Kodi for HiMedia

[MusiCManiaC]

Thanks for you reply pcristi and what player are you using now?I'm thinking about buying Zidoo UHD 2000?

[HereIsTom]

@MusiCManiaC;  Do your receiver can play Atmos? Then you can use Passthrough in Kodi and play Atmos on the Q10 Pro.

[Phil181]

Is there any kodi version now that supports atmos on himedia q10?

Media Center has always provided full audio passthrough, including Dolby TrueHD Atmos and DTS-HD MA/ DTS-X with all firmware updates. 
Therefore all versions of Kodi can be used with the "wrapper" setting to enable the "external player" to be used to ensure audio passthrough.  This is nothing new and the system works well  .   

[chenjunhust]

Hi there

As a new user of KODI, I failed to config KODI in my Q10 pro to passthrough Dolby TrueHD Atmos and DTS-HD MA/ DTS-X to my AVR, which worked well when using native player (video player).
All movies played in KODI only stream out Stereo.

Can anybody help on this ? Really appreciate.

Firmware : HMD-2.1.4
KIDO       : 17.6

[stl]

Hi there

As a new user of KODI, I failed to config KODI in my Q10 pro to passthrough Dolby TrueHD Atmos and DTS-HD MA/ DTS-X to my AVR, which worked well when using native player (video player).
All movies played in KODI only stream out Stereo.

Can anybody help on this ? Really appreciate.

Firmware : HMD-2.1.4
KIDO       : 17.6

You have to use himedia player indirectly with the wrapper app:
Exit kodi
Open the wrapper app and Set to Wrapper player
In settings set audio to raw
Open kodi, now when you start a video himedia player will play it and you should have pass-through.

[chenjunhust]

Thanks.
It's strange that my Q10 pro has no wrapper installed initially. I have downloaded from forum and wrapper is invoked in Kodi.
While new issues arose.
All NFS / SMB /FTP are setup in Kodi to access my movies stored on WD cloud mirror.
When playing through SMB in Kodi, wrapper is up but it shuttered badly.
When playing through FTP in Kodi, wrapper is unable to be invoked.
When playing through NFS in Kodi, wrapper is up but it's hanging with displaying a black screen.
I also try to use Mediacenter.
To play via "NFS" seems smooth.
To play via "LAN" (SMB ??) shuttered too.

Currently the box is connected with 5G-wifi and I will try to use a cable to connected with LAN. Don't know if this could fix shutter problem using SMB.

I am wondering if anyone could help on the issue of " wrapper fail to play via NFS " ?

[stl]

Thanks.
It's strange that my Q10 pro has no wrapper installed initially. I have downloaded from forum and wrapper is invoked in Kodi.
While new issues arose.
All NFS / SMB /FTP are setup in Kodi to access my movies stored on WD cloud mirror.
When playing through SMB in Kodi, wrapper is up but it shuttered badly.
When playing through FTP in Kodi, wrapper is unable to be invoked.
When playing through NFS in Kodi, wrapper is up but it's hanging with displaying a black screen.
I also try to use Mediacenter.
To play via "NFS" seems smooth.
To play via "LAN" (SMB ??) shuttered too.

Currently the box is connected with 5G-wifi and I will try to use a cable to connected with LAN. Don't know if this could fix shutter problem using SMB.

I am wondering if anyone could help on the issue of " wrapper fail to play via NFS " ?

Did you apply a factory reset on the box? I sujest you reinstall the firmware with the upgrade button method.

[chenjunhust]

Could you specify "reinstall firmware with update button " ?

[stl]

1. Extract update.zip (using an unzip program like 7zip, winzip etc) from the downloaded zip archive to the root of a FAT32 formatted USB pen drive. (the USB pen drive should contain a single file called 'update.zip'). Note, there is no need to rename anything!
2. Insert the USB pen drive into any USB port of Q10 Pro.
3. With Q10 Pro turned off, use a paper clip or pen to press and hold the the pinhole UPGRADE button on the back of Q10 Pro (next to the power port).
4. While keeping the UPGRADE button pressed, turn on the Q10 Pro.
5. Q10 Pro will showthe Android 7 coloured circle logo.
6. When you see the circle logo you can release the restore button.
7. A progress bar will indicate update progress. Do not turn box off or use the box/remote during update!
8. When update is complete the box will automatically reboot.
9. First boot will take 3-5 minutes. The box will reboot into new firmware. Allow boot to complete.

[chenjunhust]

Thanks for the clear instructions.
Fortunately I have got some help from pcristi in another thread. I am trying to backup my current FW before reinstalling CFW.

1. Extract update.zip (using an unzip program like 7zip, winzip etc) from the downloaded zip archive to the root of a FAT32 formatted USB pen drive. (the USB pen drive should contain a single file called 'update.zip'). Note, there is no need to rename anything!
2. Insert the USB pen drive into any USB port of Q10 Pro.
3. With Q10 Pro turned off, use a paper clip or pen to press and hold the the pinhole UPGRADE button on the back of Q10 Pro (next to the power port).
4. While keeping the UPGRADE button pressed, turn on the Q10 Pro.
5. Q10 Pro will showthe Android 7 coloured circle logo.
6. When you see the circle logo you can release the restore button.
7. A progress bar will indicate update progress. Do not turn box off or use the box/remote during update!
8. When update is complete the box will automatically reboot.
9. First boot will take 3-5 minutes. The box will reboot into new firmware. Allow boot to complete.

[laager]

Might be better to avoid 18.7.

https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=354933

[DMD]

Thanks for the info.
It looks a bit like Windows 10 updates. 

[maelor]

Kodi version 18.7.1 is now available.

[laager]

Available for sideload only. Not on the Play Store yet.

[laager]

Now available as an update on Play Store. Beats reinstallation (via side load). All your config remains intact.