Archos Video Player: jukebox, Auto-swtich FPS and HD audio

[looun]

Archos is very simple,leanback and good media center, it's not kodi level obvious, but it can be a good  alternative.

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Tested:
DTS-X OK
DTS-HD OK
Dolby True HD OK
Dolby Atmos OK


Android Media player report :
What's WORK:
- internal subtitle work,but  not always
- Auto Switch FPS
- HD audio
- ExpressX Video engine, to enable Pop-menu use Remote Patch

What's Not support:
-  ISO/BDMV 2D and 3D

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For enable Auto-swtich FPS and HD audio MUST BE select Android Media player decoding, following this step:

Step 0: install app Archos Video Player from play store

Step 1: Go to setting and  Press several times ok button to "Force software decoding"



Step 2: now software decoding became "Choose Decoder"



Step 3:  choose "Android Media player",  now Archos Video Player use himedia core player.


Step 4:  Enable Audio Passtrough


Step 5: Enable TV interface and small hdpi





enjoy your new media center 

[bohorne]

Looks nice, does it also plays 3D iso's?

[Marathin]

Nice Hint, Thx,

Will the Player bei able to Play Atmos, DTS:X and general 7.1 Audio Formats .......regards

[Phil181]

Many thanks for this thread 
I will install, check it out and do some testing.  Always good to have options for the player and this one looks very promising.

EDIT 22/3 Downloaded and installed. 
You do need to follow the above tutorial very carefully.  The "press several times ok button" is very important to bring up the Android MediaPlayer option so audio works correctly.  I can confirm full 7.1 audio is passed  (had time to check both DTS-HD MA & Dolby TrueHD).
No wrapper is required!! (the remote mapped "0" for stop key does not work however).
It is taking a while to complete my library but all sources including internal HDD, external USB and multiple NAS are showing correctly and can be indexed.

Also updating to Kodi 17.1 so it will be good to see what "bugs" they have fixed on the 17.0 release!
EDIT back up first if considering 17.1.  See separate thread on remote control issue... 

[domifer]

I get force close everytime I want to play a movie with Archos player. I tried several movies, both in 1080P and 4K resolutions, but still application force closes ( I am using Q10 Pro with Android 7.0 2.0.1 firmware)
Unistalled! 

[looun]

I get force close everytime I want to play a movie with Archos player. I tried several movies, both in 1080P and 4K resolutions, but still application force closes ( I am using Q10 Pro with Android 7.0 2.0.1 firmware)
Unistalled! 

do you have following the step? with mediacodec work?

[q10pro1]

on android 5 firmware. 1.0.9 after FPS Auto-switch video does not start

[Phil181]

Did some further testing tonight of Archos.
To members above who did not get the video to work, I would suggest trying again and following @looun's steps shown above, carefully. 
It is especially important to get to the stage where you can select Android Media Player (step 1).

It plays 1080p and 720p videos fine (I did not test DVD's).  DTS-HD and True HD 5.1 and 7.1 all pass to AVR.
AC3 and DTS 2.0 and 5.1 are also fine.
FLAC 7.1 and AAC 5.1 only pass as PCM 2.0.
Video samples played included VC1 and HEVC/X265 as well as H264 mkv and mp4 at different frame rates 23.976 up to 60Hz and 1080p.
Audio Blu-ray's played DTS-HD MA 2.0 and 5.1 played fine.
It saves markers to resume videos in the same directory as the file. 
The free version brings up an ad before each file playback (simply requires remote to click the x in top left hand corner of slide and video starts).

Note this testing was on Android 7 /firmware 2.0.1 Q10Pro (internal 4Tb HDD) with a 1080p Panasonic TV.  Testing completed with files from external USB HDD, internal drive and NAS (which it logs and saves).

The interface is simple to use (not as developed as Kodi) but it does playback quite well using Android without external assistance.  It is a player and library for movies and TV only (not music or photos).  It does read nfo files in the Kodi video format.   
Given the nominal cost, I am likely to buy the full version to remove ads and keep updating it on the HiMedia once I am fully satisfied with the functions.

[looun]

that's the point:   simple to use and andorid tv "app style"... some times kodi i to complicate and Heavy

please add  +1 for archos enhancement
https://plus.google.com/102421435380768730444/posts/VzAF6tPytTL

[q10pro1]

video and audio on the HDMI cable between Q10 pro and TV
how to configure it?

android 5

[looun]

video and audio on the HDMI cable between Q10 pro and TV
how to configure it?

android 5

Android MediaPlayer interface use AVPLAY ( hisilicon framework ), Himedia video player APP also use AVPLAY .

so ....Android MediaPlayer = Himedia video player .

so ...Archos = Himedia video player  .. same setting 

Kodi use MediaCodec ( ANdroid  framework )  = some problem.

ALso PLEX can use  Android MediaPlayer interface ,but plex need plex server, archos is more easy.

[q10pro1]

you, but because of me crashes?
video on hard disk attached to the Q10 USB

[Eriol]

No subtitle support is a big turnoff. 
I stick with MX Player...

[Phil181]

No subtitle support is a big turnoff. 
I stick with MX Player...

I have not tried a movie with sub-titles but can. 
I did notice that it always gives you the option to download sub-titles when you have selected a file to play but did not try to see if this works.  It would obviously depend on the movie itself and where they link the subs from.

[Sent]

Hi.

Connected to NAS ... check
Playing MKV from it ... check
HD Audio passtrough ... check
Resume from everywhere ... check
Cover and movie infos ... check
FPS ... check
Picture quality ... check
Subtitle ... check

Mhhh so for me the mainbugs in Kodi are not in Archos.

...wow!

Android 7... Q5 pro...free version