[ctt99]

Hi Kodi forum!

I hope somebody can help me please. I am trying to use a retail purchased version of WinDVD11 to play retail bluray discs. This is the code in my file:

<playercorefactory>
  <players>
    <player name="WinDVD" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
      <filename>C:\Program Files (x86)\Corel\WinDVD11\WinDVD.exe</filename>
      <args>"{1}" /fullscreen /close</args>
      <hidexbmc>false</hidexbmc>
    </player>
  </players>
  <rules action="prepend">
    <rule filetypes="bd|bdmv|m2ts" player="WinDVD"/>
  </rules>
</playercorefactory>

But when I try to play a disc Kodi does not try to invoke WinDVD and I get a message saying Kodi cannot play encrypted blurays.

Things I have tried:
1. I have made sure that the filename is correct and have tested it using a shortcut to open WinDVD
2. I have experimented with the <rule> tag with different filetypes. I have tried including iso and also disc="bd". Perhaps there's a specific combination I need to use to get this to work? (thinking out loud here)
3. Made sure the xml is placed in %appdata%\kodi\userdata

I am running Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (all updates installed). My Kodi version is 18.0-ALPHA2 compiled on May 11 2018. I have tried searching the forums and the Kodi wiki to try to find a solution to what I am doing wrong.

Please help! :-)

Many thanks in advance!

PS I'd like WinDVD to only play bluray discs.

[PatK]

Looks like the playercorefactory script isn't loading, check the debug log to see if it's there and accepted. You should have a option 'play using' in the context menu (movie in focus) and check your script with https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=256537  If you're still having issues post the debug log to a public pastebin and link that URL here.

[ctt99]

Thank you kindly for replying!

Here is an excerpt from the file called "kodi.txt" found under \kodi (which I hope is the debug log)

...
22:00:02.360 T:4176 NOTICE: Loading player core factory settings from special://xbmc/system/playercorefactory.xml.
22:00:02.360 T:4176 NOTICE: Loaded playercorefactory configuration
22:00:02.360 T:4176 NOTICE: Loading player core factory settings from special://profile/playercorefactory.xml.
22:00:02.361 T:4176 WARNING: CPlayerCoreFactory::GetPlayer(WinDVD): no such player: WinDVD
22:00:02.361 T:4176 NOTICE: Loaded playercorefactory configuration
...

Thankfully it seems to be finding the file okay but, maddeningly, it claims the player I'm trying to define is 'no such player'!

I will check the link you have posted to see if a solution can be found in there.

[ctt99]

Apologies, just seen the rules about posting debug logs. 

Here is the link to my kodi.log on pastebin: https://pastebin.com/NDgkG6Pk

I looked in that other forum post and couldn't find a solution to my problem, I'm still having the same issue.

[PatK]

I note you are running Kodi Alpha, and atm there are issues with the external player script, but you should be getting a choice of players in the context menu, even if they have issues. Try setting either VLC or MCP-HC as the player (I couldn't get windows media player to work) in the same UTF-8 script, but the script posted works on my set-up, with Krypton. Looking at the wiki you might want to play the args and perhaps place quotation marks (although mine works fine without) "on that path to the executable".

As a side note: my user log shows:

NOTICE: Loading player core factory settings from special://profile/playercorefactory.xml.
20:36:41.090 T:10248 WARNING: CPlayerCoreFactory::GetPlayer(mpc-be64): no such player: mpc-be64
20:36:41.090 T:10248   DEBUG: CPlayerCoreConfig::<ctor>: created player mpc-be64

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<playercorefactory>
 <players>
   <player name="mpc-be64" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
     <filename>C:\Program Files\MPC-BE x64\mpc-be64.exe</filename>
     <args>"{1}" /fullscreen /close</args>
     <hidexbmc>false</hidexbmc>
     <hideconsole>false</hideconsole>
     <warpcursor>none</warpcursor>
     <playcountminimumtime>2700</playcountminimumtime>
   </player>
 </players>
 <rules action="prepend">
     <rule filetypes="mkv" videoresolution="1080" videocodec="hevc" player="mpc-be64"/>
 </rules>
</playercorefactory>

[ctt99]

Apologies for late reply.

I think you are right, I installed Krypton and it worked.

Just checking though: when I start Kodi v17, I go to disc and selected play and was hoping it would start the program instantly but it gave me several options like.

Is this expected behaviour?

Also, when stopping the external player I was hoping it would stop and close the external player, but it remained open over Kodi. Was kinda hoping it would at least switch.


Sorry for the extra questions

[PatK]

Sorry for my tardy reply, helping a local election candidate and find myself too tired to keep in my eyes propped up.

"Is this expected behaviour?" I believe so, although I don't have a Blu-Ray drive in the PC I do get options for disk. The external player closes for me just fine, and the Kodi interface comes back full screen and functional. I suspect the player might have settings that are holding it open, when you manually close the player, Kodi operability should return?

For closing that's the statment<args>"{1}" /fullscreen /close</args>