A few questions about my new Z9, won't play certain .avi files, .m3u files, how to change clock?

Discussion in 'ZIDOO Z9S' started by Daniel J Gove, Dec 24, 2018.

  1. Daniel J Gove

    Daniel J Gove New Member

    Hello everyone,
    I bought my Z9 a couple of months ago, really enjoying it but have a couple of questions:
    1. I ran into a problem when trying to play certain .AVI files, I get a message saying "can't play video".
    The same files always ran fine on my old Popcorn Hour C 200 and they play fine on my PC. Any idea
    why they're not playing on my Z9? I've included below the output from the mediainfo app I ran for 2 files.
    The first file would not open but the 2nd file played fine. Should I install and other media player,
    something like VLC media player for android? Which leads me to question 2.

    2. How do I install other apps on my Z9? I tried using the "APKinstaller" at the by starting it and selecting
    "Web installation" and another window pops up displaying the image of a computer screen and text
    on the bottom that reads "please enter the address of the remote install applications on your computer"
    and in blue text below that the following URL "HTTP://192.168.1.15.18888". Problem is, this window
    seems to be frozen, there's no way to change the current text or add new text. I tried using the mouse
    pointer to click and double-click the URL and the green box in the center of the window but
    nothing changed.

    3. Does the Z9 support .m3u playlists? I have a few of these playlists which I created using Winamp
    on my PC. They always played fine on my PC and on my PCH C 200 but will not play on my Z9. If
    it doesn't support .m3u, any suggestions and I what I can use to make playlists?

    4. How can I change the time that's displayed on the front of the Z9? I tried several times changing the time
    in the settings and while I'm able to go in and physically change it, by the time I back out of settings,
    the time changes back to where it was. On this topic, is there a way to select my own time zone?
    When I tried to change the time zone, I can't find it, I only see time zones such as "Taipei".

    5. Can the HDMI input be used for any type of recording? For example, can I record output from my
    Amazon fire stick using the the Z9s HDMI input? I saw on a YouTube video that recording from this
    HDMI input could be done but only for the Z9s sold in certain countries, but probably not the US.

    Those are all the questions I have for now, I'm sure I'll have others as I use the Z9
    more but so far, it's a great media player with excellent picture quality.

    Thanks in advance for any information you all can provide.

    Below is the info on the .AVI files I mentioned earlier.

    I get a "can't play video" error message when I try to play this video: (and many other.AVI files)
    General
    Complete name : K:\01 Video - Movies & TV\Formula 1 Stuff on K drive\Formula 1 Racing - 1961 - 2003 Full Seasons & Reviews\F1 1978 - Full Season\1978 - 04 - USA West.avi
    Format : AVI
    Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
    File size : 529 MiB
    Duration : 1h 56mn
    Overall bit rate : 632 Kbps
    Writing library : VirtualDub build 18160/release

    Video
    ID : 0
    Format : MPEG-4 Visual
    Format settings, BVOP : 1
    Format settings, QPel : No
    Format settings, GMC : No warppoints
    Format settings, Matrix : Default (H.263)
    Muxing mode : Packed bitstream
    Codec ID : DX50
    Codec ID/Hint : DivX 5
    Duration : 1h 56mn
    Bit rate : 495 Kbps
    Width : 352 pixels
    Height : 256 pixels
    Display aspect ratio : 1.375
    Frame rate : 25.000 fps
    Color space : YUV
    Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
    Bit depth : 8 bits
    Scan type : Progressive
    Compression mode : Lossy
    Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.220
    Stream size : 413 MiB (78%)
    Writing library : DivX 5.1.1 (Maupiti) (UTC 2003-11-19)

    Audio
    ID : 1
    Format : MPEG Audio
    Format version : Version 1
    Format profile : Layer 3
    Codec ID : 55
    Codec ID/Hint : MP3
    Duration : 1h 56mn
    Bit rate mode : Constant
    Bit rate : 128 Kbps
    Channel(s) : 2 channels
    Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
    Compression mode : Lossy
    Stream size : 107 MiB (20%)
    Alignment : Split accross interleaves
    Interleave, duration : 40 ms (1.00 video frame)
    Interleave, preload duration : 500 ms


    This .AVI file plays fine;
    General
    Complete name : K:\01 Video - Movies & TV\Formula 1 Stuff on K drive\Formula 1 Racing - 1961 - 2003 Full Seasons & Reviews\F1 1985 - Full Season\1985 - 11 - Netherlands - ORF.avi
    Format : AVI
    Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
    File size : 1.64 GiB
    Duration : 1h 57mn
    Overall bit rate : 2 003 Kbps
    Writing application : VirtualDubMod 1.5.10.2 (build 2540/release)
    Writing library : VirtualDubMod build 2540/release

    Video
    ID : 0
    Format : MPEG-4 Visual
    Format profile : Advanced Simple@L5
    Format settings, BVOP : 1
    Format settings, QPel : No
    Format settings, GMC : No warppoints
    Format settings, Matrix : Default (H.263)
    Codec ID : XVID
    Codec ID/Hint : XviD
    Duration : 1h 57mn
    Bit rate : 1 801 Kbps
    Width : 704 pixels
    Height : 544 pixels
    Display aspect ratio : 1.294
    Frame rate : 25.000 fps
    Color space : YUV
    Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
    Bit depth : 8 bits
    Scan type : Progressive
    Compression mode : Lossy
    Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.188
    Stream size : 1.48 GiB (90%)
    Writing library : XviD 1.2.0.dev47 (UTC 2006-11-01)

    Audio
    ID : 1
    Format : AC-3
    Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
    Mode extension : CM (complete main)
    Format settings, Endianness : Big
    Codec ID : 2000
    Duration : 1h 57mn
    Bit rate mode : Constant
    Bit rate : 192 Kbps
    Channel(s) : 2 channels
    Channel positions : Front: L R
    Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
    Bit depth : 16 bits
    Compression mode : Lossy
    Stream size : 161 MiB (10%)
    Alignment : Split accross interleaves
    Interleave, duration : 40 ms (1.00 video frame)
    Interleave, preload duration : 500 ms
     

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