Media Player Classic doesn't play videos with over long names when using "drag and drop" method

Question

When I double click on an over long name file it played as expected but when I drag and drop the same file onto a MPC window it didn't play and it shows "File not found".

Is there a solution for this problem other than using shorter names?

Answer 1

Reading some of the source code I've came up with this lines

for (UINT iFile = 0; iFile < nFiles; iFile++) {
    CString fn;
    fn.ReleaseBuffer(::DragQueryFile(hDrop, iFile, fn.GetBuffer(MAX_PATH), MAX_PATH));
    slFiles.AddTail(fn);
}

MAX_PATH if it's from standard Windows API and it's limit is 260 chars long, so that's the limit for drag and drop, unless you modify it. From the docs:

In the Windows API (with some exceptions discussed in the following paragraphs), the maximum length for a path is MAX_PATH, which is defined as 260 characters. A local path is structured in the following order: drive letter, colon, backslash, name components separated by backslashes, and a terminating null character.