[jimray]

Hi all, Loving XBMC very much, I just discovered it. Everything is working great except for one thing.

I have XBMC set to play videos through MPC-HC. This works great for my movies and SOME streatming. But some streaming it doesn't work. It loads up MPC-HC but then doesn't start the video.

I'd like MPC-HC to play my files, but I'd like XBMC to use it's own internal player for streaming. I understand it needs to be set in playercorefactory, but I can't figure it out. Here is my playercorefactory.

PHP Code:

<playercorefactory>
<players>
<player name="Universal_Player" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<filename>C:\MPC-HC\mpc-hc.exe</filename>
<args>"{1}" /fullscreen</args>
<hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
<hideconsole>true</hideconsole>
<warpcursor>none</warpcursor>
</player>
</players>
<rules action="prepend">

<!-- Universal Player -->
<rule filename="*.*" player="Universal_Player"/>

</rules>
</playercorefactory> 


After extensive searching online I've found someone else who wanted the same thing and they were told to add:

PHP Code:

<rules action="prepend">
  <rule internetstream="false" player="Universal_Player" />
</rules> 


I have added this in it's entirety, and just the "rule" part several times and in several different places, but can't get it to work.

Can anyone help Please?

Thanks

[Kib]

Why don;t you just use XBMC to play everything directly ? I mean that is what it was designed for...

[jimray]

Why don;t you just use XBMC to play everything directly ? I mean that is what it was designed for...

MPC-HC (Media Player Classic - Home Cinema) allows you to use madVR which renders the video at a higher quality than XBMC's integrated player.

[jimray]

I am also having trouble with DTS Master or Dolby True HD Sound Formats in XBMC.

EDIT: got the sound issue worked out

[Kib]

MPC-HC (Media Player Classic - Home Cinema) allows you to use madVR which renders the video at a higher quality than XBMC's integrated player.

I see more use in getting proper sources than using effects to 'improve' image quality.
I use passthrough audio as well.

I guess for upscaling bad content it might help to use something like MadVR.

[jimray]

MadVR supports not only upscaling but better vsync, display calibration etc. In fact I don't even care about upscaling because I only play high quality content.

It really seems like you have a bee in your bonnet Kib, it's nothing against XBMC, but it's integrated player is inferior to a well calibrated MPC-HC.