PowerDVD Playlist

[armsys]

I would like to play the following videos one by one, aone after one:

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0102 What is a programming language.mov
0101 What is programming.mov
0103 Writing source code.mov
0104 Compiled and interpreted languages.mov

In my PFA.xys:

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"PFA : MOV"
  openwith """C:\Program Files (x86)\CyberLink\PowerDVD11\PowerDVD11.exe"""

My PFA definition:

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"PowerDVD" mov>::load "PFA", "MOV"

When selecting the videos (.mov) listed above, the PFA will open all .mov files at the same time.
Question:
How to play the above manually selected .mov files one after one?
Thanks.

[binocular222]

Read the PowerDVD manual, there should be a command line switch to queue up the list (or at least make a playlist)

[armsys]

Read the PowerDVD manual, there should be a command line switch to queue up the list (or at least make a playlist)

1. PowerDVD manaual doesn't contain the info on command-line parameters.
2. PowerDVD doesn't play a Playlists directly. I produce tons of PowerDVD playlists (.pls). You have to open a playlist and select the videos before the video playing commences. It's clumsy to operate.

My question has nothing to do with PowerDVD in particular.
My question is how to play .mov files one after one.
My question is related to openwith and/or run commands.
Thanks.

[binocular222]

All parameters are passed to PowerDVD at the same time. There's no way for XYplorer to know when PowerDVD complete the previous movie and pass the second parameter.

So, if PowerDVD has no switch, I'm afraid not possible.
btw, I myself even gave up on tring to queue movies to Media Player Classic Home Cinema

[armsys]

All parameters are passed to PowerDVD at the same time. There's no way for XYplorer to know when PowerDVD complete the previous movie and pass the second parameter.

So, if PowerDVD has no switch, I'm afraid not possible.
btw, I myself even gave up on tring to queue movies to Media Player Classic Home Cinema

binocular222,
I just solved the captioned issue by:

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// Play a batch of .mov videos with PowerDVD one by one
"PFA : MOV"
  run """C:\Program Files (x86)\CyberLink\PowerDVD11\PowerDVD11.exe"" ""<pfaitem>""",,2

The trick is to set the RUN switch Wait to 2.
The coding is far easier and simplistic than previously thought.
Now after selecting a bunch of videos, just press ENTER. And XY will play each video one after one.
It's cool!
Hope it solves your Home Cinema issue as well.
Above all, thanks Don for creating such as a powerful productivity tool.

Edit: Just discovery a new problem. Neither QuickTime nor PowerDVD can exit (close) automatically after playing a .mov file.