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Topic: SVP Tube - passing video title to an external player

Hi! Is it possible to pass youtube video title (which is parsed correctly as anyone can see in SVP Tube window) to an external player?
I tested in the advanced settings (tube>player>user):
"<path>\mpc-hc64.exe" "%1" "%2"
"<path>\mpc-hc64.exe" "%1" "%t"
and a few more but to no avail.
I need this to proper playlist creation for mpc-hc64 player. I'm using external vbs script to do this so any method to get title data using vbs will be sufficient I think.

Re: SVP Tube - passing video title to an external player

run "mpc-hc64.exe /?"
there's no such thing there

video titles are passing to mpv, for example
probably VLC (?)

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Re: SVP Tube - passing video title to an external player

Yes, there isn't such a feature in mpc-hc64 directly but I would like to pass "video title" along with video, audio and subs url's to vbs script which prepare playlist and then add this playlist to mpc-hc with /add command line parameter. mpc-hc has an annoying bug where calling "mpc-hc64.exe video_url /dub audio_url /add" results in two instead of one new playlist items, separately for audio and video stream which is incorrect. The bug manifests itself when mpc playlist is not empty so for the second playlist entry and the following.
As a walk around I generate temporal playlist.mpcpl file with all needed streams present and then call "mpc-hc64.exe /add playlist.mpcpl" from inside the script. And this time mpc adds new playlist entry correctly without splitting video/audio streams into separate entries.
To simplify integration with SVP the vbs script is converted to exe and named: mpc-hc64.exe
Basically it works correctly. But I would like to take advantage of the opportunity playlists give to set the proper playlist entry name instead of generic autogenerated "index.m3u8" (or similar). It will help navigating through the resulting mpc playlist by a lot.
So I need a way to pass a "video name" to an app which is called by SVPTube to display video.

Re: SVP Tube - passing video title to an external player

try renaming your .exe like potplayer.exe, not mpc-hc64.exe

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Re: SVP Tube - passing video title to an external player

That did the trick. Big thanks for help.
BTW since the name potplayer was mentioned do you have any experience with this player? I really would like to use it to play Youtube but I am not able to solve similar problem with playlists I had with mpc-hc.
If the command executed looks like this:
PotPlayerMini64.exe <video_url>\"Title" <audio_url> /same /current
potplayer opens and plays both video and audio correctly. But it adds to its own playlist only the video stream. One can check this simply by double-clicking on this playlist entry which restarts playback. And this time only the video is present, not audio.
I have experimented with potplayer's own playlist files (*.dpl) but I'm simply not able to format them the way the player sees both streams as one and plays them at the same time. I succeeded with mpc-hc but not this time. It a pity because I like potplayer's thumbnail previews on navigation bar a lot. On the other hand potplayer's own build in youtube engine causing frequent Youtube's blacklisting "due to suspicious activities". SVP Tube is much better with its built in cookie support which prevents that. But is it possible to connect both of these two apps the way the potplayer's playlist works correctly?