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

[eetaylog]

Noob here! Ive been trawling through this thread all day and have now had the chance to install the plugin for myself. For the most part it works great for me, however im having the same issue as a lot of people on here with using the remote control in PowerDVD. Heres my situation at the moment...

When in MP, i can use the remote to open PowerDVD (via the homescreen), but after that I cant do anything with the remote. I can use the keyboard to navigate around P-DVD and the Esc button brings me back to MP. What am i doing wrong?

I installed the plugin as per post No.1 for the following settings:

• 
  PowerDVD9
  MP1.0.1
  XP Pro SP3
  Hauppauge 45 button remote

Sorry to ask this question again, i know its been covered a thousand times but im so close to getting it working, but am stuck in the mud a bit with getting it running perfectly

 

[Thor2605]

Is there any Picture or skin for PowerDVD wich fits to Black Glass-Skin?

Can I control PowerDVD8 via SendMessage out of Girder?

And I don't know why, but if I start a Blu-Ray I can't control PowerDVD anymore with the Keyboard?!?

eagle:
Is there any way to prevent the killing of MediaPortal?

But anyway thanks for this great scripts!

 

[eagle]

eetaylog

which IR do you use?


Thor2605

I can have a look at it tonight. Meanwhile you can try to uncheck "MP allways on top" (or so) in MP-configuration. As I wrote I've got a problem to put the focus on PDVD while MP was running. Please post your result

eagle

 

[eetaylog]

eagle, i am using the ir receiver that came with my Hauppauge nova t-500 tv card. should this work with the plugin or do i have to change a setting in MP config?

currently the only MP config setting ive changed since installing the plugin is to stop mediaportal always being on top.

 

[eagle]

is it the 42-button ir? With MoPhat's script you can only use MCE-remote-control. Please use my script from post #584 (or so) and change the ini-file to your needs. This should work for you. I'm using also hauppauge-remote-control and it works like a charm

eagle

 

[eetaylog]

eagle, thanks for the pointers mate. ive got the 45 button remote but ill give the .ini file a look and have a play around.

thanks again.

eetaylog

 

[eagle]

eetaylog

copy the provided irremote.ini into your Window-folder, after you have copied the original irremote.ini. Stop ir-Service and start it again (post #585 on page 59)

eagle

 

[Thor2605]

I took the .ahk-file from eagle and changed a little bit, so that I can use AnyDVD to change the refresh rate....

But I don't understand why I need to exchange the arguments behind SetDisplayFrequency24 and 50 to get the right result?!?

So I have to execute first 50, then starting PDVD an then 24, to get the result of 24Hz, PDVD, 50Hz!

Could somebody please explain me why?

Thanks in advice!

 

[eagle]

hi Thor2605

as I do understand you in the right way: you are refering to this piece of code?!?

1.
; SetDisplayFrequency 24Hz
Run %SetDisplayFrequency24%

2.
; start BR/DVD-Player and wait until it has been terminated
RunWait %PowerDVD%

3.
; SetDisplayFrequency 50Hz
Run %SetDisplayFrequency50%

1. sets frequency to 24 Hz
2. starts PowerDVD and waits until PDVD is terminated
3. sets frequency back to 50 Hz

btw.

this section causes MP to stop

; kill MediaPortal
Loop, %id%
{
this_id := id%A_Index%

WinGet, this_process, ProcessName, ahk_id %this_id%
If this_process = MediaPortal.Exe
process, close, %this_process%w

}

and this section starts it again

; start MediaPortal
Run %MediaPortal%

If you want to leave MP running while you are watching BD via PDVD you must delete these lines out of the script

eagle

 

[Thor2605]

Yeah I know thanks!

But my Problem is, that I have to exchange the two lines with Run %SetDisplayFrequencyXX%, then it works?!?!