I'm trying to figure out how I can play svcd/vcd bin/cue files from some kind of app that will allow me to make half-decent play lists for all my movies in Windows XP.

I know that mpegs can be extracted from bin/cues with VCDGear, and that bin/cues can be mounted with D-Tools Daemon but these are both very cumbersome. I tried to make a batch file to do this with myHTPC but it works like crap because myHTPC has bad documentation and I don't know what the heck it is doing.

if exist %2 goto :twodisc
c:\progra~1\d-tools\daemon -mount 0,%~s1
c:\progra~1\cyberl~1\powerdvd\powerdvd g:\
goto :end

:twodisc
c:\progra~1\d-tools\daemon -mount 0,%~s1
c:\progra~1\d-tools\daemon -mount 1,%~s2
c:\progra~1\cyberl~1\powerdvd\powerdvd g:\
c:\progra~1\cyberl~1\powerdvd\powerdvd h:\
goto :end

:end

I associate this batch file with .bin files and tell myHTPC that .bin is a video file type but this did not work well at all because myHTPC runs this batch file twice right away for a 2 disc movie as if to play both discs at the same time.

I would think it would be really easy to code a plugin to read bin/cues for just about any app, I just can't find it.

Basically I want something similar to myHTPC (simple and fast). I don't need PVR functionality since I don't have the hardware.