Home Theater 2.0 - Tips/Questions/Tricks

Im using it with good results for dvd, bluray and 4k

 

ok thanks

 

Here are some pictures to clear up the player versions.

Internal hardware Zidoo player images below. This player is based on Realtek chipset. Plays 3D Frame Packing MVC (3D Blu-Ray) files and 4K HDR plus all others. High performance and low CPU usage. Preferred player for all files. In ZDMC under Settings > Player > Use External Player ON. It is external to Kodi (ZDMC) build.


Below are images of Kodi native player. You get it in ZDMC as second option Settings > Player > Use External Player OFF or if you download Kodi for Android. Some file formats may force this player even if external is selected. Youtube trailers are played using this player as well. Images of original Estuary skin player and Aeon Nox skin version. This player is software/CPU intensive, no support for 4K HDR or MVC 3D files. It stutters on various compression formats.


Please correct if anything is wrong or missing. We all should call them Zidoo and Kodi players, not external

 

and thats why i bought this box, for not using kodi

 

In the earlier versions of HT2.0 when you added or removed a movie -tv show from a watched folder, it forced movie wall to refresh showing the new added or removed files. In this version (as it comes with 2.25 fw) auto folder refreshing is stuck on “scanning” you have to manually stop the folder from scanning and then select “update” on sources in order to scan the new content. It is very frustrating could you please fix it? In previous versions worked fine

 

it happened to me too but not always
after i cleared HT data and factory reset, did a fresh scanned
till now it never happen again

 

Thanks, I was hopping to avoid factory reset but I’ll give it a try!

 

Help! I did a factory reset and lost HT2.0, is there a download link?

 

Just did a search on forum and find it right away...

 

would you be kind to post the link?

 

Because i had some issues with the automatic source update (it got stack on refreshing when a new movie - tv show was added) i got bold, so i tried factory reset, as a result, i lost HT app. I couldn't find a separate apk to install (latest version) so i did a fresh 2.025 install. After a new factory reset, HT app was erased again. It would be nice if zidoo could post the Home Theater apk as a separate download, in the downloads section or patch the firmware so after a factory reset the Home Theater app is not deleted. The good thing is that all this firmware re-install and factory reset did not affect the openwrt section.

 

why you not read my post before, like i said, after i factory reset, HT is missing but after i reboot it, then it automatic installed it back
see pages 17
but if it still did not installed after reboot
you can download HT2.0 from here
http://forum.zidoo.tv/index.php?threads/zidoo-x10-review-fw2-0-15.5596/page-6#post-35239

 

Thanks I didn’t try reboot but I installed the version mentioned and it’s the old one, it doesn’t update to the latest one.

 

why dont you try factory reset again
coz if you dont get the update for HT, i think it worst than the new one

 

thanks but no! I have it all up and running lets see now if auto scanning works!

 

So, on the + side, before re-installing 2.025Fw and factory reset, i had issues with subtitles - i had every time to change size of the external srt and also after resuming a movie i had to select the external subtitles again. But after resetting and re-installing firmware all these problems are solved. So i suggest if you have problems with external subtitles -as a last resort- to try resetting and installing the FW again. Also auto folder scanning works again as it should!

 

i just think this HT still unstable especially for tv show scrapper
after i factory reset before, it was perfectly for first scanned
then i adds some epsiodes of my tv show and it still scanned well
but now when i just add one last episode from westworld 2nd season and 2last episodes from the expanse 3rd season
it recognized but cannot got nothing for the backdrop image or fanart
but not a problem for movies

 

Yes you’re right, after 2-3 days of successful run, I now have the exact same problems with sources stuck on”scanning”. I had the same issues with Westworld as you, but after resetting the last episode was successfully scanned, but now season is over so I can’t tell if this was the exception or not! I really like the HT but it’s frustrating having something not working when it used to work in beta fw

 

if everytimes it got wrong and we have to factory reset it, its very inconvenience furthermore we cannot tag manually the movie as "Watched"
i already try to delete the episode and even the whole season too, hoping they can scan with a new result
but somehow the metadata is still there and when we paste the files again, it used the metadata

 

I totally agree with your saying. What it bothers me most is that 2.025 is a stable version so it will take time before these issues are solved