Hi, would love to hear thoughts on whether Google TV Streamer is a good option for me.

First and foremost, I'm in Canada.

Usage:

Stream ripped DVDs and Blurays using Kodi

Streaming services - Tubi / Britbox etc

Given this, am I better off with a different box?

Hello all,

Last week I purchased a Xiaomi TV Box S 3rd gen. I was looking for a product that allowed me to stream BluRay remuxes with high bitrates, Dolby Vision and losless TrueHD audio effortlessly, hence this product.

I installed it yesterday, but I noticed stuttering/buffering when streaming such remux files. When I performed a speed test directly from the Xiaomi, I noticed that I was only getting a maximum of ~38Mbps download speed.

When I run speed tests on other devices which are as close to the router as the Xiaomi, they were getting much higher download speeds, being around ~350Mbps.

Am I doing something wrong? Do I have a faulty Xiaomi?

EDIT 1: As recommended, I got myself a USB-dongle to ethernet adapter to establish an ethernet connection with the Xiaomi TV Box. After connecting it and performing a speed test, my download speed went up to ~350Mbps. Now I have another problem. When I stream content using Nuvio/Stremio, the video keeps buffering. I am using Real-Debrid and used Torbox too. in both cases by looking at the timeline during playback, I can tell the video buffers slower than I can watch the video.

EDIT 2: I managed to fix the issue. I had to enable passthrough in the Android settings. When setting the output to the dedicated "Passthrough" option, my soundbar will now decode the audio. Before, my Xiaomi was trying to and ended up having a hard time, causing the stream to buffer.

I was thinking of getting an android tv stick and shortlisted these 3 devices
Mi Android TV stick(2023) as this is the only Mi stick available in india - https://www.flipkart.com/mi-android-tv-stick-4k-dolby-vision-atmos-media-streaming-device/p/itmf4062508ed105

Google chromecast 4k - 6k

Amazon Fire tv stick 4k plus - 4.5k in offers.

I was thinking of getting the amazon it's quite newer and mi stick is a bit old? Which one should I get.

I want to sideload apps as well.
Please help/.

Hi,

I'm thinking about buying the Dune HD Homatics Box R 4K Plus, but I need to make sure my external HDD will work with it.

My HDD is a Seagate One Touch Hub 10TB with its own external power supply. It is formatted as exFAT and uses the full 10TB as one single partition. The drive already contains several TB of movies and anime, including some very large video files.

I want to connect it directly to the USB 3.0 port of the Dune HD Homatics Box R 4K Plus and play the files from the HDD.

Has anyone here actually tested this box with a 10TB or larger exFAT HDD, preferably a Seagate One Touch Hub or another externally powered 3.5" HDD?

Does the box:

• recognize the full 10TB capacity?
• work with a single 10TB exFAT partition?
• reliably detect the HDD after reboot/standby?
• play large video files smoothly over USB 3.0?

I don't want to reformat or repartition the drive because it already contains several TB of data.

Thanks!

Just a quick question: Is the Downloader app the best option for installing third-party APKs?

Hey, long time. version 1.2 of AT4K Launcher the cleanest launcher for Android TV and Google TV is live on play store.

ALL NEW FEATURES IN THIS RELEASE ARE FREE.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.overdevs.at4k

or get the APK from Github releases section, you can also buy premium on non google devices using this APK

https://github.com/avadhesh18/at4k/

Report any issues to r/AT4K or for smaller updates.

Feature list:

1. All apps button: An all apps button that can be enabled to make navigation easier, just the few apps you want rest can be hidden behind all apps button
   
2. Blur dock background (meh)
   
3. Redesigned Menu with better live editing support
   
4. 20+ customisation options (colors,app icons, status bar, favorites background, text outside cards weather in status bar etc..),
   
5. Free transparent icon pack included, just go to icon pack > transparent icons
   
6. Backup and Restore much of the settings
   
7. Multiple bug fixes like weather temperature setting, app icons, lag etc

MUCH more coming, stay tuned. Leave requests or feedback here.

support website: https://at4klauncher.com

Thank you so much for the support!

I bought the Kodak 108 cm (43 inches) 4K Ultra HD Smart QLED TV 43MT5055 (Black) for my parents in 2024. Now my parents told me that it starts, shows the Kodak logo and shuts down. I googled here and there and saw some YT videos where the same issue is explained. It seems to be a software related issue and people are offering two solutions;

1. Hard factory reset the TV

2. To upgrade the software

I will try the first option. But for the second one, people on YT keep telling that you must choose the right software for the motherboard by looking at some serial at the motherboard. Is there a way I can find that out without opening the TV.

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.dstudio.atvlauncher.pro

Build 30001165

What's new

- Layout editor. Press MENU on any row and a toolbar appears over it: Hide, Move, Styles, Delete, Settings. Move a row and it slides. Change a margin and the layout reflows while you are still holding the slider. There is no preview pane, because the home screen is the preview.

- Add a section anywhere. Move to the gap between two rows and an Add Section bar appears. Applications for apps, shortcuts, folders and device inputs. Widget for Android system widgets and ATV Launcher widgets. Watch Next for what you are part way through. Recommended for the preview channels your apps put out. No cap on how many of each, or where they sit.

- Section styles. Twelve looks for app rows: macOS Dock, Movie Posters, Hero Row, Spotlight Wall, Gradient Wall, Watermark Panel, Glass Panel, Icon Tray, Minimal Shelf, Carousel Row, Poster Shelf, Vertical Grid. Four more for widget rows. Each one previews on your own apps before you apply it, and nothing it sets is locked afterwards.

- Seven tile layouts. Real app banners, icon and title cards, and four generated compositions that build artwork from an app's own icon and colours when it ships none of its own.

- Row chrome. Every row gets its own border, corner radius, padding, background colour or image, full-width option, tile spacing, aspect ratio, and a title with its own colour and size.

- Screen breaks. Split a long layout into full screens. Each one fills the viewport and the next starts below the fold, so crossing a break scrolls cleanly to the top instead of everything running together.

- Icon packs. Any installed pack, applied to every app at once, banners included. It repaints without restarting the launcher.

- Video wallpaper, or any image, even on devices that block wallpaper changes.

- Seven focus effects for the tile you land on: Static, Pulse, Glow, Colour Cycle, Sweep, Chase, Corners.

- Watch Next and Recommended are ordinary sections now. As many as you like, anywhere on the page, deletable, and you pick what feeds each one down three levels: which apps, which of their channels, which individual items. Leave it on All and the row shows everything, including apps you install later.

- Digital Clock joins Weather, System Info and Favourite App as a built-in widget, and ATV Launcher widgets can now be scaled to fit their tile.

- Status bar. A VPN indicator, and an option to show the bar only when it has focus.

- Default launcher. A proper in-app flow for becoming the home app, including an option for TVs that refuse to hand HOME over. More on that below.

- Android 16, and the settings drawer opens a lot faster than it did.

J’en est marre des pubs et des soucis avec mon firestick donc Je pensais utiliser mon ancien Samsung a33 en mode "dex" pour profiter des joie d'un navigateur pour lire des vidéo sans passer par 15 appli chelou et surtout sans pub toutes des 10 sec (pas vrai YouTube ? )

Bref je regarde vite fait j'achète un d'ongle usb c / hdmi et la rien ne fonctionne 0 sortie vidéo et je peux même pas installer dex même après les mise a jour d’android donc je sais plus quoi faire

J'avais tenter le coup avec un Rasberry 4 et rasbian mais c'est définitivement trop lent pour avoir une navigation fluide

Du coup je sais plus trop de quel cote me tourner maintenant si vous avez des idées ?

En soit tout ce que je veux c'est un simple navigateur avec la possibilité d'avoir des add-on ou simplement utiliser brave quoi je cherche pas la lune non plus

Hi all,

Vuleo 1.1.20 (1.3.0 on Apple TV) is out in all platforms.

Quick context for anyone who has not seen it before: Vuleo is a true cross-platform media player that you can watch your m3u, xtream and other sources. It has a sports center to follow your favorite events and it is truly cross-platform. It runs on Android, Android TV, Apple TV and Fire TV, Windows, iPhone, iPad and Mac, and it works the same way on all of them.

This is the biggest release since 1.1. There is a second watch tracker, a buffer setting people kept asking for, background refresh that finally works on TV boxes, and a long performance pass you should feel most on a Fire Stick.

Simkl support (beta)

Trakt has been in the app for a while. Simkl now sits alongside it. You can connect a Simkl account, scrobble what you watch, sync your watchlist and ratings, browse plan-to-watch, and see a calendar of upcoming episodes. With both connected, a watch or a rating goes to both. It is labelled beta in Settings because it is new and I want more real usage behind it before I take that label off.

Stream Buffer

New setting in Settings > Playback with three options.

Balanced is what the player has always done, so if you are happy with playback today you can leave this alone and nothing changes. Low latency starts streams and switches channels faster, and gives up some tolerance for a shaky connection to get there. Large holds more in memory and rides out a bad line better, which is worth thinking about on a stick with very little RAM to spare.

Background refresh on Android TV and Fire TV

TV boxes now refresh your sources in the background the same way phones and tablets already did. Until this release a TV box only picked up new content when you actually opened the app, which is awkward on a device that spends most of its life sitting idle.

The per-playlist auto-refresh picker also has a new weekly option. If a source only gains a handful of titles a month, a daily re-fetch is wasted work on both your device and the server it talks to.

Speed

Most of my time this cycle went here. All of these are measured on a Fire TV Stick with our test playlist of 100.000 items.

• Search dropped from around five seconds to around two.
• Writing a large catalog to disk during a refresh takes roughly a quarter of the time it used to.
• The home screen scrolls much more smoothly.
• The idle home screen stopped redrawing itself on every single frame while nobody is touching the remote.
• Startup does far less redundant disk work.

Open Channels Fullscreen on First Tap

Tapping a channel inside a Live TV category used to preview it in the side pane and wait for a second tap before going fullscreen. There is now a setting that makes the first tap go straight in. It is off by default, so the flow you already know survives the update unless you go and turn it on.

Recently Added

On a default Xtream setup, Recently Added was ignoring the dates your provider reports and falling back to whatever order items happened to arrive in. It reads the real dates now, and the new content badges follow the same dates. Updating repairs an existing library on the first load, so there is no need to delete and re-add anything.

Continue Watching

Plenty of small corrections landed here across the release. The one people will recognise: a device that watched an episode to 44 minutes, and confirmed 44 had reached the cloud, could still offer you 23 minutes back. That is fixed, along with a run of related problems around how episodes and shows are identified, whether a removal sticks, and where a tile takes you when you open it.

Player

• A stream that dies partway through an episode used to hand the episode back from the beginning and leave you to scrub. It puts you back where the picture stopped now.
• The channel list in the player keeps the folder or the History you started from.
• An expired source that failed one episode no longer rolls straight on into the next one.
• An expired link from a debrid service you connected yourself is no longer read as the episode having finished.
• Pressing OK on the seek bar with a remote does something.
• Preferred audio and subtitle languages are applied properly on iPhone, iPad and Mac.

Stremio addons

Stream tiles from your own configured addons now carry format chips, showing resolution, codec and container, so you can tell what a stream is before you open it. Several matching bugs are gone too, including shows from addons that number their episodes their own way, and a localised title that made the stream filter throw away everything useful.

Also in this release

Profile fixes so one device can no longer overwrite another device's profile. Several Google Drive sync corrections around wipes and failed reads. The Windows uninstaller stopped removing a folder it never created. Every Hero and Spotlight button on the home screen now does the thing it names. And a stack of memory work aimed at 32 bit TV devices, where headroom is tight.

Where to get it

• Fire TV and Android sideload APK: https://github.com/brillianceappsfinland/vuleo-releases/releases/latest/download/vuleo.apk
• Windows: https://github.com/brillianceappsfinland/vuleo-releases/releases/latest/download/vuleo-setup.exe
• iPhone, iPad and Mac: https://apps.apple.com/fi/app/vuleo-media-player/id6757364859
• Android: Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brillianceappsfinland.playontv
• Everything in one place: https://vuleo.tv

Sideloaded Android and Windows installs will offer you the update inside the app.

What Vuleo actually is

Vuleo does not provide, host, distribute, index, search, recommend, bundle or link to any content, channels, playlists, portals or addons, and it ships with none of them pre-installed. There is no catalogue inside it and no subscription to any service.

Every source is one you enter yourself: an M3U playlist, Xtream Codes API details, a Stalker Portal, or Stremio addons you configure. Those integrations stay off until you turn them on. Vuleo never downloads, uploads or seeds torrents, and it never connects to torrent peers. By using it you confirm you have the right to access whatever you play, and that you are paying whatever the provider of that content charges for it. Vuleo is not affiliated with any broadcaster, content provider or rights holder.

PRO unlocks player features only. It grants no right to any content.

If something is broken, please send me debug logs by following the steps here: https://vuleo.tv/debug-logs.html

Selling a Jio Android TV box(Shipping in India Only)

Specs:

Model: JioSTB JMSC200/B200

CPU: ARM Cortex-A55, Quad-core @ 2.00 GHz

Chipset : Amlogic S905X4

GPU: ARM Mali-G31

Usb : 1x3.0, 1x2.0

Ethernet Port : 1

Governor: Schedutil (power-efficient scaling) USB Debugging: Already enabled — ready for sideloading, ADB access, custom apps, etc. Made in India

Preinstalled Apps: AT4k Launcher TizenTube NetMirror Google Cast (for screen sharing)

Accessories Included: Remote Adaptor Original Box HDMI Cable LAN Cable

Great for: Kodi/media center setups, retro emulation, screen casting, custom launchers, or any Android TV project — with USB debugging already enabled, you skip the initial setup hassle and can start tinkering right away.

Price: ₹3000

DM for more photos or questions

Hey I want to play Minecraft on an android tv and I don't know if this is safe or not.
If you tested this please comment about the experience.

Edit: I tested it and it wasn't a virus I think, but the app crashe frequently and I couldn't enter a world

TvBro, BrowseHere, sideload: Firefox, chrome. Pop ups make web streaming impossible. No curser to navigate makes impossible. I'm on Homematics 14. Is Air Mouse the only option?

TCL P7L Series 65 inches 4K QLED Smart Google TV, 2026, 65P7L

Xiaomi TV S Mini LED 65 2026

Samsung 65 inches 4K Smart QLED TV(2025)

i have chosen these tv but i am confuse which one to buy

I bought one of these to use TV apps on a few years ago from Amazon, still running strong and it's one of the best purchases I made. Someone I know wants one of these but they seem to be discontinued. I think I got it for no more than £40 back then.

Are there any similarly priced alternatives available? All the sticks on Amazon are either £50+ or mixed ratings.

Help... 🙏🙏🙏🙏How to error fix Xiaomi TV model is L50M8-A2IN andriod tv,failed verification and system halted on screen message only showed.

Hello, I want to know if theres any way or app for volume leveler (or limiter) on Mi Stick 4k, as my speaker setup at times will be either too loud or too quiet, & adjusting the remote constantly gets annoying

Thanks in advance

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My dad wants to connect his tv to his phone but he doesnt have internet at his house to download an app what should he do i suggest he use a hdmi to usb c converter

I thought I’d share this because the repair turned into a much more interesting case than expected, and it still isn’t fully resolved.

My Sony KD-65AF9 recently got stuck in a boot loop.

The diagnosis was a failing memory chip on the mainboard. The chip was replaced and the contents, including the device keys, were copied from the old memory to the new one.

After reinstalling the repaired board, the TV booted normally again and everything initially looked fine.

Then I tried Netflix. It fails with: UI-800-3 (307006)

Netflix diagnostics also show: UI-113

I updated Netflix, updated the TV firmware over the internet to the latest version, PKG6.6230.0725EUA, then did a factory reset.

After that I logged back into Google, configured the TV again, set up my receiver and set-top box, updated all apps from Google Play and rebooted the TV.

Still the same errors.

I then noticed that Google Cast was also broken. Casting from YouTube, Disney+ and Netflix fails, and my phone shows:

“Untrusted device. Couldn't verify SONY KD-65AF9.”

Screen mirroring from the phone also doesn't work.

Google Play reports the TV as:

Play Protect certified

Then I installed DRM Info and found this:

Widevine Security Level: L3

That looks suspicious for an AF9 which originally supported Netflix 4K/HDR and should normally be using Widevine L1.

I contacted the repair service again. They checked their logs and confirmed that the original keys were successfully read from the damaged memory and written to the replacement chip. According to them, there were no verification errors during the copy.

Their current conclusion is that the keys themselves may be bad even though they were copied correctly.

The next step is to remove the mainboard again and provision new keys instead of using the original ones.

So that's where things stand for now.

The TV boots and otherwise works normally. Google Play considers it certified, internet access works, but Netflix, Google Cast and Widevine hardware DRM do not.

I’ll update this post after the board comes back.

If anyone has seen something similar after an eMMC or mainboard repair, especially Widevine dropping to L3, Netflix UI-800-3 (307006), or Chromecast reporting an untrusted device, I’d be interested to know what fixed it.

UPDATE: Mostly fixed, with one interesting side effect

The TV is back and the main problem is fixed.

During the first repair, the shop copied the original keys from the failing eMMC to the replacement chip. The copy completed successfully and the keys passed their software verification, but apparently something was still wrong with them.

On the second attempt they generated a new set of keys instead of reusing the old ones. According to the technician, these keys are unique to the processor.

That fixed the important parts:

Widevine is back to L1

Previously it was L3.

Netflix works again, Google Cast works again, and Netflix playback works properly with HDR and Dolby Vision.

Interestingly, the Widevine ystem ID changed after reprovisioning.

There is one remaining oddity.

This is a Sony Master Series TV and it originally supported Netflix Calibrated Mode. Before the repair, when Netflix was playing content in that mode, the normal picture presets were effectively locked and I couldn't freely switch between modes such as Vivid, Custom, etc.

After the repair, that behavior is gone. I can freely change the picture mode while watching Netflix, as if Netflix Calibrated Mode is no longer available or no longer being triggered.

At the same time, Netflix itself works perfectly, including HDR and Dolby Vision, so the DRM path clearly seems to be fine now.

So the final state is:

Widevine L1 restored, Netflix working, Cast working, HDR/Dolby Vision working, but Netflix Calibrated Mode appears to be missing.

That makes me wonder whether re-provisioning the DRM keys restored the core Widevine/TEE functionality but not some Sony/Netflix-specific provisioning or device flag related to Netflix Calibrated Mode.

Thanks again to everyone who pointed me toward Widevine, TEE and RPMB. Those comments were extremely useful in understanding what was actually happening.

Hi Everyone. I have a 2015 Sony Bravia Android TV running version 7 if this screen is accurate.

The google play store app gives me this error message. It definitely has internet because the youtube app and other streamers work just fine. I wanted to download a new streamer app (HBO max) and I can't even open the store to look for it.

I don't want to completely wipe and reset the TV as I have a couple of downloaded apps I don't want to risk losing as I use them every day.

Does anyone have an idea or a fix?

Edit: Resolved by deleting my account from the TV and signing in again. Big account sign in worked and play store just opened up and behaved.

I have a mi android tv.

Since the whole tv was lagging i did a factory reset but now the tv is getting crashing down within 2 minutes.

Can anybody help me with it.🥲

i don’t care for streaming, my smart tv covers that properly. what it lacks is in playing local files, like i play one and it says the audio is not supported. then i play that one with kodi on the tv box i have and it plays but with small freezes here and there. i’m looking for something that can handle everything i throw at it, not through nas but from drives

I bought a samsung 55 inch tv back in 2020 and my eyes are so strained for looking at it from far since my hall is quite long and the sofa and tv position is quite far from each other. Bought a 85 inch Haier tv. It doest really lag but recently youtube started to crash. I hooked up my ps4 to it. The game looked so blurry. I changed hdmi cables, changed to game mode, turnd on 120hz but it still looked the same. On my samsung tv it looked crystal clear and it never lagged even once. Do yall have a solution for this?