Plex client for Zidoo devices - ZidooPlexMod

Great, very much appreciated!

 

Say, z9x 8k... tried kodi, and zdmc , when stopping a movie in zidooplexmod its kicking me back to the zidoo home screen, pot of zidooplexmod, and out of either kodi or zdmc as well.

Has anyone else ran into this and is there a way to stay in the plex interface??
(New z9x 8k, was gone a few weeks so playing with it more now... thanks.. my z9x I had to change running apps or something to correct)

 

It shouldn't do that unless the zidoo player is crashing(which has been known to happen). I don't have a Z9X 8k so I don't know for sure but I don't remember hearing others have that issue. On the Z9X you had to go into developer mode and change the number of background tasks. That changed in the Z9X Pro and I was thinking that on the Z9X 8K line you can't get to developer mode to change it if you wanted to. Does it happen with all your media or just some?

 

Hey, thanks for the reply...
Was happening after everything I watched one day, then was good the next day... might have been something crashing in the background for some reason.. stock, older firmware last version, not the latest...

I'll keep an eye on it, and see if it acts right... lol. Thanks again for an awesome job you do!

 

In PlexToZidoo, is the absolute path I'm putting in a LAN path? I'm trying to use my Zidoo for Plex outside of my house and I'm wondering if this is even possible with this software.

 

This only works with local content. The zidoo player doesn't support plex streams.

 

Would you please update the GitHub description to clear that out? I was about to install the G version and change my setup but decided to dwell in this conversation just in case. Thank you for your work in here.

 

Apologies if this has been answered already, but is there any way to stop the subtitles from automatically starting when playing anything? I've looked everywhere, but can't find how to turn this off.

 

Subtitles are selected based on the settings in the Plex Server first. That can be overridden by the zidooPlexMod client. And then finally the zidoo player itself can override everything else. So it's quite complicated. I would first start by looking at a movie in the zidooPlexMod client and see if the subtitle stream is automatically selected. But make sure it's not a movie you've already changed the subtitle stream on because that gets saved and will be the default from then on. If one is selected that you don't want then it's probably a server side setting that would need to change. If no subtitle is selected then it's probably a zidoo player setting.

 

Where abouts would this settings be? I'm not seeing anything here. And it's not likely a server setting as I don't get auto subs on any other devices (shield, ATV4k, etc).

 

I told you the settings are either in the Plex Server or the zidoo player ... not the zidooPlexMod settings. Did you look at a movie and see if a subtitle was automatically selected like I mentioned?

 

I think I misunderstood then. You said, "Subtitles are selected based on the settings in the Plex Server first. That can be overridden by the zidooPlexMod client." To me, this indicated that the settings in to Plex Server first could determine this, then, they (the settings) could be in overridden by the zidooPlexMod.

In fact, that's still how I read what you said. However, based on your reply, I'm assuming that's not the case. I'll look for the zidoo player settings directly.

Yes, I've checked the movie settings. I played content that was never played on the Zidoo box (nor any other device). And as mentioned above, I can play these movies on my Shield Pro, or ATV4k, and no subtitles are defaulted to on. But they are always defaulted on w/ the Zidoo. Thus, that's where I was trying to focus my search.

I know I had previously checked the Zidoo's main subtitle settings for this, but I'll review again to see if I missed anything.

 

Ok, I can see how my statement wasn't super clear about how the client can override the settings. What I was trying to say was that the user can manually override the Plex Server defaults in the zidooPlexMod client. So let me be clear, there are no settings in zidooPlexMod that automatically pick a subtitle. zidooPlexMod asks the Plex Server for the default subtitle stream and sends that to the zidoo player. So if there isn't anything automatically selected on the video selection page that would indicate that the Plex Server isn't the one automatically selecting the subtitle. Then you would have to look at the zidoo settings to see if it's subtitle picking logic is coming into play. Either way it's not something that zidooPlexMod is doing, nor are there any settings to influence that decision making(other than the user manually selecting a subtitle stream).