First and foremost, thanks to all who have made this work--especially moby-uk and jester!
I also was looking for a way to use MPC-HC externally with XBMC. I have it working in less time than it took to read through the thread!
I have one small issue, no biggie:
When I try to exit playing a video in MPC-HC by Alt-X or Alt-F4 MPC launches again. The second time I can successfully exit to XBMC via Alt-X or Alt-F4. Any ideas?
I'm running XBMCSetup-Rev17788-jester-ext.exe on Vista Ultimate x64 SP1. Here is my advancedsettings.xml:
<advancedsettings>
<video>
<defaultplayer>externalplayer</defaultplayer>
<defaultdvdplayer>externalplayer</defaultdvdplayer>
</video>
<externalplayer>
<filename>c:\Programs\MPC-HC32\mplayerc.exe</filename>
<args>/fullscreen /play /close</args>
<forceontop>false</forceontop>
<hidexbmc>false</hidexbmc>
<hideconsole>false</hideconsole>
<hidecursor>false</hidecursor>
<startuptime>5000</startuptime>
</externalplayer>
</advancedsettings>
Thanks in advance and again, many thanks!