2020-04-21, 17:13
Apologies if this has been addressed. I can't think of the right search terms, or even really what I'm asking the search functions. I have searched this thread in particular and the Kodi forum in general. I have searched the web with Google.
My setup is as follows:
Win10, bone-stock with the latest updates
Nvidia 1660Ti
K-Lite Codec pack/WMP-HC
I have 4K monitors set in the dual-monitor configuration. I also have a 1080P monitor which I use to watch movies. All three are connected to the same PC and Nvidia card via HDMI on which I have my movies stored.
I have used this setup for years to watch movies using MPC-HC. All works perfectly. I can slide WMP-HC around on all three monitors, turn two monitors off, one monitor off, go back and forth, change resolutions at will, etc. My setup sometimes doesn't like it when I power on my receiver and power it down due to HDMI handshake issues, but 95% of the time Windows figures it out in a few seconds. Everything seemed to work fine also when I installed Kodi (although I haven't used Kodi for years with my setup).
In other words, before Kodi with the corresponding MPC-HC hack, everything is robust and works great.
I installed Kodi, did my Movies Library, and got the "extras" plugin working. Then I followed instructions here and had no problem getting MPC-HC to open. It's great, I love this option, and it's why I went with KODI over PLEX.
The setups of KODI and the .xml scripting were done with no problem at my computer on one of two 4K monitors. Everything worked. I could open MPC-HC on any movie, close and re-open the programs at will, size, resize windows, etc. I was thrilled.
This is my problem:
Upon running Kodi, right-clicking on a movie and selecting play with external player/Play with MPC-HC I grabbed the MPC-HC window with my mouse and moved it to my 1080P display, a digital Reciever attached to a 60-inch TV monitor which works fine with MPC-HC otherwise. Back at my computer, the next time I tried to use Kodi to open a movie into MPCHC, the option to "View with player" vanished from Kodi's movie context menu, when I right-clicked with my mouse.
All of these things and more I have tried:
Re-starting Kodi, MPC-HC and/or system. Power cycling monitors, and/or digital theater receiver.
I checked, rechecked and checked again that playercorefactory.xml was unchanged in userdata. I tried to write-protect it. I tried giving all instances of users in Win10 security settings full access to the file I made sure the editing app (notepad) didn't change the .xml filename surreptitiously. I deleted playercorefactory.xml and replaced it again. I have changed the default monitors in KODI to the three (monitors) different options presented and left it at default. I have used (and prefer) windowed mode and non-windowed mode. I have looked for ways to mess with the context menus.
I uninstalled, wiped everything and re-installed Kodi, initialized my library, etc. This worked! - That is until I moved MPC-HC onto my livingroom display again, which replicated the same problem.
Help??
My setup is as follows:
Win10, bone-stock with the latest updates
Nvidia 1660Ti
K-Lite Codec pack/WMP-HC
I have 4K monitors set in the dual-monitor configuration. I also have a 1080P monitor which I use to watch movies. All three are connected to the same PC and Nvidia card via HDMI on which I have my movies stored.
I have used this setup for years to watch movies using MPC-HC. All works perfectly. I can slide WMP-HC around on all three monitors, turn two monitors off, one monitor off, go back and forth, change resolutions at will, etc. My setup sometimes doesn't like it when I power on my receiver and power it down due to HDMI handshake issues, but 95% of the time Windows figures it out in a few seconds. Everything seemed to work fine also when I installed Kodi (although I haven't used Kodi for years with my setup).
In other words, before Kodi with the corresponding MPC-HC hack, everything is robust and works great.
I installed Kodi, did my Movies Library, and got the "extras" plugin working. Then I followed instructions here and had no problem getting MPC-HC to open. It's great, I love this option, and it's why I went with KODI over PLEX.
The setups of KODI and the .xml scripting were done with no problem at my computer on one of two 4K monitors. Everything worked. I could open MPC-HC on any movie, close and re-open the programs at will, size, resize windows, etc. I was thrilled.
This is my problem:
Upon running Kodi, right-clicking on a movie and selecting play with external player/Play with MPC-HC I grabbed the MPC-HC window with my mouse and moved it to my 1080P display, a digital Reciever attached to a 60-inch TV monitor which works fine with MPC-HC otherwise. Back at my computer, the next time I tried to use Kodi to open a movie into MPCHC, the option to "View with player" vanished from Kodi's movie context menu, when I right-clicked with my mouse.
All of these things and more I have tried:
Re-starting Kodi, MPC-HC and/or system. Power cycling monitors, and/or digital theater receiver.
I checked, rechecked and checked again that playercorefactory.xml was unchanged in userdata. I tried to write-protect it. I tried giving all instances of users in Win10 security settings full access to the file I made sure the editing app (notepad) didn't change the .xml filename surreptitiously. I deleted playercorefactory.xml and replaced it again. I have changed the default monitors in KODI to the three (monitors) different options presented and left it at default. I have used (and prefer) windowed mode and non-windowed mode. I have looked for ways to mess with the context menus.
I uninstalled, wiped everything and re-installed Kodi, initialized my library, etc. This worked! - That is until I moved MPC-HC onto my livingroom display again, which replicated the same problem.
Help??
