Guide for HTPC

Vertigo · 4 Jan 2009 at 23:18

For reasons I can't fathom yet, Bluray players seem to make a much better fist of playing 24fps material (which virtually all BD discs are) at 60Hz, although they do look still look smoother at 24Hz.

PCs, OTOH, are a nightmare at 50 or 60Hz with 24fps material, introducing regular "jerks" to the video which is very very evident on any smoothly moving shots such as pans.

Seft · 5 Jan 2009 at 00:23

Vertigo1 said:
PCs, OTOH, are a nightmare at 50 or 60Hz with 24fps material, introducing regular "jerks" to the video which is very very evident on any smoothly moving shots such as pans.

Are you using EVR? This fixed that for me. Now pans are silky-smooth.

craptakular · 6 Jan 2009 at 00:37

photoshop said:
To be honest with you im thinking of dropping MP all together and going back to the old fashioned way of just launching files in explorer

Dont give up yet! Detective Oxy is back on the case! After a couple of days off, i'm back fiddling with event ghost and zoomplayer.

I have a break through. I have eventghost running mediaportal great with my MCE remote.

I also have zoomplayer being run through eventghost, its working great with my mce remote!

Now to try zoom layer inside mediaportal :s

i'll post back in 10 mins or so

craptakular · 6 Jan 2009 at 00:53

http://www.eventghost.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=606&view=previous

now im getting somewhere......

gimmie another 30 mins!

craptakular · 6 Jan 2009 at 01:15

ok real progress now. kmplayer works in eventghost via the winamp plugin. Just need to add some more commands like DVD menu & i think we will have something workable.

craptakular · 6 Jan 2009 at 01:41

ok found an official kmplayer plugin buried deep deep in kmplayer forums.

It works!, annoyingly though the actions file doesn't. So we are gonna have to manually add them

Now gonna test if the whole lot works, mediaportal and kmplayer at the same time.

hehe here we go!

photoshop · 6 Jan 2009 at 01:42

Oxy said:
ok real progress now. kmplayer works in eventghost via the winamp plugin. Just need to add some more commands like DVD menu & i think we will have something workable.

Is it working?????
I dont need DVD Menu - i just need Play, Pause, Stop, FFD in steps, RWD in steps, and Exit

What about WMP Classic or WMPC - Home Cinema Edition?

craptakular · 6 Jan 2009 at 01:48

photoshop said:
Is it working?????
I dont need DVD Menu - i just need Play, Pause, Stop, FFD in steps, RWD in steps, and Exit

yes it is!!!

craptakular · 6 Jan 2009 at 01:49

I just need to workout how to get mediaportal full screen when kmplayer closes without using the mouse.

photoshop · 6 Jan 2009 at 01:49

Oxy said:
yes it is!!!

OK! Now explain what you did

photoshop · 6 Jan 2009 at 01:49

Oxy said:
I just need to workout how to get mediaportal full screen when kmplayer closes without using the mouse.

Shouldnt it be full screen when you exit KMP???

craptakular · 6 Jan 2009 at 01:51

photoshop said:
Shouldnt it be full screen when you exit KMP???

it shoudl be, but i get a black screen

photoshop · 6 Jan 2009 at 01:52

Oxy said:
it shoudl be, but i get a black screen

Thats MediaPortal for ya. A half baked app

Have you tried WMPC and WMPC Home Cinema Edition to see if they work?

craptakular · 6 Jan 2009 at 01:53

photoshop said:
Thats MediaPortal for ya. A half baked app

Have you tried WMPC and WMPC Home Cinema Edition to see if they work?

i cant find a plugin for those.

photoshop · 6 Jan 2009 at 01:54

Right, but KMPlayer works which is a good thing.
NOW, how did you do it?

craptakular · 6 Jan 2009 at 02:00

photoshop said:
Right, but KMPlayer works which is a good thing.
NOW, how did you do it?

get the latest eventghost http://www.eventghost.org/downloads/

enable mce plugin, mediaportal - mediaportal needs messages plugin installed in mediaportal to work.

Remember to turn off mce remote support inside mediaportal. eventghost handles this now.

kmplayer can be found here: http://www.eventghost.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=993

Copy the files into C:\Program Files (x86)\EventGhost\plugins\

then enable it inside eventghost.

Then you gotta map all the keys lolz

photoshop · 6 Jan 2009 at 02:01

Oxy said:
get the latest eventghost http://www.eventghost.org/downloads/

enable mce plugin, mediaportal - mediaportal needs messages plugin installed in mediaportal to work.

Remember to turn off mce remote support inside mediaportal. eventghost handles this now.

kmplayer can be found here: http://www.eventghost.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=993

Copy the files into C:\Program Files (x86)\EventGhost\plugins\

then enable it inside eventghost.

Then you gotta map all the keys lolz

Map all the keys???
Doesn't the plugin do that?

What a carry on :mad:

Copy KMplayer and the plugins in to C:\Program Files (x86)\EventGhost\plugins\?

craptakular · 6 Jan 2009 at 02:09

photoshop said:
Map all the keys???
Doesn't the plugin do that?

What a carry on

Copy KMplayer and the plugins in to C:\Program Files (x86)\EventGhost\plugins\?

the plugin errors when trying ti import the actions. so it seems only manual bindings will work lolz. In reality I think we only need a handful of buttons anyway.

Leave kmplayer installed where it is.

craptakular · 6 Jan 2009 at 02:10

oh yeh think if u set mediaportal to always stay on top, it pops back when kmplayer exists.

photoshop · 6 Jan 2009 at 02:15

i'll have to give this a try.
How do i go about mapping the buttons?