I’m documenting this for myself but someone else might find it useful.
First off, you need these downloads (this I got from a post which I can’t find – will search for it a link to it):
- Media Player Classic – Home Cinema
- CoreAVC codec. You need to buy this one, unfortunately. There are other methods though.
Make sure you install nVidia drivers and CUDA before CoreAVC. MPC-HC has to have CoreAVC Video Decoder as preferred filter in External Filters.
After that you need to configure XBMC. This link is where I took the info from.
Basically you need to get XBMC Camelot Beta 1 for Windows from the official site (or higher, I’m guessing).
To make MPC-HC the external player for mkv files (and other HD files) you have to edit playercorefactory.xml which should be located at C:\Program Files\XBMC\System.
<playercorefactory>
<players>
<player name="MPC-HC" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<filename>C:\Program Files\MPC HomeCinema\mpc-hc.exe</filename>
<args>/fullscreen /close "{1}"</args>
<hidexbmc>false</hidexbmc>
<hideconsole>false</hideconsole>
<warpcursor>none</warpcursor>
</player>
<player name="MountAndPlay" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<filename>C:\XBMC_Extras\MountAndPlay.bat</filename>
<args></args>
<hidexbmc>false</hidexbmc>
<hideconsole>true</hideconsole>
<warpcursor>none</warpcursor>
</player>
</players>
<rules action="prepend">
<rule filetypes="m2ts|ts|mkv" player="MPC-HC" />
<rule filetypes="iso" player="MountAndPlay" />
</rules>
</playercorefactory>
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Update: Feb 22, 2010
I’ve seen a lot of posts of people complaining about Flash 10.1 beta and video acceleration not working correctly on the Revo. While using it to play video from Hulu it’s true that you see some jittery stuff, skipping and out of sync audio. I thought it was related to the Flash plug-in too but now I’m not that sure. As it turns out I only have this problem with Hulu. I’ve tested the BBC iPlayer with a buddy in the UK a couple of weeks ago and it worked fine. They can even play HD over there (if you have the bandwidth). This is Flash 10.1 using the same Revo 3610.
Now I’m curious. Anyone else noticed this? How does Vimeo perform, for example? Or YouTube, if one can find decent content to actually compare anything.
Silverlight works fine. I’ve been seeing the Winter Olympics on the CTV site and the quality is pretty awesome. And their plug-in is not even at the Beta stage.
Update: May 19, 2010
Download the latest Flash Beta (released on the 5th of May 2010, I think). It works much much better. Hulu’s player works almost perfectly with this latest release. They’re clearly close.
