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I am wanting to use a hq2x scaler video scaler.

Can you do this with dsplayer 17.6 as a external player?

Or would I be better off using  mpc-hc for a external player?

Tried to get scalers to work on mpc-hc, but could not even get mpc-hc to come up.

Maybe my playercorefactory.xml is wrong.

<playercorefactory>
  <players>
    <player name="MPC-HC" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
      <filename>C:\Program Files\MPC-HC\mpc-hc64.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>
No, you can't run two instances of Kodi at the same time.
(2019-07-17, 05:11)Lasar3 Wrote: [ -> ]I am wanting to use a hq2x scaler video scaler.

Can you do this with dsplayer 17.6 as a external player?

Or would I be better off using  mpc-hc for a external player?

Tried to get scalers to work on mpc-hc, but could not even get mpc-hc to come up.

Maybe my playercorefactory.xml is wrong.

<playercorefactory>
  <players>
    <player name="MPC-HC" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
      <filename>C:\Program Files\MPC-HC\mpc-hc64.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>

Is MPC-HC listed when you highlight a title, press C and select Play using...