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.

Create .lnk shortcuts of your games. Put them into the same folder and do the same as this tutorial : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyfRa7gygEc

(2013-01-21, 22:12)voyagerxp Wrote:

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.

Create .lnk shortcuts of your games. Put them into the same folder and do the same as this tutorial : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyfRa7gygEc

What do i set as the launcher application?

(2013-01-21, 23:30)Angelscry Wrote:

(2013-01-21, 22:12)voyagerxp Wrote:

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.

Create .lnk shortcuts of your games. Put them into the same folder and do the same as this tutorial : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyfRa7gygEc

What do i set as the launcher application?

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.exe

(2013-01-20, 15:34)Angelscry Wrote:

(2013-01-19, 20:28)rusher Wrote:

(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?

I am using XBMC Frodo RC3 together with Advanced Launcher 1.10.15. The launchers are deleted directly from Advanced Launcher, therefore it wont help you if I post the content of my launchers.xml file because it's empty now. I added a few launchers for emulators (gameboy, SNES, DOS, gamecube and playstation), I did that a couple of times, one time each time I added a second launcher, the first one was gone, now I was able to add all the launchers mentioned above, and after restarting XBMC a couple of time only SNES and Gameboy were left, it's so annoying.

No GIT version number, no launchers.xml file... Sorry I cannot help you.

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(2013-01-19, 23:18)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.

Create .lnk shortcuts of your games. Put them into the same folder and do the same as this tutorial : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyfRa7gygEc

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(2013-01-20, 14:05)Ghostdivision Wrote:

(2013-01-19, 13:36)Angelscry Wrote: What happen if you start SNES9X with a game from command line into a CMD window?

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No there is no other method. Why you do not want to use the toggle mode option?

Because it pops xbmc in and out, and sometimes xbmc lands on the top. So if i launch the browser, google launches, but xbmc ends up on top in focus, and google chrome is in behind it.

The minimization does not look as clean, im trying to make this less like a windows build, and have hid my taskbar so minimizing xbmc is not really ideal.

Would be nice if there was a dont minimize xbmc option.

This option already exists into Advanced Launcher and could be setup for each launcher :



Also, to fully use Advanced Launcher under Windows operating system, you will need to activate the "Use a fullscreen window" rather than "true fullscreen" option that is present into XBMC system settings. Have you done it?

(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.

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.

(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.

(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.

(2013-01-22, 18:04)siriusbox Wrote:

(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.

(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.

(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.

Yep, but then I lose support for HD formats passthrough, like DTS Master Audio HD and so.

(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.

(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?

(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?

(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.

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.

(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.

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, 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.