XBMC and PowerDVD as external Player

Take your time I'm not dying because i can't control everything with the remote. But i guess if we get this right, you can pin this to your other thread as i'm sure a lot of people would like to use it that way. Thanks for helping, anyway

Not really interested in pinning this into my thread because it will give me more problems than I can handel and requests that I might not be able to fulfil due to limited time I already use to maintain my site and thread.

Anyways, finally I had some time to do it :-)

Things you need to do

A- Apply this Registry config Muti.app.Config.v0.1.reg then Restart.

B- I let the Volume and Mute buttons Send WM_APPCOMMANDS so that you can control the windows volume settings in any other app. To be able to control Volume and mute in XBMC then you will need to
1-install Autohotkey tiny programming based app Zero configuration required.
2- Use this script that I wrote for autohotkey Blind_V_M_B-Script.ahk. Save it in your Windows All users Startup Folder. Double click to activate "one time process"

C- You can use my latest Keyboard.xml for full remote functionality, download from my site.

D- Green start button, use one of the scripts I have on site, choose the right one for your operating system.

Thats it now you can use MCE, PowerDVD or XBMC. XBMC functionality is not affected at all.

check my registry config file above, you can change any button you want except the ones thats marked as "SENDS IR SIGNAL", see my remapping page for remapping options/tutorial.

Happy New Year,
EG.

Well, ok. But i guess more people would like to use this setup, it should be archived somehwere. One thing, something must be wrong with your .reg file, since it didn't apply. I used your 1.24 Reg File and replaced all the "SEND IR SIGNAL" rows in this file with the ones from the new file from this thread and everything is working as expected now. If anyone want's the reg file, i can upload it somewhere. The only 2 buttons that don't work in windows media center/powerdvd are "i" (Info) and Disc Menu, but that's ok. Thank you very much.

neutron666 Wrote:....
One thing, something must be wrong with your .reg file, since it didn't apply. I used your 1.24 Reg File and replaced all the "SEND IR SIGNAL" rows in this file with the ones from the new file from this thread and everything is working as expected now.
....
The only 2 buttons that don't work in windows media center/powerdvd are "i" (Info) and Disc Menu, but that's ok....

This is not possible and does not make sense because my Config.v1.24 is identical to Muti.app.Config.v0.1 so if you take out all the "IR Signals" and put them back in Config.v1.24 the result will be Muti.app.Config.v0.1.reg!!!! I tested the setup on two computers before posting them.

and regarding the 2 buttons that didn't work in MCE and PowerDVD there is no workaround for them because they do not send WM_APPCOMMAND /s when set with the default MCE settings and I rather have them work in XBMC instead of any other app.

I'm glad that everything is working for you now.

Cheers,
EG.

neutron666 Wrote:Well, ok. But i guess more people would like to use this setup, it should be archived somehwere. One thing, something must be wrong with your .reg file, since it didn't apply. I used your 1.24 Reg File and replaced all the "SEND IR SIGNAL" rows in this file with the ones from the new file from this thread and everything is working as expected now. If anyone want's the reg file, i can upload it somewhere. The only 2 buttons that don't work in windows media center/powerdvd are "i" (Info) and Disc Menu, but that's ok. Thank you very much.

I am having the same problem. The reg file does not seem to apply. Although Windows (7) excepts the file nothing gets added to the registry. Strange...

Any idea how to solve this?
thx
Phyrros

phyrros1 Wrote:I am having the same problem. The reg file does not seem to apply. Although Windows (7) excepts the file nothing gets added to the registry. Strange...

Any idea how to solve this?
thx
Phyrros

I'll be looking into this.

Cheers,
EG.

elitegamer360 Wrote:I'll be looking into this.

Cheers,
EG.

Thanks for your effort !!

Regards
Phyrros

NEW UPDATE RELEASED 22 SEP 2011.

Its fully functional in XBMC 10 using my Keyboard.xml and autohotkey script that I wrote specially for it, also its working cleanly in Windows Media Center with basic functionality in PowerDVD 10 and WinDVD 2010 "much better than the older version".

I made a work around for the info button and now it works flawlessly with XBMC and WMC! I think the majority wants this!! BUT PWDVD & WINDVD do not recognise "CTRL+D" they recognise this though "0f,00,00,00,01,09,02,\". =D

BTW I set the remote power button to send the PC to Sleep in this config, again you can edit it if you want. Details about registry configs/mods on my site.

Muti.app.Config.v0.6.reg ---------------|Registry file that you will need for XBMC and other apps like WMCE
Blind_Multi_GSB_script_64bit_v0.7.85 ---|Win 64bit Version, Full XBMC functionality including GSB script and Multi monitor support!
Blind_Multi_GSB_script_32bit_v0.7.85 ---|Win 32bit Version, Full XBMC functionality including GSB script and Multi monitor support!


1- Download the .reg file and double click on it to install the remote settings.
2- Download one of the above Multi GSB scripts depending on your OS 32 or 64 bits and move it to your windows all users start up folder.
3- Make sure you have Autohotkey installed, I recommend the first instaler.
4- Finally restart your PC and you are good to go.

NOTE:
If you want to use this reg file you do not need any other script files, if you have any just delete them! The above scripts rules them all so make sure you use the right one.
I- The GSB script included here.
II- The info button works with both apps XBMC and Windows Media Center etc, no modding required... Now the info button changed to 0f,00,00,00,04,01,07,\ instead of 0f,00,00,00,01,09,02,\, so just change it on your computer or download Muti.app.Config.v0.6.reg and reapply it again.
III- If you want to use the multiscreen function, i.e. automatically extend and/or disable a second screen then map one of your remote buttons to "CTRL+F11" without the quotes.

Cheers,
EG.

elitegamer360 Wrote:Cheers,

EG.

This worked absolutely perfectly.
I just made my 2 modifications (the aspect ratio button is mapped to "s" for the shutdown menu in xbmc also stops in powerDVD and the teletext button is Ctrl-x to close powerdvd and return to XBMC)
I am going to make the Info button work in XBMC and map one of the coloured buttons to the info screen in powerdvd.

Thanks again EG.

I'm pleased that things are working well for you now :-)

Cheers,
EG.