[Derek]

Oh Also VLC, Std Win Media Player and DVDPlayer also working flawlessly although not the lovely quality gained with DSPlayer and MPC-HC

[Derek]

Maybe this has been asked in this thread already but I didn't want to read all 188 pages so I'll ask here. For some reason when I minimize Kodi while a movie is playing to setup madVR, I'm not getting the icon in the task bar like it said in the original guide on page one. I was using madVR with MPC-HC prior to this and still have it all setup so I fired up MPC to see if madvr showed up there and it did. Is there something conflicting going on possibly?

Are you sure you chose madVR as the video renderer?

Also, perhaps you chose "Load and save in the DSPlayer database" instead of "Load from active madVR profile." Saving your madVR settings with DSPlayer instead of the madVR control panel might make the tray icon inaccessible.

You need to check the box to show the icon on the taskbar in the madvr settings same as all the external codecs, audio, subtitle etc.

[Derek]

I just setup Kodi with DSplayer following the guide, however, I have problem playing .ts and dvd.iso file. For .ts file, I can not find any guide to setup Kodi with tsreader, dvd.iso file does not play with dvdplayer nor dsplayer.

Is it better to play .ts and .iso file in Kodi with MPC-HC as external player ? How would I do this ? I read some guide to use MPC-HC as external player, but since Kodi have DVDplayer+DSplayer+MPC-HC player, thing become so complicated for me.
I would like to do this:
DSplayer for : avi, mkv
DVDplayer for streaming
MPC-HC for .TS and .iso

Or any better suggestion

Please help me point out what I need to do so I can dig myself out of the problem.

Is something like this possible? I'm in a similar situation where I would like to use:

DSPlayer for all video, but...
DVDPlayer for streaming
MPC-HC for DVDs (as support is far superior to DSPlayer's, where I often get broken menus, laggy overlay or non-anamorphic video)
VLC for Blu-rays (as it has the best menu support and I do not need madVR's upscaling for stuff that is already 1080p)

Getting DSPlayer and DVDPlayer sorted is easy. I've tried fiddling with playercorefactory but I cannot get VLC or MPC-HC to be shown as external players through the "Play Using" context menu option, when using Kodi DSPlayer. Does the way DSPlayer is coded not allow external players to be added?

This is my entire playercorefactory.xml which ALL works perfectly in DSPlayer Kodi RC3:

Code:

<playercorefactory>

<players>
        
        <player name="MPC-HC" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
             <filename>C:\Program Files\MPC-HC\MPC-HC.exe</filename>
             <args>"{1}" /fullscreen /close</args>
             <hidexbmc>false</hidexbmc>
             <hideconsole>false</hideconsole>
             <warpcursor>none</warpcursor>
        <playcountminimumtime>1140</playcountminimumtime>
        </player>
        <rules action="prepend">
        <rule filetypes="mkv|avi|divx|ogm|mp4|mov|m4v|flv|m2v|mpeg|mpg|mts|m2ts|vob|bdmv" player="MPC-HC">
        <rule protocols="http|https" player="MPC-HC"/>
        <rule protocols="daap|rtv|rtsp|rtmp|rtmpe|rtsp|mms|rtp|pvr" player="DVDPlayer"/>
        </rule>
        </rules>


        <player name="VLC" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
             <filename>C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe</filename>
             <args>"{1}" /fullscreen /close</args>
             <hidexbmc>false</hidexbmc>
             <hideconsole>false</hideconsole>
             <warpcursor>none</warpcursor>
        </player>

        <player name="Windows Media Player" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
             <filename>C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe</filename>
             <args>"{1}" /fullscreen /close</args>
             <hidexbmc>false</hidexbmc>
             <hideconsole>false</hideconsole>
             <warpcursor>none</warpcursor>
        </player>

</players>
</playercorefactory>

Ive just tested all this in the last 30 mins so its 100% working, you could modify if further but i really just use MPC-HC the others are there just because they are really but work perfectly.

Obviously you may need to change the paths but otherwise should be golden.

[Tamuro]

Maybe this has been asked in this thread already but I didn't want to read all 188 pages so I'll ask here. For some reason when I minimize Kodi while a movie is playing to setup madVR, I'm not getting the icon in the task bar like it said in the original guide on page one. I was using madVR with MPC-HC prior to this and still have it all setup so I fired up MPC to see if madvr showed up there and it did. Is there something conflicting going on possibly?

Are you sure you chose madVR as the video renderer?

Also, perhaps you chose "Load and save in the DSPlayer database" instead of "Load from active madVR profile." Saving your madVR settings with DSPlayer instead of the madVR control panel might make the tray icon inaccessible.

I do have madVR as the video renderer and also have "load from active madVR profile" selected.

Maybe this has been asked in this thread already but I didn't want to read all 188 pages so I'll ask here. For some reason when I minimize Kodi while a movie is playing to setup madVR, I'm not getting the icon in the task bar like it said in the original guide on page one. I was using madVR with MPC-HC prior to this and still have it all setup so I fired up MPC to see if madvr showed up there and it did. Is there something conflicting going on possibly?

Are you sure you chose madVR as the video renderer?

Also, perhaps you chose "Load and save in the DSPlayer database" instead of "Load from active madVR profile." Saving your madVR settings with DSPlayer instead of the madVR control panel might make the tray icon inaccessible.

You need to check the box to show the icon on the taskbar in the madvr settings same as all the external codecs, audio, subtitle etc.

Can you do that from within' Kodi/DSplayer because I thought the only way to access madVR was when a movie is playing and then minimizing to see it in the taskbar already? I don't remember seeing an option for that. Hmmm, will have to check later this evening.

Thanks gentlemen.

[Derek]

Load MPC-HC and click config madvr and check the box and it'll be back not sure how to acheive it through DSPlayer Kodi but thats what your missing 100%

[Tamuro]

Load MPC-HC and click config madvr and check the box and it'll be back not sure how to acheive it through DSPlayer Kodi but thats what your missing 100%

Well it already shows up in the taskbar when I use MPC-HC, just not when I use madVR with Kodi. I'll take a look when I get home.

[maddiesdad15]

Derek,

In your listed playercorefactory, what would go to he DSPlayer? Very new to this, and only see DVDPlayer and MPC-HC listed.

I just setup Kodi with DSplayer following the guide, however, I have problem playing .ts and dvd.iso file. For .ts file, I can not find any guide to setup Kodi with tsreader, dvd.iso file does not play with dvdplayer nor dsplayer.

Is it better to play .ts and .iso file in Kodi with MPC-HC as external player ? How would I do this ? I read some guide to use MPC-HC as external player, but since Kodi have DVDplayer+DSplayer+MPC-HC player, thing become so complicated for me.
I would like to do this:
DSplayer for : avi, mkv
DVDplayer for streaming
MPC-HC for .TS and .iso

Or any better suggestion

Please help me point out what I need to do so I can dig myself out of the problem.

Is something like this possible? I'm in a similar situation where I would like to use:

DSPlayer for all video, but...
DVDPlayer for streaming
MPC-HC for DVDs (as support is far superior to DSPlayer's, where I often get broken menus, laggy overlay or non-anamorphic video)
VLC for Blu-rays (as it has the best menu support and I do not need madVR's upscaling for stuff that is already 1080p)

Getting DSPlayer and DVDPlayer sorted is easy. I've tried fiddling with playercorefactory but I cannot get VLC or MPC-HC to be shown as external players through the "Play Using" context menu option, when using Kodi DSPlayer. Does the way DSPlayer is coded not allow external players to be added?

This is my entire playercorefactory.xml which ALL works perfectly in DSPlayer Kodi RC3:

Code:

<playercorefactory>

<players>
        
        <player name="MPC-HC" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
             <filename>C:\Program Files\MPC-HC\MPC-HC.exe</filename>
             <args>"{1}" /fullscreen /close</args>
             <hidexbmc>false</hidexbmc>
             <hideconsole>false</hideconsole>
             <warpcursor>none</warpcursor>
        <playcountminimumtime>1140</playcountminimumtime>
        </player>
        <rules action="prepend">
        <rule filetypes="mkv|avi|divx|ogm|mp4|mov|m4v|flv|m2v|mpeg|mpg|mts|m2ts|vob|bdmv" player="MPC-HC">
        <rule protocols="http|https" player="MPC-HC"/>
        <rule protocols="daap|rtv|rtsp|rtmp|rtmpe|rtsp|mms|rtp|pvr" player="DVDPlayer"/>
        </rule>
        </rules>


        <player name="VLC" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
             <filename>C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe</filename>
             <args>"{1}" /fullscreen /close</args>
             <hidexbmc>false</hidexbmc>
             <hideconsole>false</hideconsole>
             <warpcursor>none</warpcursor>
        </player>

        <player name="Windows Media Player" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
             <filename>C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe</filename>
             <args>"{1}" /fullscreen /close</args>
             <hidexbmc>false</hidexbmc>
             <hideconsole>false</hideconsole>
             <warpcursor>none</warpcursor>
        </player>

</players>
</playercorefactory>

Ive just tested all this in the last 30 mins so its 100% working, you could modify if further but i really just use MPC-HC the others are there just because they are really but work perfectly.

Obviously you may need to change the paths but otherwise should be golden.

[Derek]

DSPlayer is there by default as the default player if you dont click play using theres no need for it to be in the playercorefactory.xml

[maddiesdad15]

Got it. Thank you sir

DSPlayer is there by default as the default player if you dont click play using theres no need for it to be in the playercorefactory.xml

[yougood]

Thank you....thank you Derek.....you are my savior. Now I know what I am missing is the playcorefactory. Now I can dig myself out ....

Derek,

In your listed playercorefactory, what would go to he DSPlayer? Very new to this, and only see DVDPlayer and MPC-HC listed.

Is something like this possible? I'm in a similar situation where I would like to use:

DSPlayer for all video, but...
DVDPlayer for streaming
MPC-HC for DVDs (as support is far superior to DSPlayer's, where I often get broken menus, laggy overlay or non-anamorphic video)
VLC for Blu-rays (as it has the best menu support and I do not need madVR's upscaling for stuff that is already 1080p)

Getting DSPlayer and DVDPlayer sorted is easy. I've tried fiddling with playercorefactory but I cannot get VLC or MPC-HC to be shown as external players through the "Play Using" context menu option, when using Kodi DSPlayer. Does the way DSPlayer is coded not allow external players to be added?

This is my entire playercorefactory.xml which ALL works perfectly in DSPlayer Kodi RC3:

Code:

<playercorefactory>

<players>
        
        <player name="MPC-HC" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
             <filename>C:\Program Files\MPC-HC\MPC-HC.exe</filename>
             <args>"{1}" /fullscreen /close</args>
             <hidexbmc>false</hidexbmc>
             <hideconsole>false</hideconsole>
             <warpcursor>none</warpcursor>
        <playcountminimumtime>1140</playcountminimumtime>
        </player>
        <rules action="prepend">
        <rule filetypes="mkv|avi|divx|ogm|mp4|mov|m4v|flv|m2v|mpeg|mpg|mts|m2ts|vob|bdmv" player="MPC-HC">
        <rule protocols="http|https" player="MPC-HC"/>
        <rule protocols="daap|rtv|rtsp|rtmp|rtmpe|rtsp|mms|rtp|pvr" player="DVDPlayer"/>
        </rule>
        </rules>


        <player name="VLC" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
             <filename>C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe</filename>
             <args>"{1}" /fullscreen /close</args>
             <hidexbmc>false</hidexbmc>
             <hideconsole>false</hideconsole>
             <warpcursor>none</warpcursor>
        </player>

        <player name="Windows Media Player" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
             <filename>C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe</filename>
             <args>"{1}" /fullscreen /close</args>
             <hidexbmc>false</hidexbmc>
             <hideconsole>false</hideconsole>
             <warpcursor>none</warpcursor>
        </player>

</players>
</playercorefactory>

Ive just tested all this in the last 30 mins so its 100% working, you could modify if further but i really just use MPC-HC the others are there just because they are really but work perfectly.

Obviously you may need to change the paths but otherwise should be golden.

[yougood]

Here is my modified playcorefactory from Derek, I will test it later when I am home

DSplayer with Madvr by default play: MKV and AVI
MPC-HC with Madvr will play : mov,mts,ts,vob,bdmv and http
DVDPlayer (Kodi player) will play : all streaming
DVDPlayer (Kodi player) will play VD and DVD Images also can play with MPC-HC



<playercorefactory>

<players>

<player name="MPC-HC" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<filename>C:\Program Files\MPC-HC\MPC-HC.exe</filename>
<args>"{1}" /fullscreen /close</args>
<hidexbmc>false</hidexbmc>
<hideconsole>false</hideconsole>
<warpcursor>none</warpcursor>
<playcountminimumtime>1140</playcountminimumtime>
</player>


<rules action="prepend">
<!-#- DSplayer by default with Madvr play: MKV and AVI -#->

<!-#- MPC-HC will play : mov,mts,ts,vob,bdmv and http -#->

<rule filetypes="divx|ogm|mp4|mov|m4v|flv|m2v|mpeg|mpg|mts|m2ts|vob|bdmv" player="MPC-HC">
<rule protocols="http|https" player="MPC-HC"/>


<!-#- DVDPlayer will play : all streaming -#->


<rule protocols="daap|rtv|rtsp|rtmp|rtmpe|rtsp|mms|rtp|pvr" player="DVDPlayer"/>

<!-#- DVDPlayer will play VD and DVD Images also can play with MPC-HC-#->

<rule name="dvd" dvd="true" player="DVDPlayer" />
<rule name="dvdimage" dvdimage="true" player="DVDPlayer" />




</rules>



</players>
</playercorefactory>

[gotham_x]

Guys ; Finally, I solved my problem by observing and comparing playercorefactory path with the PC, I realized that something was missing in shaping playercorefactory, this (x86)

First
<filename> C: \ Program Files \ MPC-HC \ MPC-HC.exe </ filename>

After
<Filename> C: \ Program Files (x86) \ MPC-HC \ MPC-HC.exe </ filename>

[yougood]

Here is my modified playcorefactory from Derek, I will test it later when I am home

DSplayer with Madvr by default play: MKV and AVI
MPC-HC with Madvr will play : mov,mts,ts,vob,bdmv and http
DVDPlayer (Kodi player) will play : all streaming
DVDPlayer (Kodi player) will play VD and DVD Images also can play with MPC-HC



<playercorefactory>

<players>

<player name="MPC-HC" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<filename>C:\Program Files\MPC-HC\MPC-HC.exe</filename>
<args>"{1}" /fullscreen /close</args>
<hidexbmc>false</hidexbmc>
<hideconsole>false</hideconsole>
<warpcursor>none</warpcursor>
<playcountminimumtime>1140</playcountminimumtime>
</player>


<rules action="prepend">
<!-#- DSplayer by default with Madvr play: MKV and AVI -#->

<!-#- MPC-HC will play : mov,mts,ts,vob,bdmv and http -#->

<rule filetypes="divx|ogm|mp4|mov|m4v|flv|m2v|mpeg|mpg|mts|m2ts|vob|bdmv" player="MPC-HC">
<rule protocols="http|https" player="MPC-HC"/>


<!-#- DVDPlayer will play : all streaming -#->


<rule protocols="daap|rtv|rtsp|rtmp|rtmpe|rtsp|mms|rtp|pvr" player="DVDPlayer"/>

<!-#- DVDPlayer will play VD and DVD Images also can play with MPC-HC-#->

<rule name="dvd" dvd="true" player="DVDPlayer" />
<rule name="dvdimage" dvdimage="true" player="DVDPlayer" />




</rules>



</players>
</playercorefactory>

I place this file in C:\Users\HD\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\userdata it won't work at all. After google digging , I found out there is another playcorefactory in C:\Program Files\Kodi\system so I modify both playcorefactory file as following
in C:\Users\HD\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\userdata
<playercorefactory>

<players>

<player name="MPC-HC" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<filename>C:\Program Files\MPC-HC\MPC-HC.exe</filename>
<args>"{1}" /fullscreen /close</args>
<hidexbmc>false</hidexbmc>
<hideconsole>false</hideconsole>
<warpcursor>none</warpcursor>
<playcountminimumtime>1140</playcountminimumtime>
</player>


</players>
</playercorefactory>


And in C:\Program Files\Kodi\system

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<playercorefactory>
<players>
<!-- These are compiled-in as re-ordering them would break scripts
The following aliases may also be used:
audiodefaultplayer, videodefaultplayer, videodefaultdvdplayer
<player name="DVDPlayer" audio="true" video="true" />
<player name="DVDPlayer" /> placeholder for MPlayer
<player name="PAPlayer" audio="true" />
-->
</players>

<rules name="system rules">
<rule name="mms/udp" protocols="mms|mmsh|udp" player="DVDPlayer" />
<rule name="lastfm/shout" protocols="lastfm|shout" player="PAPlayer" />
<rule name="rtmp" protocols="rtmp" player="videodefaultplayer" />

<!-- dvdplayer can play standard rtsp streams -->
<rule name="rtsp" protocols="rtsp" filetypes="!(rm|ra)" player="PAPlayer" />

<!-- Internet streams -->
<rule name="streams" internetstream="true">
<rule name="aacp/sdp" mimetypes="audio/aacp|application/sdp" player="DVDPlayer" />
<rule name="mp2" mimetypes="application/octet-stream" filetypes="mp2" player="PAPlayer" />
</rule>

<!-- DVDs -->
<rule name="dvd" dvd="true" player="DVDPlayer" />
<rule name="dvdimage" dvdimage="true" player="MPC-HC" />

<rule name="ex-player" filetypes="ts|mpeg|mpg|mts|m2ts|vob|bdmv" player="MPC-HC" />

<!-- Only dvdplayer can handle these normally -->
<rule name="sdp/asf" filetypes="sdp|asf" player="DVDPlayer" />

<!-- Pass these to dvdplayer as we do not know if they are audio or video -->
<rule name="nsv" filetypes="nsv" player="DVDPlayer" />

<!-- pvr radio channels should be played by dvdplayer because they need buffering -->
<rule name="radio" filetypes="pvr" filename=".*/radio/.*" player="DVDPlayer" />
</rules>
</playercorefactory>


After edit both file, Kodi play all file type as expected:
DSplayer with Madvr by default play: MKV and AVI
MPC-HC with Madvr will play : mov,mts,ts,vob,bdmv and http
DVDPlayer (Kodi player) will play : all streaming
DVDPlayer (Kodi player) will play VD and DVD Images also can play with MPC-HC

[Tamuro]

Load MPC-HC and click config madvr and check the box and it'll be back not sure how to acheive it through DSPlayer Kodi but thats what your missing 100%

Ok so I clicked on the madVR exe. file located in the folder where I unzipped madvr which started madvr and put the icon in the taskbar. From there I was able to click on the taskbar setting and set it from "only show when madVR is in use" to "always show in taskbar". However, the fact that it wasn't showing up when I started a ripped bluray movie within' kodi made me question whether it was even working correctly.

So I maxed out all the sharpening enhancements in madvr while kodi was minimized just to see if the settings where being applied to the movie. Well, when brought kodi back up to full-screen the image did not change at all. So basically madvr is not working with kodi for me. Not sure what the problem is.

I tested out mpc-hc which I still have installed and configured with madvr just to make everything worked there and it is working flawlessly. So basically I am stumped.

[Wanilton]

@Tamuro, you need extract the zip file and run the "install.bat." (admin mode in context menu)