[A Man]

• I have been using Kodi 21.0 version in my android tv. Some videos are not working in Kodi player.So I had placed a playercorefactory file for vlc in userdata folder but it is not working. And also I tried for vlc with another playercorefactory. I have attached the files also.
  

Please help me with this issue .

Mx player https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bxl-LJf...Ku6M1E-I5A
Vlc
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bxl-LJf...tHXAjes73Q

[PatK]

my android TV

Perhaps the path to the executable is not available or incorrectly defined? External players (wiki) check the Android section in the wiki, does your device/TV have enough memory for all those players? A full debug log would show if your script is being seen.

[A Man]

Yes.I have enough memory

[tele]

@A Man
It must be a bug. I have the same problem on Windows. Downgrade to Kodi 20.5 and You can choose the "Play Using" option from context menu.

[MrMagic]

Please note that external players on Android will only work if the file you are playing is local to Android.

If it's on a network share that only Kodi knows about, the external player will not be able to find it.

[tele]

It's not the point.
The "Play Using" option does not appear at all in Kodi 21, while in Kodi 20.5 you can select it from the context menu - with the same add-on code.

[MrMagic]

Strange... I'm running the 20240509 nightly of Kodi Omega and it works fine for me.

I put this in the playercorefactory.xml file and placed it in Kodi's Userdata folder:
 

Code:

<playercorefactory>
<players>
<player name="JustPlayer" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<filename>com.brouken.player.legacy</filename>
<hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
<playcountminimumtime>120</playcountminimumtime>
</player>
</players>
</playercorefactory>

Now when I longpress a video, I can choose "Play using..." , select JustPlayer and the video starts to play.

[tele]

In Windows, it doesn't work for me in Kodi 21 (The "Play Using" option does not appear), while in Kodi 20.5 is OK.
Don't know how is on Android.
My playercorefactory.xml:

XML:
<playercorefactory>

    <players>

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

            <filename>C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe</filename>

            <args>"{1}" /fullscreen /close</args>

            <hidexbmc>false</hidexbmc>

        </player>

    </players>

    <!--

    <rules action="prepend">

        <rule video="true" player="VLC"/>

    </rules>

    -->

</playercorefactory>