Silent installer for Media Player Classic - Homecinema (MPC-HC) - an open source (GPL) media player and the successor to Media Player Classic.

Installer Version

The silent uninstall mode is broken because it asks if you want to remove settings. Unregister all file associations, delete the program folder and remove the registry entry as a workaround.

<package
  id="mpc-hc"
  name="Media Player Classic - Home Cinema"
  revision="%version%"
  reboot="false"
  priority="50">

  <variable name="version" value="1.5.2.3456" />

  <check type="uninstall" condition="exists" path="Media Player Classic - Home Cinema v%version%" />

  <install cmd='"%SOFTWARE%\mpc-hc\MPC-HomeCinema.%version%.x86.exe" /silent' />
  <install cmd='"%PROGRAMFILES%\Media Player Classic - Home Cinema\mpc-hc.exe" /regvid' />
  <install cmd='%COMSPEC% /c reg add "HKCR\DVD\shell\play\command" /ve /d "\"C:\Program Files\Media Player Classic - Home Cinema\mpc-hc.exe\" \"%L\"" /f' />

  <upgrade cmd='"%SOFTWARE%\mpc-hc\MPC-HomeCinema.%version%.x86.exe" /silent' />
  <upgrade cmd='"%PROGRAMFILES%\Media Player Classic - Home Cinema\mpc-hc.exe" /regvid' />
  <upgrade cmd='%COMSPEC% /c reg add "HKCR\DVD\shell\play\command" /ve /d "\"C:\Program Files\Media Player Classic - Home Cinema\mpc-hc.exe\" \"%L\"" /f' />

  <remove cmd='"%PROGRAMFILES%\Media Player Classic - Home Cinema\mpc-hc.exe" /unregall' />
  <!-- <remove cmd='%COMSPEC% /C del /f /q "%PROGRAMFILES%\Media Player Classic - Home Cinema"' /> -->
  <remove cmd='"%PROGRAMFILES%\Media Player Classic - Home Cinema\unins000.exe" /VERYSILENT /SUPPRESSMSGBOXES /NORESTART' />
  <remove cmd='%COMSPEC% /C reg delete "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{2624B969-7135-4EB1-B0F6-2D8C397B45F7}_is1" /va /f' />
</package>

Registering File Associations

Use the command line switches /regaud and /regvid to to register the file type associations for audio and video files. Use /unregall to remove all file associations. See mpc-hc.exe /? for all of the command line switches.

<install cmd='"%PROGRAMFILES%\Media Player Classic - Home Cinema\mpc-hc.exe" /regvid' />
<upgrade cmd='"%PROGRAMFILES%\Media Player Classic - Home Cinema\mpc-hc.exe" /regvid' />
<remove cmd='"%PROGRAMFILES%\Media Player Classic - Home Cinema\mpc-hc.exe" /unregall' />

Playing DVDs

I had trouble getting MPC-HC to play DVDs from Windows Explorer. This registry changes seems to work on XP.

<install cmd='%COMSPEC% /c reg add "HKCR\DVD\shell\play\command" /ve /d "\"C:\Program Files\Media Player Classic - Home Cinema\mpc-hc.exe\" \"%L\"" /f' />

Standalone Version

<package id="mpc-hc" 
  name="Media Player Classic - Home Cinema" 
  revision="20081129" 
  reboot="false" 
  priority="0">
  <check type="file" condition="exists" path="%PROGRAMFILES%\mpc-hc\mplayerc.exe" />
  <install cmd='%SOFTWARE%\mpc-hc\install.bat' />
  <remove cmd='%SOFTWARE%\mpc-hc\remove.bat' />
  <upgrade cmd='%SOFTWARE%\mpc-hc\remove.bat' />
  <upgrade cmd='%SOFTWARE%\mpc-hc\install.bat' />
</package>

install.bat

mkdir "%ProgramFiles%\mpc-hc"
copy /Y "%SOFTWARE%\mpc-hc\mplayerc.exe" "%ProgramFiles%\mpc-hc"
copy /Y "%SOFTWARE%\mpc-hc\*.dll" "%ProgramFiles%\mpc-hc"
copy /Y "%SOFTWARE%\mpc-hc\Media Player Classic.lnk" "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\"

remove.bat

del /f /q "%ProgramFiles%\mpc-hc\*.dll"
del /f /q "%ProgramFiles%\mpc-hc\mplayerc.exe"
del /f /q "%ProgramFiles%\mpc-hc"
del /f /q "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\Media Player Classic.lnk"