Play ASX and other Streams Fullscreen.

I'm not sure if somebody did a post on this allready.
If so, i was not able to find it.

How to play your streams fullscreen;
I have lots of streamfiles (*.asx) with different format referrals in them.

While i'm aware of the fact that playing streams in My Radio was not intended and a newer release will probably give the option to play them under My video's (Great Work Guy's ! Keep it up !!)

I wanted to play them fullscreen NOW ! :shock:

The solution is simple and slightly ugly but failproof.

1 Just place all your asx files in a directory within your movie or radio
directory. (elsewhere, no problem of course)

2 Set Media Player Classic (see new codecs in release 0.1.1.1) as the
external player in the configuration screen under Movie Player.

*(startup M P C outside MP)

3 Make sure you set M P C to open all files in fullscreen.
4 and to remember te previous window setting.
5 associate M P C with all filetypes
6 disable logo on startup
7 disable statusbar and other bars.
8 disable or set other things on your way wich i forgot to mention.

9 Set the key's and other input you normally use for play pause exit etc.

10 Set your audio as you like.

Now you have set up M P C as an external player for all know filetype's
including ASX and *.RM

ok, it doesn't look that pretty, :?
and you get a pulldown menu while exitting the player.
but heey it play's nicely and is configurable !


Greetings !


Hope to see that streaming capability within MP soon !
Having fun with MP in the meanwhile !

[daveyb]

I have been looking for some good video streams on google, but haven't found many. Any chance you could post some of the ones you have found?

Hi DaveyB,

Yesterday i heard Luke talking about a possible maybe on a location to share MP related files in the future.
In the meanwhile; if you have any webspace available to place
aprrox. 150MB of streams on, Then you can get them all !

Otherwise, a good location to look for streams would be;
http://xbmc-stream.gueux.be/index_eng.php
It's french and has mostly XBox streams.
But, a renaming of the *.str or *.strm to *.asx works wonders on most of them.

Greetings