2013-07-13, 10:43
HOW-TO:Use external players on Android (wiki)
Credit for the original playercorefactory.xml definitions: KemoNine, Staticadk, and GSH.
I finally got around to making this how-to. For those of you who use the unofficial "XAF" XBMC version, this is basically the same thing they use, if not better.
Eventually this will even allow us to use external players even when we don't need them for hardware video decoding, like for special video player apps. Unfortunately, the big one a lot of people want, Netflix, won't work because there is no URL we can pass off to the Netflix app. Hopefully that will change in the future, but it will require Netflix to support some kind of API that does this, like they do on iOS.
Thoughts, questions, improvements on the guide? Feel free to improve it yourself, as well, since it is a wiki, or just leave a message here.
Feel free to use this thread to also ask for help and support regarding external players, or make a new thread if you would like specific attention to the issue (if it doesn't seem like a general issue, etc).
Credit for the original playercorefactory.xml definitions: KemoNine, Staticadk, and GSH.
I finally got around to making this how-to. For those of you who use the unofficial "XAF" XBMC version, this is basically the same thing they use, if not better.
Eventually this will even allow us to use external players even when we don't need them for hardware video decoding, like for special video player apps. Unfortunately, the big one a lot of people want, Netflix, won't work because there is no URL we can pass off to the Netflix app. Hopefully that will change in the future, but it will require Netflix to support some kind of API that does this, like they do on iOS.
Thoughts, questions, improvements on the guide? Feel free to improve it yourself, as well, since it is a wiki, or just leave a message here.
Feel free to use this thread to also ask for help and support regarding external players, or make a new thread if you would like specific attention to the issue (if it doesn't seem like a general issue, etc).