
Under the Display settings, you can see the Reset above settings to default option select it. From the Settings menu in Kodi, click System. So, you can reset the settings and stream the videos again. I’ve tried changing this for my Linux Mint 18 KDE installation, but after a few hours working on this, VLC Media Player still won’t launch from inside Kodi, only the default internal player works. With little or no knowledge, you should ensure not to change any settings which can critically hamper the app’s operation. Clone Clone with SSH Clone with HTTPS Open in your IDE Visual Studio Code. It includes the location and filename of VLC Media Player. The default video player, omxplayer, can play most videos encoded with the H.264 video codec and in a video format with an extension like. Combine it with Shift if you want MPV to remember the current position of the active file to resume playback from the same spot in the future. The script has to be copied into Kodi’s userdata folder, which I’ve done.


If you haven't tweaked MPV's default settings (as we'll see next), it's easier to navigate your media with your keyboard:

You can perform the same basic feats you'd expect from other media players: starting and pausing playback, moving to the previous or next file in a playlist, and if the active file comes with more than one, choose subtitles or an audio stream. Although we mentioned that MPV doesn't come with a proper GUI interface, that's partially a lie: it does offer an interface, but it's pretty simplistic.
