Blu-Ray / HD DVD plugin for Arcsoft player

ArcSoft has pretty good HD DVD & Blu-Ray playback application http://www.arcsoft.com/public/software_title.asp?ProductID=362 TotalMedia Theatre

Their player comes with a MCE plugin that has nice 10 foot GUI and support for MCE remote. Using their player will give almost as good user experience as fully integrated, native Mediaportal Blu-Ray / HD DVD playback.

Currently this plugin is beta, so use with a care

Current features

- Play HD DVD / Blu-Ray disk from the MediaPortal main menu
- Automatic FPS detection and refresh rate change (possible with MP >1.0.1)
- Auto play support (possible with MP >1.0.1)
- Localization
- Saving and restoring power scheme (Arcsoft's player can change this based on its own settings)

Upcoming features

- Allow custom icon to be used for the plugin

Installation

- Install the MPI file
- Use plugin settings to provide the path to the Arcsoft's MCE plugin
- You might need to change some Arcsoft's MCE plugin settings (for example make sure that drive letter is set up correctly)

Usage

- Insert HD DVD / Blu-Ray disk into drive
- Press "Play Bluray" in main menu (if no autoplay is configured)
- Use MCE remote to control playback

Version history

Beta 2
- Initial release (not available anymore as people seemed to download this instead of the beta 3 )

Beta 3
- Added option to minimize MediaPortal during playback
- Added option to suspend MediaPortal GUI engine rendering during playback
- Last version that supports MP 1.0

Beta 4
- Added autoplay support for HD DVD
- Added autoplay support for Blu-Ray
- Added refresh rate change (not tested well)
- Added localization support

Beta 5
- Fixed hard coded drive letter (caused playback to fail in most of the cases)

Beta 6
- Fixed enable/disable refresh rate setting not working
- Added French localization

Beta 7
- Added saving and restoring power scheme (Arcsoft's player can change this based on its own settings)
- Fixed some issues with drive letter handling
- Added drive letter selection for HD DVD / Blu-Ray drive


NOTE! requires latest SVN for MP itself (or 1.0.2).

Information

- Arcsoft TotalMedia Theatre - AVS Forum
- Missing Remote

Disabling animated intro

To start with a blank black screen rename \Program Files\ArcSoft\TotalMedia Extreme\Digital Theatre\PlayDVDSplash_noSRS.log to something else


Downloads

Source codes: https://mp-plugins.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/mp-plugins/trunk/plugins/ArcsoftPlayer

Install package as attachment.

Hi Tourettes

do you think this player is better than powerdvd8? I have really big problems with it and HDCP even if I have an hardware configuration that should support it without problems?

Thanks

Not sure, I guess you have just test. Arcsoft provides a trial version so you can test it for free.

Btw. their player handles also HD DVDs.

It will go back to MP.

So, has anyone had any success with the plugin?