[ausvette]

But for whatever reason it seems for me creating a playercorefactory.xml file, results in the new player being the new default player. Instead of being used when the rules match.

Any further suggestions?

Thanks!

This might be something that wasn't tested by aracnoz. I can also launch external players using Play using but I've never tried any rules. MPC-HC is not the default player despite the presence of a playercorefactory.xml.

The only other explanation is your files are not named correctly. Try creating a rule for file types and see if DSPlayer honours that. You need to determine if the filename rule is the issue or if rules in general are ignored. Remove the rule and see if MPC is launched automatically. It's too hard to tell what's wrong with what you've provided. 

I've also tried as simple filetype rule :<rule filetypes="iso" player="mpc">

again this resulted in everything including mkvs being played back via mpc-be

my batch file is:

Set file=%1
"C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\3D Vision\nvstlink.exe" /enable
timeout /t 3
"C:\Program Files\MPC-BE x64\mpc-be64.exe" /fullscreen /close %1
"C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\3D Vision\nvstlink.exe" /disable



Certainly it seems to me my problem is with the rules not being obeyed, not with mpc-be or the batch file as mpc-be works fine for me. Launches, plays the video, closes and kodi interface resumes.

My problem seems to be that whatever rule I put in the playercorefactory.xml file results in mpc-be being launched for all files, whether they match the rule or not.

Maybe I should try a different installation. I'm running kodi-17.5-Krypton_DSPlayer-x64.exe

What release should work with dsplayer as main player and mpc-be for 3d?

I was told I need to run a 17.5 release for the aeon.madnox skin .

Thanks!