I have problems with M8 Amlogic tvbox recently bought from Geekbuying (and so far no response to emails requesting support - not good)
The unit looks well build and basic performance, speed, display etc is OK. I've flashed the latest firmware (quite easy). But, big but...
UK TV streaming doesn't work properly:
BBCi player app: sound, but no video (black screen)
4od app: plays downloaded videos, but streaming live content gets "can't play this video" error message
Eurosport player app: live content gets "can't play this video" error message
Can anyone shed a little light into what is wrong here please ??
is there a missing codec? or a missing app ?
thanks, I'd love to fix this - then the M8 will be a great performer - at the moment its pretty crap.
Not much of a response....
Apirl said:
Sorry for your problems.But it seems these days are Chinese Dangon Boat Festival,maybe they have a several days holiday.So you can contact them frequently.
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Response received from Geekbuying was basically,
"sorry you're having problems, there is nothing we can do, if the factory produce an update to flash we'll put it on the blog"
the request for return and refund for something not fit for purpose was ignored.
Here is one who won't be trading with Geekbuying again.
Apirl said:
Hello guy,how is your M8 now?
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Hi,
Still the same, trying updated flash rom, but so far no improvement.
Happy to stick with it if the help is found to resolve the problem, I'm sure I'm not the only one having problems playing streaming video.
is this the square box? OTT TV BOX Model M8?
zmalach said:
is this the square box? OTT TV BOX Model M8?
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yes it is
gmincca said:
yes it is
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Did you get anywhere with this? I have the same problem...
Try to install the update or re-install the ROM. I never has these problems before
Hi Sorry to hear your having problems
I have just bought the same OTT 4K TV BOX, Quad core, 2GB ram 8GB internal from amazon listed as fully loaded and rooted.
I can only speak for my box purchased sept 2014 and so far it works flawlessly... if you want UK live channels (i'm in uk anyway) google
for Mobdro.apk and install it to the device it works and stream a multitude of channels including all uk channels.
The included XBMC 13.1 works well and is preinstalled with all the popular video addons which auto update to fix dead links and non working
streams and 80% stream very well, yes some links are dead but thats the nature of the 3rd party apps put on these devices, the manufacture
and seller has NO control over these links etc.
I have taught myself how to completely reinstall the devices firmware and do a reinstall of apps and even the XBMC custom setup and again the
box works perfectly. To backup XBMC use USB SD Card pluggin 1.1.6 it's by far the quickest and best option to avoid problems.
My box has a startup logo saying Droidplayer.co.uk if yours is the same google them, go to their website where you can download the
DP app v2.1, put this on the device, uninstall XBMC and reinstall it via the app which will also redo the custom addons (big download though)
Early days for me but so far so good, box is well made with slightly skittish software here and there due to the 3rd party apps etc.
Provided remote is rubbish so have ordered a 3 in 1 air mouse keyboard remote.
Not much progress
Shalesy said:
Did you get anywhere with this? I have the same problem...
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Hi,
Not much progress really, I've flashed various upgrades (now on 7/22 firmware) with a little improvement; 1024p HD now works for playing videos (best with MXplayer so far) and BBCi player now works in HD, but no progress with Eurosport Player which refuses to play the live streaming data "cannot play this video" - yet it will play the videos from previous days. I guess either Eurosport use a different format for the live stream and the M8 is missing either a codec or some DRM data.
It is such a shame because my main use for a tv box is Eurosport player, then video quality overall is the best of any Android TV boxes I've tried, but the others all worked with Eurosport !
Does anyone have any clues ??
gmincca said:
Hi,
Not much progress really, I've flashed various upgrades (now on 7/22 firmware) with a little improvement; 1024p HD now works for playing videos (best with MXplayer so far) and BBCi player now works in HD, but no progress with Eurosport Player which refuses to play the live streaming data "cannot play this video" - yet it will play the videos from previous days. I guess either Eurosport use a different format for the live stream and the M8 is missing either a codec or some DRM data.
It is such a shame because my main use for a tv box is Eurosport player, then video quality overall is the best of any Android TV boxes I've tried, but the others all worked with Eurosport !
Does anyone have any clues ??
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I hope you've managed to get this sorted by now. But I just got mine and had the exact same problem as you did. Reading this thread, and the response from @leezaal got me thinking about using the stuff from droidplayer.co.uk and sticking it on my box. So I tried it, and it works like a charm. Here's the link to get it working for anyone who's looking at this:
http://www.droidplayer.co.uk/blog/?p=351
So all in all, follow that link and you should be sorted, thanks to @leezaal and the fully loaded XBMC from that website is very useful.
Hi Willmott1992 and thanks for your offer of help, but it didn't.
I have lots more in XBMC (I guess this is "video underground"), but my subscribed Eurosport Player still won't / can't play live video stream and the problem only seems to exist with the M8 box.
Does anyone know what codecs / DRM files are required to enable the Eurosport Player app to function ?
Vega S89 wont play live stream on Eurosport player to. Subscription is ok, it works on other devices (Galaxy Tab p7500 with4.4.4, P6 and Xperia L.
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Why not ??
X1iGGVV said:
Vega S89 wont play live stream on Eurosport player to. Subscription is ok, it works on other devices (Galaxy Tab p7500 with4.4.4, P6 and Xperia L.
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Hi X1iGGVV,
Thank you for your response.
Do you (or anyone else) know why Eurosport Player won't play ?? This is what I'm trying to find out and hopefully find a fix.
I contacted Eurosport technical support and their reply was (as expected) 'Android TV box is not supported, only phone and tablet' - loosely translated as we don't want to know - funny because it works on my old Justop Droibox Lite tv box. Sadly they wouldn't answer the question what codecs are required for it to work.
If Eurosport player works on most android devices (including TV boxes) then it ought to work on a high spec. unit like the M8 ??
Hi!
I have try to get some help from Huawei P7 community, and instructions about to get colection of missing Codecs. It is about streaming codecs and compatibility with Mali-450 GP. P7 have the same graphics and there is a product that is made for Europian countrys. Hope to get some respons from the owners or developers for P7, just for the reason that is wrighte HW and tha I know that Eurosport Player working on P7. Specific Codecs have to be coped in the Vega box and in the directories that Eurosport Player looks for the codesc. I know tha this is a way looking backwords for Vega development just for that fokus is on 4K videos playing a lokal and not sreaming. I´ll not give upp, it will works!
On the other side I can undersend Eurosport Player support team that no help leaks from the team about hardware that is not fully compatible (codecs include) with europian market. It is not Eurosport team that have to fix it. It.s a developers of HW that have not think about something that is far away from China , Eurosport Player works from Europian IP networks and it is not posible for China developers to check upp every single app.
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Hy everyone!
I have a same problem. I have MK808B and the Eurosport Player app doesn't work. It just loading and loading the strem or video but it never ended. Have somebody a solution? I'm very sad because I bought MK808B for Eurosport Player...:crying:
Euro works on torrent stream and kodi if your struggling through the box - I've got the m8s its OK 4k OTT TV box only get 40mbs on a 100mbs line disappointing
Little back up about or ROMs or even twrp recovery #averageexperience
I am chasing around looking for roms for mine...
I am just downing latest firmware
http://chinagadgetsreviews.com/down...kat-4-4-2-stock-firmware-for-m8-tv-box-2.html
least I am led to believe is the latest be my guest to correct me...
I have never had a problem yet and I use the latest kodi isanguard and the hushmar repo to install everything...
I only use my box for kodi so its set up to auto boot kodi with xbmc launcher apk, I also have kore apk installed on my htc one to remotely use kodi its pretty cool....
Which add-ons are you trying to us for LIVE TV watching ? Filmon is always a valuable source.
I use TR Installer in kodi and use the community builds. They are stacked!!
Jalfrezi said:
Euro works on torrent stream and kodi if your struggling through the box - I've got the m8s its OK 4k OTT TV box only get 40mbs on a 100mbs line disappointing
Little back up about or ROMs or even twrp recovery #averageexperience
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if using torrent use a vpn
or I strongly recommend you stay away from torrents.
Trying to get MX Pro running on My son's N7 2012. I own Pro from the app store, and found that the play store build doesn't support 5.0 yet, so I downloaded the test build from: https://sites.google.com/site/mxvpen/translation/test-build
I installed MX Player Pro and the Tegra 3 Codec.
MX Crashes and won't start, so I downloaded the non Pro, and it starts/plays just fine. I'm guessing that as a Play store Pro user it might be a license issue, or is it something else?
Thanks,
Nevermind... I should have read through the other thread all the way through. I see I'm not alone. Please ignore.
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Guys,
Have a problem.
I have installed the MX player straight from Play Store to my mobile. I can see and enable the equalizer.
When I download the MX Player from Play Store (same source) to my Android Box, I'm unable to see the equalizer.
I have scoured all over the internet but am unable to find any sort of fix/advises.
Can someone help me?
Thanks.
rvn_roy said:
Guys,
Have a problem.
I have installed the MX player straight from Play Store to my mobile. I can see and enable the equalizer.
When I download the MX Player from Play Store (same source) to my Android Box, I'm unable to see the equalizer.
I have scoured all over the internet but am unable to find any sort of fix/advises.
Can someone help me?
Thanks.
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We regret to inform you that equalizer is not yet available on TV devices. However, we will highlight this with our relevant team and do our best to support it in the future.
Thank You.
MXPlayer said:
We regret to inform you that equalizer is not yet available on TV devices. However, we will highlight this with our relevant team and do our best to support it in the future.
Thank You.
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Hi Mate,
Thanks for the update . But what puzzles me is that I have 2 android boxes running on the same version on MX Player version 1.10.52 . The latest android box which I have purchased which is running on Android Version 9 which is having this issue.
My older android box which is running on Android Version 6.0.1 seems to be working fine.
I just started up mx player to watch a few videos on my Sony TV with android TV and the app is not usable after the last update.
The app is now locked into portrait orientation and the directions inputs for navigation won't respond. The cursor is stuck on the button that used to be the settings menu, but with that menu gone, I can't access it to make any changes. It has basically become unusable with a remote.
I managed to find a workaround, but its not a permanent solution. I have a bluetooth keyboard with touchpad I can pair to my tv, so I was able to access the settings menu by starting a video. There was no way to change the list rotation or re-enable remote control inputs. But after exiting the video, the settings menu button reappeared and remote control navigation re-enabled. Restarting the app also reset the orientation detection to landscape.
I'm not sure why all this worked, but it seems to have made MX Player functional on Android TV again.
The same issue applies to Android tablets. Had to roll back to the previous version.
At Mi TV Box the same, mx Player pro opens in portrait mode.
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daromar said:
At Mi TV Box the same, mx Player pro opens in portrait mode.
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The_Madhatter said:
The same issue applies to Android tablets. Had to roll back to the previous version.
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DimeDrl said:
I just started up mx player to watch a few videos on my Sony TV with android TV and the app is not usable after the last update.
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We are sorry to bring you this inconveniences. We have already released a quick fix for the same. However, due to the Google Play Policy changes, it may take several days to review the updates. Meanwhile, request you to install the latest build from our website (http://apps.mxplayer.in/download) and it may fix your issues.
MXPlayer said:
We are sorry to bring you this inconveniences. We have already released a quick fix for the same. However, due to the Google Play Policy changes, it may take several days to review the updates. Meanwhile, request you to install the latest build from our website (http://apps.mxplayer.in/download) and it may fix your issues.
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Since last update (1.15.4), MX player Pro was not usable on my Sony Android TV
I have installed from your website site 1.15.5
Cool, the app is now in good orientation
Arggggg, the doesn't find any videos !!
For me even the latest download offered above has the player now fixed in portrait mode when not playing a video.
This does not work well for android TV.
1. Last update makes mx player pro stops when I touch the screen any place while playing.
2. The between the buttons are too narrow to control.
3. I used this app so well before the update which produces the error and the unconvenience as above. What's the clue for update?
tangojava said:
1. Last update makes mx player pro stops when I touch the screen any place while playing.
2. The between the buttons are too narrow to control.
3. I used this app so well before the update which produces the error and the unconvenience as above. What's the clue for update?
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We are sorry for the trouble you had with our app.
We have already rolled out an update to address this issue. Please update your MX Player Pro to the latest and you should not have this problem.