[Rusky_G]

Hi

I have XBMCbuntu (Nvidia) running off a USB key on an Acer Revo 3610 (which has Win7 installed on the main HDD)

I like to run XBMCbuntu live rather than fully installing it and am looking to use an external player for video such as MPC HC

Having read up, I can see you need to find a playercorefactory file and modify it as neccessary - but when I plug the USB into my Win7 laptop, I open explorer and cant find this file? There are just 4 folders: .disk, casper, isolinux and preseed.

Any clues?
Thanks
Russell

[artrafael]

You need to install XBMCbuntu on some sort of non-volatile storage, if not your hard drive, then on another USB flash drive. After that, you can create a playercorefactory.xml file on that installation. Is there a reason you want to use an external player instead of the default one for XBMC?

[Rusky_G]

Hi Art

I watch some of my media through an HD Projector.

I used XBMC about 4 years ago - great - but found I could achieve a better picture with Win7 and Potplayer or MPC HC (more tweakability with sharpeners, pixel shaders etc)

So XBMC was tucked away for a few years but last week I downloaded Frodo - PQ looks excellent on my HDTV (not tried it on my Projector yet) so I am wondering has the inbuilt player been improved over the previous builds? If so, I may not need an external player at all but was curious to try it.

[artrafael]

Well, you're not going to be able to use any of those Windows media players on XBMCbuntu, which is Linux-based. Why don't you simply install XBMC as application on your existing Windows 7 installation? You can then create a playercorefactory.xml to use those external players.

[Rusky_G]

OK, I will give it a try, thank you :-)