KODI - ZDMC - MATRIX 19.5 - NEXUS 20 - 21

Does anyone know if editing the playercorefactory.xml file for ZDMC to mark movies as watched as soon as I press play, would work? Also how I would go about doing it. Thanks!

 

Sadly I don't think it's possible and welcome to my disappointment of owning a zidoo.

I asked and searched high and low but to no avail, I seen someone mention using Trakt within HT4 and using that to sync the watched info back to Kodi / Jellyfin (if you use it) but to be honest the zidoo Z9X pro as a Kodi player has been nothing but a disappointment. None of the player add-ons work either as it's an external player being used with zdmc.

Don't get me wrong the zidoo is an incredible player, the DV looks amazing.

I will be selling my 2 week old zidoo and I've just ordered a Dunehd homatics R 4k plus and will be installing coreelec / Kodi.

Happy Xmas

 

disable this item - the KODI player will play. Set it up to change the screen frequency - always. for AFR .

Spoiler

https://fastpic.org/view/122/2023/1225/_bb3b125c9a8fea56745f8c15d905225d.png.html

 

New Kodi 20.3 Nexus has been released! Hoping to update my ZDMC soon.

More info here
https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-20-3-nexus-release/

 

The only thing that needs fixing is the skin changing bug that has been present for 8 years. It seems Zidoo can't rap their heads around fixing something so simple yet so important. I really don't think they even read this topic since it has been brought up at least 16 times in the past 2 years alone and nothing has been done. The only way to change skins is to get a text editor from the play store and manually switch the name of the skin in one of the config files to the one you're changing it to. Which is seriously pathetic cause finding that one entry of code amongst all the other code is a pain in the ars, then you have to use the stupid air mouse to navigate the text editor, plus you have to know the exact name that skin uses in its own configuration file to even activate it properly.

 

KODI 20.4 Nexus, available for download and install



New version available for download of Kodi 20.4 “Nexus”. This will be one of the last V20 versions before the arrival of KODI 21 Omega.

This new Kodi Nexus v20.4 offers bug fixes and improvements over the previous version. The most important change of Nexus is AV1 codec support for Android, Linux and streaming. In any case, we have versions available for Windows in 32 and 64bit compilations in addition to the compilations for Android in ARM V7A format for greater compatibility and ARM V8A for Shield TV or similar.

• WARNING: Some add-ons stop working with this version, you can only go back to KODI 19.5 version.

 

Let’s give it a try!!

 

As this is the last version of a v20 rc, it would be nice to get a ZDMC 20.4....fingers crossed!

 

After testing this link everyday
http://apidl.zidoo.tv/app/zdmc-20.3_rtk.apk
Now this...
http://apidl.zidoo.tv/app/zdmc-20.4_rtk.apk

 

Nothing found? Yet hopefully...

 

I'm having an issue where it wont' pass through DTS HD MA. It just shows up on my receiver as regular DTS. Is this a common issue? I have pass through enabled in the ZDMC settings and i also checked the dts box. Is there anything else I need to do to fix this?

Also, playback is very choppy and the audio is cutting out on files. Not sure why? I don't have this issue with the zidoo player.

Just wondering if anyone has run into these things befrore and if so, how you fixed it (if possible). I need to use ZDMC for certain file formats that the Zidoo player cannot decode.

 

Never heard of this. And you don’t have to touch any settings in ZDMC there’s are for the Kodi player nobody uses. What happens if you play the file with the Zidoo Explorer from the main menu? ZDMC is just a GUI all the work does the (external) Zidoo player.

 

This might explain the issue you have - http://forum.zidoo.tv/index.php?threads/kodi-zdmc-matrix-19-5-nexus-20-21.85718/page-32#post-204885

 

I don't understand. The zidoo player refuses to play certain formats (i.e. 10 bit avc.) Don't you need the Kodi player in that case?

 

Still no 20.4...

I thought Nexus is the fastest Kodi version but the latest Omega is like 15-20 smoother using Arctic Fuse skin. I'm using it for like 2 months now and I'm loving the experience except that I need to manually change the frame rate everytime I'm watching...

 

Unfortunately this didn't work. I'll just use My Shield/Plex combo for those weird format videos that the Zidoo player can't decode. Is Kodi usually this much of a piece of crap? Or is it just a bit buggier on the Zidoo since it's a fork made for the Zidoo?

 

Which of your issues was not solved? Audio or choppy choppy playback.

The ZDMC 20.2 is about the same as the main branch 20.2.

I use ZDMC mainly as the front end presentation layer.

 

Both, ha. Can't get DTS HD MA passthrough AND it creates choppy playback. But like I said, I'll just use my Shield/Plex combo for those pesky weird anime formats (i.e. 10 bit x264) that the Zidoo player cannot decode. Not a huge deal! There aren't many of them.

 

Ok and cool.

 

Hoping that ZDMC will be updated to v20.5 while waiting for Kodi Omega.