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My summary currently with build 17261:
Working as external player (switching correctly into external player and back into XBMC):
* mplayer
Not working as external player:
* Windows Media Player (plays "behind" XBMC GUI)
* Zoom Player (plays "behind" XBMC GUI)
I would be happy with mplayer, totally, but cannot get it to work with reclock. When launching mplayer from the OS reclock detects the launch of mplayer and sync to the video. If mplayer is launched from XBMC reclock does not start up. I'd burn to see this working as WITH reclock i get totally jidder- and tearingfree playback with 24p...
XBMC Equipment:
Nvidia Ion + Atom 330, HDMI out
Panasonic TH-42PX80FV
Windows Server 2008 R2
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Nightyy, I'm using XP SP3 with ZoomPlayer and it plays in front with no problem. Care to post your advancedsettings.xml?
Also, when you speak of mplayer, you are referring to MediaPlayer Classic?
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FYI, the very same configuration that works on Windows XP SP3 32bit does not work on Vista 64bit. Handling of windows focus seems to be different there...
XBMC Equipment:
Nvidia Ion + Atom 330, HDMI out
Panasonic TH-42PX80FV
Windows Server 2008 R2
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manxam
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nightyy, thanks for confirming the issue with vista. My HTPC is a vista 32 box and, no matter which player I use and which options that I choose, the media player is always started in behind XBMC. XBMC will always SHOW in the foreground even if the program behind as focus (as when I alt-f4 it closes the newly launched media player and not xbmc).
My only thought to this would be having external player launch an autohotkey script which will minimize or hide xbmc and then launch the specific player and media file. My issue is that I'm not sure which variables xbmc passes to the exernal player. I've seen reference to %1 to %4 but am not certain which is the path, arg, filename, et cetera.
Call me confused..
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Same here, can't get external player to work on vista with xbmc on full screen (works perfectly with xbmc on windowed mode). I tried on two computers, with 3 different players.
My workaround is to launch a script that kills xbmc, and then launch the player:
taskkill /F /IM XBMC.exe
"C:\Program Files\mpc\mplayerc.exe" %1 %2 %3 %4
Then xbmc is automatically restarted when mplayerc is stopped (with eventghost)
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ps : sorry for my poor english