Dice player integrated on Google play movies - Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi all!
I've bought a Nexus 7 for my mom.
Now I've installed Dice player in order to play video files such as .mkv with subs. And, it actually works pretty well.
But then I noticed that, once it's been installed, you can open 'Google Play Movies' and open a video file with the video player you've installed (Dice Player in my case). If I do so, the file opens but it plays slow. The thing is that I would like to use Google Play Movies because it seems easier for my mom (and it looks very good IMHO).
Summarizing, I can watch videos fine if I open Dice player but I cannot watch videos properly if I open the file with Dice Player through Google Play Movies.
Any ideas how to fix this?
PD: It's a Google Nexus 7 vanilla, I mean not rooted or with another ROM.

Try clearing default in settings-apps-dice player. Or even clear the data there besides clearing default. Then open Google play movies again and see if it will ask you again for a player you want to use as default.
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Rycon33 said:
Try clearing default in settings-apps-dice player. Or even clear the data there besides clearing default. Then open Google play movies again and see if it will ask you again for a player you want to use as default.
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Nah. I removed the data from DICE Player and Google Play Movies but it's the same.

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