[mctweek]

I have been looking at it may be mentioned somewhere. Is there a way to auto add launchers from a folder of .lnk shortcuts? without having to add each pc game one by one. Unless there us another method to batch add.

[holydhaliwal]

I'm having trouble launching Zsnes on Xbmcbuntu, basically the games with launch at all. If I select a game it just goes back to the list without playing the game or even showing the emulator at all. I've found if I remove the - m parameter the emulator at least launches but only shows the gui of Zsnes without playing the game. Any solutions for this? Btw mednafen for gba is working fine, just not zsnes for snes.

Maybe the ZSNES command line has changed since the related Advanced launcher configuration wikipage have been created. If you start XBMC from a terminal window and then start ZSNES using Advanced Launcher, if there is an error with ZSNES it will be displayed into the terminal window. It could surely help us to found what is going wrong.

So somehow launching from the terminal seems to have fixed the Zsnes issue, now it launches fine everytime from Advanced Launcher. I've moved on to trying to get PCSX-R running and am having a new issue, it runs fine if I run from the desktop however when launching from xbmc I just get a blank screen. In the terminal it says "could not open /dev/cdrom" and then lists Motherboard info (Nvidia Ion) but nothing else. just a blank screen. Any ideas?

[Febo00]

Hi, i'm on Windows 7 64bits. I'm having problems with nes emulator JNES. when i try to launch a ROM from the launcher it gives me this error "directdraw: unable to create surface lpddsp"

this does not happen with psone and ps2 emulators pSX and PCSX2

[Angelscry]

I have been looking at it may be mentioned somewhere. Is there a way to auto add launchers from a folder of .lnk shortcuts? without having to add each pc game one by one. Unless there us another method to batch add.

You just have to create shortcut files of all your PC games and put them into the same directory. Then, create a file launcher that will manage this shortcut files as roms. Here is the WIKI page : http://www.gwenael.org/xbmc/index.php?ti..._shortcuts

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I'm having trouble launching Zsnes on Xbmcbuntu, basically the games with launch at all. If I select a game it just goes back to the list without playing the game or even showing the emulator at all. I've found if I remove the - m parameter the emulator at least launches but only shows the gui of Zsnes without playing the game. Any solutions for this? Btw mednafen for gba is working fine, just not zsnes for snes.

Maybe the ZSNES command line has changed since the related Advanced launcher configuration wikipage have been created. If you start XBMC from a terminal window and then start ZSNES using Advanced Launcher, if there is an error with ZSNES it will be displayed into the terminal window. It could surely help us to found what is going wrong.

So somehow launching from the terminal seems to have fixed the Zsnes issue, now it launches fine everytime from Advanced Launcher. I've moved on to trying to get PCSX-R running and am having a new issue, it runs fine if I run from the desktop however when launching from xbmc I just get a blank screen. In the terminal it says "could not open /dev/cdrom" and then lists Motherboard info (Nvidia Ion) but nothing else. just a blank screen. Any ideas?

Seems like PCSX-R is trying to start a CDROM, but is not able to found it. Have you followed the WIKIpage instruction for the command line : http://www.gwenael.org/xbmc/index.php?ti...X-Reloaded ?

[leepenny]

very quick one - I have set google chrome to launch from home page can I have different set ups for launching to different favorite web pages via the arguments.
Sorry if this has been answered elsewhere but seems its a simple answer.

[Angelscry]

Hi, i'm on Windows 7 64bits. I'm having problems with nes emulator JNES. when i try to launch a ROM from the launcher it gives me this error "directdraw: unable to create surface lpddsp"

this does not happen with psone and ps2 emulators pSX and PCSX2

t looks like XBMC and JNES use the same graphical ressource (directdraw) generating comflict and errors. The only thing you can try is to use a .bat script that will force XBMC to be closed befaore starting JNES. You will found such kind of script here : http://www.gwenael.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=6

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very quick one - I have set google chrome to launch from home page can I have different set ups for launching to different favorite web pages via the arguments.
Sorry if this has been answered elsewhere but seems its a simple answer.

Yes, you can. Instead of creating a stand-alone launcher, create a file launcher with chrome, that will manage small html files redirecting to the page you want. Here is the WIKI page : http://www.gwenael.org/xbmc/index.php?ti...um#Windows
If you are under Windows, if think it is also possible to do it using internet explorer .url files (http://www.gwenael.org/xbmc/index.php?ti...er#Windows) or also create shorcut files starting chrome with command line indicating which webpage you want to see (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyfRa7gygEc).

[leepenny]

ok am using linux but creating the files in windows - ive set up chrome to run file -

<html><head>
<meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="0;url=http:fanart.tv">
</head></html>

(have checked this directs chrome to the correct site)

but what do I name the file extension as when trying to point the launcher to the file created I cant see it (.html didnt work)
sorry if this is a noob question but havent had much experience in this area
BTW thanks for the quick response

[tomy]

is it possible when starting launcher to launch an item without having to click on it?

[yenza]

I'm having trouble getting the launcher to find and run my nintendo roms. I'm running the new openELEC 3.0.0 with Jnes or virtuaNES as emulators. Anyone else who has the same problem? I've tried several times with different setups but it just won't work. The scraping seems to work but when it's done scraping the list is empty! Clues anyone?

[sudopinion]

is it possible when starting launcher to launch an item without having to click on it?

telekenesis brah.
you need to practice more homey.

[holydhaliwal]

Seems like PCSX-R is trying to start a CDROM, but is not able to found it. Have you followed the WIKIpage instruction for the command line : http://www.gwenael.org/xbmc/index.php?ti...X-Reloaded ?

Turns out it was a bug in the latest version of PCSXR, downloading and compiling from svn fixed the issue, thanks! Btw I have another question, in the latest version of xbmcbuntu leaving the Toggle Xbmc to windowed mode off causes the screen to just go black and not launch the emulator/rom. Is there a way around this? I'm only wondering because leaving the option on makes everything work correctly except Xbmc shrinks to a small window in the corner and it's just not pleasing aesthetically speaking haha. This is obviously not an end of the world issue but it would be nice to have a way to keep Xbmc from doing that when launching the rom, giving the machine a much more streamlined appearance,

[Angelscry]

ok am using linux but creating the files in windows - ive set up chrome to run file -

<html><head>
<meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="0;url=http:fanart.tv">
</head></html>

(have checked this directs chrome to the correct site)

but what do I name the file extension as when trying to point the launcher to the file created I cant see it (.html didnt work)
sorry if this is a noob question but havent had much experience in this area
BTW thanks for the quick response

Strange that .html do not work. Try .htm instead.

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is it possible when starting launcher to launch an item without having to click on it?

How do you want to start it?

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I'm having trouble getting the launcher to find and run my nintendo roms. I'm running the new openELEC 3.0.0 with Jnes or virtuaNES as emulators. Anyone else who has the same problem? I've tried several times with different setups but it just won't work. The scraping seems to work but when it's done scraping the list is empty! Clues anyone?

Are you sure to have indicated the right files extension? Could you post here the content of the launchers.xml file to see how is configurated your launcher and if the roms have been listed or not?

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Seems like PCSX-R is trying to start a CDROM, but is not able to found it. Have you followed the WIKIpage instruction for the command line : http://www.gwenael.org/xbmc/index.php?ti...X-Reloaded ?

Turns out it was a bug in the latest version of PCSXR, downloading and compiling from svn fixed the issue, thanks! Btw I have another question, in the latest version of xbmcbuntu leaving the Toggle Xbmc to windowed mode off causes the screen to just go black and not launch the emulator/rom. Is there a way around this? I'm only wondering because leaving the option on makes everything work correctly except Xbmc shrinks to a small window in the corner and it's just not pleasing aesthetically speaking haha. This is obviously not an end of the world issue but it would be nice to have a way to keep Xbmc from doing that when launching the rom, giving the machine a much more streamlined appearance,

Applications need to be started into a desktop environnment to be displayed correctly (into fullscreen or windowed) with the correct resolution, with focus, controls, etc... And by using XBMCbuntu this is not your case. Under XBMCbuntu, XBMC is running without any desktop/windows manager. So whe n you want to start another external application you have problems. To avoid this you can :

• Boot your system into a light windows manager (like openbox) and then automatically start XBMC.
  
• Create a script (.sh) that you will be started from Advanced Launcher that will start a light windows manager and then automatically launch your application.
  
• Use another linux distribution with a windows manager.
  

[leepenny]

thanks - all working now - one question though - I usually have party mode playing whilst browsing as have no sound in chrome ( a known issue )- this works as expected when launching browser through advanced launcher BUT if I add the item itself (chrome browser) as a favorite and add to home menu when opening the browser I get one music track then nothing after - is it the way the favorite is launched ?
I have always wondered this as I always have to go through advanced launcher first to the chrome entry to have uninterrupted music.
if there is a fix available then great but no big problem.

[Angelscry]

thanks - all working now - one question though - I usually have party mode playing whilst browsing as have no sound in chrome ( a known issue )- this works as expected when launching browser through advanced launcher BUT if I add the item itself (chrome browser) as a favorite and add to home menu when opening the browser I get one music track then nothing after - is it the way the favorite is launched ?
I have always wondered this as I always have to go through advanced launcher first to the chrome entry to have uninterrupted music.
if there is a fix available then great but no big problem.

Have you try to put the "Action on Playing Media" to "Let Play" into Advanced Launcher settings (into Advanced Options)? Could you post here your favourites.xml file?

[leepenny]

Note: I am running xbmcbuntu using frodo and Yes i've always had the 'let play' option selected - and here is my favourites.xml

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ku9dah0rp7tkk2...urites.xml

as you can see the listing of chrome-browser in favourites action starts with 'playmedia' is this whats affecting playback?