External player for mediabrowser controllable with MCE/7 remote

[Dark Prodigy]

Title says it mostly...

I use mediabrowser within MCE/7 with Chocolate Theme as the GUI for my movie watching. Looks great, feels great, great metadata..etc.. We all know MCE/7 doesn't play all formats, so I use VLC as an external player that launches automatically for certain file types within mediabrowser. Easy enough...works great. However, after VLC launches I can't control it using the MCE remote. Nothing is more frustrating than needing to pause a movie and what not and have to walk across the room to manually do it. Need a complete remote experience.

Is there an external player that an MCE remote can control that is as stable and can play all formats such as VLC? Preferably FREE. C'mon folks I need this!

 

[Cax6ton]

Thanks to DS Filter Tweaker and a few other tweaks found at hack7mc(.com), I haven't found a video type that I can't play in WMC, but I wouldn't say that's *the* final word on the matter. If all else fails, use mpc-hc, and configure it with the same commands that WMC uses.