[pmolson]

Hi, I'm using frodo 12.2, but can u please tell me why I don't see external player in menu context when I right-click on a movie!!! and yes i did add playercorefactory.xml in userdata folder, but still cannot see any option to select which player to play your vids with...I remember version 11 had that option!!
Thx for your directions

[pmolson]

Any takers?

[StinDaWg]

I don't see this option either...

[Ned Scott]

I do not know. I don't have a Windows computer to test with right now, and it is working on other OSes.

[jjd-uk]

A debug log would help to tell whether the playercorefactory.xml is even being loaded.

[pmolson]

Here you go my friend...

this is the playercorefactory.xml I have placed in

C:\Program Files (x86)\XBMC\userdata\playercorefactory.xml
&
C:\Users\AMD\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\userdata\playercorefactory.xml

<playercorefactory>
<players>
<player name="VLC" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<filename>C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe</filename>
<args>/fullscreen /close "{1}"</args>
<hidexbmc>false</hidexbmc>
<hideconsole>false</hideconsole>
<warpcursor>none</warpcursor>
</player>
</players>
<rules action="prepend">
<rule filetypes="mpg" | "avi" player="VLC"/>
</rules>
</playercorefactory>

and here is the log file: http://xbmclogs.com/show.php?id=37599
context menu snapshot: http://ge.tt/7lfUO0m/v/0?c


Looks like there is an error reading attributes Please let me know what I'm doing wrong...

Thanks in advance!

[jjd-uk]

Well that's probably your problem then, something is wrong with the line 12

Code:

<rule filetypes="mpg" | "avi" player="VLC"/>

I've no idea as I never use external players so don't know the rule syntax.

[pmolson]

Thanks Bro!

For your reference, I found the right solution (or playercorefactory.xml syntax) here:
http://thewebsurferslife.blogspot.com/20...layer.html

Cheers!