External Media Player

[l0spepes]

Hello folks,

I'm a recent sageTV user and I was wondering if someone could tell how to use an external media player such as KMPLAYER instead of sagetv's build in player.

There's a setting under "SageMC options" for enabling/disabling External Media Player; I have enabled it but nothing happens I probably need to set the path to KMPlayer somewhere but I don't know where.

Can someone help me?

[sbherculano]

Hi,

You have to activate the external media player as you made in the SageMC setup.

After that you have to proceed as follow:

You have in the directory C:\Program Files\SageTV\SageTV\STVs\SageTV3\SageMCE several files with the extention .cmd.

One of them is called media_player.cmd. This file is a kind of bat file that you can put the command line of your media player.

For example:

"D:\Program Files\Zoom Player\zplayer.exe" %1

It means that the Zommplayer will be launched and the %1 means the name of the media file (;avi, mkv) that should be opened.

I hope that can help you.

[l0spepes]

Originally Posted by sbherculano

Hi,

You have to activate the external media player as you made in the SageMC setup.

After that you have to proceed as follow:

You have in the directory C:\Program Files\SageTV\SageTV\STVs\SageTV3\SageMCE several files with the extention .cmd.

One of them is called media_player.cmd. This file is a kind of bat file that you can put the command line of your media player.

For example:

"D:\Program Files\Zoom Player\zplayer.exe" %1

It means that the Zommplayer will be launched and the %1 means the name of the media file (;avi, mkv) that should be opened.

I hope that can help you.

I must be doing something wrong. Since I want to play .mov files in an external player, I have added the following line in media_player.cmd
"D:\The KMPlayer\KMPlayer.exe" .mov and enabled the external player option within sageMC but it is still not working.

Do I have the right syntax?

[gplasky]

Originally Posted by l0spepes

I must be doing something wrong. Since I want to play .mov files in an external player, I have added the following line in media_player.cmd
"D:\The KMPlayer\KMPlayer.exe" .mov and enabled the external player option within sageMC but it is still not working.

Do I have the right syntax?

Change .mov to %1.

Gerry

[l0spepes]

Originally Posted by gplasky

Change .mov to %1.

Gerry

I have it set to this now:

"D:\The KMPlayer\KMPlayer.exe" %1

and it is still not working. I thought I had to specify the file extensions that I want to be open by an external player?

[gplasky]

%1 is a variable for the commandline option of Zoomplayer as in the example. You need to see if KMplayer has a similar commandline option. It needs to pick up the file path from Sage.

Gerry