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.