[robl45]

MPC-HC can be used with Kodi. You don't have to give up Kodi as a media front-end.

I used that combo for years and I can tell you it ain't perfect. Jriver plays the stuff correctly. No issues and subs work right but I like the kodi front end better so now to see if I can use jriver as external player.

The only issue is time stamps. It plays everything perfectly for me. NO issues with subs if correctly configured. At least on my end.

I assume we are talking about Madvr with mpc as external player. Jriver walks on this frankly if you want to do 3d. Unfortunately, I have my own unique issues and Jriver doesn't seem to be able to cope with that so it looks like Kodi plus mpc and madvr will have to do the job. MPC has issues with 3d subs. They don't work correctly. I'm using MPC-BE now that at least will get a little depth from the subs, but still doesn't work that well, Jriver works much better for the subs. For most people MPC-HC with Kodi is probably a great solution as you can use remote extender program with kodi remote and have a nice remote setup or use yatze. MPC-BE won't work with this setup. Very strange as they are almost indentical programs. At any rate, Jriver at least for me won't stretch my movies vertically and MPC will so it stays for now as I absolutely can't stand watching half my screen in 3d and I've tried it multiple times.