2009-02-16, 21:24
Dannydeman Wrote:New version works great, only one small little problem which is not toally XBMC related. I use the AMBX system, which works great with XBMC standalone and MPC-HC standalone. The problem I have is that, when I enable AMBX for XBMC, it won't work for MPC-HC as external player. It just keeps te last color from the XBMC menu, so I guess something is still active, because I didn't have this behavior with mediaportal with the MPC-HC as external. So I disabled AMBX for XBMC and now it works fine in MPC-HC..
I don't know how AMBX works but it maybe something to do with the fact the (by default) 5 seconds after the externalplayer starts XBMC stops redrawing it's window. However, if AMBX only cares about the foreground window (which seems reasonable) then I don't see why this should matter.
You can try increasing this time in your advancedsettings.xml
Code:
<advancedsettings>
<externalplayer>
...
<startuptime>10000</startuptime>
</externalplayer>
</advancedsettings>
will give you a 10 second delay.
Setting this value to 0 will cause XBMC to show a modal dialog instead of locking the its graphicscontext; this will mean that the XBMC window continues to be drawn, but at the expense of (a not insignificant amount of) CPU-time which some users reported causing their externalplayers problems.
Dannydeman Wrote:But it also seems aAMBX is crashing lots more then normal, now it just hangs and gives me an error after 30minutes of playing (very random though). I know this isn't entierly the fault of XBMC, but I don't have this with mediaportal/externalplayer combo.
Can't help with this.