Warning : Stupid questions ahead...

[alaric]

Hi Guys,

I'm in the middle of building my second home theater and am upto the point i have a picture from the PJ and HTPC etc and everything is groovy. I'm running with a Xantech IR distribution hack for controling my AV kit and PJ and using a ATI remote for controling theatertek and its a little kludgey but i can watch things.

I've just bought a progear touch screen webpad (win98 IIRC) with the idea of controling TT via it and using the HTPC to squirt out IR via a USB-UIRT to control the other AV stuff.

I've downloaded Xlobby and just had a quick play and i can't seem to figure out how to play a simple movie via the DVD-rom drive. I don't have the time/patient/space to rip my ever expanding 650+ movies for a DB style thingy, though viewing the DVD-profiler DB to choose would be nice, i'm happy manualy selecting the DVD and putting it in the drive.

I'm also interested in macros that will turn off the lights (futronix p400), when play is paused a light setting comes up etc

Can i do this with Xlobby ???

Ta,
Lee

[lar282]

Hi Guys,
I've downloaded Xlobby and just had a quick play and i can't seem to figure out how to play a simple movie via the DVD-rom drive.

Ta,
Lee

I'm lazy so I'll redirect u to another post.the answer is there
http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... t=play+dvd

//Lasse

[alaric]

Hi There,

Lazy is fine by me. Read that and it seems i can create a "Just play the damn DVD" button which is cool.....

However i've just managed to configure Xlobby on some bits by working through badabings pdf which is good...had lots of fun as my default drive is e: not c: but managed to solve most bits....I even put the thin client on the progear (though running the fat bit doesn't work...) and i can control Xlobby by it....nice.

I can play music and control winamp, look at pictures and browse my dvdprofiler collection. With a bit of effot i can get it to ask me to insert the disc and hit continue and then fire theatertek up and play the movie, but at that point i loose control.....I was expecting the thin client to display theatertek controls....or do people then switch to something else for control ???

Ta,
Lee

[rembetis]

Pretty sure most (if not all) Baddabing's skins go to a control screen once a DVD is played from database (Reduex definitely works that way) -- you'll need to add that "goto" command to the end of your "play the damn DVD" command. This is based on the notion of using two screens, one for control and for playback, but you can adapt it to your use because your thin client will dsiplay the controls.

From there, you need to edit the events assigned to Baddabing's control buttons. If I remember correctly, his were pre-coded for Zoomplayer. Do a search here or over on the Theatertek forum for the command line parameters and then paste them into the Play, Pause, Stop, etc. button events.