[dmdsoftware]

Hi, would you be so kind as to help me understand exactly what happens with these "override player playback" functions?

These kinds of plugins are supposed to just generate either lists of files or lists of resolveable urls. There is also another option of making all files and folders as nonplayable and then just call the XBMC.Player class yourself. By doing this, it bypasses the "opening stream" dialog that is customary in XBMC. I find it not helpful on a PC, but on a device that is not as response (ARM device like a raspberry pi), the time it takes to start a video is much faster when the dialog doesn't have to open. It was taking me 6 seconds to kick off a video on a raspberry pi model A when it did the original approach of resolving a URL for XBMC to playback, and now it takes 3-4 seconds when it calls the XBMC.Player class itself.