I may have to give MCE another try

[The Dude]

So I was just looking at Blue Ray stuff on thegreenbutton.com and it looks like arcsofts total media theatre software comes with a plugin that allows you to access your blue ray movies from within MCE. This is a nice feature since otherwise if you're using PowerDVD, as I am now, you have have to exit out of whatever software you're using and open PowerDVD to access movies. It's just not very HTPC friendly since you can't just play a movie with the remote. Of course TotalMedia Theatre isn't free so that's a drawback right there. It's too bad this isn't the software that comes prepackaged with the drive instead of PowerDVD.

http://www.arcsoft.com/products/totalmediatheatre/

Apparently this is the same software that does come prepackaged with the HDPVR.

[whurlston]

Its not really a plugin. It is a separate executable that is launched and runs on top of MCE. The executable name is uMCEDVDPlayer.exe and can be launched with or without MCE. I actually set up a custom task in GBPVR to launch the same executable.

[The Dude]

Could you set GBPVR to run a similar task for powerdvd instead? How did you go about doing that?

[whurlston]

• In the GBPVR Config, go to the "Plugins" tab.
• On the right hand side under "Custom Tasks", select "Add".
• Enter a button name (this is what you will see in the GBPVR menu like "Recordings", "TV Guide", etc).
• Browse for the executable.
• Add any command line parameters you want (like the path to your BluRay drive).
• Click "OK" and it should now be listed in your custom tasks.
• Click "OK" in Config to exit.
• Restart Config and go back to the "Plugins" tab.
• Scroll to the bottom of the plugins list.
• Click on your custom task and drag it anywhere you want above "Exit".
• Close Config.

You should now see the new menu option in GBPVR.

[Miller]

whurlston you are a GBPVR genius. It's nice to have your contributions.

[whurlston]

Glad I can help.

[The Dude]

Thanks a ton. That will make my use of GBPVR even better then it already is. I was going to use HIP to program that in but that's a lot better. I gave you a little karma point for that one.