[luci5r]

Navigate to Videos/Files. (I made a home page, submenu, shortcut)
Select your BDROM drive.
Bring up the context menu by pressing 'C' on your keyboard or mapped remote button.
Select 'Play Using'.
Select 2D or 3D.
PDVD should open and begin playback.

Thanks so much for your response. Unfortunately I'm having some trouble.
My BDROM Drive is "K:" driver on my system.

In Kodi, I went to Video -> Files and clicked on "Add Videos..." and then "Browse"
Over here I see all my Hard Drives and some other things like "Home Folder", "Network File System (NFS)", "Windows Network", "UPnP Devices", etc. ... however, I don't see "K:" as an option. I don't see anything referring to an optical drive.

I also have VirtualCloneDrive installed in the system, which as a 1 virtual drive, with the letter "J:". This also doesn't show up in this list (Although I don't need it to).

Maybe I'm doing something wrong or looking in the wrong place?

Just wanted to update:

I didn't have a disc inserted in the BDROM Drive, and that may have been the issue. Once I inserted a Blu-ray disc in the drive, I do see the "K:" option in the list of drives under Video -> Files.

When I do hit "Play" on that though, it doesn't play, instead gives me an error "Could not start playback. Check the log".

I found this in the log:

08:46:52 T:5020 NOTICE: VideoPlayer: Opening: K:\BDMV\index.bdmv
08:46:52 T:5020 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player):ut MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
08:46:52 T:5020 ERROR: DXVA::CProcessorHD::IsFormatSupported - Unsupported format 105 for 1.
08:46:52 T:5612 NOTICE: Creating InputStream
08:46:52 T:5612 ERROR: CDVDInputStreamBluray::Open - Media stream scrambled/encrypted with AACS
08:46:52 T:5612 ERROR: CVideoPlayer::OpenInputStream - error opening [K:\BDMV\index.bdmv]
08:46:52 T:5612 NOTICE: CVideoPlayer::OnExit()
08:46:52 T:5020 ERROR: Playlist Player: skipping unplayable item: 0, path [K:\BDMV\index.bdmv]
08:46:52 T:5020 NOTICE: CVideoPlayer::CloseFile()
08:46:52 T:5020 NOTICE: VideoPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
08:46:52 T:5020 NOTICE: VideoPlayer: finished waiting
08:46:52 T:5020 NOTICE: CVideoPlayer::CloseFile()
08:46:52 T:5020 NOTICE: VideoPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
08:46:52 T:5020 NOTICE: VideoPlayer: finished waiting

Does this help?

Third and most positive update:

I had a problem with the "Playercorefactory.xml" file - as I had noted previously - I had made a few small changes to it. After making the appropriate corrections, I'm happy to report that I'm able to play my inserted Blu-ray Disc in PowerDVD using the Video -> Files -> "Play" method. It's working well! Thank you!

I did need to enable AnyDVD HD. I was getting an HDCP error without it.

So my query changes now.

I have 2 issues I'm hoping you can help with:

(1) As I mentioned, I also have VirtualCloneDrive installed, using the letter "J:" for the virtual drive. This is used to mount ISO's from the Kodi Movie Library, then playable by PowerDVD.

What is happening is, when I click "Play" on my Blu-ray Drive letter "K:", PowerDVD Launches, but it's trying to use "J:" which is the VirtualCloneDrive Virtual Drive. I have to manually, using Keyboard, switch to "K:", then hit play, and then it starts playing the Disc. If I go back into Kodi Library and play an ISO, PowerDVD is able to use "J:"

As you can see, this involves keyboard interaction & I'd like to mitigate that if possible.

In the ".BAT" file you gave, under the "lay ISO" function, I see that you asked us to specify the VirtualCloneDrive drive letter here:

Code:

:playiso
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Elaborate Bytes\VirtualCloneDrive\VCDMount.exe" /d=0 %1
timeout /t 3
"C:\Program Files (x86)\CyberLink\PowerDVD16\PowerDVD.exe" J:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Elaborate Bytes\VirtualCloneDrive\VCDMount.exe" /d=0 /u
GOTO end

So my question, is it possible to tell PowerDVD which drive letter to use when it's trying to play a Blu-ray Disc using the optical drive, as opposed to playing an ISO in the movie library? Can we perhaps add "K:" somewhere in the code below, which I'm guessing is what plays a Blu-ray Disc in the optical drive, in PowerDVD:

Code:

:plaympls
set pth=%1
set pth=%pth:~1,-25%
"C:\Program Files (x86)\CyberLink\PowerDVD16\PowerDVD.exe" "%pth%" exit
GOTO end

:playbdmv
set pth=%1
set pth=%pth:BDMV\MovieObject.bdmv=%
set pth=%pth:BDMV\index.bdmv=%
"C:\Program Files (x86)\CyberLink\PowerDVD16\PowerDVD.exe" %pth% exit
GOTO end

(2) My other issue is more of a convenience thing. Right now the only way to reach the Blu-ray Disc is going into Video -> Files. Is it possible at all to a "Play Disc" or something of that nature right into the main menu, where we have "Movies", "TV Shows", "Videos" etc, as opposed to going into Videos -> Files?

Thanks a lot for your help!![/code]