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Re: HTPC Front-end Software: The XBMC Thread
« Reply #330 on: Feb 18, 2013 at 08:57 AM »
luma na kasi yung pc ko.
core 2 duo
2gig ram 800
MSI R6570-MD1GD3/LP
MSI Platinum p3 yung Board.

sa mp4 format lang ata nag lalag.
sa mkv mukhang hindi naman.

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Re: HTPC Front-end Software: The XBMC Thread
« Reply #331 on: Feb 18, 2013 at 10:30 AM »
luma na kasi yung pc ko.
core 2 duo
2gig ram 800
MSI R6570-MD1GD3/LP
MSI Platinum p3 yung Board.

sa mp4 format lang ata nag lalag.
sa mkv mukhang hindi naman.

Your PC should be able to handle 1080p MPEG-4 playback. Baka may ibang events running ka in the background that slow you down (Indexing, virus checking, hdd spindown, etc.)?

Try using another player din.
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Re: HTPC Front-end Software: The XBMC Thread
« Reply #332 on: Feb 18, 2013 at 03:07 PM »
Your PC should be able to handle 1080p MPEG-4 playback. Baka may ibang events running ka in the background that slow you down (Indexing, virus checking, hdd spindown, etc.)?

Try using another player din.

Thanks,
ano pong other player? VLC?MCP?

pero try kong magplay sa vlc. and pag ayaw parin try ko ngang mag windows 8 :D

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Re: HTPC Front-end Software: The XBMC Thread
« Reply #333 on: Feb 18, 2013 at 11:48 PM »
Try mo din dedicated video card.  Ako never had any problems with playback maski BD ISO sa 2 kong HTPC.  Both have dedicated VC.  Maski sa E350 rig ko ayus din with ATI HD6450 VC. No antivirus pareho.  :P

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Re: HTPC Front-end Software: The XBMC Thread
« Reply #334 on: Feb 28, 2013 at 01:11 PM »
Try mo din dedicated video card.  Ako never had any problems with playback maski BD ISO sa 2 kong HTPC.  Both have dedicated VC.  Maski sa E350 rig ko ayus din with ATI HD6450 VC. No antivirus pareho.  :P

Can your E350 play 3D? No lag sa BD?

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Re: HTPC Front-end Software: The XBMC Thread
« Reply #335 on: Mar 01, 2013 at 09:29 AM »
Can your E350 play 3D? No lag sa BD?

Wasn't able to try 3D but I doubt it if it will play smoothly. In BDs and BD ISOs, they play flawlessly.

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Re: HTPC Front-end Software: The XBMC Thread
« Reply #336 on: Apr 05, 2013 at 09:27 AM »
Hi guys where did you get your splash pro? did you pay retail?
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Re: HTPC Front-end Software: The XBMC Thread
« Reply #337 on: Apr 06, 2013 at 12:06 AM »
Hi guys where did you get your splash pro? did you pay retail?

You can buy it here.

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Re: HTPC Front-end Software: The XBMC Thread
« Reply #338 on: Apr 06, 2013 at 12:23 AM »
Mga boss ask ko lang kung na experience nyo na rin to.
every 15-20mins (approx) while watching a movie bigla na lang nag lalag ng mga 2-3seconds.

may na encounter na po ba kayong ganito? baka po may alam kayong fix.

I discovered something earlier when I noticed stuttering playing full BD ISOs.  Go to Settings>>Video then uncheck "use a fullscreen window rather than true full screen". Video was smooth thereafter.

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Re: HTPC Front-end Software: The XBMC Thread
« Reply #339 on: Apr 06, 2013 at 10:06 PM »
Is there a distinct improvement if you use splash pro via xbmc?
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Re: HTPC Front-end Software: The XBMC Thread
« Reply #340 on: Apr 06, 2013 at 11:48 PM »
Is there a distinct improvement if you use splash pro via xbmc?

Yes mas maganda ang PQ ng splash pro than XMBC.
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Re: HTPC Front-end Software: The XBMC Thread
« Reply #341 on: Apr 07, 2013 at 08:14 PM »
Is there a distinct improvement if you use splash pro via xbmc?

Definitely.  It even has the "motionflow" feature or the "soap opera effect" even if your TV doesn't have it.  Best is to use it as an external player in xbmc.  That's my setup.

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Re: HTPC Front-end Software: The XBMC Thread
« Reply #342 on: Apr 08, 2013 at 08:31 PM »
Looking to transform an 'old' PC into an HTPC running XBMC. Installed the software and saw that it can handle 'Live TV'. I'm using Cignal as my main cable source. Is it possible to have the Cignal feed into my PC if I buy a TV tuner or Cignal will only work if I use their cable box? Will XBMC support this or only US based cable providers?

Thanks in advance!

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Re: HTPC Front-end Software: The XBMC Thread
« Reply #343 on: Apr 19, 2013 at 04:06 PM »
How to use Splash PRO into XBMC mga sir?

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Re: HTPC Front-end Software: The XBMC Thread
« Reply #344 on: Apr 26, 2013 at 10:00 AM »
How to use Splash PRO into XBMC mga sir?

<playercorefactory>
 <players>
   <player name="SplashPROEx" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
     <filename>C:\Program Files\Mirillis\Splash Pro Ex\SplashProEx.exe</filename>
     <args>"{1}" /fullscreen /close</args>
     <hidexbmc>false</hidexbmc>
     <hideconsole>false</hideconsole>
     <warpcursor>none</warpcursor>
   </player>
 </players>
 <rules action="prepend">
   <rule filetypes="mkv" player="SplashPROEx"/>
   <rule filetypes="avi" player="SplashPROEx"/>
 </rules>
</playercorefactory>

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Re: HTPC Front-end Software: The XBMC Thread
« Reply #345 on: May 01, 2013 at 08:34 AM »
I updated to Frodo and I wanted to play my BD ISOs.  I just want to extract the m2ts file of the movie so Splash PRO can play it.  I need a script that works to mount the ISO in Virtual Clone Drive so it would show in XBMC as a disc.  This way I can navigate to the m2ts file and play it. Problem is my scripts for the old versions of XBMC don't work anymore in Frodo.   >:( .

When I click on the ISO file, a window pops out to choose to play main title, show bluray menus, choose file. Whatever I choose, XBMC still plays it.

What I do now is exit XBMC, mount the ISO file manually in VCD then go back to XBMC to play it via Splash PRO.

Any help would be appreciated.  :)
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Re: HTPC Front-end Software: The XBMC Thread
« Reply #346 on: May 01, 2013 at 08:57 AM »
I updated to Frodo and I wanted to play my BD ISOs.  I just want to extract the m2ts file of the movie so Splash PRO can play it.  I need a script that works to mount the ISO in Virtual Clone Drive so it would show in XBMC as a disc.  This way I can navigate to the m2ts file and play it. Problem is my scripts for the old versions of XBMC don't work anymore in Frodo.   >:( .

When I click on the ISO file, a window pops out to choose to play main title, show bluray menus, choose file. Whatever I choose, XBMC still plays it.

What I do now is exit XBMC, mount the ISO file manually in VCD then go back to XBMC to play it via Splash PRO.

Any help would be appreciated.  :)

Ayaw mo ba ng auto play ng power dvd or tmt?

Doc check the link below for the auto mount and auto play ng bluray xmbc using external player pdvd and TMT. Anjan na lahat download mo lang need files.   >:D >:D
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Re: HTPC Front-end Software: The XBMC Thread
« Reply #347 on: May 01, 2013 at 08:28 PM »
Ayaw mo ba ng auto play ng power dvd or tmt?

Doc check the link below for the auto mount and auto play ng bluray xmbc using external player pdvd and TMT. Anjan na lahat download mo lang need files.   >:D >:D

Asan yung link bossing? What's your XBMC version?

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Re: HTPC Front-end Software: The XBMC Thread
« Reply #348 on: May 01, 2013 at 08:47 PM »
Asan yung link bossing? What's your XBMC version?

Waaaaaaaaa wag mo ako tawagin na bossing just call me elmer doc. Censya na nakalimutan ko lagay link and latest version gamit ko na xmbc.

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=116724
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Re: HTPC Front-end Software: The XBMC Thread
« Reply #349 on: May 01, 2013 at 10:16 PM »
Thanks bro ELMer!  8)

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Re: HTPC Front-end Software: The XBMC Thread
« Reply #350 on: May 02, 2013 at 08:23 AM »
Thanks bro ELMer!  8)

Ayaw mo ba auto play sa powerdvd or tmt yung iso or bluray folder mo? Puwede mo naman gawin lahat na iso para mas okay.
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Re: HTPC Front-end Software: The XBMC Thread
« Reply #351 on: May 02, 2013 at 10:08 AM »
Ayaw mo ba auto play sa powerdvd or tmt yung iso or bluray folder mo? Puwede mo naman gawin lahat na iso para mas okay.
I'm trying to get frodo to launch PowerDVD as my external player for blu-ray iso file. But all i get is the menu to select the play list.

This is my script....


playercorefactory.xml

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<playercorefactory>
<players>
<player name="PowerDVD" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<filename>C:\Users\Mel\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\userdata\PlayISO.bat</filename>
<args>"{1}"</args>
<hidexbmc>True</hidexbmc>
<hideconsole>true</hideconsole>
<forceontop>false</forceontop>

</player>

<player name="SplashPROEx" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<filename>C:\Program Files\Mirillis\SPlash Pro Ex\SplashPRoEx.exe</filename>
<args>"{1}"</args>
<hidexbmc>True</hidexbmc>
<hideconsole>true</hideconsole>
<forceontop>false</forceontop>


</player>
</players>
<rules action="prepend">
<!-- Bluray ISO/BDMV -->
<rule filetypes="iso" player="PowerDVD"/>
<!-- Multiple files -->
<rule filetypes="m2ts|mkv|avi" player="SplashPROEx"/>   




</rules>
</playercorefactory>

PlayISO.bat

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Set file=%1
Set dummy=%file:iso=%
IF NOT %dummy% == %file% (GOTO playiso)

:playiso
"C:\Program Files\Elaborate Bytes\VirtualCloneDrive\VCDMount.exe" /d=0 %1
"C:\Program Files\Cyberlink\PowerDVD13\PowerDVD13.exe" E:
"C:\Program Files\Elaborate Bytes\VirtualCloneDrive\VCDMount.exe" /d=0 /u
GOTO end

:end
exit



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Re: HTPC Front-end Software: The XBMC Thread
« Reply #352 on: May 02, 2013 at 10:21 AM »
I'm trying to get frodo to launch PowerDVD as my external player for blu-ray iso file. But all i get is the menu to select the play list.

This is my script....


playercorefactory.xml

PlayISO.bat



Sundin mo lang yung nasa link or ito yung script ko sa baba simple but it works planning to change my splash pro player to powerdvd or tmt..

iso bat

@echo off

 "C:\Program Files (x86)\Elaborate Bytes\VirtualCloneDrive\VCDMount.exe" /d=0 %1
 "C:\Program Files (x86)\ArcSoft\TotalMedia Theatre 5\uMCEPlayer5.exe" "H:"

playercorefactory

<playercorefactory>
 <players>
    <player name="Bluray_3D_Player" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
       <filename>C:\HTPC\iso.bat</filename>
          <args>"{1}"</args>
    <hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
    <hideconsole>true</hideconsole>
    <warpcursor>none</warpcursor>
    </player>

    <player name="Splash_Pro__Player" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
       <filename>C:\Program Files (x86)\Mirillis\Splash PRO\SplashPro.exe</filename>
          <args>"{1}"</args>
    <hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
    <hideconsole>true</hideconsole>
    <warpcursor>none</warpcursor>
    </player>

 </players>
 <rules action="prepend">
 <!-- Bluray Disc -->
  <rule filename=".*iso.*" player="Bluray_3D_Player"/>
         <rule filename=".*ISO.*" player="Bluray_3D_Player"/>
 <!-- Splash Pro Player -->
 <rule player="Splash_Pro__Player"/>
   <rule filename=".*mkv.*" player="Splash_Pro__Player"/>       

    
 </rules>
 </playercorefactory>

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Re: HTPC Front-end Software: The XBMC Thread
« Reply #353 on: May 02, 2013 at 12:16 PM »
Bro, where do you put your playercorefactory.xml and your BDISO.bat?

Sa Program Files/XBMC/system or sa Users/your name/App Data/Roaming/XBMC/userdata?

I placed both files sa former and the latter.  SplashPROEx as external player works with the associated file formats but the bat file doesn't work with the ISO.

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Re: HTPC Front-end Software: The XBMC Thread
« Reply #354 on: May 02, 2013 at 06:45 PM »
Bro, where do you put your playercorefactory.xml and your BDISO.bat?

Sa Program Files/XBMC/system or sa Users/your name/App Data/Roaming/XBMC/userdata?

I placed both files sa former and the latter.  SplashPROEx as external player works with the associated file formats but the bat file doesn't work with the ISO.

Dito nakalagay sa C:\HTPC\iso.bat as per on my playercorefactory.xml both ko din nilagyan user data and programs files.

<playercorefactory>
 <players>
    <player name="Bluray_3D_Player" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
       <filename>C:\HTPC\iso.bat</filename>
          <args>"{1}"</args>
    <hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
    <hideconsole>true</hideconsole>
    <warpcursor>none</warpcursor>
    </player>
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Re: HTPC Front-end Software: The XBMC Thread
« Reply #355 on: May 02, 2013 at 08:23 PM »
So far I was able to view the BD menus of concert BD ISOs in XBMC Frodo sans external player.  In movies, it is a hit or miss thing. Probably in Gotham it will be able to show the menus in all BDs.  ;)

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Re: HTPC Front-end Software: The XBMC Thread
« Reply #356 on: May 02, 2013 at 08:26 PM »
So far I was able to view the BD menus of concert BD ISOs in XBMC Frodo sans external player.  In movies, it is a hit or miss thing. Probably in Gotham it will be able to show the menus in all BDs.  ;)

Ah oks ano yun sans external player? Lahat naman sa akin nagana unless na may issue talaga yung bluray folder or iso pero madalang naman. Mukhang TMT muna ako or powerdvd 12 may issue pa ung 13 sa audio.

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Re: HTPC Front-end Software: The XBMC Thread
« Reply #357 on: May 02, 2013 at 08:51 PM »
Ah oks ano yun sans external player? Lahat naman sa akin nagana unless na may issue talaga yung bluray folder or iso pero madalang naman. Mukhang TMT muna ako or powerdvd 12 may issue pa ung 13 sa audio.

"Sans" (in French meaning without).  ;D  So I am just using XBMC to play the ISO.  When I click the ISO file may choices: play main movie, choose file, play bluray menus. This is just using XBMC Frodo without external player. BTW, ayaw parin gumana ang bat file.  >:( Pagdating sa ISO files, XBMC nalang muna nagplaplay kung tinatamad ako.  Pwede rin naman PowerDVD 13 pero manual lang muna.  :o

BTW, did you encounter any BD ISO file when played sa PowerDVD eh parang flashing lang ang PowerDVD na di tumitigil.  Parang naghahang.  I noticed that sa Ghost Protocol.

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Re: HTPC Front-end Software: The XBMC Thread
« Reply #358 on: May 02, 2013 at 08:52 PM »
"Sans" (in French meaning without).  ;D  So I am just using XBMC to play the ISO.  When I click the ISO file may choices: play main movie, choose file, play bluray menus. This is just using XBMC Frodo without external player. BTW, ayaw parin gumana ang bat file.  >:( Pagdating sa ISO files, XBMC nalang muna nagplaplay kung tinatamad ako.  Pwede rin naman PowerDVD 13 pero manual lang muna.  :o

BTW, did you encounter any BD ISO file when played sa PowerDVD eh parang flashing lang ang PowerDVD na di tumitigil.  Parang naghahang.  I noticed that sa Ghost Protocol.

Nakita ko na kaya ung iba mo may issue.

1.4 Platform Independent Playback Added software decoding of 10-bit depth H.264 profile (Hi10P) videos (requires around a core2duo or equivalent and up)
Added HLS (HTTP Live Streaming) and M3U8 (Extended M3U) playlist support
Added support for color and font style tags in MPL2 (MicroDVD) subtitles
Added support for direct playback of ISO image files for Blu-ray Disc media
Added Bluray HDMV menu support (but not BD-J / BD-Live menus)[6]
Improved Bluray playback support of unencrypted bdmv and mpls files without menus
Improved deinterlacing "Weave" method for playback of interlaced video when upscaling
Upgraded FFmpeg's libavcodec and libavformat audio/video codec and demuxer libraries
Improved support for forced subtitles
Added option to set a default preference for subtitles and audio tracks based on language.

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BTW, did you encounter any BD ISO file when played sa PowerDVD eh parang flashing lang ang PowerDVD na di tumitigil.  Parang naghahang.  I noticed that sa Ghost Protocol.


Ou nakita ko na ito mukhang issue sa version 13 mag 12 muna ako or TMT latest version.  ;D ;D
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Re: HTPC Front-end Software: The XBMC Thread
« Reply #359 on: May 03, 2013 at 05:22 AM »


Ou nakita ko na ito mukhang issue sa version 13 mag 12 muna ako or TMT latest version.  ;D ;D

I think this is related to the media info downloading.  :-\