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I still plan on compiling those custom versions for playback resume.

By the way, what I did with EventGhost... I am going to explain it probably in @brazen1 discussion on external players. But it's quite complex for "regular" users, I fear. So my experiments were more of a... I don't know how to say it. I will describe what I have done and I hope you could manage to get it working without so many workarounds.

Edit: forgot to ask, the decision to work with MPC-BE stems from it being still under development, compared to MPC-HC which, if I understand correctly, has simple "maintenance" releases? Or is there something specific that MPC-BE does that you think will prove useful in the scenario we are interested in (ie. as a Kodi external player)?  

MPC-HC has issues with VFR playback (a lot of phone-shot videos are like that or flagged like that). I could only resolve the playback issues by switching to MPC-BE. Presumably, whatever was broken in HC (which is no longer under development) is fixed with BE. So might as well. Otherwise no difference as far I'm concerned. 

Got it. Thanks for the explanation.
Since you mentioned willingness to do other slight modifications, I'm gonna list some of the things that come to mind:

Make the controls bar and seeker bar (CTRL+1 / CTRL+2) bigger and navigable with cursor keys. As a 10 feet interface the current size is kind of ridiculous.
And there's no other way to see the position one is in video playback. In Kodi you can open the menu and see "where you are", when the movie is supposed to finish, at what time, etc. The closer we could get there, the better.

This would also open up the possibility to pick and choose from audio and subs tracks through a menu, using the AUD and SUB buttons. For videos with many subtitles embedded it's kind of a pain to switch.

With a similar objective, have the pop up while pausing provide more information. It currently just says "Pause". Default Kodi skin, while paused, displays the title of the video file, the current time (a clock basically), the time when the video will end (calculated for remaining lenght of the video).

Thanks for your interest in this. Bear in mind that I have absolutely *zero* idea about the coding complexity of the above suggestions.