[Droiduser]

I have noticed, or should I say in my own experience trying to get help on this issue, no one bothered to really help! Either people just DO NOT KNOW or they do not want to help. Many of xbmc users have ran into the "EXTERNAL PLAYER ACTIVE"..."CLICK OK when playback has ended"

I finally fixed the problem, (made the necessary changes) and you talking about FRUSTRATED and angry, boy oh boy was I ever.

[Ned Scott]

Three people bothered to help you, but you didn't tell us any information. There are a ton of reasons why that window can pop up, so we asked for details, and you never responded.

Glad to hear you fixed it, but I'm confused as to why you've ironically chosen to not tell anyone how you did this.

[Koying]

Further to what Ned said, I highly doubt this was a untouched version of xbmc.

Or you got it from somewhere else, or you yourself made changes you didn't quite understood.

Don't expect us to support the bazillions builds or forks around...

[hija]

Three people bothered to help you, but you didn't tell us any information. There are a ton of reasons why that window can pop up, so we asked for details, and you never responded.

[sharigon]

I am also new to the Kodi player and have experienced problems since I changed the skin on it on my Amazon Fire Tv. Now I get the same error message on almost every attempt to play a movie "external player active"- as soon as you shut the message down the stream does not play..
Can anyone point me in the right direction to remedy this without reverting back to the Origonal Kodi install. I don't suppose anyone has a fix I can install from within the Kodi software using my Fire Tv?
If not can someone explain how I might install a fix if there is one?
Thanks

[Ned Scott]

You've either installed an unsupported mod version to of Kodi, or you modified settings files used to control players. There isn't a fix because there's no way for this to happen on its own. Did you use some kind of setup "wizard"? If so, there's the problem, and yet another reason why people shouldn't use those setup wizards.

[sharigon]

Ok I'll just try and overwrite with the Origonal Kodi install and wait till someone fixes the issue....thanks anyway

[hittnswitches]

Hey All,

I haven't been able to get this to work on my MYGICA android box. I want VLC to be my default player as it's able to open more rtmp streams than the current default players.

I took a playercorefactory.xml file I found online which looks like this:

<playercorefactory>
<players>
<player name="MXPlayerFree" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<filename>com.mxtech.videoplayer.ad</filename>
<hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
<playcountminimumtime>120</playcountminimumtime>
</player>

<player name="MXPlayerPro" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<filename>com.mxtech.videoplayer.pro</filename>
<hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
<playcountminimumtime>120</playcountminimumtime>
</player>

<player name="TPlayer" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<filename>com.tiantian.android.player.app</filename>
<hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
<playcountminimumtime>120</playcountminimumtime>
</player>

<player name="DicePlayerFree" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<filename>com.inisoft.mediaplayer.trial</filename>
<hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
<playcountminimumtime>120</playcountminimumtime>
</player>

<player name="VLCPlayer" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<filename>com.vlcforandroid.vlcdirectprofree</filename>
<hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
<playcountminimumtime>120</playcountminimumtime>
</player>

<player name="DicePlayerPaid" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<filename>com.inisoft.mediaplayer.a</filename>
<hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
<playcountminimumtime>120</playcountminimumtime>
</player>

<player name="RockPlayerLite" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<filename>com.redirectin.rockplayer.android.unified.lite</filename>
<hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
<playcountminimumtime>120</playcountminimumtime>
</player>

<player name="RockPlayer" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<filename>com.rockplayer</filename>
<hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
<playcountminimumtime>120</playcountminimumtime>
</player>

<player name="BSPlayerFree" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<filename>com.bsplayer.bspandroid.free</filename>
<hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
<playcountminimumtime>120</playcountminimumtime>
</player>

<player name="MoboplayerFree" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<filename>com.clov4r.android.nilz</filename>
<hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
<playcountminimumtime>120</playcountminimumtime>
</player>

<player name="mVideoplayerFree" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<filename>afzkl.development.mVideoPlayer</filename>
<hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
<playcountminimumtime>120</playcountminimumtime>
</player>

<player name="Vplayer" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<filename>me.abitno.vplayer.t</filename>
<hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
<playcountminimumtime>120</playcountminimumtime>
</player>

<player name="WondersharePlayer" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<filename>com.wondershare.player</filename>
<hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
<playcountminimumtime>120</playcountminimumtime>
</player>

<player name="ArchosVideo" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<filename>com.archos.mediacenter.video</filename>
<hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
<playcountminimumtime>120</playcountminimumtime>
</player>

<player name="SopCast" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<filename>org.sopcast.android</filename>
<hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
<playcountminimumtime>120</playcountminimumtime>
</player>

<player name="DaroonPlayer" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<filename>com.daroonplayer.dsplayer</filename>
<hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
<playcountminimumtime>120</playcountminimumtime>
</player>
</players>
<rules action="prepend">

<rule protocols="smb" player="VLCPlayer" />
<rule dvdimage="true" player="VLCPlayer"/>
<rule protocols="rtmp" player="VLCPlayer"/>
<rule protocols="rtsp" player="VLCPlayer" />
<rule protocols="sop" player="VLCPlayer" />
<rule internetstream="true" player="VLCPlayer" />
<rule video="true" player="VLCPlayer"/> <!-- Default for anything else not listed -->
</rules>
</playercorefactory>


I get the same "External player active" error using this script, although when I choose "play using" I do get all the players listed to choose from. I'm thinking the VLC filename may have changed with the most recent release?

I'm running Gotham. Any help would be appreciated!

[Koying]

FWIW, just did a simple test an external player worked fine with MX Player.

[Naza Haris]

External player active error message keep popping out.

Need help please...

[wrxtasy]

Yes External Player with both MX Player and VLC working here as well on Android 4.4.2 and Kodi Isengard 15 RC.

I would suggest editing the playercorefactory.xml file and only use those External Players you have actually installed.

Tools used:
SSHDroid to allow SSH login into Android
https://play.google.com/store/apps/detai...roid&hl=en

Cyberduck to (SFTP) transfer the playercorefactory.xml file into this location:
/sdcard0/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi/userdata/

https://cyberduck.io/?l=en

[Ned Scott]

External player active error message keep popping out.

Need help please...

Thread locked. As said several times already, we don't know unless you provide more information. If you want help, make a new thread and provide a debug log (wiki).