[mrh335]

@ mrh335

You can try something like this after this line
"C:\Program Files (x86)\CyberLink\PowerDVD12\PDVDLaunchPolicy.exe" AUTOPLAY E:

Code:

:open

tasklist /fi "imagename eq powerdvd12.exe" | find /i "powerdvd12.exe"> NUL
if /i %errorlevel% EQU 0 goto open

This will check if PowerDVD12.exe is running, it will keep checking until it is closed and then continue with the unmounting.

In my testing this is still hit and miss, as PowerDVD12.exe can sometimes take quite a few seconds to actually terminate (even when it looks closed) this causes XBMC to still think external player is active for a few seconds.

To be honest I don't think PowerDVD 12 is really ever going to work perfectly as an external player for BD ISO/ folders, to me it seems very bulky and slow compared to TMT5, even as a standalone player without XBMC, I'm using the trial and not impressed with it at all.

Thank you for the help on this. I tried tasklist last night unsuccessfully, but tonight with your code, everything works perfectly.

I don't see the lag or issues with PDVD12 on my computer. It is quite powerful and loads things quickly as it has an I7-2600K with 16 GB of ram. Using tasklist to watch active processes is able to keep the PlayISO.bat file open and continually pinging the process list looking for PowerDVD12.exe. As long as that is active, then the batch files stays open. To return to XBMC, a ctrl+X from the keyboard commands closes PDVD12 and returns automatic to XBMC. The continualy polling in the background consumes some cycles, but nothing that seemed to cause any issues. I found the smoothness and fact that PDVD12 just does what it is supposed to to be as fast as TMT5 without the horrible stutter and lack of refresh rate adjustment seen in TMT5.

Another line of code which could be added to the batch file would be the TIMEOUT command if someone had a machine which didn't get PowerDVD12.exe loaded fast enough for the polling to start. In my testing tonight, I didn't need that.

The one thing I would like to try and address is a way to only have Bluray ISO files play via PDVD12 and DVD ISO files to play using the internal player. You provided some insight to that in an earlier post, but I didn't fully understand how to implement.

Below is my working code. I have hideconsole set to false and echo off just so I can see what is going on.

PlayISO.bat:
REM @echo off


"C:\Program Files (x86)\DAEMON Tools Lite\DTLite.exe" -mount dt, 0, %1
"C:\Program Files (x86)\CyberLink\PowerDVD12\PDVDLaunchPolicy.exe" AUTOPLAY E:
rem TIMEOUT /T 10 /NOBREAK

:open

tasklist /fi "imagename eq powerdvd12.exe" | find /i "powerdvd12.exe"> NUL
if /i %errorlevel% EQU 0 goto open

"C:\Program Files (x86)\DAEMON Tools Lite\DTLite.exe" -unmount dt, 0

Playercorefactory.xml
<playercorefactory>
<players>
<player name="ISO_Player" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<filename>C:\Users\markr_000\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\userdata\PlayISO.bat</filename>
<args>"{1}" /fullscreen</args>
<hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
<hideconsole>false</hideconsole>

</player>
<player name="BDMV_Player" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<filename>C:\Users\markr_000\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\userdata\PlayBDMV.bat</filename>
<args>"{1}"</args>
<hidexbmc>false</hidexbmc>

</player>
<player name="Disc_Player" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<filename>C:\Users\markr_000\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\userdata\PlayDisc.bat</filename>
<args>"{1}"</args>
<hidexbmc>false</hidexbmc>

</player>
<player name="Universal_Player" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<filename>C:\Program Files (x86)\ArcSoft\TotalMedia Theatre 5\uTotalMediaTheatre5.exe</filename>
<args>"{1}"</args>
<hidexbmc>false</hidexbmc>

</player>
</players>
<rules action="prepend">

<rule filetypes="BD|IFO|iso|bdmv|mpls" player="ISO_Player"/>

</rules>
</playercorefactory>