External Player (MPC-HC) Not Working

Hi,

I'm having an extremely frustrating problem which I hope you can help with. I have set up media player classic (latest version, following THIS guide). When opening .mkv files in MPC, they run as intended.

When I use XBMC to play .mkv files, they play fine as well.

When I use this script to launch an external player:

<playercorefactory>
<players>
<player name="mpc-hc" type="ExternalPlayer">
<filename>C:\Program Files (x86)\Media Player Classic - Home Cinema\mpc-hc.exe</filename>
<args>"{1}" /fullscreen /close</args>
<hidexbmc>false</hidexbmc>
<hideconsole>false</hideconsole>
<warpcursor>none</warpcursor>
</player>
</players>

<rules action="prepend">
<rule name="AllVideo" video="true" player="mpc-hc"/>
</rules>
</playercorefactory>

MPC opens, but then says "failed to render file".

At first, I thought it was being directed to the wrong type of file (some fanart or something) by xbmc. However, after deleting everything except for the .mkv file in a movie folder, this error remains.

Any idea what's going on?

Since you want MPC-HC to playback everything, you can try the codes below-

<playercorefactory>
<players>
<player name="MPCHC_Player" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<filename>C:\Program Files (x86)\Media Player Classic - Home Cinema\mpc-hc.exe</filename>
<args>"{1}" /fullscreen</args>
<hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
<hideconsole>true</hideconsole>
<warpcursor>none</warpcursor>
</player>
</players>
<rules action="prepend">
<rule filetypes="*.*" player="MPCHC_Player"/>
</rules>
</playercorefactory>

Thank you for the reply. I have actually gone through several playercorefactory scripts, thinking there was some idiosyncrasy which was causing the problem I mentioned.

I have used the one you just posted, and the problem persists. Any other ideas?

Where do you store the files? Locally, network share?

Any special characters in the path or filename?

Test this.

Create a batch-file in the root of C: called mpc.cmd

Add this to it:

Then this as playercorefactory.xml

<playercorefactory>
<players>
<player name="MPCHC_Player" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<filename>C:\mpc.cmd</filename>
<args>"{1}"</args>
<hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
<hideconsole>true</hideconsole>
<warpcursor>none</warpcursor>
</player>
</players>
<rules action="prepend">
<rule filetypes="*.*" player="MPCHC_Player"/>
</rules>
</playercorefactory>

When the batch file pauses you can se what input MPC-HC gets as path and name.

Post the path and filename from mpc.txt here.

Thank you, I will try this and report back. I was looking for something like this.