[thewhiteknight]

Yes, I'm completely 100% positive I'm using Windows 7 32-bit. As I said a few threads back, I removed the (x86) from all the strings in the .xml and .bat files, which is ultimately when we started getting real progress with this. After removing the (x86) is when PowerDVD12 actually popped up, however it would then drop back behind XBMC and still refused to play automatically.

My PowerDVD12 directory is "C:\Program Files\CyberLink\PowerDVD12" and there is an application within that directory called PDVDLaunchPolicy. Is that not structured properly as the directory isn't actually "C:\Program Files\CyberLink\PowerDVD12\PDVDLaunchPolicy.exe" as you list above?

If that is the case, your playercorefactory.xml codes should be-

<playercorefactory>
</player>
<player name="Disc_Player" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<filename>C:\Program Files\CyberLink\PowerDVD12\PDVDLaunchPolicy.exe</filename>
<args>"{E:}" /close</args>
<hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
<hideconsole>false</hideconsole>
<warpcursor>none</warpcursor>

</player>
</players>
<rules action="prepend">
<!-- Bluray Disc -->
<rule name="Blu-Ray" filename="E:\\.*" filetypes="bdmv" player="Disc_Player"/>
</rules>
</playercorefactory>

-Just to confirm that your PDVD12 directory is "C:\Program Files\CyberLink\PowerDVD12\PDVDLaunchPolicy.exe", you can go into "C:\Program Files\CyberLink\PowerDVD12" folder and right/click on "PDVDLaunchPolicy" and then Properties, you'll find the exact directory for it.....it should work now!

bluray,

Sorry I haven't gotten back to you regarding this, I haven't tried it yet. The reason I haven't tried it yet is because I have Blu-ray playback within XBMC right now (that includes full use of dts HD Master and Dolby truHD sound). I'm not sure how it's working, or if it even should be working, but I don't need PowerDVD12 to watch Blu-ray's, as I am watching them from right in XBMC.

Did we (and by we I mean mostly you) stumble onto something that was previously thought to be impossible? If you believe so then when I get home from work later tonight why don't I copy/paste my playercorefactory.xml codes and my .bat file codes so we can see exactly what's going on here. If this is something others are doing already then we'll consider my issues/problems getting this to work solved, as I'd much rather use XBMC as my player from all of my video sources instead of XBMC for 1 source and PowerDVD12 as my blu-ray player source.

Let me know what your thoughts on this are (as well as anyone else who wants to jump in and add anything).