Guide: Install Kodi 16.1 and 17.2 RC1 + working Wrapper + more remote keymaps

[DancesWithChickens]

[looun]

nice guide ,but if you disable hardware acceleration - Mediacodec (Surface) -> video engine Expressx not work more .
You lost Q10  video quality without video engine post processing.

[DancesWithChickens]

This setting only affects videos played with Kodis internal player.
Streaming video does not play at all under Krypton with this setting turned on
...so it is not by choice.

[futeko.com]

Excellent guide, thanks.

Only problem is that the playercorefactory you attach has (I think) a mistake. Everything after the first </playercorefactory> shouldn't be there.

If I'm right please correct the file / your post.

Correct Android 7 / Kodi 17 playercorefactory should be:

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<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="nfs|http|rtmp|sop" player="VideoPlayer" /> <!--all nfs-->

<!--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-->

<!--video resolution rules-->

<rule video="true" videoresolution="720" player="Wrapper" />
<rule video="true" videoresolution="1080" player="Wrapper" />
<rule video="true" videoresolution="2160" player="Wrapper" /> <!--4K-->

<!--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" player="Wrapper"/>

</rules>
</playercorefactory>


[DancesWithChickens]

You were right, there seems to be an issue with Notepad++, it didn't save my changes.
I corrected the file.

[Obiwan46]

Hello

Its a great walkthrough i solve my problem with the stuttering on my himedia Q5 Pro with this walkthrough many thanks 

[Mickhd]

I am a new bee .could you tell me ho to set up samber,on my  PC and on q 10 ,it ask for user and password.help please.i have only  had q 10  acouple of days,and the picture quality is bad,it will not play any thing when I set it to wrapper,but in the android section it play great hope some one can  help,cheers mickh

[futeko.com]

I am a new bee .could you tell me ho to set up samber,on my  PC and on q 10 ,it ask for user and password.help please.i have only  had q 10  acouple of days,and the picture quality is bad,it will not play any thing when I set it to wrapper,but in the android section it play great hope some one can  help,cheers mickh

If you are being asked for a password then your network share is setup with user/password protection. To get this working with Kodi+wrapper you need to enter your user/password details in the wrapper app. This is found at My Apps - Wrapper.

Because you are being asked for user/pass it appears you have a Samba network set up already. Samba is just the name for standard Windows networks.

[cp2017]

2.)
- Go to settings -> Player -> Videos
- Set Allow hardware acceleration - Mediacodec (Surface) to OFF (otherwise video streams will stutter)

Actually it was the main problem I had when I moved from the q10 kodi 16 to q10 pro with Kodi 17 yesterday, the playback was so bad compare to my previous experience with q10 + Kodi 16, I really hope Himedia will take care about this issue and make the q10 pro playing smoothly with post processing with kodi 17, as right now I am not impressed at all and I cannot recommend it to anybody but hopefully the new firmware will fix this problem, I hope so...

[Mickhd]

Thanks for your advice  I seem to have got it working now, I have frequency switcher that was turned of ,switched it back on set it to start at 60 and switch to 50 on start,looks ok now,cheers mickh

[pcristi]

How to disable peripheral joystick on Kodi 17.x

- Start Kodi and go to Add-ons / My add-ons / Peripheral libraries / Joystick Support / Disable
- Exit normal from Kodi and Restart it.
New Estuary skin is little bit confusing when add-on is enable/disable.
Change from this:

To this one:

Enjoy last Kodi 17.x shitty or Kodi 17.x nightlies builds with normal back buttons actions for IR Remote.

BIG Thanks to @DancesWithChickens for his workaround with dirty update from Kodi 16.1.

[kaosnews]

Just curious, but what is Kodi 17.x shitty?

Excellent tutorial!

[alexvanniel]

Just curious, but what is Kodi 17.x shitty?

Excellent tutorial!

It is basically Kodi 17 with the audio engine hack from Kodi 16 . They changed the way the audio engine works in Kodi 17. Kodi 17 works more compliant with the way Google wants developers to access the audio mixer. Problem is that with the new way Kodi 17 accesses the audio mixer, on Android 5 and below, no pass through audio is available rendering DTS and Dolby Digital pass through impossible. The "shitty" build uses the hackish way from Kodi 16 to pass through audio making DTS and Dolby Digital once again possible in Kodi 17 on Android devices with a firmware that does not have the proper SDK (yet). Our box is one of those devices.

Source: http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=289735

The shitty build can be downloaded from here: http://mirrors.kodi.tv/test-builds/android/arm/kodi-20170411-a4896c0-shitty-armeabi-v7a.apk

[kaosnews]

Thanks for the info!

[DancesWithChickens]

How to disable peripheral joystick on Kodi 17.x

- Start Kodi and go to Add-ons / My add-ons / Peripheral libraries / Joystick Support / Disable
- Exit normal from Kodi and Restart it.
New Estuary skin is little bit confusing when add-on is enable/disable.
Change from this:

To this one:

Enjoy last Kodi 17.x shitty or Kodi 17.x nightlies builds with normal back buttons actions for IR Remote.

BIG Thanks to @DancesWithChickens for his workaround with dirty update from Kodi 16.1.

Nice.
Futeko should pin this info for users with the remote issue.