Open RAR files with Potplayer inside TC with hotkey

[BullFrog]

Just found out Potplayer can play RAR files, and no need to extract them.
But with ENTER TC goes inside the RAR files, is this possible to make a hotkey like ALT+ENTER to open RAR files with Potplayer.exe?

[Hacker]

BullFrog,
Try Shift-Enter.

HTH
Roman

[MVV]

Or assign a hotkey for em-command (usercmd.ini section of commanb browser) with command X:\Path\Potplayer.exe and parameter %P%N.

[BullFrog]

Shift Enter is just go inside the RAR file

A+ENTER=c:\Utils\!Video\PotPlayer\PotPlayerMini.exe %P%N

And this one does nothing either.

[MVV]

A+ENTER=c:\Utils\!Video\PotPlayer\PotPlayerMini.exe %P%N

What a weird syntax. There is no place in TC that understands it. You can only assign hotkeys for cm- or em-commands, not just command lines. Open Configuration - Options - Misc., select Alt+Enter and create a command in usercmd.ini group of commands.

[BullFrog]

Can you please explain a bit more, because never did this thing, and I have no idea where to start it.

[ZoSTeR]

Hmm PotPlayer seems a little bit odd.. The portable version is a VMware container, calls home and it got lots of strange libraries...

Just get MPC-HC. Install/extract it and drag the mpc-hc.exe to the button bar.
Right-click -> Change... the new button and add:
Parameters:

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"%P%O.%E"

Now just select the first Rar file (don't enter it or TC will extract it on it's own to \temp) and hit the button.

Note that with both players only "stored" (i.e. no compression) Rar files will play.

If you really want this as a hot-key:
Config->Misc->Select hot-key.
[Magnifier] -> In Category scroll down to "usercmd.ini"
[New] -> enter "em_mpc-hc" or something
Command: "c:\path\to\mpc-hc.exe"
Parameters: "%P%O.%E"

Btw "%P%O.%E" is basically the same as %P%N but it avoids some quoting issues.

[BullFrog]

Excellent, works like a charm with potplayermini.exe!
Thank you very much ^^