One way to set up Multiple Movie Players HDDVD, Blu-ray, & D

[lpg]

I needed to launch a movie player based on the format of the movie I was playing. I have a collection of DVD, Blu-ray and HDDVD movies. I cannot run Total Media Theater(It can play both Blu-ray and HDDVD) because it did not support Vista 64. So in order to play the latest Blu-ray titles I use PDVD8 and for the HDDVD tiltles I use PDVD 7.3. I did not want multiple play buttons so I came up with a way to use a specific player based on the format of the movie. You cna see what I did here in a mini-tutorial http://sites.google.com/site/lpgshtpc/Home/xlobby---setup-of-multiple-video-players

Thanks to all those who helped me figure this out.
Larry

[rembetis]

Thanks for taking the time to write out the tutorial.

Do you control PowerDVD with a remote once a movie has started playing?

[lpg]

I havent gotten that far yet. One of the things I am looking at is the latest version of zoomplayer. It can use the PDVD8 drivers now. If I can do that I will have full control of the player.

[lpg]

Thanks for taking the time to write out the tutorial.

I needed to write it out to remember what I did. My brain is getting too old and it leaks.

[rembetis]

I havent gotten that far yet. One of the things I am looking at is the latest version of zoomplayer. It can use the PDVD8 drivers now. If I can do that I will have full control of the player.

Whoa... hold the phone! I did not know this. Looks like I have searching and researching to do. Did Cyberlink produce a version of PDVD8 that can read bluray form the harddrive?

[lpg]

With the magic of Slysoft's andvd hd you van rip a bit perfect image or as Grooby has done take the movies apart and put them in an iso format(searcg Grooby's posts there is a link to a guide on how to do this on doom9.org). There are a number of methods that can be found on doom9 but I looked for the simplest way to do this. I posted a blu-ray made easy post a little while ago where I explained what I did. I had trouble with daemon tools on vista 64 so I started using slysoft's virtual clone drive which was free.

Short answer is yes. I have ripped my whole collection of dvd's, Blu-rays, and HDDVD's to my multi-terabyte server. I have about 600 movies in my collection. All play fine on any computer in my home.

[rembetis]

lpg: are you using a single-display setup? I can't seem to get PowerDVD to open on my secondary monitor...

[lpg]

Yea, I have not set up my touchscreen yet because I need to write a volume control for my audio card. My wife has a three monitor setup in her office. I will try it out.

[lpg]

lpg: are you using a single-display setup? I can't seem to get PowerDVD to open on my secondary monitor...

Check out Lars solution. viewtopic.php?f=44&t=6624 I do not know if this will do the trick but givr it a shot. Larry

[rembetis]

Thanks for the heads up re: that thread, lpg. FWIW, I couldn't get the shift-close or lars's little app to work, but CMDOW (the last app mentioned by Scott) did work great, so long as I executed PowerDVD, waited 5000ms (less could work, 2000ms did not), and then ran CMDOW with the /mov argument.

[lpg]

Great. I saw a few others had chimed in wiith other solutions. It is especially good when they are free . Larry