Home Theater 2.0 - Tips/Questions/Tricks

i hope so, at least they can do like maybe popcorn or Q10pro did

have you re matched it?
use imdb id for precise match with our collection

 

HT2 is driving me nuts! Any help would be very much appreciated:

As examples of the kind of problems I'm having:

Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters (2016) are both appearing as A & B films in "Ghostbusters"

I've tried removing the brackets, tried changing the name to "Ghostbusters Answer the Call" but I assume because both films are called "Ghostbusters" presumably in TMDB, they are put together in the same container as A & B.

Also, "The Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 1" and "The Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 2" are both put in the same container as A & B.

In both examples above, I can delete the matchings and then rematch to the correct movies using the IMDB numbers and everything appears perfectly in separate movies, but next time the box scrapes anything, or simply reboots, they revert to the previous joined state. Mad!

 

you can read my post in page 17
http://forum.zidoo.tv/index.php?thr...tips-questions-tricks.7436/page-17#post-42864

but if you stll have a problem when you reboot your box after rematch it
i think it something wrong, coz when i rematch my collection, i got nothing changed even after rebooting
maybe you can try to factory reset
but dont be scare if after factory reset you found that HT is not install
just reboot it once or try to factory reset again and HT is back

 

Many thanks - I also found that HT2 doesn't like hyphens - so if you remove them from titles, it scrapes more reliably.

For example the Transformers movies - all mine are like " Transformers - Dark of the Moon.mkv" and all 5 end up in one container as A, B, C, D & E but if I remove the hyphens, eg. "Transformers Dark of the Moon.mkv" they are seen separately.

 

nope, my file name not using hyphens and sometimes it still stack on A&B
but for i know if we using words like "Part 1" absolutely they gonna stack it in A&B in one poster
just like "the Hangover" "the Hangover part 2" "the Hangover part3" or "The Hunger Games Mockingjay Part1" "The Hunger Games Mockongjay Part2"

 

The scraper goes from right to left instedof left to right for english titles. so if there is any word at the end of the file name that will be the first thing that it will match.

It.2017.1080P..bluryay.SPARKS

SPARKS will be the first thing that it reconizes.

for the part 2

It does it for Firday The 13th as well (Part 2 and Part 3) PART # is part of the title.

 

Don’t rename anything! Just press re-match and when you search for the title (1)on the left section pick the right movie of search results (2) on the middle of the screen it shows you the file to match (3) so pick the right one (you will have 2 files checked leave the correct one checked) and hit ok. See attached img

 

but i dont think so for tv shows
mostly for my movies i dont have any problem and the rematch is quite good
but for tv shows i hope this firmware v.2.0.32 have a good result too
i cannot try coz i dont have any new episodes or season to add

 

hi, John S
can i ask your help?
do you know what @3DBuff mean in his post for me
http://forum.zidoo.tv/index.php?thr...tips-questions-tricks.7436/page-19#post-43663

 

I don't have a clue!
But, to be honest i don't bother at all even from this little annoyance (black screen)
I believe that i9f your most sources are 1080p 24 and you set your tv to 1080p 24 you won't have the black screen switching for most of the time. Mine is 1080 and i stopped downloading 720p or anything less than 1080p

 

That's exactly what I tried first. I got everything exactly as I wanted it then left the box for a couple of hours and when I came back to it, most (but not all!) of the previous errors had returned. and in fact new ones had appeared to0 - it rescraped "The Lost Word - Jurassic Park" to "The Lost World" 1960!!

Bonkers.

Anyway, I think I've cracked it now - it really doesn't like hyphens or brackets when there is another film with the same start string.

Example:

It seems happy with "Jumanji - Welcome to the Jungle" because I don't have another film starting with "Jumanji" but it throws a fit with the Transformers films seemingly because they all start with "Transformers" and 4 of them have a hyphen in the name.
Remove the hyphen then they split out and stay split out into separate movies.

Anyway, problem solved even if I'm not sure how..

Until I add another film when I totally expect it to go mad again.... Anyway, keeps it entertaining.

 

Yes it keeps us busy

 

me too

oops...i set my HDMI to 1080@60hz, ok i will try to set it to @24hz
almost all my files is 1080p @23.976


edit:
now i set HDMI to 1080p @24hz
still the same, they play about 2seconds then black screen for auto switch about 2seconds too and continue playing

and something new i found here, if you choosed auto switch only for frame rate they would do the resolution too

 

You need to put auto frame rate off...

 

if i set it off, sometimes i more easily notice a glitch or more like stutter
but with auto switch on, its better, at least my eyes did not notice any stutter even maybe its still there

 

Has one of you figured out what the theater wall poster location selector does ?? I would like to have all posters located in a single place (ie mounted disc) to keep internal storage at max. But even when selecting custom location only and defining a folder...the folder remains empty. The posters are displayed but they keep been stored to internal storage....

 

I have mine set to the SD card with "Custom Directory" ticked (bottom option) and in typical HT2 fashion (as I'm learning!) there are some of the backdrops (20 out of 182) cached and more posters than I have films (203 out of 182).

I wonder if it only caches backdrops for those movies you've looked at and since I renamed a few films that might explain why the extra posters...

 

i choose custom directory too so in that directory i got HomeTheater folder that have 3folders inside, Backdrops, Caches and Posters
the strange part is, when i delete this HomeTheater folder and then shutdown my box
when i power up my box, and go to HT apk, and still all the poster exist
and more suprising me is, when i explore the posters folder, all the poster images is there including the unmatched poster too even we already rematched it

 

The database itself seems to live on the box, so if you delete the .HomeTheatre folder, the database is still available so it rebuilds the image cache from the internet or a secondary location depending on the Custom Directory settings.

Or something.

 

Guys, don't focus too much on this black frame. It's Zidoo changing resolution / refresh rate to match the source from the wall poster interface screen 4K / 60Hz. It only happens once at the very beginning and you could probably rewind it back to get the clean play.

From my previous post:
Typically you want the player to send original source frame rate and resolution to the TV without any changes. TV should match internal screen refresh rate to source frame rate. This would give true cinematic experience like 24fps celuloid film. With newer TV's you can still apply motion processing or frame interpolation to smooth out film judder if desired.
Setting Adjust Display Refresh Rate to OFF will keep refresh rate at fixed number like 60 or 30Hz preset in Settings > System > Display -> General -> Refresh rate even if source is 24fps.

Playing film source 24fps on 60Hz screen like computer monitor or setting Refresh Rate in Zidoo to 60Hz will result in 3:2 pulldown. Frame A would be applied 3 times on screen and frame B twice "AAA : BB : CCC : DD". This results in uneven frame advancement and wavy motion pattern on panning scenes. Some people prefer 3:2 pulldown and 60Hz refresh rate compared to true 24fps film cadence on fast displays like plasma or OLED. My personal preference is to set Zidoo to Auto for resolution and refresh rate and use TV motion processor with interpolated frames to take some of the judder out of 24fps film on OLED screen.

The issue of player sending 23.976 fps film material at 23.98Hz will produce repeated frame every few minutes. It would be more noticeable on panning scenes compared to something static. TV internal motion processor would mask or expose the issue based on the settings and type / brand of the processor. I see it more on 4K material compared to 3D or HD. Any other frequent stutter issue is not related to 23.98Hz.