besides mangotv and hitv, check some of the apps in histore. there is one called pps.tv. this one has some dramas that offer a choice of mandarin and cantonese. again, limited.

in short, there is nothing good in cantonese unless u pay for cloudtv or season iptv or equivalent.

personally, i hardly watch hk dramas these days, now prefer the mainland mandarin ones!

This post has been edited by AVFAN: May 23 2014, 05:01 PM

not sure what u mean...

if u mean taking a screenshot for posting here.... i dunno how...

gud to know.
for non-emmc models, going back to 1.0.4 eng is not a bad idea since it works ok.
only thing is the normal xbmc isn't going to work with 720dd/dts or 1080p streaming.
and i think there is no mangotv in it.

for my non-emmc unit, i continued with 1.0.6 china but manually installed the hiplayer xbmc 12.2 version from the 1.0.6 emmc eng.
this versions works fine overall with all 720 or 1080.
of course, no playstore...

after so long, i fear they may not come out with 1.0.6 non-emmc eng... maybe go straight to 1.0.7?
my experience with another intl media player manufacturer is once the old chipset gets too little demand, they will not bother to upgrade the firmware. 2 years is a good bet. How old are the non emmc models now? 1, 1.5yrs?

This post has been edited by AVFAN: May 24 2014, 03:36 PM

what xbmc version r u using now?

maybe i can help u...

hearing u say this, i am quite sure the season iptv pq is good. becos i tot cloudtv hd channels are good enough!

after looking at the list of channels, this season iptv is very much like a combination of astro and himedia's livetv. for its price, it's unbeatable for those who watch a lot of these live channels.


only thing is the sports channels are lacking, does not occur to me it will have worldcup 2014 coverage...

i got alternative.... aotg!

it will be impt that u describe a bit more so that users dun get the wrong stuff.

is this 1.0.6 eng?

emmc or non emmc?

for q6 or q6ii?

there r 2 files there, which one?

each file is only 47.9mb. the 1.0.6 emmc eng file i hv for q5ii is 3xx mb.

This post has been edited by AVFAN: May 29 2014, 06:44 PM

gotham does not work on himedia.

go back to 12.3.

or 12.2 hiplayer version if u have - this one is very stable, no problem with 1080-dts/dd.

xbmc is definitely not for those who are not used to clicking too times to get a video running!

12 days to worldcup 2014 brazil. i m not sure if we can easily get to watch all of it with xbmc or iptv packages.

the good news is you can get astro-on-the-go app from playstore - it works on himedia android 4.2.

subscriber of astro superpack - get aotg and a special app after june 4, watch all 64 matches on himedia
subscriber but non-superpack - get aotg, pay rm100 for football pass, watch all 64
non-subscriber - get aotg, pay rm100 for all 64 matches or rm6 for every match

all info is here:
http://olabola.stadiumastro.com/wcappweb
http://support.astro.com.my/HelpCenter/Art...bf-4855b0bc0d50

i hv tested atog, it works well. everything u get there is sd but is very watchable. pretty stable but if the broadband is unstable, the video starts to pixelate.

enjoy!

This post has been edited by AVFAN: Jun 5 2014, 11:22 AM

3 days to brazil 2014.

opening match brazil-croatia at 4am fri 13 jun.

today, atog opened up 4 special channels for all 64 matches.

my q5ii ready to samba.

i m surprised nobody seems interested?

This post has been edited by AVFAN: Jun 10 2014, 08:50 PM

i understand yr problem, the frustration w/o playstore. but in the end u got the aotg apk? it shud read On-The-Go_6.3.0.apk, about 42mb. if u hv it, just use file manager to install it.

ipad mirror - i just found out that it stopped working now. it used to work (just activate the airplay icon on ipad, select device), so dunno wat happened.

free cloudtv is like that... very moody one... decoder no gud, slow connection, etc. just hv to stick the few channels that usually work. else, pay the subscription, should work much much better. i only watch discovery hd world, natgeo people hd and channel news asia - they work good all the time.

youku never work, dun bother. pptv and vqq work well.

This post has been edited by AVFAN: Jun 11 2014, 12:18 AM

yes.no, i use the id/pw of someone else who is not using it.
those with superpacks or sports pack, hd or not, are given auto complimentary passes.
once u install aotg, u can see 4 special channels for wc2014: 841-844.
the rules for this are clear - only one id/pw per eligible subscriber
the id/pw is allowed to log in and use aotg only on one device and one user at a time.
video quality is just sd, but watchable.
this is atog app where all 64 matches will be shown live.
there is another app called astro-go-fifa which has more feature, incl various angles.
i tried this one too on himedia, can get only audio, no video. so, useless.
aotg wc channels and go-fifa will be removed after the games.

i understand wat u r saying here.
but no... with original 1.0.6 china, i hv tried to install playstore app that way but rejected. seems the firmware will block anything google.
but it works with other apps incl xbmc_12.2_hiplayer.apk and u-tube.
yes, the customised version works on q5ii non-emmc, no problem.
one way to get xbmc_12.2_hiplayer.apk (47.4mb) is to first get the zip firmware 1.0.6 eng emmc. (this one is easy to get, right?)
unzip this folder with pc->userdata->app. that xbmc apk and the u-tube apk are there.
just copy them on usb drive and install via file mgr on q5ii.
note u need to delete all existing xbmc versions first, if not it will not install.
the hiplayer xbmc version works good - all 720/1080, dts/dd5.1 good, no crashing, no lagging, no irritating noise.

i fully understand the frustrations of all non-emmc models users as i hv one too. i am "fortunate" in that i have 2xq5ii, one non-emmc (now on 1.0.6 china) and one emmc (now on 1.0.6 eng emmc). I save all my firmwares, system apps, user apps, xbmc userdata, advanced settings and play around with them on both units. They are both working well - one on wired lan, the other wireless lan.

with 10mb unifi, my home is filled with video and music day and night from media playback, xbmc, mangotv, hitv, cloudtv and aotg. other than the monthly biil for unifi and tnb, all that is wonderfully cost effective!

gud if the force update works. may try some day but no need at this time as I can easily manually install apks I get from the other unit.

the emmc version is a better model. much less trouble with updates, xbmc. and yes, start up is much faster.

been so long, no news on 106 eng non emmc.... does not bode well. n q16 already on sale...

This post has been edited by AVFAN: Jun 11 2014, 02:04 PM

it will help but won't get all good all the time due to many factors. yes, diff times of the day have diff traffic.
Mangotv also behaves the same... Popular sd stuff, smooth. Less popular hd stuff...sometimes v gud, sometimes nothing moves....

likely during this wc2014 period, a lot of traffic, buffering/lagging will be common on many channels.

r u on free or paid cloudtv, which channels u tried? i hv not tried anything on cloudtv yet, but will try tonight.

this site says u can get live streaming from rtm1, rtm2, astro arena and aotg. may be not all matches but seems quite a lot:
http://www.livesoccertv.com/competitions/i...onal/world-cup/

rtm1/2 - can get via xbmc own xmls as discussed in xbmc thread. i checked yesterday, they're working.

aotg - i been watching this. last night mexico-cameroon match was buffering or not clear 1/3 of the time, think heavy trafiic. the rest were ok, good enough.

cloudtv... i think it works this way... free channels: some stable, some not, because they change all the time, do all kinds of tests. paid ones, u go thru some other vpn, a lot more stable. btw, sometimes they give u free trials 1 day, 3 days - these r also not very stable, in my experience.


astro - there are 2 apps:

aotg - this a regular one. need id/pw, log in, then only u see. qualified package ids get all extra channels. non qualified ones can get only arena, limited matches in bm.

astrogo-fifa - only used for wc2014, with himedia, only audio, no video even with good ids/pw. so, forget it. works gud with ipad, though.

i tested a few channels, thought u might be interested to know...

.. free cloudtv, sports category, most hv buffer problems, but one is good - supersport worldcup. stable, decent video, but..... commentary in portugese, i think...

.. mangotv, time shift, cctv1 hd, great hd video, but commentary in chinese... occasional stutters.

.. aotg is most stable but video is not better, sometimes worse than the other two above. midnight match is pretty bad with buffering issues. later matches ok.

This post has been edited by AVFAN: Jun 15 2014, 01:24 AM

free cloudtv, there r several supersport, try all of them! there is one called supersport worldcup, think its a free Brazilian broadcast, in portugese, very stable, decent video. there is another one called supersport worldcup english, tapped from free astro arena, video not so good.

last night, mexico...?? that was two nights ago. hope ur not watching replays! replays r easy to find, all over utube, xbmc, etc....