View Full Version : Play DVD Option?
vexation
2009-08-04, 19:37
I feel a bit stupid asking this.. but is there no 'Play DVD' option for this skin? Couldn't find anything in the Skin Settings (although you can launch from videos) - admittedly it's a rarity these days but the significant other still fwaps ye olde DVD on every now and then and I know she'll struggle with this.
xbmc-9.04.2+svn21936-jaunty1 / transparency 1.03
By the way, I LOVE this skin.. would like to echo clock2113's request about shortening the list of movies in fanart view but besides that.. well, this is a near perfect skin. Thanks for all your hard work.
nicoli_k
2009-08-04, 19:43
There's no option for this right now, but you could do this.
Settings > System > Autoplay > Autoplay DVD-Video
and it will start a DVD whenever it's entered. That's even one less step than pressing a button.
it's something i've overlooked. i thought you could use the player controls for that (they are available when a disk is in the drive, hit 'm' on keyboard or the menu button on remote) but apparently the play button doesn't work for actual disks.
i'll have to add an extra button to the controls for playing disks.
cheers for the report.
vexation
2009-08-04, 22:14
There's no option for this right now, but you could do this. Settings > System > Autoplay > Autoplay DVD-Video
I was so set on looking for a play DVD button I totally forgot about the autoplay. That'll definitely keep the missus sweet thanks.
I'll keep the menu in mind too (gotta get this pesky MCE remote configured for that button, keep forgetting) cheers again Ronie and keep up the good work.
Would certainly be useful to add a link on the home page for this. I had to disable the auto play since there is a new "feature" (although for me it is a bug) in the latest svn builds, that also starts to play a dvd when you start xbmc if there is a disc in the drive, rather than only when you insert the disc.
Cheers,
/R
Admiral Michael
2009-10-20, 00:14
I would like to always show the DVD option. For some reason it won't show up on my ASRock Ion 330. I do have auto play enabled on XBMC but would still like the option there on the home screen. How would I go about doing this?
I would like to always show the DVD option. For some reason it won't show up on my ASRock Ion 330. I do have auto play enabled on XBMC but would still like the option there on the home screen. How would I go about doing this?
you mean there's no 'Play Disc' button on the player controls if you press 'm' on your keyboard or 'menu' on your remote?
it should be the button on the right and it's only visible when there's a disc in the drive.
Admiral Michael
2009-10-20, 00:49
There is one there, I thought it's suppose to appear in the menu along with Videos, Music, Movies, etc. Is there a way to make it appear up there or is it hard to do?
There is one there, I thought it's suppose to appear in the menu along with Videos, Music, Movies, etc.
nope, it's not intended to work like that.
Is there a way to make it appear up there or is it hard to do?
yes, adding a button to the menu is a lot of work, the steps needed are detailed in this thread:
http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=53547
Admiral Michael
2009-10-20, 02:17
Ah, ic. Thanks for the clarification. I've only recently started using this ski. I was using Mediastream before and it adds a DVD option to the home screen.
Admiral Michael
2009-10-20, 03:21
What would be the onclick value for playing a dvd?
EDIT: Never mind, grabbed the code from the Mediastream skin, even have it hiding when no disc is inserted. Thanks for the links, it helped alot.
EDIT2: How can I get the background to fade correctly, it doesn't seem to crossfade like the others. I added the DVD option to the top of the menu.
How can I get the background to fade correctly, it doesn't seem to crossfade like the others. I added the DVD option to the top of the menu.
it's hard to tell without seeing the entire code, but if you've specified the background in the same way as the other menu backgrounds, it should crossfade just fine.
maybe the filesize is a lot bigger than the others, so i takes longer to load?
Admiral Michael
2009-10-20, 18:44
I checked the file sizes, the dvd on was bigger, about 450kb compared to about 44kb. I also resized it so it has the same dimensions.
It works nicely now, thanks.
Could you share what you did and post up the code you tweaked for those of us not as smart. :sniffle:
Please and thank you. ;)
Admiral Michael
2009-10-20, 21:34
Could you share what you did and post up the code you tweaked for those of us not as smart. :sniffle:
Please and thank you. ;)
This is the code:
<item id="1">
<label>DVD</label>
<visible>System.HasMediadvd</visible>
<onclick>XBMC.PlayDVD</onclick>
<icon>special://skin/images/backgrounds/dvds.jpg</icon>
</item>
Here is the easy way:
http://www.michaelsoft.info/other/DVDHome_Transparency.rar
replace Includes_Home.xml in /skin/transparency!/720p
put dvd.jpg in /skin/transparency!/images/backgrounds
This will place a button labeled DVD on the top of the menu but only when a disc is present.
Note: I took this jpg file from the mediastream_redux theme and want to give them the appropriate credit.
You can use your own but make sure it's 960x540 and around 40kb otherwise it doesn't fade correctly.
Thanks a bunch man. I'll give it a try this evening.
Its a small trivial thing, but my wife uses dvds for my kids little movies.
Admiral Michael
2009-10-21, 01:03
No problem, I love this skin. But prefer the dvd option on the main menu, which is doable.
Your code works in the vertical menu, but not the horizontal.
Also I think there is a confilict with the video menu label.
I changed <item id="1"> to <item id="17"> and moved it to the end of the menu list.
now for the horizontal menu :oo:
Admiral Michael
2009-10-21, 20:43
Sorry, that's cause I just set it up for the vertical menu.
Admiral Michael
2009-10-21, 23:07
I updated the file to support the horizontal menu and one small bug fix. Turns out when you change the id numbers it messes up the little info box that can appear on the bottom right. It's all fixed now.
Cheers Michael, simple copy and paste but nice to finish things of ;)
never realized so many people found this feature useful...
guess i'll have to add it to my todo list. ;-)
never realized so many people found this feature useful...
guess i'll have to add it to my todo list. ;-)
At first I wasn't interested since I enabled DVD autoplay in XBMC settings but following the thread it has started to look as a nice addition. :)
I specially like the fact that this option only shows up in the menu if a DVD (DVD-Video?) is inserted so not to confuse/take up space otherwise.
I imagine that there are useful scenarios for this feature and if present in a new T! release I may disable the autoplay since I notice that when XBMC starts it tries to display any DVD in the drive even if it's a data disc. (That brings up a really zoomed in icon :sniffle: )
+1 for having this option ;)
i thought the 'play disk' button in the player controls (the ones you can bring up by pressing 'm' or 'menu' when a disc is inserted) was good enough for everyone.....but i guess i was wrong. :-)
i thought the 'play disk' button in the player controls (the ones you can bring up by pressing 'm' or 'menu' when a disc is inserted) was good enough for everyone.....but i guess i was wrong. :-)
:grin: I think that quite a few of us (me being the first) don't even know half of the options available in the zillion of menus / popups windows / context menus present on XBMC.
So Play DVD on the main menu perhaps add no missing feature but it's more of a "candy sugar" WAF thing.
Just to throw a quick couple of examples:
- I bound my remote to a button that displays the audio/subs menu while watching a movie so I can change them easily. Wrong, yesterday I spent half a minute trying to understand how should I go to select the audio option, then the tiny up/down arrows and then a new audio track. I'm sure it's easy but I don't even know the sequence I pulled up and probably will have to go through this exercise a couple of more times.
- I discovered that when you are moving through a list (ex: artists) if you keep pressing right eventually the cursor locks on the vertical scroll bar so from them on the up/down arrows moves the bar (faster scroll than going row to row). A feature I wasn't even aware of.
So really XBMC exposes so many options than sometimes the skinner may choose to "highlight" some of the most important giving them prime space on the main menu.
PS: I cannot wait to see how many cool things the new T! will bring. ;)
Thanks for this, very useful. Gonna give it a go on my xbox.
Thanks for this, very useful. Gonna give it a go on my xbox.
Tried it and it works perfectly on xbox using the horizontal menu. Thanks. :grin:
Admiral Michael
2009-10-22, 18:57
:grin: I think that quite a few of us (me being the first) don't even know half of the options available in the zillion of menus / popups windows / context menus present on XBMC.
So Play DVD on the main menu perhaps add no missing feature but it's more of a "candy sugar" WAF thing.
That was the issue with me, until I saw this thread I was unaware of the m menu on the home page.