Media Player Classic HC - How do I get it to start without playing?

[Link Baby]

In Media Player Classic HC 1.0.11.0, is there any way to prevent it from automatically beginning to play a file as soon as you load it?

If I double click a file, I want MPC to come up with it stopped at the beginning.

Is there any way to do this?

[sheppaul]

There is no such option in MPC.

[clsid]

Use the command line switch "/open". That will open the file, but not start playback.

You need to manually edit all file associations of MPC to add /open.

[mitsubishi]

In standard MPC (so I would assume in HC) you need to pass "/open" to it.

You could create a shortcut reflecting this and drag on the files. But to make this always happen, I think the only way is to change the option for each file extension,

i.e. open windows explorer, go to tools>folder options>file types (tab).

Then for say avi, "edit" open to be
"C:\blah blah\mplayerc.exe" /open "%1"

Or you could create a new one, make it default or not and have to right click for the non-default one.

[Link Baby]

Modifying the registry to add "/open" did the trick quite nicely.

Thanks, everyone!