[sunshineh]

Hi,

can somebody recommend a player for watching videos.

On my VU+ Box I have another player per default than on my windows computer.
The other things are equal! But on my computer I can see some movies that are not running on my vu+ Enigma2 receiver. So I thinks the reason is the player.

How can I install another player on my vu+ box?
And which player is the best?

[PatK]

I think you need support from the hardware manufacturer of this device. It appears to be an Android device, but unsure if it would run a great multimedia player like Kodi and version of Android etc. limitation etc.. http://kodi.wiki/view/supported_hardware (wiki)

http://vuplus.com/sub/main.php

[I'm moving this to hardware]

[RockerC]

Suggest that you read > http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=213084 and post your questions/answers there instead.

There is an partial port of Kodi for VU+ (VuPlus) boxes, but there is no official support for Kodi on those VU+ boxes, and as far as I know it's no longer maintained + partial port means it among other things missing native video player and PVR.

And with no official support it means no support from Team Kodi, and no support from the manufacturer of Vu+ hardware.

So I believe the only way for that a Kodi/XBMC port for Vu+ to ever succeed in the future would be if the manufacturer of Vu+ hardware backed development of it, and maybe paid a Team Kodi developer to perform an complete port which includes Kodi's native video player and binary addons.

It appears to be an Android device

Vu+ hardware boxes does not run Android OS at all. It is an Linux-powered DVR set-top box that runs a special forked version of the OpenEmbedded (Linux) disto, a disto named OpenVuPlus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vu%2B

There are also several third-party community forks of that OpenVuPlus (Linux) distro and as well as other embedded Linux distros like OpenPli that can run on them.

If you live in Europe then you will probably have heard of Dreambox (by Dream Multimedia) which made the open source Enigma2 framework for DVD set-top boxes which Vu+ and may others uses.

The many communies that makes different distros based on Enigma2 are huge together but very fragmented, and most developers involved are only scripters and not C/C++ develpers and thus does not have the programming skills to develop a port of the Kodi/XBMC application.

[PatK]

Thanks RockerC for information, hard to tell what is running what these days.

[RockerC]

Thanks RockerC for information, hard to tell what is running what these days.

Perhaps you could merge this thread into the existing thread http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=213084