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RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - voyagerxp - 2013-01-21 Quote: voyagerxp Wrote: Can anyone help a novice, i wanted to launch pc games from advanced launcher but my pc games get mixed up with other programs. Is there a way to have a Games for Windows section in advanced launcher that i open to access my games. What do i set as the launcher application? RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - Angelscry - 2013-01-21 (2013-01-21, 22:12)voyagerxp Wrote:It's Explorer.exe that start the .lnk files, but you can put any executable you want because Advanced Launcher automatically detect .lnk file and start them with explorer.exeQuote: voyagerxp Wrote: Can anyone help a novice, i wanted to launch pc games from advanced launcher but my pc games get mixed up with other programs. Is there a way to have a Games for Windows section in advanced launcher that i open to access my games. RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - voyagerxp - 2013-01-22 (2013-01-21, 23:30)Angelscry Wrote:(2013-01-21, 22:12)voyagerxp Wrote:It's Explorer.exe that start the .lnk files, but you can put any executable you want because Advanced Launcher automatically detect .lnk file and start them with explorer.exeQuote: voyagerxp Wrote: Can anyone help a novice, i wanted to launch pc games from advanced launcher but my pc games get mixed up with other programs. Is there a way to have a Games for Windows section in advanced launcher that i open to access my games. Right ya i understand now, thanks again. RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - siriusbox - 2013-01-22 There is an issue with Advanced Launcher while using WASAPI as sound API in XBMC, if you launch a game, al least a MAME one, you lose the sound, probably because the system keeps in WASAPI mode, since XBMC keeps running and MAME probably doesn't do check of sound API either. Please could anyone confirm that issue, I guess that probably is not a fault with Advanced Launcher but maybe could be a workaround just switching to Directsound when a game is launched and then restoring to WASAPI again, just toggling the current sound API if Directsound is not the default one, but I'm afraid that this needs to close and reopen XBMC Thanks. RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - Ghostdivision - 2013-01-22 (2013-01-20, 15:34)Angelscry Wrote:(2013-01-19, 20:28)rusher Wrote:No GIT version number, no launchers.xml file... Sorry I cannot help you.(2013-01-19, 13:49)Angelscry Wrote: Do you mean that the launcher is deleted from the XBMC main menu or directly from Advanced Launcher? Which versions of XBMC and Advanced Launcher are you using? Also, be aware that some GIT versions of XBMC Frodo can corrupt the Advanced Launcher database file. Could you post here the content of your launchers.xml file? Unfortunately for many this can cause stuttering during video playback and recommended by some developers to keep off, especially for 1080/24 bluray ripsI do get stuttering video using that option. RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - Angelscry - 2013-01-22 (2013-01-22, 11:41)siriusbox Wrote: There is an issue with Advanced Launcher while using WASAPI as sound API in XBMC, if you launch a game, al least a MAME one, you lose the sound, probably because the system keeps in WASAPI mode, since XBMC keeps running and MAME probably doesn't do check of sound API either.That's a recurent big problem that actually happen with the Frodo versions of XBMC. Most of the application which use sounds, started form XBMC or running at the same time than XBMC, cannot render it correctly. And it is worse on Linux systems where XBMC totally modifiy all your system audio settings when it is started... and do no restore them when it is close. So it is not related to Advanced Launcher, but Advanced Launcher is one of the add-on the most affected by this bug. (2013-01-22, 13:11)Ghostdivision Wrote: Unfortunately for many this can cause stuttering during video playback and recommended by some developers to keep off, especially for 1080/24 bluray ripsI do get stuttering video using that option.If you do not want to use this option, do not use it... but I cannot do anything more for you. Just ask you the question : "Why this option exists into XBMC?" And the killer question : Why under Windows, XBMC cannot minimize correctly (like any other application) and play video without stuttering at the same time? I cannot change this option directly from Advanced Launcher (there is no XBMC builtin function for this) so users may do it manually. That's another big XBMC problem. RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - siriusbox - 2013-01-22 (2013-01-22, 13:46)Angelscry Wrote: That's a recurent big problem that actually happen with the Frodo versions of XBMC. Most of the application which use sounds, started form XBMC or running at the same time than XBMC, cannot render it correctly. And it is worse on Linux systems where XBMC totally modifiy all your system audio settings when it is started... and do no restore them when it is close. So it is not related to Advanced Launcher, but Advanced Launcher is one of the add-on the most affected by this bug. That's sad, that makes it useless for me, since Directsound it's not an option for me I hope XBMC team are thinking on a solution. Thanks for the fast answer anyway. Cheers. RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - Angelscry - 2013-01-22 (2013-01-22, 18:04)siriusbox Wrote:You can also do like me and still using the stable version or XBMC (Eden) that do not have this problem.(2013-01-22, 13:46)Angelscry Wrote: That's a recurent big problem that actually happen with the Frodo versions of XBMC. Most of the application which use sounds, started form XBMC or running at the same time than XBMC, cannot render it correctly. And it is worse on Linux systems where XBMC totally modifiy all your system audio settings when it is started... and do no restore them when it is close. So it is not related to Advanced Launcher, but Advanced Launcher is one of the add-on the most affected by this bug. RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - Burbulence - 2013-01-23 Hi all, I've been trying to find a solution to an issue with launching a web browser on my mac. I have a basic launcher set up for testing and it works. If chrome or firefox is closed the app opens and displays the web page, but if the browser is already open the launcher freezes, at least until the browser is closed again. Is there any way of having advanced launcher open up a new tab if the browser is already running? another problem i am having is when executing the launcher whether having the xbmc windowed function enabled or disabled, it stays in focus, are there any solutions for this on a mac? Apologies if this has been asked already! RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - siriusbox - 2013-01-23 (2013-01-22, 18:06)Angelscry Wrote: You can also do like me and still using the stable version or XBMC (Eden) that do not have this problem. Yep, but then I lose support for HD formats passthrough, like DTS Master Audio HD and so. RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - davelr - 2013-01-23 (2013-01-23, 01:19)siriusbox Wrote:(2013-01-22, 18:06)Angelscry Wrote: You can also do like me and still using the stable version or XBMC (Eden) that do not have this problem. I'm using Eden and am not having problems with HD passthru, at least with rips to mkv files. I have not yet tried with direct play of BD's with HD tracks as I have not yet installed a player that can directly play blu rays. But at least with all the discs I've ripped with MakeMKV, the HD audiotracks do pass thru to my Denon. RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - siriusbox - 2013-01-23 (2013-01-23, 03:18)davelr Wrote: I'm using Eden and am not having problems with HD passthru, at least with rips to mkv files. I have not yet tried with direct play of BD's with HD tracks as I have not yet installed a player that can directly play blu rays. But at least with all the discs I've ripped with MakeMKV, the HD audiotracks do pass thru to my Denon. Be sure that your Denon is truly receiving a DTS-MA / Dolby TrueHD and it's displaying that in the LCD display, because with XBMC Frodo is the first time that I was be able to see that. RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - Angelscry - 2013-01-23 (2013-01-23, 00:02)Burbulence Wrote: Hi all, I've been trying to find a solution to an issue with launching a web browser on my mac. I have a basic launcher set up for testing and it works. If chrome or firefox is closed the app opens and displays the web page, but if the browser is already open the launcher freezes, at least until the browser is closed again. Is there any way of having advanced launcher open up a new tab if the browser is already running?That's a strange behavior, but that's not related to Advanced Launcher. Advanced launcher only execute a command line. It this command line make your system freeze, that's mean that there is something wrong with the web browsers on your system. To avoid this you can execute a script, prior to start your web browser, that will close any opened web browser instance then restart it. (2013-01-23, 00:02)Burbulence Wrote: another problem i am having is when executing the launcher whether having the xbmc windowed function enabled or disabled, it stays in focus, are there any solutions for this on a mac?If you web browser is already open at the same time, it is normal. If you send any command line telling a web broser to open a webpage, and that this web browser is already open, the web browser will open the webpage but without taking the focus. If you want a web broser open a webpage and take focus, this web browser must be closed. The other way to proceed is to create a script that will force the web browser to take focus... but I do not know how you could do this on MAC. RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - davelr - 2013-01-23 (2013-01-23, 09:29)siriusbox Wrote:(2013-01-23, 03:18)davelr Wrote: I'm using Eden and am not having problems with HD passthru, at least with rips to mkv files. I have not yet tried with direct play of BD's with HD tracks as I have not yet installed a player that can directly play blu rays. But at least with all the discs I've ripped with MakeMKV, the HD audiotracks do pass thru to my Denon. Yup, passthru is working fine. The Denon shows DTS HD Master or True HD depending on what the original disc had for the soundtrack. (apologies for OT post) RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - Burbulence - 2013-01-23 (2013-01-23, 13:51)Angelscry Wrote:(2013-01-23, 00:02)Burbulence Wrote: Hi all, I've been trying to find a solution to an issue with launching a web browser on my mac. I have a basic launcher set up for testing and it works. If chrome or firefox is closed the app opens and displays the web page, but if the browser is already open the launcher freezes, at least until the browser is closed again. Is there any way of having advanced launcher open up a new tab if the browser is already running?That's a strange behavior, but that's not related to Advanced Launcher. Advanced launcher only execute a command line. It this command line make your system freeze, that's mean that there is something wrong with the web browsers on your system. It must be a mac thing then, I have 2 macs and the problem is the same on both... I'll look in to the script suggestion thanks. (2013-01-23, 13:51)Angelscry Wrote:(2013-01-23, 00:02)Burbulence Wrote: another problem i am having is when executing the launcher whether having the xbmc windowed function enabled or disabled, it stays in focus, are there any solutions for this on a mac?If you web browser is already open at the same time, it is normal. If you send any command line telling a web broser to open a webpage, and that this web browser is already open, the web browser will open the webpage but without taking the focus. If you want a web broser open a webpage and take focus, this web browser must be closed. The other way to proceed is to create a script that will force the web browser to take focus... but I do not know how you could do this on MAC. whether the web browser is open or closed this makes no difference, well not exactly if it's closed the browser will start and open the web page but in the background, and if it's closed xbmc will hang until the browser is closed, then execute the command and open the browser in the background! |