Another External Player Code, but Very Simple to Setup

Hi again

Could you tell me what is the BDplayer & playdisc code to make MPC-HC read my blurays instead of powerdvd11 or tmt5? I realized that i can read my bluray within mpc-hc, it launch so much quickly and i feel that the image quality is a bit higher (+ no problem to launche it on a second screen)

I tried to simply change the path in the bluray & playdisc xml you gave by the one of mpc-hc, but when i click on "play a disc" on XBMC, nothing happen, so i guess it miss something.

Thx in advance

Grinsekatze Wrote:I'll give your scripts a try now. Thanks.

Edit:
Ok, I checked your version with TMT5 but same problems under xbmc like before.
I tried to use deamon tools instead of virtual clonedrive to test the disc ability. Now the error is gone but instead of playing the disc I navigate through the filesystem from that disc. I'm confused.

Are you trying to playback DVD or BD on DVD-ROM or BD-ROM? These two drives are different, and it need to be coded differently.

bluray Wrote:Are you trying to playback DVD or BD on DVD-ROM or BD-ROM? These two drives are different, and it need to be coded differently.

As I don't have a dlu-ray drive at the moment I did a iso rip of one 3d movie. Afterwards I tried to mount it with virtual clonedrive . I think vcd only emulates a dvd drive (maybe thats's the reason for the error mentioned earlier). So I tried daemon tools instead. Windows recognizes it as a BD-ROM Drive. Here I can not watch the movie but navigate through the file structure of the disc.

At least playing Iso-images directly is working now. I noticed that I had forgotten to change the user name 'Dell' from your scripts to mine.

Grinsekatze Wrote:As I don't have a dlu-ray drive at the moment I did a iso rip of one 3d movie. Afterwards I tried to mount it with virtual clonedrive . I think vcd only emulates a dvd drive (maybe thats's the reason for the error mentioned earlier). So I tried daemon tools instead. Windows recognizes it as a BD-ROM Drive. Here I can not watch the movie but navigate through the file structure of the disc.

In my PlayISO.bat file, you need to enter the correct VCD drive on your HTPC. I have 4 VCD drives on my HTPC, and I used VCD drive "N:" in my PlayISO.bat. When you playback BD ISO using XBMC, VCD in PlayISO.bat will mount/unmount everything automatically and start playback movie automatically too.

Grinsekatze Wrote:At least playing Iso-images directly is working now. I noticed that I had forgotten to change the user name 'Dell' from your scripts to mine.

That why I mentioned several times to enter the correct directories for your HTPC in the bat and xml files.

bluray Wrote:In my PlayISO.bat file, you need to enter the correct VCD drive on your HTPC. I have 4 VCD drives on my HTPC, and I used VCD drive "N:" in my PlayISO.bat. When you playback BD ISO using XBMC, VCD in PlayISO.bat will mount/unmount everything automatically and start playback movie automatically too.

That why I mentioned several times to enter the correct directories for your HTPC in the bat and xml files.

I did. I just somehow oversaw your Dell User - maybe I'm still too much used of enviroment variables (where the current user is also inserted from windows itself).

I also changed the drive letters from N (in PlayISO) to G before I tried. The driveletter D (in PlayDisc) is already the same one.

Also I checked the VCD Drive type. It's like daemon tools a BD-ROM drive.

I checked my scripts again and now (after some small changes like using powerdvdcinema11.exe) they work as long as I don't use them from inside xbmc. Your and my scripts run under windows itself but not inside xbmc. So I do belive the problem resists somewhere eigther in the playercorefactory.xml or in xbmc itself. I use Dhama and neighter your nor my xml file work (of course I double checked the paths in both).


Edit:
Ok. I checked the xbmc functionality again and like before (with your scripts) inside xbmc I can play iso directly now but when it comes to play discs (or images mounted before I start xbmc, like I do atm with daemon tools on my driveletter D) it fails. When I try to play the disc I can navigate through the file-/folder-structure of the disc and it doesn't start to play / the player is not loaded. I use your playercorefactory.xml (but changed the user Dell to my one. Everything else is in the mentioned directory so I had not to change the rest). Both my and your scripts (playiso and playdisc) cause the same missfunction.

At the moment I use daemon tools to mount a 3d blu-ray iso-image to driveletter D and I use the same image to test the playiso script (in combination with VCD on driveletter G). The player can be both (both is installed but not working in xbmc) TMT5 or PDVD11.

well i read the guide to get this working and had some issues.

nothing was working inside of xbmc, but all batch files worked outside of xbmc.

If i ran the playdisc.bat file it opened tmt5 and would play the bluray in the drive, but if i went into xbmc and clicked the play disc it would flash to a screen with controls on the right and the bluray title in the bottom left and then would go back to the play disc menu.

all bat files are pointing to the correct locations for the files, and it appears that the playercorefact.xml is setup correctly (although i am no expert on xml code)

I have uninstalled tmt5 and backed up my config files and will try again with powerdvd and see if i have anymore luck with that.

everything was installed in order as set out in the first post.

ps...happy New Year All.....

Hm. finally I got it working (more or less). After some testing I figured out that the disc is not loading when I select it (as mentioned earlier) (like xbmc does with normal dvds) but I can select Play disc from the context menu. Unfortunately my htpc has no mice so it's not easy to press right mouse button to get to the context menu.

That's why I ask now: Is there any way to let xbmc play blu-rays by default (when I select them in the video menu) instead of navigating through the file- / folder-menu of the disc? So xbmc behaves with blu-rays like it does with dvds?

Grinsekatze Wrote:Hm. finally I got it working (more or less). After some testing I figured out that the disc is not loading when I select it (as mentioned earlier) (like xbmc does with normal dvds) but I can select Play disc from the context menu. Unfortunately my htpc has no mice so it's not easy to press right mouse button to get to the context menu.

That's why I ask now: Is there any way to let xbmc play blu-rays by default (when I select them in the video menu) instead of navigating through the file- / folder-menu of the disc? So xbmc behaves with blu-rays like it does with dvds?

Let me try to under stand you a little better.

1. You don't have BD-ROM, right?
2. When you say play blu-ray, is it blu-ray ripped folder or blu-ray ISO?
3. When you say you use play disc option, are you trying to playback DVD disc on DVD-ROM?

To write proper external code, you have to step back think of what you try to playback!

keith300 Wrote:well i read the guide to get this working and had some issues.

nothing was working inside of xbmc, but all batch files worked outside of xbmc.

If i ran the playdisc.bat file it opened tmt5 and would play the bluray in the drive, but if i went into xbmc and clicked the play disc it would flash to a screen with controls on the right and the bluray title in the bottom left and then would go back to the play disc menu.

all bat files are pointing to the correct locations for the files, and it appears that the playercorefact.xml is setup correctly (although i am no expert on xml code)

I have uninstalled tmt5 and backed up my config files and will try again with powerdvd and see if i have anymore luck with that.

everything was installed in order as set out in the first post.

ps...happy New Year All.....

1. If you haven't download these (AnyDVD HD and VirtualCloneDrive), as your BD may be encrypted.
2. Make sure that this <C:\Program Files (x86)\ArcSoft\TotalMedia Theatre 5\uMCEPlayer5.exe> is in PlayDisc.bat, PlayBDMV.bat and PlayISO.bat files. Make sure that uMCEPlayer5.exe directory is grab from the correct Program Files directory on your HTPC "C" drive.

3. Make sure to change all the directory shown in "RED" to correct directories of PlayDisc, PlayBDMV and PlayISO this (Playercorefactory.xml).

<playercorefactory>
<players>
<player name="ISO_Player" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="false">
<filename>[COLOR="red"]C:\Users\Dell\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\userdata\PlayISO.bat</filename>
<args>"{1}" /fullscreen</args>
<forceontop>false</forceontop>
<hidexbmc>false</hidexbmc>
<hidecursor>false</hidecursor>
</player>
<player name="BDMV_Player" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="false">
<filename>C:\Users\Dell\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\userdata\PlayBDMV.bat</filename>
<args>"{1}" /fullscreen</args>
<forceontop>false</forceontop>
<hidexbmc>false</hidexbmc>
<hidecursor>false</hidecursor>
</player>
<player name="Disc_Player" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="false">
<filename>C:\Users\Dell\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\userdata\PlayDisc.bat</filename>
<args>"{1}" /fullscreen</args>
<forceontop>false</forceontop>
<hidexbmc>false</hidexbmc>
<hidecursor>false</hidecursor>
</player>
<player name="Universal_Player" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="false">
<filename>C:\Program Files (x86)\ArcSoft\TotalMedia Theatre 5\uMCEPlayer5.exe</filename>
<args>"{1}" /fullscreen</args>
<forceontop>false</forceontop>
<hidexbmc>false</hidexbmc>
<hidecursor>false</hidecursor>
</player>
</players>
<rules action="prepend">
<!-- Bluray ISO -->
<rule filename=".*iso.*" player="ISO_Player"/>
<!-- Bluray BDMV -->
<rule filename=".*bdmv.*" player="BDMV_Player"/>
<!-- Bluray MKV -->
<rule filename=".*mkv.*" player="Universal_Player"/>
<!-- Bluray M2TS -->
<rule filename=".*m2ts.*" player="Universal_Player"/>

<!-- Bluray Disc -->
<rule protocols="bd" player="Disc_Player"/>
</rules>
</playercorefactory>[/COLOR]

1nc0gn1t0 Wrote:Hi again

Could you tell me what is the BDplayer & playdisc code to make MPC-HC read my blurays instead of powerdvd11 or tmt5? I realized that i can read my bluray within mpc-hc, it launch so much quickly and i feel that the image quality is a bit higher (+ no problem to launche it on a second screen)

I tried to simply change the path in the bluray & playdisc xml you gave by the one of mpc-hc, but when i click on "play a disc" on XBMC, nothing happen, so i guess it miss something.

Thx in advance

Sorry for the delay reply, I'm simply over powered by stack of questions. You can simply replace TMT5 directory in PlayDisc.bat and PlayBDMV.bat with this directory <C:\Program Files\Media Player Classic - Home Cinema\mpc-hc64.exe>. The (Playercorefactory.xml) should remain unchanged!