[Tobby]

Hi there. I wanted to use MPC-HC as an external player with XBMC, but when I try to open a file that is associated with MPC-HC r choose MPC-HC manually nothing happens. Anyone feel like helping me? Oh, and I'm running the latest Frodo Alpha.

Here's me debug logg: http://pastebin.com/1NiHKCwq

And my playercorefactory.xml:

<playercorefactory>
<players>
<player name="MPC-HC" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<filename>C:\Program (x86)\Combined Community Codec Pack\mpc-hc.exe</filename>
<args>"{1}" /fullscreen /close</args>
<hidexbmc>false</hidexbmc>
<hideconsole>false</hideconsole>
<warpcursor>none</warpcursor>
</player>
</players>
<rules action="prepend">
<rule filetypes="mkv" filename=".*720p.*" player="MPC-HC"/>
</rules>
</playercorefactory>

[robl45]

don't know too much about it, but this is what i'm using so maybe it will help you.

<playercorefactory>
<players>

<player name="Universal_Player" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="false">
<filename>C:\Program Files (x86)\MPC Homecinema\mpc-hc.exe</filename>
<args>"{1}" /fullscreen</args>
<hidexbmc>false</hidexbmc>
<hideconsole>false</hideconsole>
<warpcursor>none</warpcursor>

</player>

<player name="Disc_Player" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="false">
<!-- You can place your PlayDisc file in \Roaming\XBMC\userdata\ -->
<filename>C:\Users\Dell\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\userdata\PlayDisc.bat</filename>
<args>"{1}" /fullscreen</args>
<hidexbmc>false</hidexbmc>
<hideconsole>false</hideconsole>
<warpcursor>none</warpcursor>

</player>
</players>
<rules action="prepend">
<rule filetypes="mkv|ts" filename=".*sbs.*" player="Universal_Player"/>
</rules>
</playercorefactory>

[Tobby]

don't know too much about it, but this is what i'm using so maybe it will help you.

<playercorefactory>
<players>

<player name="Universal_Player" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="false">
<filename>C:\Program Files (x86)\MPC Homecinema\mpc-hc.exe</filename>
<args>"{1}" /fullscreen</args>
<hidexbmc>false</hidexbmc>
<hideconsole>false</hideconsole>
<warpcursor>none</warpcursor>

</player>

<player name="Disc_Player" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="false">
<!-- You can place your PlayDisc file in \Roaming\XBMC\userdata\ -->
<filename>C:\Users\Dell\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\userdata\PlayDisc.bat</filename>
<args>"{1}" /fullscreen</args>
<hidexbmc>false</hidexbmc>
<hideconsole>false</hideconsole>
<warpcursor>none</warpcursor>

</player>
</players>
<rules action="prepend">
<rule filetypes="mkv|ts" filename=".*sbs.*" player="Universal_Player"/>
</rules>
</playercorefactory>

Tried to find our differences and edit mine, but it still doesn't work.

[bluray]

Download the file below and save it in \AppData\Roaming\XBMC\userdata folder, and make sure that there is 720p in the title- Avatar 720p.mkv....

playercorefactory.xml

[Tobby]

Download the file below and save it in \AppData\Roaming\XBMC\userdata folder, and make sure that there is 720p in the title- Avatar 720p.mkv....

playercorefactory.xml

Thanks for trying, but it didn't work.

[bluray]

Download the file below and save it in \AppData\Roaming\XBMC\userdata folder, and make sure that there is 720p in the title- Avatar 720p.mkv....

playercorefactory.xml

Thanks for trying, but it didn't work.

Does MPC-HC without XBMC work okay? If MPC-HC work by itself, you might want to consider installing the stable Eden 11.0- Current Stable Release: 11.0 “Eden”.....

[Tobby]

Download the file below and save it in \AppData\Roaming\XBMC\userdata folder, and make sure that there is 720p in the title- Avatar 720p.mkv....

playercorefactory.xml

Thanks for trying, but it didn't work.

Does MPC-HC without XBMC work okay? If MPC-HC work by itself, you might want to consider installing the stable Eden 11.0- Current Stable Release: 11.0 “Eden”.....

MPC works fine wtout XBMC. I did install the stable Eden release and it didn't work either. I don't understand...

[bluray]

Thanks for trying, but it didn't work.

Does MPC-HC without XBMC work okay? If MPC-HC work by itself, you might want to consider installing the stable Eden 11.0- Current Stable Release: 11.0 “Eden”.....

MPC works fine wtout XBMC. I did install the stable Eden release and it didn't work either. I don't understand...

Did you un-install Frodo completely before you installed Eden? Make sure that there is no XBMC left from Frodo in \AppData\Roaming\ and C:\Program Files (x86)\ folders. Does your Windows have "Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x86)" in Programs and Features?

[Tobby]

Does MPC-HC without XBMC work okay? If MPC-HC work by itself, you might want to consider installing the stable Eden 11.0- Current Stable Release: 11.0 “Eden”.....

MPC works fine wtout XBMC. I did install the stable Eden release and it didn't work either. I don't understand...

Did you un-install Frodo completely before you installed Eden? Make sure that there is no XBMC left from Frodo in \AppData\Roaming\ and C:\Program Files (x86)\ folders. Does your Windows have "Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x86)" in Programs and Features?

I didn't, I'll try that.

EDIT: Didn't help. Uninstalled XBMC and removed the XBMC folder from my Program (x86) folder. Reinstalled Eden and nothing. Also, yes I have Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x86)

[bluray]

MPC works fine wtout XBMC. I did install the stable Eden release and it didn't work either. I don't understand...

Did you un-install Frodo completely before you installed Eden? Make sure that there is no XBMC left from Frodo in \AppData\Roaming\ and C:\Program Files (x86)\ folders. Does your Windows have "Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x86)" in Programs and Features?

I didn't, I'll try that.

EDIT: Didn't help. Uninstalled XBMC and removed the XBMC folder from my Program (x86) folder. Reinstalled Eden and nothing. Also, yes I have Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x86)

Ok, try another playercorefactory.xml below then.....

playercorefactory.xml

[Tobby]

Did you un-install Frodo completely before you installed Eden? Make sure that there is no XBMC left from Frodo in \AppData\Roaming\ and C:\Program Files (x86)\ folders. Does your Windows have "Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x86)" in Programs and Features?

I didn't, I'll try that.

EDIT: Didn't help. Uninstalled XBMC and removed the XBMC folder from my Program (x86) folder. Reinstalled Eden and nothing. Also, yes I have Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x86)

Ok, try another playercorefactory.xml below then.....

playercorefactory.xml

There's a quick "Now playing" note in the upper left corner (using Aeon MQ4) but it goes away almost immediately. I tried with Confluence too, but nothing, so it's not the skin.

EDIT: I found these line in the debug log which seems a bit odd. Do you know what it means?

"17:36:08 T:4376 WARNING: ExternalPlayer: invalid value for warpcursor: none"

"17:36:08 T:4180 NOTICE: CExternalPlayer::ExecuteAppW32 - Failure: 3
17:36:08 T:4180 NOTICE: CExternalPlayer:rocess: Stop
17:36:08 T:4180 NOTICE: CExternalPlayer:rocess: Showing XBMC window"

EDIT2: I also tried removing my advanced settings.xml file (figured something there might be bothering), but nope.

[Tobby]

BREAKTHROUGH!!

There's nothing wrong with the code. I tried using VLC instead of MPC and it worked flawlessly. I still want MPC, not VLC though.

[bluray]

BREAKTHROUGH!!

There's nothing wrong with the code. I tried using VLC instead of MPC and it worked flawlessly. I still want MPC, not VLC though.

Can you un-install MPC-HC completely? If there is any codecs installed with the existing version, you can un-install it too. You can re-install it from their website- Downloads...make sure to select the correct version for your Windows 7, because the version you installed might not be the correct version for your Windows 7.......

You can try the latest playercorefactory.xml I posted again.....I tried the same playercorecorefactory.xml on three HTPC's, and MPC-HC worked fine.....

[Tobby]

BREAKTHROUGH!!

There's nothing wrong with the code. I tried using VLC instead of MPC and it worked flawlessly. I still want MPC, not VLC though.

Can you un-install MPC-HC completely? If there is any codecs installed with the existing version, you can un-install it too. You can re-install it from their website- Downloads...make sure to select the correct version for your Windows 7, because the version you installed might not be the correct version for your Windows 7.......

You can try the latest playercorefactory.xml I posted again.....I tried the same playercorecorefactory.xml on three HTPC's, and MPC-HC worked fine.....

Can't find the codecs...

[bluray]

BREAKTHROUGH!!

There's nothing wrong with the code. I tried using VLC instead of MPC and it worked flawlessly. I still want MPC, not VLC though.

Can you un-install MPC-HC completely? If there is any codecs installed with the existing version, you can un-install it too. You can re-install it from their website- Downloads...make sure to select the correct version for your Windows 7, because the version you installed might not be the correct version for your Windows 7.......

You can try the latest playercorefactory.xml I posted again.....I tried the same playercorecorefactory.xml on three HTPC's, and MPC-HC worked fine.....

Can't find the codecs...

You can un-install it completely, and install a fresh version from MPC-HC link...