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[Nexus Player Original Android Development] Idan73:
Not sure which words.

No man, honestly I was just kidding in my post that I think you are refering to. I even said so.

Everyone's input is valid, and to be honest I most like the threads that allow going off topic as well. If one explanation helps others get the problem solved over another, the better it is for the whole thread, as well as community.

I am not known for being being the best (far from it) at putting words to a paper in the easiest and most explanatory manner.

I either bore people to death with elaborating, and some mistake it for condescending, or I write the way I think, which doesn't always produce best results. English being second language does not help, and by this I am referring to mine, being immigrant to Canada and all that.

If you are referring my last before this (just above your post), it is only in direct response and friendly discourse with [MENTION=405635]roebling[/MENTION], trying to explain myself and the train of thoughts regarding the post from last week. He asserted I was wrong about absolute need for lean back launcher in that case, and I was. Just felt explanation was in order. No malice intended there or competition. God forbid.

Followed by a question regarding Netflix 1.04 that I couldn't test at the time as I was working. Now at home I got my answer.

P. S. See even this one. I keep finding things that might be misunderstood, so I keep editing. ? This must be the 5th-6th so far.

Note 4 ?
[Nexus Player Original Android Development] M3drvr:
Since no one else is having the video streaming issues i'm having here is a logcat. Your input will be appreciated.
[Nexus Player Original Android Development] zulu99:
Have you tested the same video with MX Player or Kodi ?

Honestly i not have particular video issues, can be a specific problem of vlc with this specific video ?
[Nexus Player Original Android Development] bkjolly:
Skype

Anyone have a skype apk that works?
[Nexus Player Original Android Development] georgecarstoiu:
While streaming with Kodi I do have from time to time pixelated images...they last for 1 second, and then video is ok again. Not sure if that considers as a big video glitch - have had this issue ever since I got my NP and installed LolliRock (didn't use stock at all).
[Nexus Player Original Android Development] chibluboy:
I use VLC with no problems, .MKV's play fine.
[Nexus Player Original Android Development] M3drvr:
Happens no matter what video player I use. MX does same thing. Stock video player plays streams very jerky for me. Vlc and MX play smooth but eventually exit for whatever reason.

Strangely, webm encoded videos have no issues. But I've now tried mkv and mp4 and they will always exit eventually.
[Nexus Player Original Android Development] treydogg:
We used the playstore app works great and Web cam works
[Nexus Player Original Android Development] zulu99:
Can you share a link with the video you are testing ?

You use wifi or ethernet ?

I'm interested to have your same conditions.
[Nexus Player Original Android Development] M3drvr:
Sure, give it a go:

https://onedrive.live.com/redir?res...514&authkey=!AHcjW75hVRW74J4&ithint=video,mp4
[Nexus Player Original Android Development] zulu99:
Downloaded in the internal storage.

With MX Player no problems from the start to the end

With Kodi I saw very long scenes, no interruption, but some time i can see a pixelation from half second. Nothing special, i think the video was not encoded very well.

In VLC the video not work, but i not played with settings or other configurations.

In VLC beta (what is the differences ? ) the video work, but i not tested well, because this version of VLC interfere with mouse movements. When you move the mouse you forward rewind.

VLC have problems for sure. But are problems of the app.

In MX Player, as default i use this codec pack http://xdaforums.com/devdb/project/dl/?id=9765

Is possible that you have installed something that cause your problem ?
[Nexus Player Original Android Development] M3drvr:
Well of note I also just stream it. I don't actually put them on internal storage. But I've been doing it the same way ever since getting the Nexus Player and never had issues like this before. That's several months ago. Just seems to be as of the last update.

VLC I can play this video without issues but after i'd 20 minutes it will just suddenly close. MX Player exact same thing. VLC Beta hasn't been updated since December. So I don't use that. I might just try a full wipe and reinstall everything and see if that fixes it.
[Nexus Player Original Android Development] zulu99:
My suggestion. Restart your Nexus Player.

Not open vlc, or better uninstall vlc for your tests.

After restart, try only with MX Player and after with Kodi.

I think vlc create problems to the system.

Just a suggestion.
[Nexus Player Original Android Development] M3drvr:
Only reason I installed VLC was to try it as with just MX installed I was getting the issue upon the update. Tried uninstalling MX as well and reinstalling no fix before installing VLC.
[Nexus Player Original Android Development] zulu99:
I have last bootloader from stock rom.

I have all google apps updated from google play.

Google now launcher

System web view updated from google play

This is my configuration.

P.s.

The video stream well also inside google chrome.
[Nexus Player Original Android Development] M3drvr:
Yeah I don't use gapps sorry. I use Nova launcher and I use Bing browser :good: I just did a full wipe and reload and seems to be working properly now though.
[Nexus Player Original Android Development] zulu99:
Well. I'm happy for you.

I like your response, I don't use gapps sorry. I use Nova launcher and I use Bing browser.

I like even more the photo of your profile.
[Nexus Player Original Android Development] M3drvr:
You are welcome.
[Nexus Player Original Android Development] TheShamsMan:
So using the original remote works nicely. I'm able to log into Netflix, but no video. It'll play, because the clock is moving forward, but the screen is all black. Has anyone reported anything of the sort? Thanks!
[Nexus Player Original Android Development] zulu99:
With the original hardware remote you can't set volume or mute. But from your words and others post it work with directional keys. (i not know / use netflix)

Enable hw overlay in developer settings when you want videos that have drm inside.
[Nexus Player Original Android Development] sd_matto:
Bluetooth mic?

I have a Motorola HX550 mono BT headset.

Bluetooth pairs, and media audio plays. But, I cannot for the life of me get the mic to work (i.e., via OK Google, any voice recorder, or any other app). Is this BT mic functionality enabled with this ROM and, if so, how do I enable it?

Thanks in advance.
[Nexus Player Original Android Development] TheShamsMan:
Hey! So, enabling HW overly fixed it for me. But the setting won't stick. I have to enable it every time I reboot the device. Any way I can permanently disable it?

Upon disabling HW overlay, the video will play, but it won't be full screen. The left and right sides will be cropped. Any ideas on making it full screen? Could be because of the nav bar not going away? Thanks again!
[Nexus Player Original Android Development] chibluboy:
Tasker in the play store can do this for you. See this post:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2477639

I used Tasker in a similar fashion to enable a script to execute anytime I reboot my Nexus Player. I setup 20 second time delay profile to execute after every reboot.

Good luck :)
[Nexus Player Original Android Development] danigraham:
Just to clarify (cause I notice the person asked 2 questions) you can use Tasker to enable the HW overlay every time you reboot.

?
[Nexus Player Original Android Development] TheShamsMan:
Awesome! Thanks dude! Huge help!

Now to get full screen.. Netflix would be mint!

Update: I just tried Tasker and it's a bit beyond me. Can you give me a bit more information on you set it up? Thanks!
[Nexus Player Original Android Development] zulu99:
To enable hw ovelay at boot time, as i write one million times, and is write also in the 2 post,

You can edit build.prop and edit the relative field. debug.sf.hw

Is disabled by default, because when enabled, some menu inside some apps are unaccessible by a black overlay. This is a bug that for some reason is not solved by google / intel and is explained also in development section. This bug is present also on stock firmware, but in stock firware you can't disable hw overlay so simply like in LolliRock.

For some old / not updated apps that not have immersive mode, you can solve installing full screen app from google play to hide navigation bar and notification bar.

Read before post. Thanks.

Specially the post nr.2 if you don't want lose time.
[Nexus Player Original Android Development] zulu99:
For google now voice search and audio record, you can use only the mic of your webcam or a usb mic. I tested mic of webcam and i can record ALL audio / video

There is a reason why i wrote ALL, smart people can understand. ;)

SCR screen recorder 5+ was removed from google play, but this is the best app for record.

Usually i stream the screen of my tablet to nexus player and i record this session with SCR app.
[Nexus Player Original Android Development] chibluboy:
Had another breakthrough today with the NFS / CIFS mount. As I previously discovered, some apps could easily see my network mount (MAME4droid & VLC media player) While other apps could not initially see the network mount (RetroArch & MX Player). Technically I could use ES Explorer to point to a media file within my network mount but that was defeating the purpose. I want my apps to NATIVELY see the mount.

VLC player is still very unstable but could see the mount whereas MX Player (what I wanted to use) could not see the mount. So that got me to digging around again. My root /data folder is my working directory where I have my working NFS mounts. I specifically looked at the permission properties using ES Explorer. (pic1a)

I changed the highlighted properties (circled in yellow pic1b).

Once I changed the permissions I was able to use MX Player to see my network mounts (pic2a). Before the changes I could not even browse my /data folder with MX Player. So I immediately went into my settings for MX Player and setup 2 directories to browse my "Movies" folder and my "Music Video's" folder. Exited and restarted MX Player and was then able see all of my video files and sub folders (pic2b).

I then exited everything, restarted my Nexus Player. Once everything finished loading, I opened MX player again and all video files were listed once again. On a side not, the properties of my /data folder reverted back to the original permission's but MX Player retained the directory structure and I was able to browse and play any video within the MX Player app. Tested this as well with my screenshot app (suffered the same issue not being able to browse /data).

So it appears from the couple apps I have tested that this trick works to allow an app to momentarily by-pass any permission issues with a network NFS mount and give you enough time to setup a directory and save the settings.

I hope this helps anyone who is using CIFS to create a network mount.
[Nexus Player Original Android Development] danigraham:
Can't figure out how to get to the permissions area. When properties is clicked it says readable Yes writable Yes etc etc.. no option to edit or place to open permissions. Can you tell me how?

Edit!!!

Nevermind... figured it out.

We got it!!! GameSome sees them!!
[Nexus Player Original Android Development] treydogg:
Yes!!! Probably important to mention that you can't or at least shouldn't use mount manager. Works awesome [MENTION=3044838]chibluboy[/MENTION] thanks!
[Nexus Player Original Android Development] chibluboy:
Thanks :) Yeah, I tried Mount Manager initially without any luck. cifsManager works very well if you follow my steps.
[Nexus Player Original Android Development] dhacker29:
Just as a heads up I have USB OTG automount in android working now. See https://github.com/CyanogenMod/andr...mmit/e02a8c8ea4742ecf0782329b791eb75c9d7ce7f7 and https://github.com/CyanogenMod/andr...mmit/a297e881fb9b168df8924f0a33f96d02052f9a4e

If you have time can you post your latest source? I would love to see how you got a2dp to work properly.

Thanks
[Nexus Player Original Android Development] zulu99:
I will pack and upload.
[Nexus Player Original Android Development] zulu99:
The new vendor + devi tree icluse a2dp in libaudio

http://goo.gl/2pdm7Z
[Nexus Player Original Android Development] dhacker29:
Thank you. Did you have to change some of the arm libs to get Skype to load?
[Nexus Player Original Android Development] zulu99:
nb folder inside vendor folder

vendor\google\fugu\nb
[Nexus Player Original Android Development] zulu99:
LolliRock 2.1 was updated in first post

automount OTG usb

Thnaks dhacker29
[Nexus Player Original Android Development] M3drvr:
My issue with videos has returned now. And now all videos when streaming stop after a while. YouTube and Netflix aren't a problem, just videos stored in my cloud. It's almost as if the player gets killed. Weird thing is, if I chromecast the videos no problem. That is fine I suppose, but anyway to make it so that when we chromecast the video goes full screen and gets rid of the nav bar and status bar?
[Nexus Player Original Android Development] zulu99:
Maybe you have an app that consume many memory, and the effect can be a force close of others apps or services.

you can try thiS APP https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.tsorn.FullScreen

or this other https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dreamori.hidebar

to hide navigation bar and status bar when an app not support full screen.
[Nexus Player Original Android Development] M3drvr:
Here are my list of apps in the app drawer:

Calendar

Browser

Clock

Contacts

Downloads

Email

ES File Explorer

Gallery

Gmail

Google Settings

Onedrive

OneNote

Play games

Play Music

Play Store

Settings

TuneIn Radio Pro

Youtube

Not very extensive if you ask me. Even got rid of VLC like you suggested and I just use the native built in player. And most apps fairly mainstream and well designed. And the setup hasn't changed since I bought the device. No clue whats happening.
[Nexus Player Original Android Development] treydogg:
How much storage does it show you have left?
[Nexus Player Original Android Development] M3drvr:
Storage? 4.2GB free.
[Nexus Player Original Android Development] treydogg:
OK not a cache issue. Log cat file?
[Nexus Player Original Android Development] M3drvr:
Already provided logcats a page back.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=60394742&postcount=584
[Nexus Player Original Android Development] zulu99:
do you have HW Overlay enabled or disabled in developer options ? is in default state ?

what do you use to control your nexus player ? do you have special hardware connected ?

can you repost another logcat with the stock player ?

the previous logcat is with VLC.
[Nexus Player Original Android Development] M3drvr:
Yes HW overlays in default state of rom, which I believe is enabled.

Only thing I use to control it is keyboard and mouse, and that's all that's hooked up to the player. I've attached a logcat now using the stock player.
[Nexus Player Original Android Development] zulu99:
Please restart your router, and retry.

You can try to change from ac. to n

But if possible, please try also with another router.

Try the video also after download, to understand if is network problem or decoder problem.
[Nexus Player Original Android Development] M3drvr:
Really don't want to change from ac to n as I do a lot of internal network traffic. I have servers running and a big setup. Pretty sure it's not the network as I've monitored that. I'm a network engineer by day job. But okay I'll try find some time to reboot the switches and routers.
[Nexus Player Original Android Development] zulu99:
My suggestion was just to understand if your problem happen only when you are in streaming or also from the same file downloaded. In this way you can understand if is a network problem or a software decode problem.
[Nexus Player Original Android Development] Otisrhw:
Show box servers suck, ads hang and force close, try hd cinema!
[Nexus Player Original Android Development] TheShamsMan:
What up Lollirockers!

I was wondering if anyone can suggest a VPN or DNS app or service that will work on the leanback apps running this ROM?

I've tried changing the DNS information within my WiFi settings, and it seems to work, because I can access the non-leanback version of Pandora from Canada. I just can't get it to work with Netflix.

Anyone outside of the US getting US Netflix on this ROM?

Thanks hommies!
[Nexus Player Original Android Development] zulu99:
With Android you can do millions things more than Android TV.

But Just for curiosity, do you know something that you can do with Android TV and not with Android ?
[Nexus Player Original Android Development] chibluboy:
Plex Server

Am I able to use my Nexus Player running LolliRock as a PLEX SERVER?

Since it is always on and I have my 5TB drive networked drive I figured this would be a perfect device to run as my media server.
[Nexus Player Original Android Development] zulu99:
Read this forum https://forums.plex.tv/index.php/topic/98822-plex-media-server-on-android-stick/

Or you can also install Ubuntu x86 on top Android in chroot enviroment with https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.meefik.linuxdeploy
[Nexus Player Original Android Development] zulu99:
If you want try the Nvidia Grid Service on your Nexus Player ( gaming service that streams popular PC games to your Shiled device from cloud )

Download the NVIDIA SHIELD HUB APP from https://plus.google.com/+IsraelOliverJr414515/posts/QGpjczPY7fb

Install it and create a shortcut for the leanback activity like in this video ( the video show how to run a specific Android TV app on Android )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMqz8e33oq8

Test the GRID Service.
[Nexus Player Original Android Development] amberkalvin:
If I'm not mistaken...

One way would be to install kodi and add all the libraries then just have it announce your library across the network. I have done this with a raspberry pi in the past and it does work. I did not do that with the intention of making it a full time server, it just happened that way.

This may be a better option than plex? Let me know what you think?
[Nexus Player Original Android Development] TheShamsMan:
Hey guys,

Just wanted to follow up on my previous post.

After extensive research, I've found that changing DNS information on the Android is quite easy, but on this ROM, it blocks all Internet access. All guides instruct me to leave all info as is, but only change DNS 1 and 2. Save and reboot. Doesn't work. I've tried without Reboot.

I found DNS information online that works. I tried it on my iPhone 5 and it works perfectly. I can access American Netflix anywhere, no problem. Using the same information on the NP, I won't be able to connect to anything at all, through browser or otherwise.

I was wondering if someone can shed some light as to why it won't allow access to the internet?

Thanks!
[Nexus Player Original Android Development] chibluboy:
Thanks, I'll have to look in to that as well.
[Nexus Player Original Android Development] zulu99:
maybe i not understand your question but .....

i can change the dns on my router when i want and the nexus player like all others devices in my house , pc, fridges etc. get the dns from the router.

I can change also the dns only on nexus player while on the router there is another dns by default.

To do that, when i create a new wifi connection, i can setup and use a different dns on my nexus player like on all others android, windows linux, brillo devices.

p.s.

To change your ip geographic location for some services with geographic restrictions, you must use a vpn.

In this way your ip will change and consequently also your geographic location.

( you can't solve just changing dns )

If a service works only in US, you must found a vpn service that offer IP of US and use it.

But attention that some services can block the most used vpn services.
[Nexus Player Original Android Development] TheShamsMan:
Hey thanks for the suggestion! I made the change with my router and it's working great. I just didn't understand why I couldn't do it directly on the Nexus Player. No biggie.

I was wondering if you by chance know of a way I can run the leanback Play Store along side the regular? I'd like access to all the leanback apps, and I'm assuming I can only do that through the leanback version? But I also didn't want to give up access to the regular version. Is there any way I can have both?

Thanks!
[Nexus Player Original Android Development] danigraham:
Not really an answer. Just wanted to agree.

I just came back to Lollirock from Cyanogen because it would only allow leanback playstore/gapps (we couldn't download any of the apps we had when we were originally on Lollirock and that was a no go) but it did offer Leanback Launcher, so you could switch between the two: trebuchet launcher and leanback version. That we liked but we really wanted full playstore, and tried everything with no luck.

I would also like to see leanback integrated here but I don't think the developer wants to do that. ?

But... at least I can access the full playstore now, thanks again for the ROM [MENTION=1469500]zulu99[/MENTION] !
[Nexus Player Original Android Development] zulu99:
You can run Leanback Launcher like an app from inside your regular Android Launcher in this way:

Install Leanback Launcher

Create a shortcut of the Leanback Launcher Activity with the tool that you see in the video:

https://youtu.be/NMqz8e33oq8

You can create the shortcut also for a single leanback app, but in this way, with only one shourtcut, you will able to open all others.

But i repeat, Leanback stuff add just limitations to Android. Now and in future.

A regular app is and will be forever better than the leanback counterpart, for me, because just with directional keys you have interaction limits and the developers can't create smart and fast user interface. But this is not a problem, it's just a matter of preference.

Two versions of the Play Store i think is not possible, but Leanback apps are few, you can count it on your fingers, so is easy to download the apk.

Generally is not and should not be so, because an app should have both activities, and you should be able to download it also from regular Play Store.

Infact for Google Music and for many others apps is so. They follow the Google guidelines. They have in the same app both activities.

The problem is only with protected movies apps that not follow Google guidelines.

But i not understand why Google accept two versions of the same app in Play Store.

Permit this, mean also that If you have bought an app, the developer can create the same app just with Leanback stuff added and force you to buy again.

This is normal ? Why Google permits on Google Play this things ?

The problem of twins apps is more widespread with apps like Netflix, Instant Video, and others apps made for rent / buy movies.

But in last times, many users are using alternative service which include all others and without restrictions.

The problem is that it is an illegal service based on peer-to-peer torrent technology. popcorn-time.se for example.

I'm against piracy, but for sure the behaviour of some Company is not conforming to the rules, but this is not a justification for using a pirate service.

Android TV is contributing only to the already enormous fragmentation of Android, without solving any problem and creating many more.

But this is only my personal opinion, I hope to be wrong.