows media center controls, I want the standard ones that TMT5 has when I start it from my desktop.

Okay, I think that I know exactly what you want now. I made changes to .bat files, and you can download it from here- PlayDisc.bat, PlayBDMV.bat and PlayISO.bat.

For stable playback, I'm recommending that you replace "false" with "true" on these lines in playercorefactory for all players.

type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">

<hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
<hideconsole>true</hideconsole>