- #USING AN EXTERNAL PLAYER BY DEFAULT ON KODI HOW TO#
- #USING AN EXTERNAL PLAYER BY DEFAULT ON KODI MOVIE#
- #USING AN EXTERNAL PLAYER BY DEFAULT ON KODI INSTALL#
- #USING AN EXTERNAL PLAYER BY DEFAULT ON KODI MANUAL#
To point Kodi towards an installed external player, download this file and extract to your %appdata%\kodi\userdata folder. It's not ideal, but it's making the best of a bad situation until Kodi disc playback improves. Sadly new customers will now find it difficult to locate, as it is no longer supported by creators ArcSoft.Īn external player comes with some fairly significant caveats: the Kodi interface won't be available until you stop playback/exit the player, and it won't understand the same control system as Kodi (although most are compatible with RC6 remotes). I prefer the latter, as it provides an executable that will immediately jump to fullscreen playback, helping to hide the fact that there are two software players in use. The best, if imperfect, solution is to point your optical discs to an external player, although these tend to be commercial, like PowerDVD or TotalMedia Theatre. This isn't always optimal depending on disk capacity, and legalities can change on this depending on where you live. Apple never embraced Blu-ray, and the Linux workaround essentially strips the copy protection and rips the disc to the hard drive. While Kodi will play Blu-ray discs with no copy protection, for the most part it doesn't understand menus, at best offering a simplified index to choose from. If you must have Blu-ray support, you're best off running Kodi on Windows and pointing it to an external software player. If you don't find something you like, there's significantly more available in the Kodi forums - just take in mind some fan favorites, like Ace, haven't been updated to work on Kodi yet. Head to System> Appearance>Skin, and hit the Get More button. Thankfully there's a legion of skin creators out there providing much more visually appealing alternatives. But then, it's designed to be as flexible as possible, working on systems of extremely low power and touch-enabled platforms. The default theme for Kodi is, well, not very appealing.
#USING AN EXTERNAL PLAYER BY DEFAULT ON KODI HOW TO#
If you want to subcategorise, say, into TV Shows and Anime, and use different scrapers for each, you're going to need to learn how to wield Smart Playlists. Kodi generally only respects three types of media sources, which can make things difficult: Movies, Music Videos or TV Shows.
These steps may change slightly depending on what skin you have installed. Type the name you wish to search, then click Done, and you'll be given a list of options to choose from.
#USING AN EXTERNAL PLAYER BY DEFAULT ON KODI MANUAL#
If it picks up the wrong title, you can either change the file name to match the scraping database entry (full title and year can help), or select the offending title, hit i on the keyboard, choose Refresh and then hit the Manual button. Take in mind that scraping is done based on the file name. Kodi scans your libraries to see if it can recognize files. Highlight it, press c on the keyboard, and you'll be able to edit or remove the source. In the example above, we set it to movies, so we'll see a "Movies" entry here. To change an existing media source, head back to Files under the appropriate section (let's use the Videos section again), and you'll see that you have an existing source depending on the media type you selected earlier.
Setting the media type allows you to scrape relevant information automatically.
#USING AN EXTERNAL PLAYER BY DEFAULT ON KODI MOVIE#
Browse to where your videos are stored, hit OK, then change the up and down buttons to select what type of media is in that folder.įor instance, if it's movies, Kodi can scrape information from The Internet Movie Database, automatically pulling down art, synopses, ratings, genres, actor details and more based on the file name. To add your video files to Kodi, it's as simple as selecting the appropriate section (say, Videos), then selecting Files, Add Videos. Now that your media center PC is up and running, here's how to get everything just the way you like.
#USING AN EXTERNAL PLAYER BY DEFAULT ON KODI INSTALL#
Last time, we introduced the open-source media player software Kodi and went through the install process and hardware setup.
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