[Snip84]

Hi. I use kodi 18.4 on my h96 plus box and most movies play fine except some do stutter...and they are SD partly. They all play fine on vlc thou...any solution? Tnx

[shooty]

Copy and Save as playercorefactory.xml
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<playercorefactory>
    <players>
        <player name="MXPlayerFree" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
            <filename>com.mxtech.videoplayer.ad</filename>
            <hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
            <playcountminimumtime>120</playcountminimumtime>
        </player>

        <player name="MXPlayerPro" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
            <filename>com.mxtech.videoplayer.pro</filename>
            <hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
            <playcountminimumtime>120</playcountminimumtime>
        </player>

        <player name="VLCPlayer" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
            <filename>com.vlcforandroid.vlcdirectprofree</filename>
            <hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
            <playcountminimumtime>120</playcountminimumtime>
        </player>

    </players>
    <rules action="prepend">
<!---
**********                   **********
********** EDIT THIS SECTION **********
**********                   **********
-->
        <rule protocols="smb" player="CHOOSE PLAYER NAME HERE" />
        <rule dvdimage="true" player="CHOOSE PLAYER NAME HERE"/>
        <rule protocols="rtmp" player="CHOOSE PLAYER NAME HERE"/>
        <rule protocols="rtsp" player="CHOOSE PLAYER NAME HERE" />
                <rule protocols="sop" player="CHOOSE PLAYER NAME HERE" />
        <rule internetstream="true" player="CHOOSE PLAYER NAME HERE" />
        <rule video="true" player="VLCPlayer"/> <!-- Default for anything else not listed -->
    </rules>
</playercorefactory>
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Place file in userdata directory
restart kodi.
All video files will play with VLC (Since you mentioned VLC)

*You can try to disable acceleration in Settings/Player (but I still have some stuttering, so I use extrenal player)

[Snip84]

Ill try that. Tnx. I have set the audio to original and ita mainly gone. Bur still plays flawless with vlc.

[Snip84]

Well it says External player active....press ok when playback ends. And nothing plays