[deh2k7]

@JR,

Indeed! it's working great :-) Here is my latest playercorefactory.xml file, for future reference.

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<playercorefactory>
  <players>
    <player name="MPC-HC" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
      <filename>C:\Program Files\Media Player Classic - Home Cinema\mpc-hc.exe</filename>
      <args>"G:" /fullscreen /close {2}</args>
      <hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
      <hideconsole>true</hideconsole>
    </player>
  </players>
  <rules action="prepend">
    <rule name="BluRayDrive" protocols="bd" player="MPC-HC" />  </rules>
</playercorefactory>

Now I realized that we've following mindweaver's example of the playercorefactory.xml that really does not work for MPC-HC! at the very least, not for Darhma 10.1 or later. Furthermore, perhaps XBMC should not default to {1} and use only whatever users specify in the args list? i.e. external players have different inputs and there is no way to determine in advance.

Really appreciated your help!
- bodhi

This thread has been extremely helpful! Thanks for helping to make my setup easy. I do have one final question about MPC as an external player. When I stop a movie, MPC doesn't close and stays in focus, leaving XBMC in the background. When I hit stop, can I get MPC to close automatically and return focus back to XBMC?

[jhsrennie]

This thread has been extremely helpful! Thanks for helping to make my setup easy. I do have one final question about MPC as an external player. When I stop a movie, MPC doesn't close and stays in focus, leaving XBMC in the background. When I hit stop, can I get MPC to close automatically and return focus back to XBMC?

It's the /close argument that makes MPC-HC close after it's finished playing. However I'm not sure what happens if you manually stop playback, or if there is acommand line argument to control this behaviour.

JR