MPC-HC launches in the background

[fibertech 4]

I use MPC-HC as an external player for Emby Theater. Every time it launches it is behind the Emby screen. Is there any way to set it to launch in the front? I play a trailer, then an entrance video and finally the movie. I have to downsize Emby on every new video that is Launched. I am running this on Windows 10. Thank you for your help on this.

[Guest asrequested]

Theater should minimize. If you turn off cinema mode, what happens?

[Luke 42077]

Also what command line params are you using for the external player?

[fibertech 4]

I will try to turn off cinema mode and see what happens tomorrow.

The commands I have are:

{path}

/play

/close

/fullscreen

[Luke 42077]

Is Theater not minimizing? 

[Guest asrequested]

I will try to turn off cinema mode and see what happens tomorrow.

The commands I have are:

{path}

/play

/close

/fullscreen

 

A better way to do this is configure all of that in MPC-HC, and just have {path}, in Emby Theater. In this case, all that means is just enable fullscreen in MPC-HC. 

 

 

 

Also, you can enable this

 

Edited December 15, 2018 by Doofus

[fibertech 4]

Theater is not minimizing and pushing MPC-HC behind it.

 

I already have MPC-HC configured like your screenshots. I will remove the extra lines in Theater.

 

Thank you guys for your quick replies.

[fibertech 4]

Well, it is still performing the same. ugh

[Guest asrequested]

To be clear, Theater doesn't change at all, and your external player opens behind it?

[fibertech 4]

The external player shows in front for a millisecond and then Emby immediately  jumps in front, I the have to minimize Emby every movie that I launch.

[Guest asrequested]

Try this. Disable using an external player. Play a video, stop the video, and close Theater. Restart Theater, re-enable the external player. Close Theater, again. Open Theater and play a video. I'm just wondering if the command to minimize Theater wasn't enabling. 

[Luke 42077]

@ are you able to reproduce? This is quite strange. I just tested mpc a month or so ago and this was all fine.

[Guest asrequested]

It's working for me, too. I was just thinking that something got tweaked. I'm assuming that it used to work ok, but doesn't now???

[Luke 42077]

@@fibertech did this work previously for you?

[fibertech 4]

Sorry for the delayed response, life got in my way. This worked for me forever and then one day it started doing this. Today I completely uninstalled Theater and reinstalled a new download - same issue. I have not changed anything on this HTPC for months. I have no idea what has happened to cause this pain. Thanks for your help.

[Luke 42077]

Can you explain exactly what you are doing? Thanks.

[fibertech 4]

UPDATE: I found a setting in MPC in "view>top" and I selected "always" now it is launching in front again. It was set to default. I am sorry that I wasted your time on my nonsense. Thank you guys again for your help.

[Luke 42077]

Thanks for the feedback !

[fibertech 4]

Well. that didn't solve the issue. Today I uninstalled theater and mpc-hc, ran ccleaner (registry clean until it came back empty) then rebooted. I then ran ccleaner again to make sure no entries and reinstalled mpc-hc and sat it up. I then downloaded theater, installed it and sat it up. Theater will now play my trailer ok but when it launches my intro and movie it still jumps to the front. Is there a switch in theater that can tell it to downsize when launching an external player? Where would that be located?

Thanks again and sorry to be a pain about this.

[Luke 42077]

Are you still running into this?

[jachin99 88]

I wonder if window preference is stored in the registry and CCleaner deleted it. I don't think this would be under a MPC have either. I think it would be under a windows hive somewhere but I can't be sure without finding the exact key.

[Luke 42077]

Yes it's strange as I can't reproduce this with a default install of mpchc. There has to be some combination of settings causing this.

[fibertech 4]

It was doing this before I ran CCleaner. Yes, I am still having this issue.

I reinstalled mpc and theater after I cleaned the registry. I would think that the key would be reinstalled with the programs.

Edited January 12, 2019 by fibertech