[Joe96]

I've just made VLC my external player for kodi and last night worked ok, but now it crashes. I removed the VLC's %appdata% folder, i've rebooted the PC and i've reinstalled VLC and the same happens.

This is my playercorefactory.xml

Code:

<playercorefactory>
    <players>
        <player name="VLC" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
            <filename>C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe</filename>
            <args> -f "{1}" vlc://quit</args>
            <hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
            <hideconsole>false</hideconsole>
            <warpcursor>none</warpcursor>
        </player>
    </players>
    <rules action="prepend">
      <rule filetypes="mkv" player="VLC"/>
      <rule filetypes="avi" player="VLC"/>
      <rule filetypes="mp4" player="VLC"/>
    </rules>
</playercorefactory>

VLC just opens, stays open for one seconds [while playing the video] and then crashes. This happens to any video, and only when i use kodi. VLC on its own doesn't have issues.

EDIT: After two reinstalls, i tried to test every add-on and skin and it turns out the YouTube app was the one that caused this. I don't know why, but now it works ok with the YouTube app uninstalled

[PatK]

Usually the Youtube app is tied in with shared libraries and uninstalling is not possible, kodo's to you for the self solve and edit.

Just out of curiosity, why are using VLC externally, Kodi is pretty much using the same code work that VLC uses, (alas it's a tad behind in code gen) but would seem much more convent,

[Derek]

yeah strange choice