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Choose the external video player with the customized name, like “VLC” here.Įnjoy the smooth playback! When you close the external video player program, you'll get back to Kodi GUI. Right-click/hold pressing on it, you'll see there an additional option named “Play using…”, click on it. With its beautiful interface and powerful skinning engine, its available for Android, BSD, Linux, macOS, iOS, tvOS and Windows. Launch Kodi, and locate the video you want to play. Kodi is an award-winning free and open source home theater/media center software and entertainment hub for digital media. Example: C:\Users\WonderFox\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\userdata Copy and paste the created playercorefactory.xml to the userdata subfolder under Kodi folder. Then click on “File” tab > Save As… > rename the file name as playercorefactory.xml > set “Save as type:” as “All Files” > “click Save” Now your text document should be like this. *To get the exact address of the video player, you can: visit the video player file location by right clicking on the video player's icon > open file location > click on the blank space of the address bar to highlight it > paste the full name of the media player like VLC.exe after it > copy the full address and replace 22222. Remove -fullscreen "" if you want the video to play in a window instead of full screen.exe of the external video player program. Kodi lets you override the built in video player and use an external video player,by creating a text file called playercorefactory.xmlWe will define ffmpeg. Replace 22222 with the exact file location for the external player, like C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe, make sure it includes the file extension.

Replace 11111 with a customized name for external video player, like “VLC”.Use Notepad to create a playercorefactory.xml file.Ĭreate new Text Document in Notepad, open it, and paste the following exactly:

The process for other platform go with the same principle. But try it first.I'll illustrate the detailed procedure with Kodi Leia on Windows operating system, using VLC Media Player as Kodi external video player. Lines with video resolution might be unnecessary, try to remove them if otherwise the filetype, filename and the videocodec rules are working.Īlso the line might be confront the avi rules if the avi video file contains 5.1 channel audio. Replaced "DVDPlayer" to "VideoPlayer" in playercorefactory file and rebooted device but no Kodi player for "avi" :-( Wrapper still liked to "AVI" files by default.īackup your current playercorefactory.xml file and replace completely: