Another External Player Code, but Very Simple to Setup

(2012-06-21 02:43)bluray Wrote:  @wilson-
Give these codes a try (replace K in the red lines with the correct BD-ROM drive and replace K in the blue line with the correct available VCD drive)....

<playercorefactory>
</player>
<player name="Disc_Player" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<filename>C:\Program Files (x86)\CyberLink\PowerDVD12\PDVDLaunchPolicy.exe</filename>
<args>"{K:}"</args>
<hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
<hideconsole>true</hideconsole>
<warpcursor>none</warpcursor>

</player>
<player name="ISO_Player" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<filename>C:\Users\Home\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\userdata\PlayISO.bat</filename>
<args>"{1}"</args>
<hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
<hideconsole>true</hideconsole>
<warpcursor>none</warpcursor>

</player>
</players>
<rules action="prepend">
<rule filetypes=".*iso.*" player="ISO_Player"/>
<rule name="Blu-Ray" filename="K:\\.*" filetypes="bdmv" player="Disc_Player"/>
</rules>
</playercorefactory>

playiso.bat
@echo off
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Elaborate Bytes\VirtualCloneDrive\VCDMount.exe" /d=0 %1
"C:\Program Files (x86)\CyberLink\PowerDVD12\PDVDLaunchPolicy.exe" K:

Tried but still no luck. When i select the movie on XBMC it does nothing and powerdvd doesnt open. If i run the playiso.bat it does open powerdvd.
Does it matter that my BD-Rom drive is a virtual drive too? My virtual BD drive is V: and my Clonedrive is K:

*Update* I've had a play about with a couple of playercorefactory files and managed to get it working. I find though on Powerdvd for bluray isos that it wont crop the black bars top and bottom of the movie even if i use 'stretch to fit screen', All of the other aspect ratio settings are greyed out
Sooooo close to perfection

(2012-06-21 16:59)tismon Wrote:  If you wouldn't mind, out of the three suggested players, which would give the best/most seamless experience?
Thank you

I voted for TMT5........

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(2012-06-21 20:47)Wilson Wrote:  Does it matter that my BD-Rom drive is a virtual drive too? My virtual BD drive is V: and my Clonedrive is K:

Yes, it matter. The actual BD-ROM drive have to be entered in the red lines code, and VCD drive have be entered in the blue line code for it to work right......

(2012-06-21 20:47)Wilson Wrote:  *Update* I've had a play about with a couple of playercorefactory files and managed to get it working. I find though on Powerdvd for bluray isos that it wont crop the black bars top and bottom of the movie even if i use 'stretch to fit screen', All of the other aspect ratio settings are greyed out
Sooooo close to perfection

I'm glad that you finally got it to work..... Have you try to set PDVD12 to start playback in fullscreen? Here is good link for that- Full screen - how do I make the player full screen mode?.......some movies natively have black bars on the top/bottom.........

(2012-06-21 18:47)Hessi Wrote:  Hey dude (bluray)

Awesome work, much appreciated!

Just a couple of questions... are the files updated for the latest official XBMC release and PowerDVD (12)? And is it possible to bitstream stereo music from FLAC and WMA lossless files?

Once again, big thanks for the awesome work!

You can playback the files with just XBMC 11.0 or PDVD12 by istelf. If it works by itself, it should work when combine together with external player code too........

(2012-06-19 21:36)Jong Wrote:  Thanks for your work on this. Things are oh so nearly working, but TMT5 is not focused after it is launched. The player is full screen and the iso is loaded, but the keyboard/remote does not work until I alt-tab until TMT is focused! Any thoughts/ideas/workarounds?

It's XBMC that remains focused. Even though TMT is full screen and in the foreground if I press alt-F4 XBMC closes!


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I need to bring this up as well, bluray have you never encountered this? I brought this up on acrsoft msg board, and arcsoft admit said he noticed this to happening sometimes. It seems the issue occurs whenever anything is in the task bar, if you have absolutely nothing in the taskbar the error does not occur.

Maybe bluray can test it, if it does not happen to him ever, we might be able to reverse engineer the issue, but its threatening operation of my htpc.

(2012-06-23 14:31)Ghostdivision Wrote:  

(2012-06-19 21:36)Jong Wrote:  Thanks for your work on this. Things are oh so nearly working, but TMT5 is not focused after it is launched. The player is full screen and the iso is loaded, but the keyboard/remote does not work until I alt-tab until TMT is focused! Any thoughts/ideas/workarounds?

It's XBMC that remains focused. Even though TMT is full screen and in the foreground if I press alt-F4 XBMC closes!

(2012-06-23 14:31)Ghostdivision Wrote:  I need to bring this up as well, bluray have you never encountered this? I brought this up on acrsoft msg board, and arcsoft admit said he noticed this to happening sometimes. It seems the issue occurs whenever anything is in the task bar, if you have absolutely nothing in the taskbar the error does not occur.

Maybe bluray can test it, if it does not happen to him ever, we might be able to reverse engineer the issue, but its threatening operation of my htpc.

Have you do as below?

1. Enable "Use a fullscreen window rather than a true fullscreen" in XBMC settings/system/video output
2. Use this code- <hidexbmc>false</hidexbmc>
3. Enables "Auto Play, Auto Full Screen & Always disable Windows Aero during playback" in TMT5 settings/playback

1. Yes I have it happens on both.

2. I will try this, my only concern though is you mentioned xbmc uses alot less cpu resources when its set to true.

3. Yes

I think the issue is independent of xbmc, whenever i launch tmt mce player even without xbmc open i get this issue. Im just wondering if you ever encountered it.

(2012-06-24 02:39)Ghostdivision Wrote:  1. Yes I have it happens on both.

2. I will try this, my only concern though is you mentioned xbmc uses alot less cpu resources when its set to true.

3. Yes

I think the issue is independent of xbmc, whenever i launch tmt mce player even without xbmc open i get this issue. Im just wondering if you ever encountered it.

No, I don't have this issue. After I selected blu-ray ISO on XBMC UI, TMT5 launched in fullscreen and nothing else appear on the screen other than TMT5 playback movie....

You can try to set all three configurations as I suggested......let us know how it go!

Regarding using more CPU when hiding XBMC by setting the code to false, it is not a problem. If it can playback fluently (which mean that your CPU can handle it fine), there is nothing to worry about........

Oh nothing will appear on screen, its just if you have something sitting in the task bar like a web browser or program, and launch tmt, you cant control it, you have to click on the tmt screen, then you can resume navigating...As jong wrote, its like xbmc is not focused. What he means is tmt is launched full screen we can watch it....., but we cant control it until we click on the tmt player screen...

Hmmm how do i explain this, like if you were to have your web browser in the task bar sitting there minimized, open tmt full screen, and you cant control it with a keyboard or remote, i have to plug in my mouse and click on the tmt screen before i can navigate menus and control tmt.While im pressing stuff like over and fast forward its being registered in the program sitting on the task bar until i click on tmt player with a mouse...


If nothing is sitting in the taskbar minimized, the problem does not occur, tmt launches and i can navigate menus ect.... but if a program is sitting in the taskbar when tmt is launched, pressing buttons on my keyboard or remote wont do anything, its registering in the program sitting in the taskbar, or not registering at all in tmt. if nothing is sitting in the taskbar when tmt is launched full screen i can easily control and navigate tmt with my remote or keyboard.

(2012-06-24 07:40)Ghostdivision Wrote:  Oh nothing will appear on screen, its just if you have something sitting in the task bar like a web browser or program, and launch tmt, you cant control it, you have to click on the tmt screen, then you can resume navigating...

I know exactly what you are talking about, but it doesn't happen on my HTPC's. After TMT5 launched, I can control it with MCE remote without having to activate TMT5 with a mouse. Have you try to set exactly what I suggested in post #735? You can try to set everything in control panel/hardware and sound/autoplay to "Take no action" too. Maybe (just maybe), other media player in Autoplay might be active after ISO mounted.......

Yes tried all suggestions, it seems random as well, sometimes I will have control to navigate TMT sometimes i wont. Its very perplexing, but the key seems to be if something is sitting in your taskbar....When you have nothing sitting in the task bar it never happens.