Cool! The "1717" in the package name "com.semperpax.spmc1717" is intended, or just a typo? I'm using the USB storage for the KODI data, due to the Android permission issue, I need copy all the data to the new location that SPMC can access, so I need create a folder with the package name (/storage/usbotg/Android/data/com.semperpax.spmc1717), but the "1717" part of the name seems weird.

Fire TV 2nd gen. The splash screen picture is small, seems 720P, not 1080P.

Great, will test on Shield TV 2017.

The "1717" in the package name "com.semperpax.spmc1717" is intended

Nope ;)

Seems to fix my problem of a black screen when Amlogic is enabled and i play h.265 8bit 1080p

But it seems to disable hybrid playback when i play h.264 10-bit, I prefer the odd bit of corruption than an really jerky video with my cpu maxed out as the video is decoded in software mode only.

I have a tv box with an Amilogic S905X 2GB 8GB

Thanks for the fix

John.

Great!! I will be installing when I get home from work.

Brief Feedback:

Amcodec is still retained = joy for AML users like me, especially those that need high quality Hardware deinterlacing when using Krypton.

Unfortunately I could not activate the TvH PVR client, because as soon as EPG data was imported SPMC 17.x crashed. (Works fine in 16.x)

Partial Logcat (using WeTek play2 - ATV MM ROM):
https://pastebin.com/QiA2pwnR

does this install as a seperate install or upgrade? im guessing seperate

edit: its a seperate install running alongside SPMC 16

Let me us dm2912, but it should be separate as this should have a test key.

Question. I have a FTV2 and there is confusion about what version of SPMC I should install. I know the 17alpha seems to currently only offer the armeabi-v7a version. Now both CPU-Z and FireTV2 specs both say the chip is an arm 64 bit but when I look up the system info in either KODI or SPMC it tells me that the cpu is an aarch64. Who do I trust and should I hold out for a aarch64 version to try or if needed can I update from armeabi-v7a to aarch64 when released? Or is armeabi-v7a the official way to go?

Edit: If this is in the wrong thread please transfer to the appropriate one.

SPMC 17.x crashes after loading IPTV channels using PVR IPTV simple client. on nvidia shield 2017 5.2

my app dont work on SPMC 17 .
it just keep loading, its as if it take ages to connect to my server running json information which is passed to the plugin.

http://paste.semperpax.com/pxbc7omtg

cool testing now, and thank you..

well its passed the first test.

daytimes i have kodi running pretty much all day with google play music, and official 17 and 18 both force close everytime it gets to the end of an album (and frequently at random as well)..

spmc 17, smoothly through with no problems

@wrxtasy same here with the TVH pvr client, nothing to see in the debug log...

So the alpha build seems to combine the issues I was having with SPMC and the Android version of Kodi:

UPnP still doesn't work. Since the Airplay option was added to the UPnP menu it's all screwed up.

Kodi Android (and this version of SPMC) doesn't sync to display properly. For example- when I try to play a 25fps video with sped up audio @ 23.97 (synced to display) the picture judders, and the audio is all screwed up. With SPMC 16.7 the video/audio plays back properly, smooth, no judders or lost frames.

This is very important as there is a fair amount of 25fps video with sped up audio which SPMC can reclock properly @ 23.97.

Does this have the feature to launch leanback Apks? For example Vevo apk has mobile and leanback in the same Apk so SPMC would only launch mobile version of the Apk

I found the video playback stopped automatically when I press the back button? Is this by design? Is there any way to override this behavior?

It's a feature of SPMC, see - #189

I downloaded https://github.com/koying/SPMC/blob/spmc-krypton/system/keymaps/keyboard.xml and removed Stop <browser_back>Stop</browser_back> from this file and put it to /storage/usbotg/Android/data/com.semperpax.spmc1717/files/.spmc/userdata/keymaps/, but it doesn't work.

Yes and I and many others actually prefer the SPMC Back button - Stop function vs what standard Kodi uses, particularly when using Wireless remote that have no dedicated Stop button.

Long press (ie hold down) the back button if you want standard - Back button Kodi functionality.
Go to the other thread to discuss the issue instead of clogging up this one.

Hi,
i installed the spmc 17alpha on minix U1 (amlogic S905).
With enabled HW-acceleration and disabled audio passthrough I am getting good results. Fluent video and frameswitching is working well.

When I am enabling the audio-passthrough, then no audio output is recognizable - AC3 and DTS.

Is this the expected result for audio passthrough at this time or does it make sense to change some audio settings?

Good work!
SaEt9000

Looks like ambilight/Hyperion support has stopped. With androidproject enabled I get no image sent. Tried various setting changes , disables mediacode (surface)

Quick update, for anyone else using you need to disable the grabber then it's all good!

Other than that, it's pretty sweet!! Fixed all my sound sync issues on the Nvidia Shield

just tried it, passthrough not working for me (shield tv) while latest stable release do the job.
Thanks for the work anyway

is there a way to disable the TVH per client from xml editing? i cannot load SPMC anymore cause it crashes every time after enabling it

This build also has the same issues with opening Android APKs as v16.7. That is, it doesn''t open most of them set as favourites.
As per 16.7 cases #911, #917 & #933

As mentioned above, this release won't allow you to launch android apps directly.

Thanks, I have read it all again and still fail to see that mentioned. I must be blind.

I was referring to your comment lol

@GeorgeSands Thanks, mate, that's probably it. Shame though, because FTMC is still at Jarvis and Krypton is quite a leap forward in general. Might as well gone back to vanilla stock Kodi, unless SPMC offers something else...

It seems we all are wasting our time, because @koying is posting at Kodi forum, and his position is Team-Kodi Developer.
https://forum.kodi.tv/member.php?action=profile&uid=36090

Maybe some words here to finish all this mystery...

As I understood it, SPMC was a fork of Kodi pretty much for Koying's personal use for some extra features. If you check the code here you will see there was a version bump and updates done about 12 days ago, fingers crossed Team Kodi and Koying are working together on the main build, and then we can benefit from a specific build with SPMC.
For those waiting for new builds, have you created tickets with your issues so people can help resolve?

Just to let everyone know Koying has just announced on his twitter he has stopped all development of kodi and spmc

Lol this is the badest Support over last month. Its good whene now end.

Shame liked your work @koying, luckily I bought a Vero4K after the inactivity the past few months, loving it!
Hopefully the Shield can come in action again with Kodi 18 or 19 when it has matured on Android.

Spmc alpha works perfectly for me for what i use it for, so will keep using it until using kodi 18 is necessary

@Theetjuh I'm looking at the Vero 4k myself. Can you comment on auto refresh rate change, HDR10 and Audio passthrough capabilities. Is there anything that SPMC does better than OSMC at this point?
I briefly looked at Kodi 18, but I understand that auto refresh rate and color space changes still don't work, correct?

It is an Android issue as far as I know, this will change with Oreo, but untill then apps can’t do anything about it it seems.

The Vero 4K does all the good stuff, but it is still being build to perfection.
All the basic stuff works out-of-the-box, for 10bit you need SSH access atm to change a setting.
But Sam, the maintainer of OSMC, I got all confidence in him to make it better and better.
I’ve used OSMC over OE and LE on my RPi with much love, so I know what he and his team can offer.

Nothing against Koying btw, he delivered nice work as well, thanks for all your code!

+1 I only have good things to say about SPMC. When I was using Kodi, audio passthrough worked in 10% of the cases, SPMC is 95%. But having recently spent quite a bit of money for a 4k tv and a 4k receiver, I really need the HDR chain to work and, bonus point, an active support in fixing bugs.

It's really a pity to see you go away. I secretly hoped that with Kodi 18, the features and hacks would get fused. Please overlook Scoty43's comment, I'm quite shocked about it myself. You are giving special non-profit support, all alone by yourself, for a device and he keeps nagging about to less support, that's wrong in any way.

I took a closer look to it, and MrMC is another fork of Kodi, isn't it? If so it just means you gave up on your on fork to put (more or less) same work into this fork, but this time not lonely?

If I'm getting it right, this means not only your way of working, but also we (the users) benefit from it?

But I must also say that in my opinion the third party support (Repos) made Kodi as popular as it is. If MrMC sticks to the politics to not support it, it will probably stay a niche product.

I wish you all the best for your future. Without any doubts you are a big loose for the Kodi development on Android.

Sad news for sure, but MASSIVE THANK YOU to koying for all the great builds he gave, still use SPMC Jarvis in my car's android head unit and several cheap Chinese boxes round the house, and probably will for the life of that kit... nothing comes close. Thank you.

Definitely a big thank you to Koying for all his hard work. I will continue to use SPMC as the most recent Alpha 2 works great for me. So is he also stepping away from Kodi as well as SPMC? I recall he was working on the main Kodi development lately.

@CLFNole yes, see his Tweet - https://twitter.com/koying/status/975425129239990273

Chris Browet
‏@koying

After many years of feeling lonely as the Android guy for @koditv and handling #SPMC, I'm happy to announce I'll be joining the @MrMC_tv team.

As a side-effect, my involvement in Kodi and SPMC comes to an end as of today.

https://mrmc.tv/2018/03/18/welcome-our-new-mrmc-team-member-koying-you-know-the-one-from-spmc-and-kodi-fame/

So has anyone tried out MrMC? Is it worth switching?

There is a Lite version, try that. Depends on whether or not the restrictions of MrMC effect/annoy you.

Always sad news when choice drops but Good on koyning and may be thrive

Ill hang on the Mr MMC decision till i see how it works with the retroplayer world and IARL

though going by the comment below im not holding out hope

Re: Will MrMC ever include RetroPlayer support?
Post 07 Dec 2016, 14:36

I would say it's a 100% no, it's not something that we think should be a part of a media player.

I only ever use SPMC as a video file player and find it excellent, Could we not get a video playback only version of SPMC.

Is it not the and ability to use addons to play some streamed content that is the legal problem with KODI/SPMC

I have never use SPMC to play streamed video so my knowledge about this may be mistaken.

Thank-You for all your work on SPMC.

John.

I looked into MrMC but I can't use the Emby add-on (only the native client) and I can't use AeonMQ as a skin. I'm thinking I would rather be using a build behind using Kodi than locked in like something from Apple.

@T800mc what difference are you wanting in the Emby experience? Try the lite version of MrMC. It didn't have a delete option with their Emby client but that got fixed.
It's otherwise fine for me in regards to Emby.
The skin issue will always exist, and what annoyed me most today with the full version I just brought, no Weather or ability to have any Android app launch from it, eg Netflix, YouTube etc...

@TheseUserNamesAreMakingMeThirsty
I run a rather large library. Using the Emby add-on it works pretty much full speed. Anything else so far has not been good enough for speed. Also, it doesn't integrate into the skin as well.
You just put me off it even further. It sounds like a crippled version of SPMC.

Yes, it's crippled and I can't consider using it in its current state.

More than anything else, the lack of skins thing is a problem for me. Looks like I'll be switching back to Kodi.

Ordered a Vero 4k and started watching the Oscars forum to familiarize myself. Looks very promising and the support team is very active! Looks like Android TV needs some more time to catch up with proper switching of resolutions, color spaces and refresh rates, no matter what app we use. SPMC made the best of what is possible at the moment.

OSMC forum...

Does vero support 4k and hdr playback of from netflix and amazon.