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I didn't say it wouldn't be updated?  I stated afaik, the developer who created it abandoned it.  I got that info from the DSPlayer wiki.  I assume that means it won't be further developed any longer.  I also stated it has been getting recompiled to work with KODI by someone who does this at their ambition to try and keep it 'alive'.  The front page has a link to GitHub.  In there is shows that 30,000 commits have been submitted, 6000 of them behind the official KODI release.  I take it these are facts.

Lingo, while I don't wish to haggle with you yet again, you basically asked about the differences using DSPlayer vs external players and insinuated you found no reason for them.  I simply pointed out a few things off the top of my head which are major reasons I prefer another method and acknowledged ahead of time others may not share the same reasoning and why.  For you to follow up with being lucky and further insinuating I am not, as well as insinuating my findings are not your findings by skating around the points of interest I provided is meaningless but effectively belittling once again.  Then to follow up again replying you "hate" the points of interest I provided, therefor they are meaningless provided your idea of "HTPC nirvana" is everyone else's including mine.  Will you and I ever arrive at a civil agreement about anything like accepting another's viewpoint when different and factual?  You've driven me out of this thread now.  You win.  I don't know what you've won, but you win.