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Almost. You need to remove all the players you don't want or you'll get a massive Play With menu.
Look in the play store to find the id of the player you want. It's at the end of the url.
eg https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mxtech.videoplayer.pro com.mxtech.videoplayer.pro
You need to change the rules at the bottom of the file. You can remove that whole section if you want to always choose the player. The simplest way is to use wildcard * to add a rule that always uses mx player if that is what you want to do.
Read more here and follow the links to the kodi forum at the bottom. https://kodi.wiki/view/External_player
Use MX Player Pro with the AC3/DTS Audio Codec Pack
Try to purchase it on the Play Store instead of pirating it? If you couldn't afford, wait for another sale or try VLC instead. Linkme: VLC
MX Player Pro will handle all formats and any size. Used for years on Android Samsung Galaxy and Note. Buy the Pro and then sideload the DTS Codec support for your particular phone architecture.
MX Player Pro -- it will play any kind of video file you throw at it and it works brilliantly.
Root Explorer -- the absolute best file manager for Android, especially if you're rooted.
Nova Launcher + Nova Launcher Prime -- arguably the best home / launcher replacement.
For me it's
MX Player Pro : This is the costliest app I ever bought. I know there is VLC, the free competitor, but I love how MX groups videos properly. VLC's file naming is pretty wonky too.
Overdrop Pro : The beautiful weather app. Has multiple weather provider (has Dark Sky integration too) with AccuWeather in the pro version.
Taskito : With all the integration. Was pretty skeptical about this but totally worth now.
Typesave : My lifesaver. There has been many a times when I typed something very long & deleted it by mistake. This app makes sure to have a copy of the written material, so even if I make that mistake again, I won't have to write it all over again.
P.S : Considering buying "Easy Join". Haven't made up my mind yet.
Don't get me started on IP's and Widget Packs. I regret buying some of them.
Subs need to be in UTF-8, being that Android is Linux-based. My setup is similar to what you're trying to do. You can use media servers like Plex, but I just use a file browser to browse my NAS shares on my LAN, then open the video in MX Player Pro, which supports everything and has fantastic subtitle support. My NAS is already doing enough as it is, I didn't want a media server on it as well, which is why I take this approach.
The file browser I use is a really old version of ES File Explorer. It navigates network file shares perfectly. Here's a link to the modified version I use that doesn't sync with Google Play and won't ever update:
The reason for not ever updating it is because the newer versions are full of bloatware. This version works great on Android TV and can be used with a remote control just fine.
If you install MX Player Pro, you'll need to install a custom codec pack to get better AC3 and DTS audio support. You can find that on the xda Developer website. Download the codec pack zip file (from the Google Drive link), copy it to your TV. Then open MX Player Pro, go to Settings -> Decoder -> Custom codec. Point it to the zip file you copied to your TV. Then after restarting MX Player Pro, you'll be ready to go.
This is how I do it, not the most convenient to set up, but it works great once it is. VLC just doesn't hold a candle to the file format support or subtitle support that MX Player Pro has on Android; hopefully it will one day. I use VLC on PC and would like to use it on Android too, but I've never been happy with the app on Android yet. VLC is great at navigating a LAN though, but has less options as a player than MX does.
Another app you can try out is Archos. It's also a great video app and you can get codecs for it on Google Play
Hope this helps you out!
I use MiXplorer to browse my local network and play the video files with MX Player Pro with a custom codec pack on my Bravia. MX Player uses the hardware on the TV for decoding 4k. Also, I have a gigabit network with CAT 6 and my TV is wired in. But with all this, my Bravia plays 4K files directly from a network share this way, works fine.
If you don't want the overhead of a media server running on your NAS, you can play the 4k files, or any files really, straight over your local network from your NAS to your TV (the great part of having Android).
I use MiXplorer to browse my local network and play the video files with MX Player Pro with a custom codec pack on my Bravia. MX Player uses the hardware on the TV for decoding 4k. Also, I have a gigabit network with CAT 6 and my TV is wired in. But with all this, my Bravia plays 4K files directly from a network share this way, works fine.
You can purchase MX Player Pro from the Play Store https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mxtech.videoplayer.pro
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I personally use:
Typhoon TV, with Real-Debrid and MX Player Pro
CyberFlix, again, with Real-Debrid and MX Player Pro
MovieBox Pro, which I decided to get VIP for.
I decided to pay for Premium Real-Debrid for convenience and having access to better, faster, higher quality links. Same with MovieBox Pro VIP, with that, you don't have to wait or pick links, it just starts playing the stream immediately from their own servers.
But I recommend that you try out apps, sign up for a free Real-Debrid account, and try them out.
Pretty sure they didn't. I bought it in Spring 2017 and it still works fine and gets updates.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mxtech.videoplayer.pro
You buy pro version for ad free experience. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mxtech.videoplayer.pro
I use a file browser to navigate to my files, then when I open a file, I choose the video player I want to use. You can set default apps for each file type in most file browsers too. In Mixplorer, you can even set a default tab, so when I open MiXplorer, it automatically goes to my NAS.
This is the file browser I use:
You'll need to allow unknown sources to be able to install it on your TV.
This is the video app I use:
And here is the custom codec pack I use for MX Player:
To use the custom codec pack, just open MX Player, go in the settings to Decoder, at the bottom choose custom codec, then navigate to where you saved the .zip file from the link above.
I use MiXplorer to browse my network and play the rips off of my QNAP NAS and open the rips with MX Player Pro with the MX Player Custom Codec pack installed. You can also play directly off a USB drive with these apps. With this setup, no transcoding needed; MX Player will play the files directly from the source over your network.
If you play off your network, I highly recommend having your TV and the source wired in, not on WLAN.
Maybe I'm missing something. It's only $5.99 (currently) in the USA. - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mxtech.videoplayer.pro