thx alot pcristi!

@pempek40:
in general less stable, 2.1.4 performed better and crashed less often.
but i'll change hardware soon anyway.

it isn't a firmware issue, the problem lies with the VideoPlayer itself.
i installed the older HimediaVideoPlayer, which works fine with these aspect ratios:

New HiMediaVideoPlayer is like that in both official and CFW 2.0.4.
For restore old HiMediaVideoPlayer download restore(old_player)_HiMediaVideoPlayer_1.0.11_HMD_0411(AirMouse_inputs_support).zip rename to update.zip and apply from Setting/Upgrade/Local Upgrade. In case want new HiMediaVideoPlayer again use this update.zip with restore method.

Quote from: Mount81 on July 15, 2017, 08:17:11 AM

From the CFW 2.0.4 changelog: - New HiMediaVideoPlayer(VideoPlayer VideoPlay) not accept AirMouse/HiControl inputs

Is this just with the CFW or with the official 2.0.4 also?

And what does it mean exactly in the case of an airmouse? It just doesn't react to the mouse pointer or entirely, even the buttons are useless?!

Thank you!

The problem:
It's an older version, so it has other issues, like subtitles being always on when a new vid starts.

So... the question which comes to mind...:
are there newer versions of HiMediaVideoPlayer anywhere for download which might fix this once and for all?

The problem with 576 aspect ration being "squeezed" with Wrapper is still apparent with the latest 2.1.4 and 2.1.4 lite firmwares.

Is there a fix for this, other than using a different video player + tinkering with playercorefactory?

Issues like this make me newer want to buy anything from Himedia ever again.

*push*


if there is another firmware,
this is definitly one issue that should be adressed.

having the exact same issue here with win 10 1903, seems indeed to be a bug.
i use FastCopyPortable as a temporary solution until m$ patches it.

Still issues with playback of DVD isos:
Wrapper cannot access the DVD menu, seems just to play the longest video file it finds.


Subtitles are still automatically on.
Annoying as hell, since very time i start a movie, i have to navigate to subtile settings and turn them off.
Just add an option like NONE in that submenu ffs.

using kodi-20190315-32d3bbe1-master-armeabi-v7a.apk

the external player crashes stopped.
has some other minor fixes.
best version of KODI 18 so far.

Hi,

is it possible to assign a video player to a specific folder using the playercorefactory?

Right now it looks like this:
<playercorefactory>
<players>
<!-- himedia player for video -->
<player name="Wrapper" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<filename>com.himedia.xbmcwrapper</filename>
<hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
<playcountminimumtime>120</playcountminimumtime>
</player>
</players>

<rules action="prepend">

<!--network protocol rules-->

<rule protocols="http|https|rtmp|sop" player="VideoPlayer" /> <!--all http-->
<rule protocols="nfs|smb" name="Wrapper" /> <!--all nfs|smb-->

<!--internet streams rules-->

<rule protocols="pvr" player="VideoPlayer" /> <!--all pvr-->
<rule internetstream="true" player="VideoPlayer" /> <!--all streams-->

<!--video audio channels rules-->

<rule video="true" audiochannels="6" player="Wrapper" /> <!--5.1 audio-->
<rule video="true" audiochannels="8" player="Wrapper" /> <!-- 7.1 audio-->

<!--audio / music rules-->

<rule audio="true" player="PAPlayer"/> <!--all audio to kodi internal music player-->

<!--specific codecs rules-->

<rule video="true" audiocodec="truehd|true-hd|dtshd|dts-hd|dts" player="Wrapper"/>

<rule filename=".*.3D.*|.*.3D.iso|3D.*" player="Wrapper"/>
<rule filetypes="iso|bdmv|mpls|m2ts|img" player="Wrapper"/>
<rule video="true"  player="Wrapper"/>
</rules>
</playercorefactory>

This works fine, except for one folder where i store music videos.
I want to play them using the KODI VideoPlayer, because then KODI can shuffle the videos in a playlist and i can play music videos, old school MTV-style.
Right now this does not work, because as soon as Wrapper plays one from the playlist, shuffle does not work anymore.


Idea: assign musicvideos-folder in playercorefactory to VideoPlayer using a rule.
Is that possible?

There used to be a Wiki which listed all possible entries to the playercorefactory.xml, but i cannot find it...
edit:
Here it is: https://kodi.wiki/view/External_players
But there is no folder-rule. :\

Right now the only solution i see there is to give all music videos a specific name, like
Artist - Title.MUSICVIDEO.filetype
and then specify something like
<rule filename ="*.MUSICVIDEO.*" player="VideoPlayer" />