2009-12-20, 17:07
Hi, you get the "Play using" option by doing a right mouse click directly on the video file you want to play.
If you don't want to have to do this for each video file, you can configure the other video player (for example MPC HC) as the default video player in XBMC in your xml files in your user data/xbmc folder.
The location of the folder on a windows 7 64 bits edition is : C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\userdata.
There are two xml files you can modify to get the result you want. I haven't tried all combinations but in my case I found I needed the two following files to be present with the following content :
advancedsettings.xml
<advancedsettings>
<video>
<defaultplayer>externalplayer</defaultplayer>
</video>
<externalplayer>
<filename>C:\Program Files\MPC HomeCinema (x64)</filename>
<args></args>
<forceontop>true</forceontop>
<hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
<hideconsole>false</hideconsole>
<hidecursor>false</hidecursor>
</externalplayer>
</advancedsettings>
[b]playercorefactory.xml[/b]
<playercorefactory>
<players>
<player name="dvdplayer" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<filename>C:\Program Files\MPC HomeCinema (x64)\mpc-hc64.exe</filename>
<args>/fullscreen /close "{1}"</args>
</player>
</players>
</playercorefactory>
Hope this helps.
With this configuration, XBMC automatically opens up MPC HC in full screen when you select a video file to play. Added to CoreAVC with default settings, you will get excellent HD playback up to 1080p on a ION ITX plateforme. Smooth playback, no tearing, no stuttering, no frame drops, etc...
If you don't want to have to do this for each video file, you can configure the other video player (for example MPC HC) as the default video player in XBMC in your xml files in your user data/xbmc folder.
The location of the folder on a windows 7 64 bits edition is : C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\userdata.
There are two xml files you can modify to get the result you want. I haven't tried all combinations but in my case I found I needed the two following files to be present with the following content :
advancedsettings.xml
<advancedsettings>
<video>
<defaultplayer>externalplayer</defaultplayer>
</video>
<externalplayer>
<filename>C:\Program Files\MPC HomeCinema (x64)</filename>
<args></args>
<forceontop>true</forceontop>
<hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
<hideconsole>false</hideconsole>
<hidecursor>false</hidecursor>
</externalplayer>
</advancedsettings>
[b]playercorefactory.xml[/b]
<playercorefactory>
<players>
<player name="dvdplayer" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<filename>C:\Program Files\MPC HomeCinema (x64)\mpc-hc64.exe</filename>
<args>/fullscreen /close "{1}"</args>
</player>
</players>
</playercorefactory>
Hope this helps.
With this configuration, XBMC automatically opens up MPC HC in full screen when you select a video file to play. Added to CoreAVC with default settings, you will get excellent HD playback up to 1080p on a ION ITX plateforme. Smooth playback, no tearing, no stuttering, no frame drops, etc...