[blessedwalnut]

I currently have two appletvs linked to my PC, all running XBMC with a centralized database so that I can stop media on one machine, and resume it on another. I have this working perfectly between the three machines.

However, on my PC I favour media player classic (MPC) as my main media player over XBMC, largely because I like to have it running in the corner of my monitor with all the controls minimized and it always on top of everything else that is running, and I can't find a way to do this with XBMC.

I have found and followed the instructions so that when I click a video in XBMC it loads on the external player (MPC), however if I stop a video part way through watching, it doesn't record where I am up to in XBMC (so there is no resume from option when I play it again). Does anyone know how to link MPC to the XBMC database?

Ideally I would want to be able to click a video on the PC, have it load in media player classic, stop it halfway, and then goto the appletv and resume where I left off.

Thanks

[prae5]

iirc this would be expected behaviour with external players. xbmc has no means to communicate with the external player, i.e it does not know if you have watched 1min, 5 mins or 50mins worth of video so cannot record its position like it does with the internal player.

Additionally, i think when using external players it marks the movie as watched pretty much as soon as you start playing it.