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RE: Zidoo X9S & X8 (4K / HDR / 3D / HD Audio): Review & User Impressions - Skank - 2016-11-16
(2016-11-16, 11:11)mirror88 Wrote:(2016-11-08, 23:40)Skank Wrote:Our engineers told me,The f/w occasional losted v-sync signal when playing MVC files.We solved it.(2016-11-08, 08:17)Skank Wrote: That truly is great news! A critical bug fixed! I hope it actually is.
What was the problem?
Mirror88?
BTW: Version v1.2.7 coming soon
Great news!
RE: Zidoo X9S & X8 (4K / HDR / 3D / HD Audio): Review & User Impressions - laola - 2016-11-16
In the meantime I am more than a little bit disappointed with the ZDMC. Passtrough in RAW format isn't working and in IEC format no HD Audio ? The TV picture freezes after some seconds/minutes( DVBviewer plug-in) and the external Player out of ZDMC isn't working for some unknown reason. Last but not least - Kodi 16 sucks (when you are already used to use Kodi17).
However, 4k, 3D picture quality (ISO) and also HDR (samples files) are looking pretty nice. I think I still have to play with the setting to get also HD Audio with the Zidoo Media Center, don't I ? So when the Audio would work, this would be at least a nice media player (for 3D Iso and HDR) - but by no means a full replacement of a "normal" working Kodi setup. To compete with a RPi Kodi setup there is still a long, long way to go...
RE: Zidoo X9S & X8 (4K / HDR / 3D / HD Audio): Review & User Impressions - ppoulos - 2016-11-16
(2016-11-16, 12:10)boboiusa Wrote: I am still having problems with using external player in ZDMC. I did a factory reset since I thought I had access issues to my server, but I still can only start one file with external player. Every file I start after that external player just starts and stops. If I reboot same things happens. One file OK, rest fails. This is from SMB share from a Win 2012 R2 server, guest access activated. No login needed. This makes the box useless (w/ external player).
Disabling external player everything works fine.
As i mentioned in a previous post if I try the same files from my Serviio UPNP share, external player never gets activated. They just revert and play fine with internal player. Very strange ZDMC does not activate external player for UPNP sources.
Has anybody else had these problem with the X8?
Actually I have also seen that behavior with my MacPro under MacOs Sierra (10.12) and using the Zidoo X9S with firmware 1.2.6 . If I use a windows virtual machine from my MacPro with SMB, all the files play fine. However my MacPro can only connect natively with the X9S with a clean installed barebones MacOs Sierra boot disk without any other programs added on. With that configuration Kodi and ZDMC will connect anonymously with my MacPro. While Kodi Krypton (v17.0-beta5) plays the movie fine, the ZidooPlayer in ZDMC (external player) just starts and stops immediately. I have a feeling that the SMB (and probably NFS) protocol they are using is outdated and inefficient. NFS plays but with significant buffering issues.
Maybe firmware 1.2.7 will fix this?
RE: Zidoo X9S & X8 (4K / HDR / 3D / HD Audio): Review & User Impressions - movie78 - 2016-11-16
For testing purposes some BD-Menu works with a grain of salt.
RE: Zidoo X9S & X8 (4K / HDR / 3D / HD Audio): Review & User Impressions - tlchris - 2016-11-16
Hi, i have an x8 model, my question is not as technical as the other ones ive been reading, but here it is:
When i watch a video and want to exit it while it is playing, the zidoo remote stop the video while the ios official kodi remote will keep the video playing, is there a modification i can do to the remote?
Ps. When i play music the zidoo remote do keep the music playing when i press return. !?
Thanks
RE: Zidoo X9S & X8 (4K / HDR / 3D / HD Audio): Review & User Impressions - hdmkv - 2016-11-16
Assuming you have 'external player' option enabled in ZDMC, the video is being played back by that external player and not ZDMC/Kodi. So, makes sense iOS Kodi 'stop' wouldn't work. Maybe you can teach iOS Kodi's 'stop' to Zidoo's 'stop'? Not sure how, but Zidoo has a true 'stop' function that you can map this way...
RE: Zidoo X9S & X8 (4K / HDR / 3D / HD Audio): Review & User Impressions - tlchris - 2016-11-16
I dont have external player enable. I dont want the video to stop , i want it to continue to play like the ios remote do, but the zidoo remote make it stop when i hit the back button.
RE: Zidoo X9S & X8 (4K / HDR / 3D / HD Audio): Review & User Impressions - Skank - 2016-11-16
(2016-11-16, 14:45)movie78 Wrote: For testing purposes some BD-Menu works with a grain of salt.
Bluray menus? With external player withXS9?
RE: Zidoo X9S & X8 (4K / HDR / 3D / HD Audio): Review & User Impressions - movie78 - 2016-11-16
(2016-11-16, 17:31)Skank Wrote:(2016-11-16, 14:45)movie78 Wrote: For testing purposes some BD-Menu works with a grain of salt.
Bluray menus? With external player withXS9?
Not sure but when you change SIMPLE MENU to SHOW BLU-RAY some BD-MENU works, i need to look into BDINFO to find out what kind of BD-MENU works.
RE: Zidoo X9S & X8 (4K / HDR / 3D / HD Audio): Review & User Impressions - OlivierQC - 2016-11-16
hello movie78,
how do you change from simple menu to Show blu ray ?
thanks in advance
RE: Zidoo X9S & X8 (4K / HDR / 3D / HD Audio): Review & User Impressions - Skank - 2016-11-16
Anyone know if x9S is sding 4K with bt2020 without hdr?
RE: Zidoo X9S & X8 (4K / HDR / 3D / HD Audio): Review & User Impressions - movie78 - 2016-11-16
(2016-11-16, 18:23)OlivierQC Wrote: hello movie78,
how do you change from simple menu to Show blu ray ?
thanks in advance
Change Play Main Movie to Show Blu-ray
Let me know if that works.
RE: Zidoo X9S & X8 (4K / HDR / 3D / HD Audio): Review & User Impressions - movie78 - 2016-11-16
(2016-11-16, 18:48)Skank Wrote: Anyone know if x9S is sding 4K with bt2020 without hdr?
Tested a few HDR with BT2020 and the X8 does send the HDR signal to the TV, the TV will go Blank and then start playing.
RE: Zidoo X9S & X8 (4K / HDR / 3D / HD Audio): Review & User Impressions - looun - 2016-11-16
(2016-11-16, 00:55)movie78 Wrote: Finally gave in, here is the Zidoo X8
Will be testing HDR and 3D MVC picture quality VS Himedia Q10Pro.
.... 
RE: Zidoo X9S & X8 (4K / HDR / 3D / HD Audio): Review & User Impressions - wesk05 - 2016-11-16
(2016-11-16, 18:48)Skank Wrote: Anyone know if x9S is sding 4K with bt2020 without hdr?It can, but I think it is some sort of bug in the firmware because I can't replicate it consistently. There is also another bug in the firmware. It seems to sending extended colorimetry information in the AVI InfoFrame all the time. I see xvYCC information in the InfoFrame even with regular Rec.709 content.