How to use openwith <items>

[binocular222]

I want to open selected items with Media Player Classic HC (so that all items appears in MPC-HC play list)
These not work:
openwith "?:\4Media\Player\Media Player Classic HomeCinema x86\mpc-hc.exe",s ,<items>
openwith ""?:\4Media\Player\Media Player Classic HomeCinema x86\mpc-hc.exe" /add",s ,<items>
openwith "?:\4Media\Player\Media Player Classic HomeCinema x86\mpc-hc.exe",s ,<selitems>

Help please.

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P.S: I guess that openwith use | to separated list of items while <items> are space-delimited

[kotlmg]

you have to use the full path of mpc-hc.exe. for zoommplayer and pot player i have used the following lines.

OpenWith """C:\Program Files (x86)\Zoom Player\zplayer.exe"" <items>";
OpenWith """C:\Program Files (x86)\DAUM\PotPlayer\PotPlayerMini.exe"" <items>";

similarly you can use the following lines (assuming media player classic installed in c drive)

OpenWith """C:\4Media\Player\Media Player Classic HomeCinema x86\mpc-hc.exe"" <items>";

[binocular222]

So, the syntax in XYplorer help file not work:

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openwith application, [mode (s|m)], [itemlist]
openwith """?:\4Media\Player\Media Player Classic HomeCinema x86\mpc-hc.exe"",s,<items>"

But this works:

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openwith """?:\4Media\Player\Media Player Classic HomeCinema x86\mpc-hc.exe"" <items>"

However, I encounter another problem: When I open multiple files, the play list double itself (i.e: open 3 files, but the list show 6 lines).
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P.S: Everything works fine when I open from Windows Explorer, the list is not duplicated

[highend]

openwith already processes the current selected items, so <items> is unnecessary...

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openwith "?:\4Media\Player\Media Player Classic HomeCinema x86\mpc-hc.exe";

[binocular222]

openwith already processes the current selected items, so <items> is unnecessary...

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openwith "?:\4Media\Player\Media Player Classic HomeCinema x86\mpc-hc.exe";

This still dupplicates MPC-HC's playlist (while Windows Explorer doesn't)

[FluxTorpedoe]

So, the syntax in XYplorer help file not work:

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openwith application, [mode (s|m)], [itemlist]
openwith """?:\4Media\Player\Media Player Classic HomeCinema x86\mpc-hc.exe"",s,<items>"

But this works:

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openwith """?:\4Media\Player\Media Player Classic HomeCinema x86\mpc-hc.exe"" <items>"

Well, the syntax is working as it should, with a real [itemlist] - being a pipe-separated list.
Whereas the vars <items> or <selitems> are space-separated lists.

In your working example, <items> being between the overall quotes, is part of the "application" value. Like you'd have with e.g. (also working)

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run """?:\4Media\Player\Media Player Classic HomeCinema x86\mpc-hc.exe"" <items>";

About the duplicates, I tried highend's example and this one in MPC-HC v1.6.3.5597 (under WinXPSP3) and the playlist doesn't show any duplicates...
Do you still have this problem with the "run" command?
And to make a test, do you still have it if you manually replace the <items> var with the item(s) path?

[binocular222]

This works:
run """E:\4Media\Player\Media Player Classic HomeCinema x86\mpc-hc.exe"" D:\Movie\Amazing!\CGI\Yogin.flv D:\Movie\Amazing!\CGI\Yogin.flv"

But this doesn't (mpc-hc tells that the path is invalid)
openwith """E:\4Media\Player\Media Player Classic HomeCinema x86\mpc-hc.exe"",s,D:\Movie\Amazing!\CGI\Yogin.flv|D:\Movie\Amazing!\CGI\Yogin.flv"

Maybe due to quoting?
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P.S:
I'm using mpc-hc 1.6.7.7114
Agh, I know the reason for duplicating:
Things work fine when I run this code via address bar
run """E:\4Media\Player\Media Player Classic HomeCinema x86\mpc-hc.exe"" <selitems>"
However, when I save this code as PFA.xys, assign is a label (MPC), then callthe script via PFA, then the playlist will be duplicated. Here's the PFA:
flv>::load "PFA", "MPC"

[FluxTorpedoe]

But this doesn't (mpc-hc tells that the path is invalid)
openwith """E:\4Media\Player\Media Player Classic HomeCinema x86\mpc-hc.exe"",s,D:\Movie\Amazing!\CGI\Yogin.flv|D:\Movie\Amazing!\CGI\Yogin.flv"
Maybe due to quoting?

Exactly.
As I said before, if you use quotes that include everything after the command-name, then what's inside is considered the first value/argument, here: "application". i.e. what you're doing equals not to
openwith "application", , "itemlist";
but to
openwith "application, , itemlist", , ;

The "3 quotes system" if I may say, is used to include everything it can under a single argument.
We could visualize it (correct me if I'm wrong) with an command like:

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command  " ""path with spaces => double-quoted"" -CommandLineArgument ""Something with spaces again"" " , flag, ""list with spaces"";
         ^ ^                                   ^                      ^                             ^ ^         ^                  ^
         | |___________________________________|                      |_____________________________| |         |__________________|
         |                                                                                            |
         |____________________________________________________________________________________________|

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Hope this helps...

Will check later about the PFA / Duplicates thing.

[highend]

run """E:\4Media\Player\Media Player Classic HomeCinema x86\mpc-hc.exe"" <selitems>"
However, when I save this code as PFA.xys, assign is a label (MPC), then callthe script via PFA, then the playlist will be duplicated. Here's the PFA:
flv>::load "PFA", "MPC"

Simple reason: The PFA get's executed for each selected item. So when you have three songs selected and call a script via a pfa, the script will be executed three times...

[binocular222]

Then, anyway to work around?

[FluxTorpedoe]

The PFA get's executed for each selected item.

Indeed!
As a general rule for your PFA scripts, use the recent <pfaitems> that's been made just for this!
(This was one of the problems I had with my PowerLauncher script before this var.)

[binocular222]

Thanks, <pfaitem> works great. However: I tried all these in PFA.xys:
run """E:\4Media\Player\Media Player Classic HomeCinema x86\mpc-hc.exe"" /add ""<pfaitem>"""
run """E:\4Media\Player\Media Player Classic HomeCinema x86\mpc-hc.exe"" ""<pfaitem>"""
openwith """E:\4Media\Player\Media Player Classic HomeCinema x86\mpc-hc.exe"" ""<pfaitem>"""
openwith """E:\4Media\Player\Media Player Classic HomeCinema x86\mpc-hc.exe"" /add ""<pfaitem>"""

All produce the same problem:
a few files are failed to added to the playlist. I guess that due to some file name contain special unicode characters. Example:
This works (all 3 files are shown in playlist):
Cat's Meow.flv
Catwalk - Black Cat Crossing.flv
Ce Que Je Suis (What I am) by Doncvoilà Studio.mp4

This also works (all 3 files are shown in playlist):
Cat デジスタ・ティーンズ応募作品『視力検査.flv
Cat's Meow.flv
Catwalk - Black Cat Crossing.flv

This not work (playlist only show Cat's Meow.flv):
Cat デジスタ・ティーンズ応募作品『視力検査.flv
Cat's Meow.flv
Catwalk - Black Cat Crossing.flv
Ce Que Je Suis (What I am) by Doncvoilà Studio.mp4

edited: changed <pfaitems> to <pfaitem> as Don said below, the result does not change.

[admin]

Ahem, it's <pfaitem>, not <pfaitems>!

[binocular222]

Oh, it works with run command:

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"PFA : MPC"
run """E:\4Media\Player\Media Player Classic HomeCinema x86\mpc-hc.exe"" /add ""<pfaitem>"""

I just wonder how to use openwith with <pfaitem> and command-line switch?

[FluxTorpedoe]

I just wonder how to use openwith with <pfaitem> and command-line switch?

I may not understand what you're after...
In your case with PFA and openwith, you shouldn't even need to use <pfaitem> (without the "s" indeed ), it's implied.

So either line would work:

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"PFA : MPC"
openwith """E:\4Media\Player\Media Player Classic HomeCinema x86\mpc-hc.exe"" /add";
openwith """E:\4Media\Player\Media Player Classic HomeCinema x86\mpc-hc.exe"" /add", , "<pfaitem>";

To answer you question, as I had shown in the imaginary "command" example: since the /add is inside the main quotes, it means it's part of the first argument, hence with "openwith" just like with "run", considering it is following the double-quoted application, this means it is the command-line - and any other command-line argument can be added here.