Blu-Ray / HD DVD plugin for Arcsoft player (3 Viewers)

[tourettes]

One thing I've found, using Arcsoft by itself, either the full app or the MCE plugin exe, HD-DVD's play fine with DVXA. However when ran from within MP with this plugin DVXA is broken. This is on a 780G 3200HD with Cat 8.12.

On my Nvidia machine this doesn't happen however, with identical settings. Any ideas?

3200 has limited GPU resources. So when both MP and Arcsoft are open all is not going well, Arsoft's forum has similar issue with MCE itself. Try if using the minimize option in plugin's config helps.

 

[Ingram]

Yea I tried all those. I'm about to try one more thing with the registry tweaks, if that fails oh well. I don't mind opening it up separate from MP.

 

[Johnnie]

Hi,

Any idea's on the following?


Installed the Beta version, and everything seems to working fine.
But....maybe somebody can help me with the following?

When I play TMT standalone, image is scalable and in full screen.
When I play TMT out of the plug in, I've got a smaller screen, it's in the middle and I can't scale it up? Tried to tap the two features in the plugin for MP background and rendering. But this doesn't help.

Any ideas?

 

[tourettes]

When I play TMT out of the plug in, I've got a smaller screen, it's in the middle and I can't scale it up? Tried to tap the two features in the plugin for MP background and rendering. But this doesn't help.

I would assume the same thing happens we you manually use the MCE plugin EXE?

 

[Mr.Montesa]

Hey Ingram,
I use the HD3200 too. Increasing the UMA buffer in Bios to 512 megs helped me a lot.
Everything smooth now.
Give em a try.

 

[Snader]

Since the Totalmedia player didn't work here as expected and PowerDVD does, I started to create a executable based upon the HD-starter in this thread.

I didn't want to use the HD-starter solution since I had the totalmedia plugin installed already and the HD-starter trick was a bit hard to set up.. with a dll fix and such. Also, the Streamed-MP skin which I am using does already support the totalmedia plugin.

So, I made an exe out of a script made with Autohotkey. This is started by the totalmedia plugin that was made by Tourettes. It works almost perfectly. I set the screen frequency to 24Hz, start Powerdvd in fullscreen, minimize MP (what actually also is done by the totalmedia plugin). Then I wait a moment to let powerDVD load and become idle. Then I send the ENTER key to powerDVD which then starts playing my Blu-ray disc.

I use IR2keyboard, which is supplied with the IRtrans software to control powerDVD with my remote. When I close powerDVD with my remote, the script tries to maximize MP again, but this doesn't work as expected. Though, the totalmediaplugin does the job properly when you configure this plugin to minimize MP.

SetTitleMatchMode, 2

MouseMove, 2000, 0

; Start sequence
IfWinNotExist, PowerDVD
{
WinActivate, MediaPortal

;Stops Media playing in MP
Send {b}

;Switch 24hz mode

Run "d:\dc.exe" -refresh=24 -apply -quiet

Sleep, 1000

Run "%A_ProgramFiles%\CyberLink\PowerDVD\PowerDVD.exe" /FULLSCREEN

; wait until powerDVD loaded
Loop
{
IfWinExist, PowerDVD
{
Sleep, 1000
break ; Terminate the loop
}

}

WinActivate, PowerDVD
WinMaximize

Sleep, 1000
WinMinimize, MediaPortal

WinActivate, PowerDVD
Send {Enter}

}
else
{
WinActivate, MediaPortal

;Stops Media playing in MP
Send {b}

;switch 24hz mode

Run "d:\dc.exe" -refresh=24 -apply -quiet

Sleep, 1000

WinMinimize, MediaPortal

WinActivate, PowerDVD
WinMaximize

Send {Enter}

}

; loop for testing if powerdvd is still running
Loop
{

IfWinNotExist, PowerDVD
{
WinRestore , MediaPortal

ExitApp
}

MouseMove, 2000, 0

}

I have no time to make this into a new plugin... Maybe tourettes can combine the two solutions to one working plugin so people can choose between the totalmedia player or PowerDVD? Actually, his plugin already supports this method...just a matter of getting rid of the arcsoft logo....

Only this script should be edited to everyones needs...

 

[Frantid]

Yea I tried all those. I'm about to try one more thing with the registry tweaks, if that fails oh well. I don't mind opening it up separate from MP.

I had the same problem. I only got it to work by exiting MP then starting player, dxva back. It is a limitation of the hd3200. I have upgraded to an addon - hd4670, I now have no dxva problems. I can actually have mp playing a video and tmt or pdvd playing with dxva working in both. It does have a fan and isn't free, but I think my picture quality is much better.

 

[Johnnie]

When I play TMT out of the plug in, I've got a smaller screen, it's in the middle and I can't scale it up? Tried to tap the two features in the plugin for MP background and rendering. But this doesn't help.

I would assume the same thing happens we you manually use the MCE plugin EXE?

Tried the uMCEDVDplayer.exe manually and yes same result. Tried the native arcsoft player and the screen has full width.

 

[DaMenaCe]

Hello. Thank you for this plugin. It's much better then PowerDVD. I have a question. I want to use this player for my dvd's also. Is it possible to start this plugin when i put a DVD in my dvd player? How can i set it up?
Thanks for the great work!

edit: In home of mediaportal the plugin name is: "plays BluRay". Can i rename this to something else?

 

[tourettes]

When I play TMT out of the plug in, I've got a smaller screen, it's in the middle and I can't scale it up? Tried to tap the two features in the plugin for MP background and rendering. But this doesn't help.

I would assume the same thing happens we you manually use the MCE plugin EXE?

Tried the uMCEDVDplayer.exe manually and yes same result. Tried the native arcsoft player and the screen has full width.

Then its Arcsoft's player issue, nothing related to this plugin.