XBMC and PowerDVD as external Player

Thank you very much, no rush however

bilbonvidia Wrote:Thank you very much, no rush however

You are right the mod crawfish suggested does not work. So I've updated the scripts and fixed the info button by adding a small script. No modding required any more. see here for details. Its on the same thread anyways... Page 2.

Cheers,
EG.

Hey elitegamer360; I often get "XBMC startup timed out" error message with GSB script v1.06 (and earlier versions too I think). Do you have any idea how to fix it?

Muyfa666 Wrote:Hey elitegamer360; I often get "XBMC startup timed out" error message with GSB script v1.06 (and earlier versions too I think). Do you have any idea how to fix it?

It means that your HTPC can not open XBMC within 5 seconds window or less, I even made the waiting time longer by 2 seconds in v1.06 but it might not be adequate for slower PC's or if something is processing in the background and its delaying XBMC.

Now to fix this, open and edit the script and look for the fifth line! It should read like this:


Now change number 8 as shown above to whatever you think is more suitable for your PC.

Cheers,
EG.

Awesome. Tnx alot mate! I'll try some higher values to minimize the problem. :-)

boulala Wrote:hy together

i have a question that maybe could be solved here. i also try using powerdvd as external player for my blu-rays but i can't figure out how to do this.
I read the wiki and the forums and normally it should work if you just copy the settings from the wiki and replace the necessari places for powerdvd. but i can't get xbmc to launch an external player at all. blu-rays don't play at all and dvds play in the internal player.
could someone put up his playercorefactory.xml or check mine and tell me what i'm doing wrong.



PS: it doesn't even appear in the context menu to choose manually!

PS2: i use 2 profiles at the moment. 1 for german movies and 1 for englisch movies. maybe the problem lies there.

I'm new to XBMC but I am liking it much better than WMC 7. I am using the Launcher add-on to launch PowerDVD 11. The one problem that I am having is that eventhough powerDVD loads ok, the remote is still controlling XBMC which is still open behind powerdvd. How do I make the remote control powerdvd when xbmc is still open in the background?

ddrum2000 Wrote:I'm new to XBMC but I am liking it much better than WMC 7. I am using the Launcher add-on to launch PowerDVD 11. The one problem that I am having is that eventhough powerDVD loads ok, the remote is still controlling XBMC which is still open behind powerdvd. How do I make the remote control powerdvd when xbmc is still open in the background?

One solution if to use a small script that will freeze XBMC while PowerDVD is running. Instead of starting PowerDVD from a launcher you start a script that will freeze XMBC and start PowerDVD. Then when PowerDVD will be closed, the script will restore XBMC. You will found such kind of script here : http://www.gwenael.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=5

Angelscry Wrote:One solution if to use a small script that will freeze XBMC while PowerDVD is running. Instead of starting PowerDVD from a launcher you start a script that will freeze XBMC and start PowerDVD. Then when PowerDVD will be closed, the script will restore XBMC. You will found such kind of script here : http://www.gwenael.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=5

So I tried to create the script but it didn't work. The remote still seems to control XBMC in the background. Here is the script i used with the built in Launcher plugin:

pssuspend XBMC.exe
C:
cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\CyberLink\PowerDVD11"
PDVDLaunchPolicy.exe
pssuspend -r XBMC.exe

Any thoughts?

ddrum2000 Wrote:So I tried to create the script but it didn't work. The remote still seems to control XBMC in the background. Here is the script i used with the built in Launcher plugin:

pssuspend XBMC.exe
C:
cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\CyberLink\PowerDVD11"
PDVDLaunchPolicy.exe
pssuspend -r XBMC.exe

Any thoughts?

First, you can start to remove then "C:" line form your script :
Next, are you sure that the Pstools package is well installed on your system. And finally are you sure that your launcher is not still pointing to PDVDLaunchPolicy.exe but is pointing now to your .bat script?

Angelscry Wrote:First, you can start to remove then "C:" line form your script :

Code:

pssuspend XBMC.exe
cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\CyberLink\PowerDVD11"
PDVDLaunchPolicy.exe
pssuspend -r XBMC.exe

Next, are you sure that the Pstools package is well installed on your system. And finally are you sure that your launcher is not still pointing to PDVDLaunchPolicy.exe but is pointing now to your .bat script?

So the script runs line by line correctly if I copy and paste it into a command prompt. I deleted and readded the launcher entry using the BAT file that I made. When I try to run the script from inside XBMC, PowerDVD loads correctly but "on top of" XBMC so the remote still controls XBMC. I think there is a problem with running the suspend command from inside XBMC or XBMC resumes too quickly before powerDVD opens. I'm not too familiar with windows scripts but it there a way to make sure that the resume command does not execute until after powerdvd closes?