Simplify video player preference

[nielsvanvelzen]

Changes

• Remove preferred video player preference
• Remove preferred Live TV player preference
• Add "use external player" preference (used for all video related playback)
• Remove "choose player" menu

Issues

[neopc10]

Can we have something like "long press play button in episode details to use external player?"

[nielsvanvelzen]

No, you either have external player enabled for everything or you don't.

[gulabbisht]

@nielsvanvelzen, is there any way to choose which external player will be used, like vlc?

[nielsvanvelzen]

The external player functionality uses the video player configured as default app in the OS.

[kingp0dd]

Can we have something like "long press play button in episode details to use external player?"

I can see a use case for this too. I use exoplayer as default for the resume functionality, but there are videos that do not play with exoplayer, which i have to open with Kodi. So what i do is go to settings to choose "Ask every time" as default video player and then revert the setting again after watching the unplayable video

[yemrearslan]

this is an issue for me because the default player doesn't have subtitle offset option. i can choose vlc as default player but it doesn't show the subtitles downloaded via opensubitles plug-in. i think there must be an option to use libvlc player

[nielsvanvelzen]

Please stop commenting on pull requests, especially when they're unrelated to your "issue". This pull request did not remove LibVLC.

[sheharyarn]

Was there a reason for removing "choose player" option? It allowed customizing the playback experience, and I really liked it.