[Lister of Smeg]

Hi All,

I need some help with setting up an external player for XBMC for Bluray ISO's only. I have read the External Player thread written by 'Bluray' but with no luck. In 'Blurays' thread he is using Virtual Clone Drive (VCD) but unfortunately VCD does not mount from a NAS in Windows 8. So i am having to use Daemon Tools which does mount from a NAS in Win8 but i cannot get the code right to ensure the files play.

Please see my code below. Any help would be appreciated.

playercorefactory.xml

<playercorefactory>
<players>
<player name="ISO_Player" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<filename>C:\Users\Peter\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\userdata\PlayISO.bat</filename>
<args>"{1}"</args>
<hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
<hideconsole>true</hideconsole>
<warpcursor>none</warpcursor>
</players>
<rules action="prepend">
<!-- Bluray ISO -->
<rule filename=".*iso.*" player="ISO_Player"/>
</rules>
</playercorefactory>


PlayISO.bat

@echo off
rem you can place your PlayISO file in \Roaming\XBMC\userdata\
rem you need to put the correct VCDMount drive letter in the command below

"C:\Program Files (x86)\DAEMON Tools Lite\dtlite.exe" -mount dt, 0, %1
"C:\Program Files (x86)\CyberLink\PowerDVD12\PDVDLaunchPolicy.exe" E:

Thanks guys

[bluray]

If you just want ISO to playback using external player, you can use this rule (<rule filetypes="iso" player="ISO_Player"/>) instead....

[Lister of Smeg]

If you just want ISO to playback using external player, you can use this rule (<rule filetypes="iso" player="ISO_Player"/>) instead....

Thanks bluray. So do you mean my playercorefactory.xml should look like this:-

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

Thanks

[bluray]

If you just want ISO to playback using external player, you can use this rule (<rule filetypes="iso" player="ISO_Player"/>) instead....

Thanks bluray. So do you mean my playercorefactory.xml should look like this:-

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

Thanks

It should look like below-

<playercorefactory>
<players>
<player name="ISO_Player" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<filename>C:\Users\Peter\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\userdata\PlayISO.bat</filename>
<args>"{1}"</args>
<hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
<hideconsole>true</hideconsole>
<warpcursor>none</warpcursor>
</player>
</players>
<rules action="prepend">
<!-- Bluray ISO -->
<rule filetypes="iso" player="ISO_Player"/>
</rules>
</playercorefactory>

[bluray]

I need some help with setting up an external player for XBMC for Bluray ISO's only. I have read the External Player thread written by 'Bluray' but with no luck. In 'Blurays' thread he is using Virtual Clone Drive (VCD) but unfortunately VCD does not mount from a NAS in Windows 8.

When you try to mount ISO over network, did you enable "Buffered I/O" on VCD?

[Lister of Smeg]

I need some help with setting up an external player for XBMC for Bluray ISO's only. I have read the External Player thread written by 'Bluray' but with no luck. In 'Blurays' thread he is using Virtual Clone Drive (VCD) but unfortunately VCD does not mount from a NAS in Windows 8.

When you try to mount ISO over network, did you enable "Buffered I/O" on VCD?

No i haven't tried that. Let me give it a go. I will report back

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I need some help with setting up an external player for XBMC for Bluray ISO's only. I have read the External Player thread written by 'Bluray' but with no luck. In 'Blurays' thread he is using Virtual Clone Drive (VCD) but unfortunately VCD does not mount from a NAS in Windows 8.

When you try to mount ISO over network, did you enable "Buffered I/O" on VCD?

No good. Still get a BSOD. I think its a known issue with VCD and i don't think they are updating it anymore

So the switch to Daemon Tools i think its enevitable

[Lister of Smeg]

As an additional piece of info, if i select my bluray iso and click 'open with', then select my PlayISO.bat then the file will play correctly in PowerDVD.

So there must be something wrong with my Playercorefactory.xml. Thats my thoughts.

When trying to play a file through XBMC it appears to be trying to play the ISO directly through XBMC without even looking for the external player.

[bluray]

As an additional piece of info, if i select my bluray iso and click 'open with', then select my PlayISO.bat then the file will play correctly in PowerDVD.

So there must be something wrong with my Playercorefactory.xml. Thats my thoughts.

When trying to play a file through XBMC it appears to be trying to play the ISO directly through XBMC without even looking for the external player.

To avoid file related issue, can you download the files below? Then save both files in (C:\Users\Peter\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\userdata) folder-

playercorefactory.xml

playiso.bat

---

I need some help with setting up an external player for XBMC for Bluray ISO's only. I have read the External Player thread written by 'Bluray' but with no luck. In 'Blurays' thread he is using Virtual Clone Drive (VCD) but unfortunately VCD does not mount from a NAS in Windows 8.

When you try to mount ISO over network, did you enable "Buffered I/O" on VCD?

No good. Still get a BSOD. I think its a known issue with VCD and i don't think they are updating it anymore

So the switch to Daemon Tools i think its enevitable

That is weird.....I tried it yesterday, and VCD worked fine over my network. Another guy in external player thread got VCD to mount and work fine w/ his NAS too.....

[Lister of Smeg]

As an additional piece of info, if i select my bluray iso and click 'open with', then select my PlayISO.bat then the file will play correctly in PowerDVD.

So there must be something wrong with my Playercorefactory.xml. Thats my thoughts.

When trying to play a file through XBMC it appears to be trying to play the ISO directly through XBMC without even looking for the external player.

To avoid file related issue, can you download the files below? Then save both files in (C:\Users\Peter\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\userdata) folder-

playercorefactory.xml

playiso.bat

---

When you try to mount ISO over network, did you enable "Buffered I/O" on VCD?

No good. Still get a BSOD. I think its a known issue with VCD and i don't think they are updating it anymore

So the switch to Daemon Tools i think its enevitable

That is weird.....I tried it yesterday, and VCD worked fine over my network. Another guy in external player thread got VCD to mount and work fine w/ his NAS too.....

I think the BSOD is windows 8 related. I think it works fine with Windows 7

Copied your files bluray and still the same issue.

XBMC is still playing the ISO file using the internal 'dvd_player'

The .bat file works perfectly on its own but not within XBMC.

Here is a debug log if that helps - https://www.dropbox.com/s/ngkkbzdpa85kd0g/xbmc.log

[Lister of Smeg]

Any Dev's have any clue as to what my issue is based on my debug log?

Any help would be appritiated.

Thanks

[bluray]

Any Dev's have any clue as to what my issue is based on my debug log?

Any help would be appritiated.

Thanks

Too bad, I don't have Windows 8 to try it for you.......

[Lister of Smeg]

Any Dev's have any clue as to what my issue is based on my debug log?

Any help would be appritiated.

Thanks

Too bad, I don't have Windows 8 to try it for you.......

No worries bluray. Thanks for your help anyway

[Lumpee]

Lister, I have the same problem. Still no solution.

This is my batch file.

"C:\Program Files\Daemon Tools Lite\DTLite.exe" -mount 0,"%1"
"C:\Program Files\ArcSoft\TotalMedia Theatre 5\uMCEPlayer5.exe" G:
"C:\Program Files\Daemon Tools Lite\DTLite.exe" -unmount 0

I've tried a number of variations around the %1. With quotes, without. No space after the comma, with a space. Nothing works. I do get the error "mount switch syntax error".

If I put the file location in place of the %1 it works, so it is definitely the way it is handling the file location. Wondering if this is args relate from playercorefactory around the {1}.

Sucks that VCD doesn't work in Win8. Maybe alcohol will be my next stop.

[Lister of Smeg]

Lister, I have the same problem. Still no solution.

This is my batch file.

"C:\Program Files\Daemon Tools Lite\DTLite.exe" -mount 0,"%1"
"C:\Program Files\ArcSoft\TotalMedia Theatre 5\uMCEPlayer5.exe" G:
"C:\Program Files\Daemon Tools Lite\DTLite.exe" -unmount 0

I've tried a number of variations around the %1. With quotes, without. No space after the comma, with a space. Nothing works. I do get the error "mount switch syntax error".

If I put the file location in place of the %1 it works, so it is definitely the way it is handling the file location. Wondering if this is args relate from playercorefactory around the {1}.

Sucks that VCD doesn't work in Win8. Maybe alcohol will be my next stop.

Yeah i have the exact same issue Lumpee. Like you say, i think its related to the path.

As a workaround i have put the path within the batch file and created a batch file for each of my bluray iso files. I am just double clicking the batch files to play them....

It would be nice if VCD would be updated to work properly with Windows 8 though