Q5/Q10 Pro Kodi 'wrapper' Instructions

[futeko.com]

Is this still true?

Yes.

[Pete_Repeat]

Great. Thanks.

I know I should just wait and see.... But any idea if the default launcher can be changed in the next release?

Edit : I am still interested but please fwel free to delete or move  this message as it's not exactly related to the topic.

[futeko.com]

I am trying to get a full list of upcoming fixes for next Android 7 firmware out of HiMedia. When I do I will post it on the forum.

[Paulo72]

Thanks for the wrapper & info

I have given up on getting the wrapper to work.  It worked once the sound was nice.  The Q5 Pro also sounds better than any other box I've had using kodi 17 player.

Paaulo

[Phil181]

Thanks for the wrapper & info

I have given up on getting the wrapper to work.  It worked once the sound was nice.  The Q5 Pro also sounds better than any other box I've had using kodi 17 player.

Paaulo

If you follow the instructions from Futeko in the first post of this thread, you should be fine to get the wrapper to work.
I have had it working in Android 5.1 and now in 7 with no issues.  HD audio 7.1 passes through fine with the wrapper installed correctly. 

The wrapper also works with SPMC which is a Kodi 16 fork (see separate thread).  This can be installed at the same time as Kodi (it uses a separate directory).

If you want another option to Kodi for local playback of movies and tv, suggest you also try Archos Media Player from PlayStore (see separate thread with full instructions from @looun).  http://www.futeko.com/newforum/index.php?topic=1786.0

[Heinrich]

Hi, I've had a Q5 Pro since Thursday. It handled everything I threw at it but I have one extremely annoying problem.

These are all .iso DVD & Blu_rays on 2 WHS2011 servers. One works and the other doesn't but I think it's the SMB problem I just read about. I'm going to experiment further in a little bit. I just leave that as an FYI. I have the correct other thread up in a different tab.

Anyhoo, none of the .iso files present the menu. With blu-ray's its OK because with a few presses I can get to the menu. But DVDs are far worse. They always start off with some weird special feature - a commentary or otherwise. I only know of one Blu-Ray with the same behavior. So for La Femme Nikita dvd #1 Season #1

I get several "playlists". The first two give me commentary. The next two start regular episodes. if I go to #4, then I can go back to #1 and get the regular episode. But if I don't go to #4, no matter how many times I try, I get commentary audio on Ep #1.

I have tried many settings - and combinations - and they all leave me to wind up resetting everything because I go down some rabbit hole and then nothing will play. I'm not sure what to do.

By the way - these all work fine on a Windows 10 machine and also with Kodi internal player (except I can't play 3D and some blu-rays are terribly sluggish on Kodi Internal.)

[netguru]

"With blu-ray's its OK because with a few presses I can get to the menu"

how?

[oregano76]

Can I go back to basics?

Ok so I thought I was using the wrapper as I had ticked 'wrapper' in the wrapper app.
But it turns out I was using Kodi's player. I can only access the wrapper player (HImedia player) if I long press and 'play using'. The default is Kodi's video player.

I want change the default player to the wrapper player without having to 'play using' in Kodi so that it player through the wrapper player each time.

How can I do this.

I copied the 'dances with chicken code' over, but not sure if that's relevant.
thanks a lot

[Phil181]

[oregano76]

[Phil181]

Thanks - I've tried this a couple of times (and made sure the wrapper was uninstalled....) but it doesn't seem to work. The Kodi player has 'default' next it when using 'play with' - I can't see how to get wrapper to be the default.

Wrapper needs to be installed ( not uninstalled) the app run and selected as default (not Kodi). 
Re-install, tick default, power off, reboot and try again?

[oregano76]

Ok figured it out  - so it turns out the playercorefactory.xml isn't set up to play MKV files, which all of my files are encoded as.

under
<!--specific codecs rules-->

<rule filetypes="iso|bdmv|mpls|m2ts" player="Wrapper"/>

You have to add |mkv after mt2ts

It now works perfectly.

Thanks - I've tried this a couple of times (and made sure the wrapper was uninstalled....) but it doesn't seem to work. The Kodi player has 'default' next it when using 'play with' - I can't see how to get wrapper to be the default.

Wrapper needs to be installed ( not uninstalled) the app run and selected as default (not Kodi). 
Re-install, tick default, power off, reboot and try again?

[Phil181]

Ok figured it out  - so it turns out the playercorefactory.xml isn't set up to play MKV files, which all of my files are encoded as.

Weird!  All my mkv's (99% of files) have played without issue (with every firmware).  No idea how your version of the wrapper has that excluded.
Great to hear you now have quality playback 

[oregano76]

Ok figured it out  - so it turns out the playercorefactory.xml isn't set up to play MKV files, which all of my files are encoded as.

Weird!  All my mkv's (99% of files) have played without issue (with every firmware).  No idea how your version of the wrapper has that excluded.
Great to hear you now have quality playback 

Yep it was very strange....I have no idea either. Think it might have been a fluke.
Trying to tinker with the playercorefactory.xml file to play AAC 5.1 through Kodi only as Wrapper doesn't seem to pass through AAC 5.1 (on my specific set up at least).

Thanks for your help though!

[drabisan]

If someone is kind enough to check his/her playercorefactory.xml and spot what's the error in mine.

The problem I'm having is not something too painful, I'm happy enough with Kodi player, but I'm wondering why Wrapper is not the default one, although is selected in My Apps->Wrapper.
Play using is showing me:
- VideoPlayer  (Default)
4 times Wrapper!!!
the 6th in the list VideoPlayer.

I did a full reinstall of 2.0.3, copy update.zip on a fresh usb stick, hit the upgrade back button, and I end up with the same scenario as before. It used to be right with 2.0.1 and it appeared in 2.0.3.
Special notes:  it also ignores the rule with .*.3D.*. I have a single rip that should match this rule, but it plays with Kodi instead of wrapper.
Special note #2: after re-upgrade I added <rule filetypes="mkv... following the above finding, but no luck. That's the only change I've made to the default file.

Could be <rule protocols="nfs...? My shares are mounted via NFS, read-only, from 2 Synology units. That because I don't want any patch and is not possible to mount 2 Samba shares with 2 different user/pass combination.

Here's my file:

<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="mkv|iso|bdmv|mpls|m2ts" player="Wrapper"/>
<rule video="true"  player="Wrapper"/>   
</rules>
</playercorefactory>