2009-08-08, 08:41
All,
I am running XBMC v9.04.1 on Windows XP Home.
All of my movies are ripped to ISO format, and whilst the internal player will play them, it does so in a rather hurkey-jerkey fashion due to the age of my hardware. VLC on the other hand does a lovely job, so I would like to make it my default player.
Using the instructions in this thread, I created an advancedsettings.xml and placed it in my userdata directory. Contents below:
(The extra arguments are in relation to my remote control)
My problem is that when I am in the Movie menu, and I select a move, it is still playing in the XBMC player rather than VLC. I know that I can select to play it in VLC through the context menu, but I'd really like to make VLC the true defualt player. (This thing needs to be wife and kid friendly.)
Am I missing something, or is this functioning as designed?
I am running XBMC v9.04.1 on Windows XP Home.
All of my movies are ripped to ISO format, and whilst the internal player will play them, it does so in a rather hurkey-jerkey fashion due to the age of my hardware. VLC on the other hand does a lovely job, so I would like to make it my default player.
Using the instructions in this thread, I created an advancedsettings.xml and placed it in my userdata directory. Contents below:
Code:
<advancedsettings>
<video>
<defaultplayer>externalplayer</defaultplayer>
</video>
<externalplayer>
<filename>C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe</filename>
<args>--play-and-exit --video-on-top --fullscreen --extraintf=rc --rc-host=localhost:1234 -rc-quiet --rc-shows</args>
<forceontop>false</forceontop>
<hidexbmc>false</hidexbmc>
<hideconsole>false</hideconsole>
<hidecursor>false</hidecursor>
</externalplayer>
</advancedsettings>
(The extra arguments are in relation to my remote control)
My problem is that when I am in the Movie menu, and I select a move, it is still playing in the XBMC player rather than VLC. I know that I can select to play it in VLC through the context menu, but I'd really like to make VLC the true defualt player. (This thing needs to be wife and kid friendly.)
Am I missing something, or is this functioning as designed?