[WINDOWS] External Player Support Thread - Printable Version +- Kodi Community Forum (https://forum.kodi.tv) +-- Forum: Support (https://forum.kodi.tv/forumdisplay.php?fid=33) +--- Forum: General Support (https://forum.kodi.tv/forumdisplay.php?fid=111) +---- Forum: Windows (https://forum.kodi.tv/forumdisplay.php?fid=59) +---- Thread: [WINDOWS] External Player Support Thread (/showthread.php?tid=43511) Pages:
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RE: [WINDOWS] External Player Support Thread - p060477 - 2022-01-31 (2022-01-31, 03:35)PatK Wrote: The best way to check a script is to put it into your Userdata (wiki) folder and try it out. Failure can be back checked in your debug log to see if it's in play and functioning. I included a script from the wiki that is known to work, try that. that was what i did..and this is what lead me to ask you about the result in the debug log: "ExternalPlayer: invalid value for warpcursor: none"... this is why i've praied for an help here... do you find errors in my example of # 1589...?? a very usefull thing should be if you posted here your playercorefactory.xml that i'm sure really works fine i re-thank you again so much indeed and i re-ask you to be patience also with no skilled on e as me... thxs so much again cheers RE: [WINDOWS] External Player Support Thread - TimeZone - 2022-08-03 How do I set up Windows Films & TV (video player by Microsoft) app as an external player in Kodi? Or is it even possible, any workaround? I have an intel Core i5 11th Gen PC with Intel Iris Xe graphics. This PC can play Dolby Vision files with correct colours but only if I use the Films & TV to play the movie. Desktop VLC and UWP VLC both can't play the file right on the PC. To use Films & TV app, I had to download the Dolby Vision Extensions (Free) from Microsoft store then download HEVC Video Extensions (also free from Microsoft) and the player shows the correct colours. I know how to set up external player for normal desktop apps like VLC but how do I do it for Store apps. Apart from DV the PC also supports hardware decoding of AV1 although Kodi is only using software decoding but the playback is very smooth. NOTE: I am using the desktop Kodi 20 alpha not the store version. RE: [WINDOWS] External Player Support Thread - ashlar - 2022-08-03 (2022-08-03, 10:55)TimeZone Wrote: How do I set up Windows Films & TV (video player by Microsoft) app as an external player in Kodi? Or is it even possible, any workaround? I suppose you could try this way: https://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/open-uwp-apps-from-command-line-windows-10/ More specific advice: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42311365/open-video-file-by-movies-tv-windows-10 RE: [WINDOWS] External Player Support Thread - TimeZone - 2022-08-04 (2022-08-03, 16:50)ashlar Wrote: I suppose you could try this way: https://www.addictivetips.com/windows-ti...indows-10/ Thanks. This is going to be very convoluted but I will give it a try. I will try running the commands via a launcher addon in Kodi. RE: [WINDOWS] External Player Support Thread - ashlar - 2022-08-04 (2022-08-04, 06:36)TimeZone Wrote:I would appreciate if you could tag me here when you have conducted your tests. I am curious about your results.(2022-08-03, 16:50)ashlar Wrote: I suppose you could try this way: https://www.addictivetips.com/windows-ti...indows-10/ RE: [WINDOWS] External Player Support Thread - TimeZone - 2022-08-06 (2022-08-03, 10:55)TimeZone Wrote: How do I set up Windows Films & TV (video player by Microsoft) app as an external player in Kodi? Or is it even possible, any workaround?I finally succeeded, kinda. Dolby Vision videos automatically opens with Films & TV. (2022-08-04, 17:23)ashlar Wrote: I would appreciate if you could tag me here when you have conducted your tests. I am curious about your results.@ashlar you asked me to tag you. Here are my results. The links you provided gave me a starting point for the research, thanks again. Kodi is not opening the player directly. The chain of events go something like this; Kodi launches CMD.exe, CMD launches the Films & TV app which in turn plays the specified movie. Here is the playercorefactory syntax
A way to autoclose both the player and CMD after the movie is done would be a bonus. RE: [WINDOWS] External Player Support Thread - ashlar - 2022-08-07 (2022-08-06, 08:16)TimeZone Wrote: Glad I could partially help but... if the player does not output DV, you're absolutely not better off than simply playing back an HDR10 version of the same content, which Kodi handles flawlessly by now. RE: [WINDOWS] External Player Support Thread - TimeZone - 2022-08-08 (2022-08-07, 22:27)ashlar Wrote: Glad I could partially help but... if the player does not output DV, you're absolutely not better off than simply playing back an HDR10 version of the same content, which Kodi handles flawlessly by now. That is true but my DV files are future proof. If I ever get a DV capable device, and I believe I will someday, I will already have the files. I was already saving HDR files before I had HDR capable devices and using Kodi tone mapping feature from HDR to SDR and I believe it was a wise choice, same thing now with DV. RE: [WINDOWS] External Player Support Thread - ashlar - 2022-08-11 (2022-08-08, 07:37)TimeZone Wrote:Got it. Makes sense, I guess.(2022-08-07, 22:27)ashlar Wrote: Glad I could partially help but... if the player does not output DV, you're absolutely not better off than simply playing back an HDR10 version of the same content, which Kodi handles flawlessly by now. RE: [WINDOWS] External Player Support Thread - jsauser11 - 2023-01-06 Having trouble trying to setup Leawo Blu-ray Player as an external player for only BluRay discs. Here is my playercorefactory.xml: <playercorefactory> <players> <player name="Leawo Blu-ray Player" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true"> <filename>C:\Program Files (x86)\Leawo\Blu-ray Player\Leawo Blu-ray Player.exe</filename> <args>"{1}" /fullscreen /close</args> <hidexbmc>false</hidexbmc> <hideconsole>false</hideconsole> <warpcursor>none</warpcursor> <playcountminimumtime>5</playcountminimumtime> </player> </players> <rules action="prepend"> <rule filetypes="bd" player="Leawo Blu-ray Player"/> </rules> </playercorefactory> When I try and play a BR disc from Kodi, it does not recognize the external player, and tries to use the default player, which of course fails due to BR disc encription. Checking the Kodi log file, I find these lines: 2023-01-05 15:58:36.793 T:11240 INFO <general>: Loading player core factory settings from special://profile/playercorefactory.xml. 2023-01-05 15:58:36.793 T:11240 WARNING <general>: CPlayerCoreFactory::GetPlayer(Leawo Blu-ray Player): no such player: Leawo Blu-ray Player 2023-01-05 15:58:36.793 T:11240 INFO <general>: Loaded playercorefactory configuration I have checked the path, and it is solid, so I can't understand the WARNING line in the kodi.log. Also, I can't seem to find any documentation in the Wiki page on external players which would direct me how to construct a attribute rule set which would only limit this player to BluRay disc playback. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Best Regards! RE: [WINDOWS] External Player Support Thread - User 476552 - 2023-01-06 Just a thought, have you tried a more generic player name without spaces? All the examples here https://kodi.wiki/view/External_players use non spaced names. Maybe try LWO-BD as a name just to see what happens. RE: [WINDOWS] External Player Support Thread - jsauser11 - 2023-01-06 Thanks for the suggestion. Tried a non-spaced player name but kodi.log still presents the same warning line. The non-spaced and spaced player name does show up when attempting a "Play with" on movies, so maybe the warning is not a functional problem? RE: [WINDOWS] External Player Support Thread - jsauser11 - 2023-01-07 My largest issue is that the playercorefactory.xml file in the OP works fine on my Desktop. When I attempt to use the same file on my HTPC, it refuses to start up Leawo at all, and just tries to open the Blu-ray disc with the default player. Same version of Kodi, Leawo Player, and Windows on both machines. Only real difference is the logical drive on one is D: and on the other E:. Can't understand why it works on my Desktop but not the HTPC. RE: [WINDOWS] External Player Support Thread - jsauser11 - 2023-01-07 Here are kodi.log snips from attempts to play a purchased Blu-ray movie on both the PC which fails to call the external player, and the machine which successfully calls the external player: Machine Where External Player Does Not Start [HTPC-1]: [HUGE LOG DUMP REOVED BY MODERATOR - PASTEBIN LINK (THE CORRECT METHOD) ADDED] https://paste.kodi.tv/docazowica.kodi RE: [WINDOWS] External Player Support Thread - Dangelus - 2023-01-07 @jsauser11 Please do not post logs directly in your post. Use https://paste.kodi.tv just like it tells you to in big red letters above the "Post Reply" button below. I have transferred your log and provided a pastebin link for you on this occassion. |