[captainf]

Using VLC as an external player owing to choppy video on certain files.

Here is my XML file.

​​​​​​<playercorefactory>
  <players>
    <player name="VLC" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
      <filename>C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe</filename>
      <args>--fullscreen "{1}"</args>
      <hidexbmc>false</hidexbmc>
    </player>
  </players>
  <rules action="prepend">
    <rule video="true" player="VLC"/>
<rule filename=".*youtube.*" player="DVDPlayer"/>
  </rules>
</playercorefactory>

I'd like to know what needs changing to make VLC an option rather than the default player, especially as the YouTube add on doesn't work with it.

I tried the extra rule above which i found in this thread, as i'd heard that external players are buggy with Kodi 21, but to no avail.

[PatK]

Others have reported issues in Kodi 21 External players (wiki) Might want to report this to https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/issues

suppoort thread https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=43511&page=42