[davilla]

Can LibStageFright & MediaCodec be improved ? Sure, over time, issues will get resolved and fixed. That's the development process.

As it stands, MediaCodec is written, as recommended, according to the API that Google supplies. On most devices, it works quite fine. There are a few devices that have issues and some like RockChip and AMLogic, wait for the firmware devs to fix their broken devices. For devices with broken firmware, there is nothing we can do. Please complain to the firmware devs of these devices.

MX Player has existed for years and most likely has numerous quirks and work arounds for dealign with broken firmware. Please stop comparing a closed source player with the open source XBMC. They have several years head start and as they don't share their fixes, we have zero clue what they are doing. If MX Player fits your needs better, use it.

EDIT: This has nothing to do with legality, the MX Player is not public. That means there is no source code for it that we could examine and use to resolve issues. Their source code is private and they do not share it.