I have a pen drive that I set up many years ago with some movie files on it and I added MPC-HC Portable and VLC Portable to the drive. I created playlist files for the movies and then setup bat files to launch the playlists.
I tested the batch files for both MPC-HC and VLC back when I set up the drive and both worked to launch the respective player and start the playlist in fullscreen mode and have worked fine ever since. yesterday I decided to download the latest versions of both players from the portableapps website and now the bat file for MPC-HC won't launch in fullscreen mode any longer. the bat file for VLC still works fine.
the version of MPC-HC installed is:
Build information:
Version: 2.2.1 (30fc3853b)
Build date: Apr 10 2024
and the contents of the batch file is:
start \MPC-HCPortable\MPC-HCPortable.exe /play "\MPC-HCPortable\playlist.mpcpl" /fullscreen
any ideas why this isn't working any longer? the playlist still works fine, its just launching the player in fullscreen mode that isn't working. unfortunately I don't remember which version I had installed before updating.
EDIT:
I just checked the creation date on the playlist files and they are from early 2018 so the previous version of MPC-HC was from around that time.
EDIT 2:
some things I already tried are:
removing the quotes from around the path to the playlist file - playlist still works but won't launch into fullscreen
moving the /fullscreen switch to be before the /play switch - playlist still works but still won't launch into fullscreen
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You would need to test against an installed copy of the app.
If it works there but not in our package we could look into it. If it doesn't work there it is a base app issue and not something we can fix.
thanks for your response
ok, so I installed the main app and tried running a batch file to launch the playlist in fullscreen mode but it doesn't work in the main app either. I get the same behavior, the playlist loads up fine but the player won't enter fullscreen mode.
Hi Ken,
When I tested this with the installed version of the app I used the same version that is available on portableapps (v2.2.1) but there was also a newer version available from the apps homepage which is v2.3.5. the /fullscreen switch did not work with v2.2.1 but I just tried installing that newer v2.3.5 and the /fullscreen switch works fine there. is there any way to know when the newer version will be available to download from portableapps because it looks like that will fix my issue.
Check the outdated official Portable Apps post.
Priority goes to security fixes, major bugs, and online installers, but after they are handled the other apps get their turn. Once the entry for MPC-HC says it is mirroring the release won't be far away.
Open Source Apps Archive → https://sourceforge.net/projects/portableapps/files/
Different Tests → Like a fresh installation & a different location, etc.
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