[behaviour]

Hi,

I'm a recent convert to linux HTPC then from MythTV to XBMC.

I currently have lxbdplayer installed and working well for my bluray playback but I was wondering if/how to use this for bluray playback from within XBMC?

I have installed the DHARMA release today and can see that it let's me browse the disc but I have no idea how to watch it from within XBMC.

Any help/advice would be great!

[spiff]

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=64658

with a slight adoption for linux, this should work.

[behaviour]

I couldn't get my head around how the external player launched and how it knew to apply it to my bluray disc only.

Instead I've created a script.bluray in ~./xbmc/addons with a python script as below..

#!/usr/bin/python
import os
import xbmc

cmd = 'lxbdplayer --mpls:00000.mpls /media/cdrom0 | mplayer -fs -quiet -'

xbmc.executebuiltin("LIRC.Stop")
os.system(cmd)
xbmc.executebuiltin("LIRC.Start")


I basically adapted it from the script I currently use to launch my mythTV frontend. It launches over the top of XBMC and disables the IR Remote.

I'm still suffering from jitter which is unfortunate, but it's not as bad as the makemkv streaming method.