2013-03-13, 17:10
Whoops!
Turns out PowerDVD12 isn't functioning well as an external player after all ... even with the settings suggested in the cyberlink forum that I referenced in my last post. In my case, the software was just remembering the last blu-ray folder it had opened ... so when the player was spawned from xbmc, it looked like it had found the right movie. But when I tried to then play a blu-ray folder for a TV show, PowerDVD played the previous movie. So somehow the path/folder name isn't being recognized when xbmc launches PDVD as an external player.
I think I've isolated the problem to PDVD and not XBMC. I tried the command line options in a command window for PDVD and it did not work either (using the same syntax as specified in http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/23102.page). In following up on some additional threads on the cyberlink forum, it's clear the command line options in PDVD are not officially supported ... so who knows if they work consistently. XBMC is probably passing the right arguments but PDVD isn't acting on them. While PDVD runs as an external player, it doesn't point to the movie you've selected.
I gather ripping to BDMV folders isn't popular, but like a few other people I like to maintain the full features and menu structure. XBMC will play some of these with the native player but full menu support is shaky at best. Sure would be nice to see this feature completed/upgraded in XBMC.
Has anyone tried ArcSoft TMT as an external player? They have what looks like a complete list of supported command line options displayed prominently on their website ... which makes me think it could work well with XBMC.
Turns out PowerDVD12 isn't functioning well as an external player after all ... even with the settings suggested in the cyberlink forum that I referenced in my last post. In my case, the software was just remembering the last blu-ray folder it had opened ... so when the player was spawned from xbmc, it looked like it had found the right movie. But when I tried to then play a blu-ray folder for a TV show, PowerDVD played the previous movie. So somehow the path/folder name isn't being recognized when xbmc launches PDVD as an external player.
I think I've isolated the problem to PDVD and not XBMC. I tried the command line options in a command window for PDVD and it did not work either (using the same syntax as specified in http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/23102.page). In following up on some additional threads on the cyberlink forum, it's clear the command line options in PDVD are not officially supported ... so who knows if they work consistently. XBMC is probably passing the right arguments but PDVD isn't acting on them. While PDVD runs as an external player, it doesn't point to the movie you've selected.
I gather ripping to BDMV folders isn't popular, but like a few other people I like to maintain the full features and menu structure. XBMC will play some of these with the native player but full menu support is shaky at best. Sure would be nice to see this feature completed/upgraded in XBMC.
Has anyone tried ArcSoft TMT as an external player? They have what looks like a complete list of supported command line options displayed prominently on their website ... which makes me think it could work well with XBMC.