Just received my second player from nicety. Thanks again!

SOLUTION TO PLAY ANYTHING YOU WANT ON YOUR Q5/10 FROM XBMC INCLUDING NETWORK DRIVE SHARES!!!

ok so I never managed to get SMB shares working even with the native player. in the early hours of this morning, getting very frustrated, I started looking at NFS instead

This workaround led me to a nice discovery, I can now play anything I like over drive shares using either the native player OR xbmc

you do need to be rooted [but whats the point in having a non rooted android device anyway?

So you need to install NFS on the host computer(s), mine is a 64bit xp machine so I had to hunt around a little for good software. (ms dont support it on 64bit xp)

I settled on http://www.hanewin.net/

it is 20usd but has a 30 day trial and paypal payment so far the trial is working great looks like i'll be purchasing!!!

simply add the shares you want in the exports tab and you're golden, I also checked 'allow mount of remote devices' under the server tab.

there are a number of benefits to this over smb :-

1. its a faster protocol
2. kernel support for mounting is native (*nix rather than windows)
3. this makes it v. easy to mount as a drive options that worked for me were nolock,ro,hard,intr,vers=3

mounting as a drive makes anything you want available over any media player you might wish to use, on your q5/q10II (though testing so far the native one is the best anyway. though of course you can just set up nfs as a source in xbmc and this works for all file types.

I was even able to run a full blue ray over wifi (a little stuttery but still watchable!!)

if you are not comfortable with linux mount commands (dont forget busybox ) then mount manager or script manager might be the best option for you!!

This way you can use profiles in xbmc to control access for kids etc etc all the other benefits of xbmc.

So there you go everyone enjoy!!!


Ok so anyone know what it was I did to get flash working in the native browser only messing with this I default reset my box and borked whatever I did that got it working? I have dolphin so its not a disaster but even so.....

Oh and how to remove the the default setting on the laucher? clear defaults is greyed out so it must always remain the default launcher which is very annoying I much prefer apex. Anyone have any ideas?

Also is there any newer version of xbmc with support for the native player? i got the 12.2 version from this forum?

OH AND BIG UP'S TO NICETY for his help despite me not being a direct customer!!!

Still bemused by SMB but this is more elegant solution any way, go me

This post has been edited by CurioCT: Jan 24 2014, 09:58 PM

Thank you bro for the acknowledge receipt :-)

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This post has been edited by CurioCT: Jan 24 2014, 10:45 PM

The official xBMC website offer Frodo 12.3. http://xbmc.org/download/

NFS is the common practice in UNIX/LINUX world or even NAS, definitely the NFS solution is better then SMB. By the way, do you test movies auto resume when stream via NFS?

To those still searching for a good China app store for your TV box, there is one at
http://down.7po.com/qipoyingyongshichang/1-1.html
It's in Chinese.
Download, install, and enjoy testing the apps.

Thank you bro, tested 7PO. Very good Apps Store.

Info to share
Because China banned Google, GooglePlay Store is not available in China. Therefore few Apps Store were developed in China, 7PO is one of them.

This post has been edited by nicety: Jan 25 2014, 07:12 PM

Have tested the Q5 II extensively for like the past 2 months.

During which these times mostly have been trying out XBMC which is great. The single biggest gripe however is the constant getting kicked out of movie in the middle of watching. Have tried suggested fixes by Bro nicety such as upgrading from XBMC 12.2 to 12.3, seems better but still happens. Have also tried starting iStream from Videos instead of from the iStream in the menu, but still happens.

Sportsdevil and Sports-a-holic are great for watching live EPL, but they are not spared the kickout to the menu problem. But sometimes is it not easy to find a good stream.

Other than that, some of the default channels have started going down as well in the LiveTV that came with the Himedia firmware, I am currently on HMD-1.0.3, hopefully that gets fixed soon!

As per feedback from my customers, to have stable XBMC you may install the XBMC with only addon that you are interested and avoid Wizard which installed tons of addon which you do not required.

Yes mate the mounted drives do just fine even after rebooting the q10 and remounting the nfs drives

they even seem to resume by going back via the nfs menu rather than mounted drives, I have tested this extensively just a quick few to answer your question

Thanks for helping to test the auto mounted. What about the movie resume to the last watch time(via NFS)? Meaning that you watch half way the movie and stop or shutdown the device. Then next startup you can resume to the time you stop. I have tested SMB works but no chance for NFS yet.

P/S : Highly appreciated all forumer who contribute back after obtain the info from this thread.

This post has been edited by nicety: Jan 26 2014, 12:06 AM

Yes it all seems to work either way, as I said I haven't tested it extensively but seems like it doesn't matter a reboot, play something else, then resume no problem. NFS or mounted.

so far I highly recommend the http://www.hanewin.net/ nfs server software should work on any windows pc 30 day trial and only $20

nicety, thanks for the tip on only installing those addons of interest.... testing iStream that way now....

btw opensubtitles just stopped working for some reason... am I the only one?

are you using sublauncher + opentitiles ?

Nicety, have you installed VST app from 7PO store?
There are a few App Stores in VST. At least there are more choices now.
Perhaps you would like to try out these apps.

Bro, I had the same problem with Opensubtitles yesterday night. This morning seems ok.

No yet, would be appreciated if you could share it here. What are the unique features and advantages?

Thank you bro, I would like to see if there are more apps there :-)

hi bro. want to ask regarding hypptv. since im unifi, how to get username and password?

Hi.
HiMedia Q5 II tips & trick (v. emmc, 1.0.5 firmware)

I. Flash support in the default android browser.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTMRZcgrysQ

1. Find on internet AOSP-Browser-ChromeSync-Adobe-Flash-Installer.zip and download.
2. Instal latest flash player from http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashpl..._player_ics.apk
3. Instal browser - unzip file on /sdcard and go to /sdcard/unziped_file_name/system/app and launch browser.apk (on firmware 1.0.5 do not need root)
4 Launch new Browser

This is oryginal native android browser.


II. Cleaning the default launcher

You will need:
1 Root device
2 Text editor
3 Terminal app from market
4 File explorer
5 Another launcher

What we do:
1 Perform root
2 Install the necessary applications
3 Install another launcher
4 Launch file explorer and go to /system
5 Copy file build.prop from /system to /mnt/sdcard
6 Edit build.prop file and find the line: ro.product.hilauncher.cls = com.android.launcher2.Launcher
put the # sign in front of it (it deactivates it - #ro.product.hilauncher.cls = com.android.launcher2.Launcher)
7 Save the file.
8 For root device unmount the /system - Launch terminal aplication and run commands:
su
mount -o rw, remount /system
9 Overwrite the original build.prop file - command:
cat /mnt/sdcard/build.prop > /system/build.prop
10 Make a reset of the device.

When you start device hold the home button and select the default launcher.

Sorry for the mistakes but my English is not good

Regards...

This post has been edited by browar: Jan 31 2014, 06:17 PM