[mastada]

Hi everyone,

first: I am quite new to xbmc. Currently I am using a Dual Core Pentium (not Core 2 Duo) with 2GB RAM and Windows Server 2008. With xmbc it works very well to play 1080p-MKVs-files because of the cpu. Now I'm gonna buy an Asrock ION 330HT-BD and would like to use it with windows. But I also know that the power of the Atom 330 CPU is not sufficent for playback 1080p mkvs so I have to use mpc. That works with the option "external player". Now i would like to know, how this works. Is the player integrated into the xbmc or does the player starts externally with an additional window what I have to set to fullscreen and so on?? And is the player controllable from xbmc or have I to configure my remote control separately for mpc?

Thanks in advance...

[tiben20]

Hi everyone,

first: I am quite new to xbmc. Currently I am using a Dual Core Pentium (not Core 2 Duo) with 2GB RAM and Windows Server 2008. With XBMC it works very well to play 1080p-MKVs-files because of the cpu. Now I'm gonna buy an Asrock ION 330HT-BD and would like to use it with windows. But I also know that the power of the Atom 330 CPU is not sufficent for playback 1080p mkvs so I have to use mpc. That works with the option "external player". Now i would like to know, how this works. Is the player integrated into the xbmc or does the player starts externally with an additional window what I have to set to fullscreen and so on?? And is the player controllable from xbmc or have I to configure my remote control separately for mpc?

Thanks in advance...

if you know what a command prompt is in windows. Its like doing c:\mplayer\mplayer.exe "d:\yourvideo.avi" -fs
from xbmc when the mplayer.exe quit its coming back to xbmc

[Mshake]

It is a separate process altogether although in recent times, the transition from XBMC active window to the external player is much better than the early days so yes to:

1) You have to configure your remote separately, basically as per the external player you want to use, press the close/stop button and then it will / should go back to XBMC

[>>X<<]

Why not try it on your current machine with MPC-HC, its only a simple xml all of which is detailed in the wiki and MPC-HC doesn't have to be installed using an installer so a simple delete once you know how it works and your system is back to normal