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[jachin99]

I have created "Ghost" files so I can include cover art in my library for movies I have purchased from VUDU.  They are just text files renamed with a .vob extension.  In media center, I associated .vob files with a batch script that launches a web browser, and points it to vudu.  When I click on my files in theater view, MC just flickers and slows down without launching the files.  I'm thinking the slow flicker might be because it thinks it should be changing my refresh rate but it doesn't even launch a web browser in the background like it should.  When I navigate to the .vob file locations within MC and click on them, they work.  In standard view under the video tab clicking on them does nothing.

[AndrewFG]

I have created "Ghost" files so I can include cover art in my library for movies I have purchased from VUDU.  They are just text files renamed with a .vob extension.  In media center, I associated .vob files with a batch script that launches a web browser, and points it to vudu.  When I click on my files in theater view, MC just flickers and slows down without launching the files.  I'm thinking the slow flicker might be because it thinks it should be changing my refresh rate but it doesn't even launch a web browser in the background like it should.  When I navigate to the .vob file locations within MC and click on them, they work.  In standard view under the video tab clicking on them does nothing.

That is a very interesting idea. I do something similar with my hard DVDs and BluRays as far as the MC library is concerned. But in my case, instead of the .VOB files triggering a link to Vudu, I think that perhaps a link to IMDB would be cool (different user cases could define their own custom links).

PS your "slow flicker" is probably because your PC has in fact loaded Vudu in the browswer, but that Theater View forces itself to be "always on top" i.e. it forces the browser to be opened behind itself.

[jachin99]

Is anyone else having this problem?

[AndrewFG]

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I think the solution could be that in the batch command that you associate with VOB files you could include an MC command line to flip MC from a Theater View to regular view before calling the browser URL linking to your Vudu page.