"Play Using" has disappeared from my video library context menu.
#1
Don't know when this started but for the last few builds I no longer see "Play Using" in my context menu. (currently on SVN 31827)

My playercorefactory.xml is unchanged from when it used to work pre-merge (28275).

The external player is called correctly for the specified filetypes (wmv).


I have also been having some trouble with calling MPC-HC in general. MPC-HC would choke if "hidexbmc" was set to false.

Set to "true" it plays fine, but when MPC-HC closes XBMC remains black until I click the mouse. Using fake fullscreen solves this but I don't really want to use that option unless I have to.

Thanks so much for any help!

Debug shows context menu being called (with "play using" missing), then wmv being played in MPC-HC and black screen on return of XBMC until mouse-click :
http://pastebin.ca/1901563

and here is my playercorefactory:
Code:
<playercorefactory>
<players>
   <player name="MPC-HC" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
     <filename>C:\Program Files\MPC HomeCinema (x64)\mpc-hc64.exe</filename>
     <args>/close</args>
     <hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
     <hideconsole>false</hideconsole>
</player>
</players>
<rules action="prepend">
   <rule filetypes="wmv" player="MPC-HC"/>
</rules>
</playercorefactory>
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#2
Noticed the same problem.
The last nightly build from the repo that does include "play using" is r31718.

I'm also using MPC-HC as an external player, for virtually all video formats. However, it was great to be able to 'abuse' XBMC's DVDplayer to download subtitles. The new XBMC subtitle add-on works very well!
With the newest builds I wouldn't even know how to select DVDplayer, by default videos are played with MPC-HC (which in itself is fine...).
It doesn't help that the video settings menu now provides the opportunity to choose a default select action. The choices provided do not include "play using". Anyway, having it in the context menu is better imo.

Any ideas or suggestions? Thanks!
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#3
Verberzerk Wrote:Noticed the same problem.
The last nightly build from the repo that does include "play using" is r31718.

I'm also using MPC-HC as an external player, for virtually all video formats. However, it was great to be able to 'abuse' XBMC's DVDplayer to download subtitles. The new XBMC subtitle add-on works very well!
With the newest builds I wouldn't even know how to select DVDplayer, by default videos are played with MPC-HC (which in itself is fine...).
It doesn't help that the video settings menu now provides the opportunity to choose a default select action. The choices provided do not include "play using". Anyway, having it in the context menu is better imo.

Any ideas or suggestions? Thanks!

I can also confirm that the option to 'Play Using' is missing from recent builds. All other apsects from the Playercorefactory works, so I can automatically run MPC-HC for any file with '-ext' in the file name, and use DVDPLAYER for all others. However, I still miss the option to use an external player occasionally just by selecting it.
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#4
Just noticed that r31993 will fix the problem.
Thanks to tschi for submitting the ticket and jmarshall for fixing it!
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#5
Yup, all fixed now...thanks Jmarshall!
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