[nathangunn]

Hi,

I have set up MPHC as my external player but when I attempt to play a movie via XBMC it runs really jerky. If I launch MPHC outside of XBMC everything is OK

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

[M3Rocket]

What's in your playercore.xml?

Try changing this in that file from:
<hidexbmc>false</hidexbmc>

to:
<hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>

XBMC currently absorbs a lot of CPU cycles if it is not minimized/hidden, thus stealing cycles from MPC.

[Lorq]

Ah nice. All this time I've had my hidexbmc set to false. I haven't had any stuttering but it always took 5-15 sec when rewinding/jumping forward in MPCHC. I just assumed it was hardware/MPCHC related.

Someone should update the wiki. This is all that's mentioned about hidexbmc:
"whether to hide the XBMC window whilst the external player is active"
No explanation why it's default to false and and why you'd wanna set to true.

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW...a_playback