Home Theatre 5 Update / TMDB Fix v4.3.52 (Realtek 1619DR models)

This is an update to the recently released patch to HT5 for the TMDB scraping issues we've been having.

Changelog:
1. Optimized poster wall matching accuracy
2 Optimized trailer retrieval for poster wall
3. Added dynamic background feature to poster wall
4. Fixed the occasional crash issue


This file is for Realtek 1619DR models only:

Z9X/Z10 Pro/Z1000 Pro/UHD3000/NEOS /NEO Alpha/NEO X

https://apidl.zidoo.tv/app/poster/zidoo_poster_RTD1619_v4.3.52.apk


If you're not sure what to do with this file, please see this post:

How to install an APK file on a Zidoo box | Zidoo forum

 

Thank you!

Edit:
VirusTotal doesn't find any hits (done from Windows Sandbox) among the 60 virus checkers it listed for this. "Behavior" ran for about 30 minutes while it analyzed that way, and then disappeared, so looks likely to be clean. Still waiting for a reply until I take the plunge, but I'll take them at their word based on these results.

Original:
Windows Defender came up with:

Trojan:Script/Wacatac.C!ml​

for this version, where it didn't for the zidoo_poster_RTD1619_v4.3.40.apk or the .37 for that matter.

Definitely false positive, or not? I know that kind of thing can happen due to compression, but the apk is around the same size as .40, so I wouldn't think the compression method would've changed. Also, Chrome even said:


but after I Allowed the file in Windows Defender, it didn't say that the next time I downloaded it, so it may be only connected to Windows Defender's action the previous time. Still not installing it just yet to wait to see what's said. Know that I'm not accusing or saying that it's accurate, which is why I'm asking if it's expected in only this case.

Once I install it, I'll be testing to see if it fixes the file name/path issue when you move between multiple entries for the same title - several versions of the same episode in a series, or multiple entries for the same movie. I know it's not in the changelog, but just in case.

 

On my PC - Trojan:Script/Sabsik.FL.A!ml

 

This works but way too slow and laggy

 

How is this improved over release ……….40. ?

 

Can you give more details - what does this mean? I still don't understand.

 

Malwarebytes isn’t bothered by it

 

Checked a number of my dual entries of movies and the source details are now correct.

 

See the buglist in General.

 

In development...

 

The path display issue from last patch is solved here ! Thanks !
Also, now the poster view is hard to challenge, it loads much faster than how it used to in the past
I still wish we could use digits to browse in the poster wall like you do during the playback (1 is 10%, 6 is 60%…) especially now it loads faster, but at least it works properly (unlike genre filters for example which still don't after all these years).

 

The path issue appears to be fixed for me too. Yay!

It is excruciatingly slow to update metadata/media info when you browse to a movie version or episode. It can seem to take 30 sec or more per file, if it works at all. Also when it does update, it doesn't immediately show that it has. You have to navigate to something else and then back. It'd be nice if there was a way to globally update it for every file where it's missing, given that it wasn't all migrated over from an older db version/layout.

 

This version has reversed the addition of a MEDIAINFO table in the database, so now mediaInfo JSON strings are back in the VIDEO_INFO table as it was in v4.3.37 and prior, so if you've gone from v4.3.40 to v4.3.52 the metadata is only read into the database at runtime and time taken will depend on accessibility of your Source.

The only way I know (other than database wrangling) to fix this is to clear and do a full rescan and then metadata is read into VIDEO_INFO during the scrape so is instantly available again.

 

That's interesting. Why does it seem that mediainfo is missing for everything then? Of the ~16,000 movies and TV episodes I have, about 50 have been added since updating to v4.3.37/40/52, so I could understand mediainfo being missing for them, yet mediainfo seem to be missing for everything.

Oh I see, the MEDIA_JSON wasn't left there, it was completely stripped out by v4.3.40, so mediainfo has been lost for everything. Time to uninstall v4.3.52, restore a pre-v4.3.37 db backup, re-install v4.3.52 and re-scrape for anything new since then. A full rescan/scrape isn't a viable option, given how much it gets wrong or can't work out that I'd have to fix up afterwards.

All my sources are immediately accessible. It should only take a second or so to obtain mediainfo for anything, and it does only take a second or so if I show mediainfo during playback, but it's taking a lot longer than that when browsing/navigating movies and tv eps. Sometimes it seems like it's hung up on obtaining mediainfo for a particular file, and then won't fetch mediainfo for anything browsed to afterwards.

After restoring a pre-v4.3.37 database backup, etc. and rescanning to scrape anything new since then, I now have mediainfo for everything again, which is good. And now it's back to being really slow browsing sources, around 13 seconds to show contents of any folder for me, which is really tedious when I need to rematch or clean up matching info for something. With all the MEDIA_JSON missing it took about 3 seconds. A rescan is back to over 30 mins too (even when there's nothing new). Seemed around 5 mins when all the mediainfo was missing.

 

Good logic!

Couple of things I don't understand:

"And now it's back to being really slow browsing sources, around 13 seconds to show contents of any folder for me" - not sure what you mean? - on the a posterwall? In Media Center?

"A rescan is back to over 30 mins too (even when there's nothing new)" - I assume you mean when new content is detected? Don't understand why you say "even when there's nothing new" because in that case, no new content is detected so a scan isn't triggered. The box constantly scans the sources and if changes are detected, it only addresses the changes - should take a few seconds depending how much content is added.

 

This .apk seems to working pretty good for me.
No issues for now..

 

Hi,
I recognized today that I am also not able to access the TMDB for adding the movie information of new or rematch existing movies. Hence I searched the net and found this thread. I signed up today and downloaded the APK version 4.3.52 and tried to install via both ways of the apk installer (usb and web) but after installation the "About" of the Home Theatre 5.0" still shows 4.3.03. I also tried double-clicking the APK file when shown in the file explorer on the USB stick and installing this way it says "APK could not be installed".

So, I assume that the first two methods also failed but did not return an error message.

What do I need to do to install the APK correctly? Is there a location for logging where I can find the reason why the APK did not install correctly?

Thanks
J.

 

Did you download the correct version for your box?

 

On the one hand side I really hat to say that because I really took the wrong "junction" even though I tried to be correct and on the other hand side I am happy that it was just that stupid mistake of mine. I have z9x Pro and just saw that I went into the wrong product thread

This thread is for z9x = 1619 DR
and z9x Pro = 1619 BPD

My apologies for this mistake ... I will download the right file now and give feedback of very likely successful installation!

THANK YOU @Markswift2003 for guiding me correctly

 

No problem at all