- #Xbmc external player vlc how to#
- #Xbmc external player vlc 720p#
- #Xbmc external player vlc apk#
- #Xbmc external player vlc install#
- #Xbmc external player vlc Patch#
#Xbmc external player vlc how to#
Which one’s the best to watch your favorite US shows?
Also, since it has both external player support and libstagefright, it currently is “better” than the latest official builds ? Downloadĭownload here. Tadaa, you got the latest nightly build with external player support back ?Įxcept the fact that this is a debug build (which, by the way, most builds are except the ones from the official xbmc devs), this is probably today the best build you can find if you are running on an mk802 III, IV, or one of their many clones (mk809, tronsmart, etc…) : it has libstagefright support and the latest and greatest code from the xbmc repository, none of the additional crapware/addons from the xaf build, and is much more recent than the previous version I recommended. If you’ve done things correctly, mx player should now start when you launch a video in xbmc. Maybe I’ll submit such a file here one day.
#Xbmc external player vlc 720p#
SD works fine in XBMC, and 720p is also acceptable with libstagefright (that’s for people on rockchip CPUs, maybe not on AllWinner). Since libstagefright (hardware acceleration) is available in this build, I think it would be possible (recommended) to tweak that file in order to run the external player only for files above a given resolution. Details here.Ī sample playercorefactory.xml can be found here. In order to use MX Player in xbmc, you need to create a file playercorefactory.xml and put it in /sdcard/Android/data//files/.xbmc/userdata. My build is a debug build and cannot be installed on an official build before uninstalling that one first.
#Xbmc external player vlc install#
To install it, you might need to uninstall your previous xbmc install first. You should make sure you have at least 250MB free on your internal storage or the first run might not even work. I’ve mentioned it in the past, but on some mk802 devices and other clones, the internal storage is extremely small, and XBMC requires a lot of it. Basically the StartActivity function from the xbmc android code was not creating the correct intent, and was also messing up the URI parameter. I finally got the courage to learn git, get the Android sdk, ndk, install a virtual machine running linux, figure out how to get adb to recognize my chinese Mini PC, and fix the issue in the xbmc code.
#Xbmc external player vlc apk#
The binary of the XAF builds is close to 100MB, while a regular xbmc apk is closer to 50MB. As I’ve also mentioned, the “XAF” builds are too heavy for most of the Android mini PCs.
#Xbmc external player vlc Patch#
That xbmc build did have a patch with a fix for external player support. This is why I had been recommending an old build from last year, in this article. Unfortunately, “external player” support on Android for XBMC has been broken almost as soon as it got submitted to their repository, after a cleanup that messed a few things up. So for these devices that don’t get the benefit of hardware acceleration in xbmc, the ability to be able to launch an external player (such as the awesome MX Player) while still getting the great xbmc interface is definitely a great thing.