Experiences Kodi 17 on Q5/Q10 Pro?

[HereIsTom]

Are there users who have Kodi 17 Release Candidate installed?
What is your experience and what firmware and Android version?

[saj2001ind]

the biggest problem with Kodi 17 i when you set wrapper player the video ad ons like e***** and youtube from kodi also doesnt play

it tries to open wrapper player but since himedia player doesnt stream the video from video add ons does play at all this is the biggest issue on kodi 17

on kodi 16.1 it works fine

[grummel2005]

and some files i cannot play good in kodi 17 (not wrapper)
in kodi 16 they run without any stuttering
an in spmc as well everything is okai

[HereIsTom]

Thanks for the comments. So it is true that E****s gives black screen in Kodi 17.
Probably E****s therefore needs an update?

I hear that Kodi 17 with Android is not working good?
What is your experience?

[HereIsTom]

No one use Kodi 17?

[Eriol]

Read here:
http://www.futeko.com/newforum/index.php?topic=1610.0

This thread is full of Kodi 17 experiences.

[zanande]

Kodi 17 and android problems are more about audio compatibility (passthroug, HD)

If you use Himedia wrapper, you should not have much trouble,
except streaming add-on... but there should be a workaround

Kodi 17, without internal player, is fast and sweet to use

[futeko.com]

This post from another thread contains instructions for making wrapper work better with Kodi 17 and streams.

I've tested it and it works:

http://www.futeko.com/newforum/index.php?topic=710.msg13417#msg13417

[HereIsTom]

Thank you!
But are you all now using Kodi 17 or not?
Is it better stay with 16.1 or can I go for 17 RC?

[Eriol]

Thank you!
But are you all now using Kodi 17 or not?
Is it better stay with 16.1 or can I go for 17 RC?

I'm staying on 16.1 because 17 RC doesn't give me any value right now (just problems).

[DancesWithChickens]

Turn off "hardware acceleration (surface)" in KODI 17 video player settings and everything will play fine.

[MikeDelta]

[Phil181]

I had updated to Kodi 17 RC4 which was just released in late January.  I am running latest Android 7 firmware (2.0.1).
So far it has worked very well for what I want:  quality playback from attached USB drive, internal drive and multiple NAS drives on network.
The new interface is fresh and the default skin quite good.
It removes the duplicated drive names of Kodi 16.1 and they show up with correct names now 

I note the official release of Kodi 17 is now on PlayStore from 1st Feb. 
Suggest full back-up of Kodi 16 folder so it can be restored if needed.
I have an extensive Kodi library and it all smoothly updated for me. 

The wrapper is still working fine for me, so all 1080p full remux of blu-ray videos and 7.1 audio passthrough are working perfectly. 
I still use the "0" stop key patch as I got used to it
Happy to recommend members here try it out for themselves.

[pcristi]

[domifer]

Today I updated Kodi to the official version 17.0, date February 1, as it indicates it is now the official Kodi 17, but still audio pass through doesn't work natively with Kodi's internal player, it still has to be done via wrapper.