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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon abrenoch

Android tv pie hyperion grabber

Open timstipdonk opened this issue 5 years ago • 23 comments

Ever since I've updated my mibox S to android pie the hyperion screen grabber stopped working in all media apps (even the ones that did use to work, I'm aware of the DRM limitations). Do you think android pie has changed some of its api's and therefore the grabber is unable to work in certain applications?

timstipdonk avatar Jan 10 '20 22:01 timstipdonk

Hey there. Nothing with the apis have changed in android pie. Perhaps there was a firmware change or something with your hardware? It's unfortunate that the app's behavior can be unpredictable across different hardware, but that is the nature of this sort of thing.

abrenoch avatar Jan 15 '20 15:01 abrenoch

I have the same problem. Any solution??? Thanks for your great work.

linarense avatar Jan 23 '20 10:01 linarense

Same here. After updating to Android 9 it stopped working everywhere except app drawer.

Did a factory default and installed the latest release. Still not working. Used it in Kodi and Smart YouTube TV.

scotie avatar Feb 08 '20 16:02 scotie

Is there a way to provide some logs to help to debug this point ? Same problem here with Kodi and Emby

mchauvel avatar Feb 19 '20 21:02 mchauvel

Unfortunately I don't think this is the sort of thing having logs is going to help... If the app appears to work correctly in the app drawer but nowhere else, that would mean the grabber is running, but that there must be a protected surface drawing the rest of the screen content (which seems odd). When the android system is delivering an image from a protected surface to the grabber, it comes thru as just black. Without some detailed changelog of what exactly has changed since the update (I looked around a little but came up empty), I'm not sure I can speak with any confidence on this problem.

Really stinks, wish I could offer more help right now!

There might be a chance to get this running again if you can find a different ROM to run, but I'm just speculating

abrenoch avatar Feb 19 '20 21:02 abrenoch

Thanks abrenoch. Could help if we root the mibox S?

linarense avatar Feb 20 '20 12:02 linarense

It is possible rooting might help, if you use something like this. I can't guarantee anything here though. To be honest, rooting might have its own set of drawbacks as far as DRM behavior goes.

abrenoch avatar Feb 21 '20 14:02 abrenoch

With Kodi in Video Settings, i disabled "MediaCodec (Surface)" et let enabled "MediaCodec" and grabber (and hyperion kodi pluggin) works now. Can other mibox owner confirm this ?

mchauvel avatar Feb 22 '20 10:02 mchauvel

With Kodi in Video Settings, i disabled "MediaCodec (Surface)" et let enabled "MediaCodec" and grabber (and hyperion kodi pluggin) works now. Can other mibox owner confirm this ?

I couldn't find this setting in Kodi. I'm using Kodi 18.5. P.S. It 8s working in the Kodi menu, but not during playback

scotie avatar Feb 22 '20 10:02 scotie

See my video settings screen (in french) Screenshot_20200222-122036

mchauvel avatar Feb 22 '20 11:02 mchauvel

See my video settings screen (in french)

Yes, this works, but it affects the playback in a bad way.

scotie avatar Feb 22 '20 11:02 scotie

I've found that casting a YouTube video from my phone also works with grabber. Pretty sure it didn't work in the previous Android version

scotie avatar Feb 24 '20 08:02 scotie

Hi, any new regarding this issue? Something I can do to help?

scotie avatar Apr 22 '20 10:04 scotie

same issue here, working only with smartube.... and android menu... with mxplayer only if you change to software decode.. not working with hw+ , any fix??

coolwormgit avatar May 19 '20 10:05 coolwormgit

same issue here, working only with smartube.... and android menu... with mxplayer only if you change to software decode.. not working with hw+ , any fix??

Do you mean Smart YouTube TV? How did you get it to work? It's not working for me after Android 9 update.

As I understand Mi box s with Android 9 always has deinterlacing enabled, hence only software decoding is working

scotie avatar May 19 '20 14:05 scotie

yes smart youtube... i didnt do anything... it was the only working app...

coolwormgit avatar May 19 '20 20:05 coolwormgit

Any news regarding this issue? Something to try?

scotie avatar Jun 18 '20 17:06 scotie

Today when I was watching netflix I realized that the ambilight is on and working. Then I closed the app, opened again and it's never working again since then. So I think there has to be a service or something and if we can manage to kill or froze that, maybe we can use the framegrabber in drm protected apps.

iy2koi avatar Dec 11 '20 06:12 iy2koi

Today i tried Hyperion.ng + Google Chromecast 4 and it's working ! maybe because Chromecast 4 using Android 10 ? well youtube app playback isn't smooth playback :( but leds works and Kodi app working awesome only for 1080p ! I didn't have to turn off MediaCodec (Surface) and for 4k resolution isn't smooth playback but problem is maybe in my hyperion.ng settings because in my capturing hardware i can't set 4k resolution, i can choose only 1080p, one times i had similar problem but i forgot how solved it. Recommended use Android version hyperion tv !!!

PeterMalast avatar Jan 12 '22 20:01 PeterMalast

Any news on mibox s? It's weird that only the menus work even if the content is not drm protected.

ihrapsa avatar Jan 22 '22 18:01 ihrapsa

I have Mi TV from Xiaomi running Android Pie and screen grab works fine in it. But in mibox, even common apps like YouTube, Plex don't work

psbankar avatar Mar 27 '22 09:03 psbankar

Same issue here with Mi Stick 4K. Menu is working but no played video is shown. No matter with which app (DRM or not). Anyone figure this out?

thehijacker avatar Apr 02 '23 19:04 thehijacker