armyb77:Hello all!I spent a little time today and developed a streamlined plugin to enable Blu-Ray and HD DVD Playback via VMC and Cyberlink. Please feedback or Bug reports below!My code for the most part was based on the link below:Click HereBasically the plugin will allow for autoplay of both HD and Blu-Ray Media by minimizing VMC and launching Cyberlink. It also adds a TAB to launch from VMC if the disc is already in the drive. I thought long and hard about this and do to the 1 extention limit to the menu strips on VMC I desided to make 2 versions of the plugin. One will put the Tab on the TV+Movies strip, and the other will place the Tab on the Pictures+Videos strip. I did this because I personnally use Vongo, so but I didn't want to go to more programs to launch the app. The plugin is rolled up into a simple .exe that will install the plugin and is complete with an uninstall if you wish to remove the plugin. Below is the link to my page that has screenshots, and the downloads for the plugin:Plugins!All that I ask is if you like the plugin then please visit the rest of our site and place an order. We are a established business in the Upstate NY area that sells Lingerie. Please keep this post strickly about the plugins and not the lingerie, if you do wish to place an order please do it via our website.
How is this any different that what I believe Chris posted in his blog?
Isn't the post below the same thing? So you managed to take the publicly known info, wrap an installer around it, and then try and get people to pay for it?
hmmm...
-D
dravor: armyb77:Hello all!I spent a little time today and developed a streamlined plugin to enable Blu-Ray and HD DVD Playback via VMC and Cyberlink. Please feedback or Bug reports below!My code for the most part was based on the link below:Click HereBasically the plugin will allow for autoplay of both HD and Blu-Ray Media by minimizing VMC and launching Cyberlink. It also adds a TAB to launch from VMC if the disc is already in the drive. I thought long and hard about this and do to the 1 extention limit to the menu strips on VMC I desided to make 2 versions of the plugin. One will put the Tab on the TV+Movies strip, and the other will place the Tab on the Pictures+Videos strip. I did this because I personnally use Vongo, so but I didn't want to go to more programs to launch the app. The plugin is rolled up into a simple .exe that will install the plugin and is complete with an uninstall if you wish to remove the plugin. Below is the link to my page that has screenshots, and the downloads for the plugin:Plugins!All that I ask is if you like the plugin then please visit the rest of our site and place an order. We are a established business in the Upstate NY area that sells Lingerie. Please keep this post strickly about the plugins and not the lingerie, if you do wish to place an order please do it via our website. How is this any different that what I believe Chris posted in his blog? Isn't the post below the same thing? So you managed to take the publicly known info, wrap an installer around it, and then try and get people to pay for it? hmmm... -D here are the instructions for hddvd, extracted from a web site, cant find the original urlafter the initial disappointment wore off I did some searching and found an Article by Peter Dampier on the Media Center Sandbox blog. This article was meant for companies like Cyberlink to show them how to register HD DVD (and blue ray) disks with Vista Media Center. I was still disappointed that there was no way to play back HD DVD movies directly in the Media Center shell but at least this blog posting showed how I could at least register HD DVD with Vista Media Center.To accomplish this create an XML file with the code below in it.<application title="PowerDVD" id="{00807177-139D-4796-9730-8F114D23C253}" companyname="Cyberlink" companylogourl="http://www.cyberlink.com/multi/ps/cllogo.gif" description="HD DVD App"><entrypoint id="{00807177-139D-4796-9730-8F114D23C253}" RUN="C:\Program Files\CyberLink\PowerDVD\PowerDVD.exe" title="PowerDVD Ultra" description="HD DVD Player"><category category="AutoPlay\HD DVD"/></entrypoint></application>If you installed PowerDVD to another location edit the path to match your system. Next from a command prompt (if you have user account control enabled make sure it's an elevated command prompt) and run C:\Windows\ehome\RegisterMCEApp.exe /allusers <xml file>, replace <xml file> with the path and name to the xml file you created earlier.Now when you insert a HD DVD disk with Vista Media Center in full screen mode, it will minimize and launch PowerDVD Ultra and begin playback of the disk.Now, say you have a disk already inserted and you don't want to get up to re-insert it. Create a file named PowerDVD.mcl with the code below in it.<applicationTitle = "PowerDVD Ultra"Run = "C:\Program Files\CyberLink\PowerDVD\PowerDVD.exe"BGColor = "RGB(63,24,172)"Name = "PowerDVD Ultra"CompanyName = "Cyberlink"StartImage = "C:\Program Files\CyberLink\PowerDVD\AVSettings\StartImage.png "ThumbnailImage = "C:\Program Files\CyberLink\PowerDVD\AVSettings\Thumbnail.png"><capabilitiesRequireddirectX="True"audio="False"video="False"intensiveRendering="True"console="False"/></application>Again if you installed to a different location edit the file to point to your install. Move the file to C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Media Center Programs. If Media Center was running close it and re-open it and now in the more programs sections is a link to fire up PowerDVD Ultra. __________________
The link to that is in my signature below
I have been reviewing postings in this site and others for sometime now. I have read all the articles on Cyberlink's lack of integration with MCE. While people have pointed out ways to do it manually this is the first and only exe that will make it easy for non tech end users. THANK YOU SO MUCH Armyb77!!! I will install it and let you know how it works. As for the people negatively commenting about it stop complaining. Do you have an easier way?
Dude, you ROCK! Thanks for taking the time to put this together with the button and all. I can't wait until there is native support for HD-DVD and Blu-Ray, but until then, thanks!
-Scott
Question for you... I've tried editing the registry entries that your installer creates to use the "/fullscreen" switch that PowerDVD allows, but it doesn't seem to work. I have verified that from a command prompt I can use the following:
C:\Program Files\CyberLink\PowerDVD\PowerDVD.exe /fullscreen
I have tried all of the following as values in the "Run" registry key but none have worked:
C:\Program Files\CyberLink\PowerDVD\PowerDVD.exe /fullscreen"C:\Program Files\CyberLink\PowerDVD\PowerDVD.exe /fullscreen"'C:\Program Files\CyberLink\PowerDVD\PowerDVD.exe /fullscreen'C:\Program Files\CyberLink\PowerDVD\PowerDVD.exe "/fullscreen"C:\Program Files\CyberLink\PowerDVD\PowerDVD.exe -fullscreen"C:\Program Files\CyberLink\PowerDVD\PowerDVD.exe -fullscreen"
Any help would be appreciated. I know that if a Blu-Ray or HD-DVD disk is in the drive PowerDVD will automatically go fullscreen, but I don't like that PowerDVD opens in a small window and then switches to fullscreen after 30 seconds. I would really like to get PowerDVD to open fullscreen like it does when run with the "/fullscreen" switch. Thanks!