Make VLC as the default player on your Kodi Mac

playercorefactory.xml

<playercorefactory>
	<players>
		<player name="VLC" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
			<filename>/Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC</filename>
			<args>--video-on-top --play-and-exit</args>
	 		<hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
		</player>
    </players>
	<rules action="prepend">
		<rule video="true" player="VLC"/> 
    </rules>
</playercorefactory>

Copy this to the following folder:
/Users/<your_user_name>/Library/Application Support/Kodi/userdata/

Working on Mac OS X 10.11, Kodi 17.6 and VLC 2.2.4

Thank you!
On my MacMini KODI's default player can't seem to handle many 1080p files, VLC can.

But... KODI log says it cannot find VLC with this path. Any advice, please?
Also is there a way to keep KODI's player as the default?

Thank you very much once again,
I hope you enjoy an interesting day!

@bmartinsen - did you install VLC?

Works great on OSX 12.6 on a M1 MacBook Air. Much better than pure Kodi which doesn't come in a Apple Silicon ready version yet.

IINA maybe mpv too support
iina/iina#5368 (comment)

I wrote a one liner for mac users, feel free to add or edit players and defaults
https://gist.github.com/jswhisperer/b04971dc1f5534267cf1e6ac9b814553