2016-10-28, 20:25
Could someone help me setup an external player in Kodi? I've read several guides and nothing seems to be working.
I am using Kodi version 15.2.
Here is what I have in my playercorefactory.xml, located in my Userdata folder inside %APPDATA% for Kodi.
I tried also to use MPV to no avail.
Upon selecting video and pressing Y or C I am not shown an option to Play With. And when I press Y the only option is DVDplayer (default{
These parameters should be correct by all accounts. I am using Windows 7, if that matters.
Edit: I got it to work using
But there are some big errors. Once I exit a video, the next video in the list automatically plays. meaning I have to click exit hundreds of times before I can get back to Kodi.
MPV does not start when Kodi is in full screen mode, and when MPV does start it does not start full screen.
I am using Kodi version 15.2.
Here is what I have in my playercorefactory.xml, located in my Userdata folder inside %APPDATA% for Kodi.
Code:
<playercorefactory>
<players>
<player name="VLC" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="true" video="true">
<filename>C:\Program Files\VideoLan\VLC\vlc.exe</filename>
<args>"{1}"</args>
<hidexbmc>false</hidexbmc>
<hideconsole>false</hideconsole>
<warpcursor>none</warpcursor>
</player>
</players>
<rules action="prepend"
<rule name="Playtype" filetype="mkv|mp4|avi|flv|mpeg" player="VLC"/>
</rules>
</playercorefactory>
I tried also to use MPV to no avail.
Upon selecting video and pressing Y or C I am not shown an option to Play With. And when I press Y the only option is DVDplayer (default{
These parameters should be correct by all accounts. I am using Windows 7, if that matters.
Edit: I got it to work using
Code:
<playercorefactory>
<players>
<player name="MPV" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<filename>C:\Program Files\MPV\mpv.exe</filename>
<args>"{1}" /fullscreen /close</args>
<hidexbmc>false</hidexbmc>
<hideconsole>false</hideconsole>
<warpcursor>none</warpcursor>
</player>
</players>
<rules action="prepend">
<rule name="Playtype" filetype="mkv|mp4|avi|flv|mpeg" player="VLC"/>
</rules>
</playercorefactory>
But there are some big errors. Once I exit a video, the next video in the list automatically plays. meaning I have to click exit hundreds of times before I can get back to Kodi.
MPV does not start when Kodi is in full screen mode, and when MPV does start it does not start full screen.