lomdar67 0 Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 (edited) Hi, I'm using the latest version of Emby (for Fire TV) on my Fire TV 4K Stick. I have VLC (from the store) and MX Player (sideloaded) installed, but Emby doesn't seem to recognize any of these two players. I've the "Use External Player" option selected, but every time I want to play a movie it says there is no external player installed. Did I miss something, is there anything else I have to do so that Emby can recognize an external player on the Fire TV? Best regards, Michael Edited September 8, 2020 by lomdar67 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14903 Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 Hi. The app doesn't decide what players are available. The Android system does. So, whatever you are playing is of a type that those apps are not reporting support for. A log may help us evaluate further. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lomdar67 0 Posted September 9, 2020 Author Share Posted September 9, 2020 (edited) Thanks for your help. Your comment got me in the right direction. The problem was the second option to sent the the path of the file directly to the external player. Neither VLC nor MX Player support playing over NFS shares. After unchecking that option it worked. Only problem now is, that MX Player plays everything in Stereo only... Edited September 9, 2020 by lomdar67 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37007 Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 Why not use the internal player? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lomdar67 0 Posted September 10, 2020 Author Share Posted September 10, 2020 I was hoping I could avoid transcoding with an external player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14903 Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 6 hours ago, lomdar67 said: I was hoping I could avoid transcoding with an external player. What items do you have that are transcoding and why? Can we look at an example? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlo 4330 Posted September 14, 2020 Share Posted September 14, 2020 On 9/10/2020 at 1:58 AM, lomdar67 said: I was hoping I could avoid transcoding with an external player. Can you show us the metadata for one of the files in question? This information will be shown at the bottom of the detail screen in the web admin. Can you take a screen shot of one or two files and upload them here please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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