v1.2.05, v1.2.05_G Beta version for Z9X 8K/Z30 PRO/Z3000 PRO/UHD8000

This is not the case. As default, most of us are using TMDB and Zidoo firmware needs it as main source to match the collections and to manage the trailers (in conjunction with YouTube), otherwise it doesn't work. Also other sources are finding nothing to match.

 

It would be nice if there was a documented scraper plugin SDK so that 3rd parties can develop additional scrapers.

 

As you wish

 

Is there an ETA available or a master ticket where we can see the progress of the TMDB scraper issue? It should be escalated by now.
Also I am wondering if this problem is related to only Zidoo media players or that for example other brands like Dune or R.Volution has the same problem with TMDB.

 

It's not a general issue as Infuse and Plex are just fine.

 

As I already suggested here (https://forum.zidoo.tv/index.php?threads/z9x-8k-video-preview-while-scrubbing.99523/#post-248013) to @Markswift2003, @Zidoo Support-Kim and @Eki Shaw, it should be very very useful to have a bug tracker on github here https://github.com/zidootech, it's free, every issue can be submitted and we (the community) can see the history of bugs fixing and progress

 

even the trailers not working. I think the problem accruing home theater app.

hope to see new upgrade solving all the current issues with some new good features.

 

Absolutely agree. Its so frustrating, with every FW release it feels like one step forward and two steps back. With all the issues that are reported you would think the zidoo team would be trying to solve them instead of adding new artwork features to HT5.

Get the main issues resolved first, keep your customers happy & then add new features to keep everyone interested, excited & coming back.
At this stage my zidoo is barely used. If you went to the movie theater/cinema to watch a movie & it stuttered, froze, audio was out of sync etc everyone would walk out & get their money back. But here we are left in the dark from month to month hoping the next FW will fix these issues.
These players aren't exactly cheap and yet almost a year on from this 8K release & customers still have basic issues playing media files, on a media player, that's main job is to play media files.
Even basic issues like plugging a usb drive (into one of the many usb ports the player supports) and then plugging it back into Win 10/11 pc and getting drive errors. Why? The usb ports are for exactly this use its an issue that should not be there. Zidoo's reply to this was: don't use usb ports, use SMB. Which gives me the impression they have no intention of ever fixing this, which also asks the question then why have usb ports on the player at all?

 

What i don’t understand is
How is it possible too get it worse
You have a firmware that works good
You change the things that are wrong you add some new ones ,finished done
You don’t add more problems
But that is wat apparently happend

i am looking with one eye on a new mediaplaysr
Because now it is just not handeling my movie how it use too be

and this is not good for the company that where producing the best playsrs on the market

 

TMDB is not working in Z9X pro also , I think overall all players of Zidoo are not working not only the Z9X8k.

 

Yes all players ZIDOO ! And still no explanation from Mark on this ?

 

Yes you are right i have 2 Zidoo's different models (Z9 & Z2000) -> same issue but other message. It's probably some subscription key that needs to be renewed but should be part of our Zidoo package. On Plex you need to do that manually, that's why I'm aware of that. But the reaction time of our chinese friends is far to slow.

 

It's not been explained to me, but I received the fix yesterday and I think it's simply that the API key expired - I asked this morning if I could make an announcement but received no reply and I'm not going to post it without Zidoo's say so.

 

Does it need a firmware update to fix?

 

Thank you Mark for your response but you have to understand that behavior like this from a professional company doesnt fill us with trust. It gives us a message: look somewhere else if you want regular and swift support for your products.
In normal company every owner of zidoo player should have received automatic email with something like this: we are sorry for inconvenience but movie scraping will not be available from 02.04-08.04.
Thank you for your understanding.

 

Zidoo's modus operandi is truly inexplicable. This attitude of impunity makes no sense at all. They release updates that break things that were working fine, and they release products that had problems from the start and they can't fix them.

But the most curious thing is the lack of transparency that exists and the obscurity surrounding it. There is no one who shows up, updates appear like drops of water, no one really understands where and when.

Okay, it's a Chinese brand, but it's 2025, there should be some kind of communication department, just one word would be enough to calm people down.

 

I fully understand how frustrating all this is, but come on - first world problems and all that.

I'm amazed how people are completely losing their sunflower over this and claiming it's literally the end of the world.

I'm glad my world isn't that small.

I've been outside in the glorious sunshine today chopping wood instead of fuming over not being unable to scrape my latest pirated copy of Affronted Heron (1987).

For goodness sake people, get a grip. Grab a decent bottle of Italian wine and chill.

But, if not, if you can't do that - please, feel free to try our Russian cousins at https://www.dune-hd.com or our French cousins at https://www.rvolution.com and see how that goes (doesn't matter which, they both come from the same OEM in China) .. It's absolutely no skin off my nose.

Read that first sentence again.

Then watch the news.

 

We are discussing a problem in an orderly, polite and constructive manner, I don't understand why you respond in this tone.

Let me tell you that your attitude and way of responding is very reprehensible and looks bad. Maybe I understand why you undervalue it so much, you probably don't pay for Zidoo products, but we pay and it's not that little. What a shameful post, shame on you!

 

Excellently said Mark!

 

Mark, I seldom disagre with you, but, is that how it is now? Look, everyone else is in the same boat? I could have bought a Dune, or a Zappiti (Revolution)..., but I chose to upgrade because we hold ourselves to, lets just say, a different standard....don't we? After all, there are a lot here that are ex MadVR users, so, I guess those folks are gonna be a little like.....

Just sayin....nobody wins a race to the bottom.