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Hi,

I'm running XBMC on ubuntu and the regular default xbmc player is very choppy. VLC however tends to work better so I was wondering how I can change the script to change all video files. I have found a script from a previous thread and copied it into the playercorefactory.xml but it only worked for avi files. So how can I add additional file formats to tell XBMC to play it on VLC media player?

This is the code I got for only avi files.

Code:
<playercorefactory>

<players>

<player name="vlc" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">

<filename>/usr/bin/vlc</filename>

<args>--fullscreen</args>

<hideconsole>true</hideconsole>

<hidecursor>true</hidecursor>

<forceontop>true</forceontop>

</player>

</players>

<rules action="prepend">

<rule filetypes="avi" filename="*.avi" player="vlc"/>

</rules>

</playercorefactory>

Any help is appreciated. I'm not very good at scripting so its basics....

Have you tried changing -

Code:
<rule filetypes="avi" filename="*.avi" player="vlc"/>

Code:
<rule filetypes="avi, mp4, mp3, mk3" filename="*.avi, *.mp4, *.mp3, *.mkv" player="vlc"/>

Nope that doesn't seem to work, it just reverts everything back into the regular player

Do I have to make an additional rule?

Try changing <rule> to:

Code:
<rule filetypes="avi" player="vlc"/>

For multiple filetypes:

Code:
<rule filetypes="avi|mkv|mp4|mpg" player="vlc"/>

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