[Warner306]

@Warner306 - have a look in the wiki http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=External_players, its not as difficult as it looks. Just make sure the path to mpc-hc matches its location and that the file is placed in the correct location and its good to go - set-up of mpc-hc, now that's a whole different ball game and neither topic is really for discussion here.

There are other threads for external player issues, or start a fresh one. Here's a link to a cracking tutorial on mpc-hc set-up http://www.avsforum.com/forum/26-home-th...guide.html

In case anyone is interested, below is a completed Playercorefactory to run MPC-HC from XBMC. I have adapted the core settings to incorporate a setting to exclude all Internet streams and only apply a "watched" status to any video that is launched in MPC-HC for more than 19 minutes. I also attached two guides that provide step-by-step instructions on how to incorporate MadVR and Reclock (For some, Reclock may be necessary to solve 24p lip sync issues):

<playercorefactory>
<players>
<player name="MPC-HC" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<filename>C:\Program Files (x86)\MPC-HC\mpc-hc.exe</filename>
<args>"{1}" /fullscreen /close</args>
<hidexbmc>false</hidexbmc>
<hideconsole>false</hideconsole>
<warpcursor>none</warpcursor>
<playcountminimumtime>1140</playcountminimumtime>
</player>
</players>
<rules action="prepend">
<rule internetstream="false" player="MPC-HC" />
</rules>
</playercorefactory>

http://www.avsforum.com/forum/26-home-th...guide.html

http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=516729

If anyone is interested, I can provide a starter guide of commands that you may want to remap in the "Keys" section of MPC-HC for control with a Harmony One remote.

My opinion of MPC-HC over DVDPlayer: I dislike the spartan OSD options in MPC-HC compared to XBMC, but playback is superior to XBMC in some ways (I'm mostly talking about smoother 24p playback. MadVR rendering is equal to DVDPlayer in most respects IMO. Nothing worth the hassle of setting up MPC-HC).