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shadow lord
Posted: Tuesday, January 21, 2025 1:11:22 AM
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I am trying to setup an external player definition for VLC to automatically play a mounted ISO in a particular drive with My Movies.

I have defined the following in my ExternalPlayers.xml file in C:\ProgramData\My Movies\FileStorage\UserCustomizations\ directory:


Code:
ExternalPlayers
    ExternalPlayer Name="DISCPLAYER" DisplayName="VLC Disc Player"
        DVDFileStructure True /DVDFileStructure
        BluRayFileStructure True /BluRayFileStructure
        HDDVDFileStructure True /HDDVDFileStructure
        RecordedTV False/RecordedTV
        FilesFalse /Files

        Process Namevlc.exe /ProcessName

        Parameters "[PATH]" --fullscreen DVD:///Z:/ /Parameters

        Location StartupDelay="5"
            Path c:\Program Files\videoLAN\vlc\vlc.exe /Path
        /Location
    /ExternalPlayer
/ExternalPlayers


SORRY FOR THE WEIRD FORMATTING BUT THE FORUM APPARENTLY DOES NOT LIKE THE CAHRACTERS > AND <. CAUSES THE ENGINE TO CRASH. However, the parameters are correctly bracketed in the actual file.

I have also turned off autoplay in WMC.

The definition seems to be valid. I can see my definition in the collection manager and assign it as appropriate. However, when I try to play a movie My Movies seems to load and mount the ISO file but it never plays the actual movie. I just get the spinning orb and then nothing. If I exit WMC and try running VLC using the same path and options as above:

Code:
c:\Program Files\videoLAN\vlc\vlc.exe --fullscreen DVD:///Z:/


The DVD loads file and plays. Any help is appreciated. TIA!
shadow lord
Posted: Sunday, February 9, 2025 1:50:02 AM
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Almost four weeks later, 155 views, and not even a single reply. At the very least you would think the author of the program could chime in and provide support...
binnerup
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shadow lord
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Bumping thread as I am still trying to resolve this issue and maybe salvage my investment in this software.
binnerup
Posted: Saturday, March 22, 2025 10:38:06 PM

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shadow lord wrote:
Bumping thread as I am still trying to resolve this issue and maybe salvage my investment in this software.


Our recommendation is to find another front-end for your usage.

In the latest pre release, the Windows Media Center parts have been completely removed.

More than 10 years have passed since Windows Media Center was deprecated by Microsoft.

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jkwaterman
Posted: Monday, March 24, 2025 12:21:12 AM
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binnerup wrote:
shadow lord wrote:
Bumping thread as I am still trying to resolve this issue and maybe salvage my investment in this software.


Our recommendation is to find another front-end for your usage.

In the latest pre release, the Windows Media Center parts have been completely removed.

More than 10 years have passed since Windows Media Center was deprecated by Microsoft.


try cmc. it is a lot like wmc. it's free and it works with mymovies

https://chamconsoft.com/cmc/
shadow lord
Posted: Sunday, March 30, 2025 1:37:32 AM
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binnerup wrote:
shadow lord wrote:
Bumping thread as I am still trying to resolve this issue and maybe salvage my investment in this software.


Our recommendation is to find another front-end for your usage.

In the latest pre release, the Windows Media Center parts have been completely removed.

More than 10 years have passed since Windows Media Center was deprecated by Microsoft.


Yeah I have avoided upgrading since the last official release forced upgrades to IE. VLC would let me use wmc on some newer tablets more easily but for what I need win 7 and an old version of mymovies is more then enough. I mean I am just watching movies from isos on an isolated system. I don't need win 12 with 1Mbit encryption and cloud login to MS to do that. The constant forced upgrades is just so pointless
shadow lord
Posted: Sunday, March 30, 2025 1:40:45 AM
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jkwaterman wrote:
binnerup wrote:
shadow lord wrote:
Bumping thread as I am still trying to resolve this issue and maybe salvage my investment in this software.


Our recommendation is to find another front-end for your usage.

In the latest pre release, the Windows Media Center parts have been completely removed.

More than 10 years have passed since Windows Media Center was deprecated by Microsoft.


try cmc. it is a lot like wmc. it's free and it works with mymovies

https://chamconsoft.com/cmc/


I have tried it in the past and can't say it was "easy" to setup. I could never get the go between program (the one talks to CMC and mymovies) to communicate consistently. The other issue is that I use TMT for my collectin of HD-DVDs which wouldn't work with an OS upgrade anyhow. I was trying to get VLC setup so that I could have it play HD-DVDs instead of TMT. Then I could become more OS agnostic. I hope.
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