Blu-Ray / HD-DVD Player with PowerDVD (a working solution) (1 Viewer)

Does this solution help you to play Blu-Ray or HD-DVD movies?

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R300

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  • December 10, 2007
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    Mophat, This is just perfect!!!!! Plugin works awesome!!!!!

    You have made my day!!!:D :D
     

    TheBatfink

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    Ive tried to install this plugin and having some difficulties. I think I followed everything ok, but in MP in the menu, my Play Blu-Ray entry is listed as "-no name-" and no hover image is shown?

    I have the "hover_Blu-Ray.png" image in the monochrome media folder and in the plugins/windows folder is the hd starter .dll and .exe.

    In the plugin setup screen I have the following entries

    Button Caption - Play Blu-Ray
    ButtonImage - BLANK
    ButtonImageFocus - BLANK
    Picture - hover_Blu-Ray.png
    Plugin ID - 1199
    Arguments - BLANK
    Exefile - C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Plugins\Windows\HD_Starter.exe
    HideMPWhileExecuting - False

    I have got cyberlink in the correct installation folder and installed the monobluray skin which worked fine.

    Am I missing something else here?!

    Thanks!
     

    revs

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    Grrr I'd pretty much decided that I was going to get a PS3 for Blu-Ray as I didnt want the hassle of sorting t out on a HTPC (AFAIK not all disks play on a HTPC correctly and all software is a right PITA). Now I dontknow what o do - having nice integration into MP is very tempting!
     

    TheBatfink

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    Attached are screens of my setup, far as I can see I've done everything right?

    I have also tried having the full extension to the starter.exe and just \Windows\Hd_starter.exe? What is the correct path name?

    HD_Starter.exe works fine though, it loads up cyberlink if I run it manually outside of mediaportal..
     

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    ezekuel

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    March 16, 2006
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    Hi.
    I can`t get this to work.
    I get an error message saying:
    Could not start program!
    ConfigSection: [HD Starter]

    Can you please help?
     

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    MoPhat

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    TheBatfink

    My Program path are: C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\plugins\Windows\HD_Starter.exe
    Please try to download and try the DLLFix in the plugins\windows directory


    ezekuel

    Have you configured the HD Starter plugin?

    greetz
    MoPhat
     

    TheBatfink

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    Thanks for the reply. I have tried again using the full system path to the HD_Starter.exe in the config and downloaded and ran the dllfix.exe from within the plugins/window screen (which reported it patched the file ok) and still when I load mediaportal I have this -no name- entry in my home screen and no hover image is displayed.

    When I goto the -no name- menu option (to see what it does) I get this screen (below) I can not back out of this screen or move to any selections, I have to start the task manager and manually end the mediaportal task. In the task list it is displayed as "MediaPortal - Select Dialogue".

    What I will try is to delete all the files I installed for this, and redownload them and see if that does anything because I stuck as to what I could possibly have done wrong now.

    BTW I am using 0.2.3.0 with latest monochrome skin, only plugins I use are My TVseries and My Films and I am a Windows XP Professional user.
     

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    markrb

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    It seems to work for me, but with some issues.
    I cannot see the supplied skins in the options in PDVD, even though they are in the pdvd/skins directory. Not a big deal for me.
    When I close PDVD the PC does not return to MP. It's not even running. It just returns to the desktop.
    It's still better then the old way though.

    Mark
     

    ezekuel

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    March 16, 2006
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    I have done everything in #1 in this thread.
    Is there anything else I need to?

    If I run HD_Starter.exe manually outside MediaPortel, nothing happens. It doesn`t start up Power DVD
     

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