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sorry, to answer your question. The .iso mounts to the drive, when I click on the drive and play with PDVD it opens and the movie starts playing immediately. Yes, I have read this entire thread as well as another one that had 153 pages. I've started from scratch multiple times from your thread. Your set-up covers a lot of other file types playing to external player that I don't care to do, so i'm sure I've got extra code in my files I don't really need.

I've actually got it working about 95% there. My last issue is the annoyance powerdvd launching but not autoplaying the movie. And for some reason pushing the spacebar key on my remote doesn't work unless I alt+tab to kodi and back to PDVD, then push the space bar.

I've commented out both nvidia lines since pdvd12 automatically changes the resolution/refresh rate to 3D, and I commented out the unmount command. I may put that one back, and see what happens.

I just left that cinema mode in there for those other file types knowing that I'd never invoke that call with the files I have on my system. Here are the .exe files in the PowerDVD12 folder: Activate.exe, AutoLaunchPDVDServByTaskScheduler.exe, ExecCmd.exe, PDVD12Serv.exe, PDVDLaunchPolicy.exe, PowerDvd12.exe, PowerDVD12ML.exe, vthum.exe

I remember in the past a thread that called for using PDVDLaunchPolicy to enable the external player and that's what I used then to get my 3D movies to play automatically. Since I've updated and moved and re-installed everything and updated again, it seems like those files i used to use are broken, which brought me to your thread. I appreciate all your help, I'm not a complete noob, once upon a time I did know how to code in c++, so I understand some syntax in the files.