Adding controls to Xlobby for Sony DVP-CX777ES

[SMH]

Sharp,

I upgraded the xlobby .exe and the DVD Profiler import setup works great! I have input the slot numbers into DVD Profiler and they are now automatically cued within xlobby--no bat files! Awesome. I have however come across a few unusual situations. I hope you may be able to help. The first one is that a few of my discs (it seems they are mostly multiple disc sets) are not loading properly with xlobby. I am getting an error message from the CX777ES, something to the effect of "can not load Title 1 program file". It appears to load correctly without xlobby, but with the current command setup, it doesn't load a few discs properly. I have no idea why and how they would be different than others.
Secondly, my navigational command buttons: left, right, up, down, enter, and menu, do not always function. When I load up xlobby, sometimes they will function, and sometimes they won't. The menu function appears to work with the first disc, but then when I load a different one, it doesn't work. I believe I have the .bat file correct as you provided earlier in the post, but not sure why the inconsistency. I am using Buddabing's touchscreen skin btw. in which a load screen appears for each movie selected that includes the dvd control buttons, and then exited to chose an another movie. If I can get these two issues resolved, I will be in very good shape.
Again, thanks for any help. It is greatly appreciated as I have now invested quite a bit of time to get this setup to work.

[SMH]

BTW, I just tried it and the message is "program play of Title 1 is prohibited now" and it was for a single disc, not a multiple disc set.

[P3rv3rt B3ar]

Aaah! what u r encountering is UOP... DVD restricions on user operations, its up to discs manufacturers to enable them on their discs, however player manufacturers need to implement them, because of licensing agreements for the precious keys.

Thats exactly why i was against getting rid of bat files. Discs needs individual processing, bat is currently best place to store that data.

So its either back to bats, and spend couple nights configuring each disc individually or spend a year to make back-up copies without UOP of your collection or just put discs without UOPs in 777 or spend some money to have http://www.jvb.nl to mod UOP out of your player.

[SMH]

Thanks for the reply. I guess it looks like I will be making bat files for those that dont work. It doesn't appear to be that many, so it should be fine. At least this saves me valuable time trying to figure out what could be wrong within DVD Profiler or otherwise to cause the problem.
BTW, any idea of why the menu and navigational functions will be work all the time? I have created an event under the navigational category in "events" and correspondedly created a bat file with the information provided in this post, and used the os:execute to direct to that bat file. I then used the skin editor to direct the selected button to that bat file in the dvd control screen. It works great for the stop, pause, play, etc. functions, but the directional, enter and menu functions do not work properly. Any ideas?
Thanks again.

[sharp_1]

SMH:

I encountered the same thing with the navigation events from a bat files. I ended up using the IR commands instead...works every time!!! If you don't have a USB-UIRT you need to get one ASAP. http://www.usbuirt.com/

As far as the titles that have the UOP DVD restrictions you could always rip those DVD's so they play properly in the 777.

[SMH]

P3rv3rt B3ar

If I go back to the bat file approach, can you explain how to use the sendfocus.exe eluded to before to eliminate the "windows dos box" from appearing when loading a movie? That was one of the main reasons I went to the other approach due to the ease of eliminating this with the "hidden" option. If I go and do a bat file for each movie, I want to make sure I can eliminate this from appearing on the screen as I do not want any "windows" look to the interface.
thanks.

[P3rv3rt B3ar]

P3rv3rt B3ar

If I go back to the bat file approach, can you explain how to use the sendfocus.exe eluded to before to eliminate the "windows dos box" from appearing when loading a movie?

Unfortunately i cant, i havent tested it myself yet. Ive left these cosmetic things to the last. But i believe its usage is described on the linked thread and i was under impression it should work for that purpose.

[sharp_1]

P3rv3rt B3ar

If I go back to the bat file approach, can you explain how to use the sendfocus.exe eluded to before to eliminate the "windows dos box" from appearing when loading a movie?

I believe I mentioned how you can run bat files without the dos window popping up. You need to download the runhidden.exe that art wrote. Setup your file types to behave like this:(I can't remember how the switches worked...maybe the bear can help with that one??)

[SMH]

Sharp,

Thanks. I tried as you suggested, but it did not work. I used %movies%, and also %movies_family% as that is the title of my movie database, but neither appeared to work. Otherwise I used exactly what was included in the picture you posted in your last post. Anything else I can try?
Thanks.
BTW, Happy New Year.

[sharp_1]

Take switch info out and leave blank.

If that doesn't work try this:

If I understand your setup, your "movies" database has links to a batch files in the "parameter" tag, if so, I wrote this little prog a long time ago - it executes batch files without this command prompt window - so you could assign an event to your category "os:execute file" - in the "File" point to my prog and in the Arguments enter %movies>parameter% (providing "movies" is the name of your category) that should launch your batch file without this window....

[SMH]

I took the switch info out and tried, but it still did not work. The only time it would work was if I removed the extensions input (bat), but then it would not change and it still showed the dos file box. I tried the suggestion mentioned after that, but in going with the "os:execute" route, but I back to the earlier approach (without bat files and using DVD profiler input slot numbers) and not able to load certain discs to the UOP restrictions. After that, I eliminated all of that and simply tried to load the discs simply using the bat files, and I still couldn't load the UOP discs and got the same error message as before. Very confused now, as I created a separate bat file for each movie and directed each movie to the bat, but now I still get the error and still can't get rid of the dos box.

[sharp_1]

Have you tried to use the browse button to select the runhidden.exe from your HD on the setup screen?

[SMH]

Yes, that is how I have directed to the runhidden.exe file.
To recap, here is my setup: I have created separate bat files for each movie, using the information on these forums. Each bat file was created and then directed to at the "database" category, "edit", and then each movie directed to the bat file in the parameters line. That seems to work fine. I have then directed the "play movie" button to the "skin", "movies", "execute" and the category input as "movies_family" which matches the actual movie database. (this was the default of the skin). This all works fine, except the dos windows base shows up. In the "file type" category, I have used the browse button to direct to the runhidden.exe file found at c:/777/runhidden.exe, input "bat" in the extensions line, and have used both "movies_family", "movies", and empty for the command switches line. Neither has worked to eliminate the dos box, and actually, the movies will not even load when this configuration is input to the file type category. Most movies load fine, however, the dos box is shown and the movies with UOP still do not load even when using the bat files and not the previous method including the DVD Profiler and slot number input. I just need the dos box to go away and to load ALL movies to have the complete setup. It was my understanding that all movies would load properly using the bat file method. Sorry if I keep coming back with questions, it is just that I am ready to have this setup FINALLY complete and ready for operation at 100%. Thanks for the continued help, I feel I must be close but can't get over this hurdle. If more information is needed, please let me know.
Thanks again for hanging in there with me to get this thing going correctly.

[P3rv3rt B3ar]

method itself is irrelevant if u run certain command from bat or from where ever, results will be the same. key is within commands themselves, not in method theire run. why i suggested bat, its cause it gives your sequence of commands a convinient storage medium.

Ull need to experiment your discs case by case... and eventually u will find a command sequence which will work with that particular disc... and after uve done that couple times... u become pro.

I personally can run every disc i ever tried, except one, but that is disc 777 wont read at all.

However, its not possible to run all discs so that movie begins right away (with UOP enabled player). But ur command sequences are combinations of player commands and sleep timers, for some movies with nonskippable FACT and FBI stuff initialization command sequence can take minute to run... to avoid all inconviniency u have to design your system so that itll play trailer while 777 is running your movie initialization script (command sequence in batch file)

PS to have sleep command possible in bat... u need some microsoft toolkit... only if i could remember the exact name of it or where to download...

[sharp_1]

Bear:

I can't remember what to put in the command line switch on this...do you know what the command line switch is designed to do?