[rednax]

I'm struggling trying to play (bd)iso's. Various scripts to mount and play them with a vcd and powerdvd combo have turned aout to be a real pain as XBMC doesn't want to wait until playing is finished and tries to grab the fullscreen from powerdvd and fails leading to a "XBMC has stopped working" window message.

The source of the problem could be Eventghost's exclusivity macro not doing what it's supposed to, or xbmc being impatient.

Regardless of the reason, i feel the external script solution is an ugly one, even if it did work. Especially since xbmc is perfectly capable of playing m2ts.

So what i'd really like now is, when i choose an iso to play, for xbmc to mount it and let me browse it's structure choosing which .m2ts to play (it could even autoselect the largest one!).

Trying to do this with a script works for the mount (it does come up with the "press ok when the external player finishes" message. Any way to get rid of that? ). Then you have to navigate xbmc back to the virtual bd drive to choose the .m2ts and play it. Any way to streamline this?

[spiff]

sure. you code it up.

[rednax]

I guess "Grumpy Bastard Developer" would sum up that reply pretty well..

Admittedly: your reply utlimately had me stumbling upon the built-in functions. They might be the way to go so i'll have a go at them..

[spiff]

what on earth was grumpy with that reply? i stated a fact. you want it, you need to code it up.

[rednax]

I took the shortness of your answer as an indication of a snobbish remark. My bad. However in a support forum telling people to 'code their own' is hardly that.

I have taken my question to the python support forum. IT seems what i want should be possible if it's possible to launch a python script through the external player construct, and instruct xbmc which file to play from there.