Well, for most of your questions you can have a look here
And specifically this one. It's about posting your log files so we can check what can possible be wrong.
Thank you for the pointers. I have actually scoured the FAQ and Wiki. It just is not all coming together for me.
There always seems to be one piece missing.
I have set Daemon Tools Lite and the internal player in my config. At least I can now see and play my movies from the Moving Pictures plugin.
The "problem" now is they all halt or freeze after 3:00 to 3:30 minutes of play.
If there is a specific problem with this plugin (MovPic), this would be the correct forum, however, if you are experiencing more problems elsewhere in MediaPortal, moving to another forum (for that specific problem) might be a better way of handling it (and don't forget about the logfiles ;-) that will be appreciated in any forum )