Hi, I downloaded JRiver MC18 originally to replace Windows MC on my wife's PC. The purpose was to play music only (as we had never successfully managed to get WMC do do anything other than partial music service). However, I quickly realized that MC18 could do so much more, and it now works as a wonderful front end for all my wife's media needs, except playing ripped BluRay discs. Despite what other here on the forum mean, my wife does not think that the user interface of MC matches that of the original disc menus, which is what she is used to from my main HTPC, where I run ArcSoft (TMT4 and TMT5). Since her main use of the system will be to watch TV Shows, then Audio, then Movies, and because she wants to be able to easily select different audio and subtitle options, it makes sense to also watch regular ripped DVDs through ArcSoft, the way she is used to.
So, I am working hard on customizing a universal remote control, which will control the TV, the amplifier, and the PC. The PC will have MC18 as a front end, and as a music player, and ArcSoft will play the ripped DVDs and BRs which are started from MC18.
All this works in theory, right?
So, three questions:
1. How do I get MC18 to start file play in ArcSoft
2. I keep reading that MC18 somehow "steals" commands sent to other applications, such as TMT6, so that external players are hard/impossible to control? Has this issue been solved?
3. I find it hard to access TV Shows directly. The MC remote has buttons for Movies and Audio, but not for TV Shows. This means there are a lot of key presses necessary to get to the TV Show menu (which is our most used menu). I could program the universal remote to to do those key presses automatically, but that requires a fixed and stable starting point. I have not been able to find a key that will bring me to the same place in MC18, regardless of where I am when I press it, nor have I found a combination of keystrokes that will do so. Has anyone looked into, and solved, this problem before?¨
Best
Chris