Blu-Ray / HD DVD plugin for Arcsoft player (6 Viewers)

[domb]

I doubt very much that I will be adding anything to this unless I update to MP 1.3, but to be honest I might just move to XBMC. If anybody wants to play with it, here's the latest source code. If I was going to move to 1.3, it won't be until it's stable. Not messing around with Alphas as theres no benefit to me.

I am absolutely not a developer, a lot more work could be done on this to tidy up I'm sure. All I did was hack in support for CinePlayer and PowerDVD11.

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[Crix1990]

I've some trouble to use the external players (want to use it for BluRay and 3D-Bluray).

With ArcSoft 5:
All my 3D-Bluray-Disks will be played with 30fps (ok, thats an ArcSoft problem but perhaps someone can help).
And how do the plugin manage the "Remote to Keyboard Translation"? (want to use the Player for myFilms, too.)
I've read that it is possible to close the player automatically, when the film stops, with the help of eventGhost. Is there a HowTo?


With PowerDVD 12:
PowerDVD allways starts at the backround (I've set powerDVD to play allwas in fullscreen mode and allways on top).
PowerDVD don't play 3D disks automatically in 3D mode. If I activate 3D, even 2D films will be played at 3D mode (somwthing I don't want).

Hope someone can help.

 

[ixdvc]

I use EventGhost to change the frame rate to 24 Hz when ArcSoft is started and back to 60 Hz when it is closed. But I don't know how to close the player automatically. When I press back on my remote ArcSoft closes. But at the moment I do not know if this is because of this plugin or EventGhost.

 

[Crix1990]

could me how to makke this framerate change?

 

[ixdvc]

Of course I can. I have attached an EventGhost xml which changes the refresh rate to 24 Hz when PowerDVD or TMT is started and back to 60 Hz when these programs are closed. Also the volume gets adjusted because blu-rays where way too loud for me. I you do not need this simply delete those lines.
You just have to open the xml with EventGhost and it should work if you have PowerDVD 5 or TMT 5. Otherwise you would have to modify the strings "Task.Created.uMCEPlayer5" to "...6" or so.

 

[doveman]

Hi ixdvc

Thanks for that. Do you happen to have an Event Ghost profile for controlling Arcsoft as well? The one that comes with EG is outdated and I'm not sure how to adapt it myself. I think I'd probably want to use the MCEPlayer.exe from MP.

 

[Crix1990]

Thanks ixdvc,
works with works fine with arcsoft (started from windows). But when I start it as an external player out of myFilms (I forget to try the Bluray player plugin), there is no Task.Created event for Arcsoft (but playback starts).

Any idea?

By the way:
Somebody here tryed 3Dplayback with PowerDVD 11/12?

 

[ixdvc]

Using uMCEPlayer5 instead of the normal ArcSoft it works just fine using my MCE remote without any configuration.
Regarding the refresh rate change: I use the blu-ray player plugin and it works. Maybe MyFilms starts uTotalMediaTheatre5 - or whatever it is called. Then you would have to use Task.Created.uTotalMediaTheatre5 (or something like that). If this is not the case you could try with Task.Activated... instead of Task.Created...

 

[doveman]

Ah, OK. I don't have a "real" MCE remote so have to use EG for MP and ArcSoft.

 

[domb]

Frame rate changing works for me. Post a screenshot of your config and frame rate settings from mp config. Keyboard translation never worked for me. Tried to fix but think its a win 7 issue. Use event ghost.