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Netflix HD Installed on Galaxy Note -Edit Never Mind

I was reading this article on gottabemobile.com About XDA porting the Netflix HD app to the Galaxy Nexus..and I thought, umm why don't I try that on my Note....Installed the APK from their link...OMG BEAUTIFUL. I started up the New Star Trek Movie, awesome, the old Star Trek, awesome again...the interface is a bit small as its made for tablets I guess, but just pull your stylus out and there is no problem here!
On one small note. I used Chrome to Phone to send myself the APK link. After I got the APK link I also got bombarded with spam links via Chrome to Phone on my notification bar. I had to uninstall Chrome to Phone after 12 notifications about "Hot Girls" I'm guessing this is almost like uncontrolled. pop ups on the server that was serving the APK file. Hopefully I can re-install it with-out the spam, as I use Chrome to Phone a lot!
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Just connected it to my LCD...it does not look like 1080p when compared to running a youtube 1080p video
Well darn...

I actually can't stand the interface. Without the stylus it's very hard to navigate. Very hard. I wish I could switch it back but still keep the high res video.

The normal netflix app on the Note was also very small as I remember from the handful of times I used it before I installed this APK. Though the actually interface does seam just a tad different.

OP are you sure about that?
I was under the impression that Netflix HD only will stream 720p content to OMAP equipped phones at the moment.
I tried the APK on my Note and movies look exactly the same as the regular Netflix App, still looking standard definition to me.

I have no way to confirm that it is actually playing HD. They look great to me. Though I must admit, I only used it a handful of times previously. The APK works and it's functional. I'll try and use the HDMI Out Cable and see if there is any improvident....
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Just connected it to my LCD...it does not look like 1080p when compared to running a youtube 1080p video
Well darn...

don't discount this app just yet. It definitely plays video better than the app i installed it over. I watch a lot of space docs on netflix, and they have looked terrible because of the black "blockiness" problem with the note. This version of netflix looks amazing on the note compared to the one i had downloaded from the market. this fixes one of my only disappointments with my phone!
and it also gives me hope that the video issues can be fixed by software alone!

rnewton01 said:
don't discount this app just yet. It definitely plays video better than the app i installed it over. I watch a lot of space docs on netflix, and they have looked terrible because of the black "blockiness" problem with the note. This version of netflix looks amazing on the note compared to the one i had downloaded from the market. this fixes one of my only disappointments with my phone!
and it also gives me hope that the video issues can be fixed by software alone!
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Can you tell me which APK you are using? I am sure we are using the same one and the picture is not any different to me than the stock. This is definitely not 720P. am I the only one who feels this way? Also I keep seeing people refer to HD content on Netflix. How can we tell which it is? Thanks.

Dan37tz said:
OP are you sure about that?
I was under the impression that Netflix HD only will stream 720p content to OMAP equipped phones at the moment.
I tried the APK on my Note and movies look exactly the same as the regular Netflix App, still looking standard definition to me.
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I totally agree, no different to me unfortunately.

Spartan2x said:
After I got the APK link I also got bombarded with spam links via Chrome to Phone on my notification bar. I had to uninstall Chrome to Phone after 12 notifications about "Hot Girls" I'm guessing this is almost like uncontrolled.
Well darn...
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AdFree on market
I don't receive any ads from chrome 2 phone
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Stuttering in Youtube?

I'm watching a video side by side with my Note 2 and it looks like the Note 3 stutters when playing back the same video. Nothing crazy but it's there. I mean there's stuttering in the browser. Now there's stuttering in Youtube. Videos my freaking 3 year old hacked touch pad can play smoothly. What the hell is going on here?

I can't be the only one experiencing this. I'm starting to regret upgrading to the Note 3. My only hope is a custom rom comes along and solves all this crap.

No issues with me, and I watch two videos at a time. I'm using a T-Mobile n3.
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The same thing is happening to me but only when watching the Hulu plus app. I switch it to med quality, everything plays smooth. But only in High quality its unwatchable. It might be the app itself.

lm that guy said:
The same thing is happening to me but only when watching the Hulu plus app. I switch it to med quality, everything plays smooth. But only in High quality its unwatchable. It might be the app itself.
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I too am having these issues. Minor stuttering on Youtube App and Hulu Plus app on high settings Major Stuttering. I guess I'm trying to determine if this is a software/app issue or a hardware issue. I also tried a Movie Trailers app with HD Trailers. I think it was called Cine Movie Trailers, and it had minor stuttering like the youtube app. If someone can try these apps specially the Hulu Plus app which seems to have the biggest problem, it would be greatly appreciated. Wan to make sure before I request an exchange.
Thanks!

It could be smart pause, try disabling it.

muhtesem insan said:
It could be smart pause, try disabling it.
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Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately smart pause setting is off. Seems to be something else. Anybody can check if they have this problem in hulu plus high setting?
Thanks

riikotta said:
I too am having these issues. Minor stuttering on Youtube App and Hulu Plus app on high settings Major Stuttering. I guess I'm trying to determine if this is a software/app issue or a hardware issue. I also tried a Movie Trailers app with HD Trailers. I think it was called Cine Movie Trailers, and it had minor stuttering like the youtube app. If someone can try these apps specially the Hulu Plus app which seems to have the biggest problem, it would be greatly appreciated. Wan to make sure before I request an exchange.
Thanks!
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Dont bother with an exchange. It has to be a software issue because our devices are more than capable of playing videos. Besides im on my second exchange and the same stuttering happens in both apps
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I have this issue on my tmobile Note 3. I first noticed it in the Hulu Plus app whenever I set the quality to high. Second time I noticed it was streaming video through video players such as mx video and the stock video player. This would happen with standard avi videos as well as 720, 1080 videos. Haven't tested youtube though.

Hello everyone!
Update: So I went to my local AT&T store to check these issues on the demo unit and installed the Hulu Plus app and the playback is exactly the same that we're experiencing. On the YouTube app though, the playback was smooth as butter and what I noticed was the YouTube app on the demo unit had the old YouTube logo on it's icon. So when I got home I uninstalled the youtube app updates and returned it to it's factory installed state. That resolved the YouTube problem!!
As for the Hulu Plus app, I contacted Hulu and went through their troubleshooting steps with no success and then answered some questions about my device. The representative then stated that the data was passed on to their mobile developers. So I'll keep anyone updated if that yields some results. If you're having these issues with Hulu Plus, I encourage you to notify it to hulu customer support on their web page. They gave me a 2 week credit on my subscription for my inconvenience.
Hope this gets resolved soon.

riikotta said:
Hello everyone!
Update: So I went to my local AT&T store to check these issues on the demo unit and installed the Hulu Plus app and the playback is exactly the same that we're experiencing. On the YouTube app though, the playback was smooth as butter and what I noticed was the YouTube app on the demo unit had the old YouTube logo on it's icon. So when I got home I uninstalled the youtube app updates and returned it to it's factory installed state. That resolved the YouTube problem!!
As for the Hulu Plus app, I contacted Hulu and went through their troubleshooting steps with no success and then answered some questions about my device. The representative then stated that the data was passed on to their mobile developers. So I'll keep anyone updated if that yields some results. If you're having these issues with Hulu Plus, I encourage you to notify it to hulu customer support on their web page. They gave me a 2 week credit on my subscription for my inconvenience.
Hope this gets resolved soon.
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Thanks. The hulu plus app is definitely jacked. What i find interesting is the adds usually play right, but when it gets to the actual show, it stutters.

harabinger66 said:
Thanks. The hulu plus app is definitely jacked. What i find interesting is the adds usually play right, but when it gets to the actual show, it stutters.
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Yeah, I found that odd also. But I think the ads play at a lower picture quality. That's what I think anyways. I'm not sure what's happening there

Hi everyone,
Just to let you guys know that Hulu sent me an email saying that they "put a fix in place on their side of things" and instructed me to shut down my device for 60 seconds and turn it on and play a video. So I did and videos seem to be playing smooth. No more stuttering! The app seems to have lost the option to choose video quality instead it chooses it automatically depending on your connection speed. Video quality is very good though!

riikotta said:
Hi everyone,
Just to let you guys know that Hulu sent me an email saying that they "put a fix in place on their side of things" and instructed me to shut down my device for 60 seconds and turn it on and play a video. So I did and videos seem to be playing smooth. No more stuttering! The app seems to have lost the option to choose video quality instead it chooses it automatically depending on your connection speed. Video quality is very good though!
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I dont think the fix was applied to the tmo version because I'm still laggy and I can still choose a video quality
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lm that guy said:
I dont think the fix was applied to the tmo version because I'm still laggy and I can still choose a video quality
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Contact hulu support. They will help you.

riikotta said:
Contact hulu support. They will help you.
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Okay they did. Eveything works fine now for T-Mobile version. I suggest other variants to contact support if you are having stuttering in Hulu Plus. Got a few weeks free and subscribtion price lowered next month, Awesome
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I, too, have this problem. Thought I was going crazy at first because it was so slight I'm on non rooted stock rom but has Apex launcher installed. I recall Youtube videos playing fluenty at some point before installing Apex. No+ saying Apex is the culprit here. But that is my "fixpoint"
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suligoesmaraccas said:
I, too, have this problem. Thought I was going crazy at first because it was so slight I'm on non rooted stock rom but has Apex launcher installed. I recall Youtube videos playing fluenty at some point before installing Apex. No+ saying Apex is the culprit here. But that is my "fixpoint"
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So have you tried to uninstall Apex to see if the stuttering in YouTube went away? I have Nova installed and can't remember if I tried the youtube app while I still had Touchwiz on because I installed Nova almost right away.
I'm going to try this tomorrow I guess just to say I tried it because you never know. Though I doubt it because I also have stuttering in scrolling on almost any browser and that I definitely checked while I was still fully stock, no Nova and no root.

Amazon FireTV teardown photos

So i got the new toy and after using ADB to side load app's and some testing i wanted to see the good stuff inside. I would have been happy with the FCC photos but they are locked for 180 days.
I hope they will keep others from trying to break open the PITA shell.
Ifixit Photos better then mine
Antutu

Did you sideload apps with adb, did you tried xbmc?? please let me now.

dammsaint said:
Did you sideload apps with adb, did you tried xbmc?? please let me now.
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Yes I did. Xbmc runs but is choppy and every video load requires restart to get real video.
Amlogic devices like pivos, top hat play video much better without dropped frames and video slicing.

Im running latest gotham nightly with both acceleration disable and runs like a charm
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Esso1001 said:
Im running latest gotham nightly with both acceleration disable and runs like a charm
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I'll have to give that a spin as it was far worse and crash when I disabled them.
What build date are you using that plays 1080 like a champ?
Ones I've tested are more of a chump.

rocket69 said:
I'll have to give that a spin as it was far worse and crash when I disabled them.
What build date are you using that plays 1080 like a champ?
Ones I've tested are more of a chump.
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Xbmc for ouya runs pretty well. Does DD/DTS hdmi passthrough. I use the plexbmc addon to watch off my plex server. Every once in awhile will notice a dropped frame. But seems to be the best one according to xbmc forums. For the moment anyway. Till a proper version specifically optimized for the fire tv comes out.
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Amazon_Fire_TV

The one im running is gotham beta 3 nightly from yesterday. I left hw aceleration on but disabled lib and medio and has been working great for me
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Sorry i miss informed you. The set up i actually have is change acceleration to software and enable allow multi threaded software decoding. For some reason that works best for me
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Amazon Prime Instant Video - KODI/XBMC

Yesterday by accident I found a thread on kodi forums with new release from some guy and I checked it first on my phone to see if prime is working and it indeed does work.
But there are some issues some videos might not play so hopefully the guy who did it updates it or fixes it but I just spent last 30 min on my fire tv testing what works and what does not
Here is what you do in order to get it to work on your Fire TV:
1) Download this zip (repo) and put it somewhere on your fire TV:
Link: https://code.google.com/p/addonscri...=repository.addonscriptorde-beta.zip&can=2&q=
2) Go to add-ons on your kodi/xbmc and install the repo
3) go to settings addons - get addons and download the Amazon Prime Instant Video from "Video-Addons" inside AddonSCriptorde Beta Repo
4) launch the prime addon select it as USA, set your settings like quality etc... then it should ask you to LOG-IN after you select US.
5) You should be able to browse tv shows/movies etc..
6) upon selecting play for certain movie/tv-show episode it should ask you to switch to Flash Player (no idea how it works on Fire TV) or any other android device without flash.
On my phone I don't have flash but on my fire tv I do and they both work.
Note: without prime instant access you can view things like Pilot episodes to test it out.
Now we need someone who can try and see why some videos will play and why some won't
Someone who is smart dig into these logs when some videos don't play and tell us what to do about it

What is the advantage here? Prime is standard app on the FireTV. Just curious.

Curious as to why someone would want to use an xbmc add-on for Amazon Instant Video when AIV is one of the core features of the Fire TV? I use built-in AIV all the time and it works great. Why use some hack add-on that will never be nearly as reliable as the official app? Do you not like the built-in AIV? I'm genuinely curious. Could be missing out on something here...

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Curious as to why someone would want to use an xbmc add-on for Amazon Instant Video when AIV is one of the core features of the Fire TV? I use built-in AIV all the time and it works great. Why use some hack add-on that will never be nearly as reliable as the official app? Do you not like the built-in AIV? I'm genuinely curious. Could be missing out on something here...
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In my case I am not a biggest fan of the KFTV Launcher I actually like the way it is made on Kodi with that plugin.
It's just me maybe there are some other people who prefer it that way
It's good to have options. Enjoy!
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What is the advantage here? Prime is standard app on the FireTV. Just curious.
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Not a fan of the design in the Prime MovieZ app in KFTV Launcher that's all

Fair enough then, OP. Good luck with the add-on!

bradwatson said:
Fair enough then, OP. Good luck with the add-on!
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Thanks oh and also the themes are great that it works with any kodi theme you use.
Just wanted to post it so some people are aware of it.:good:

You can add Videos from the addon to your library just like they are local stored. So you can extend your local movies with amazon instant links.
You don't have to switch between your library and amazon Instant.
Adding ALL amazon Videos to library is not implented yet, i'm working on it

desmoloch said:
You can add Videos from the addon to your library just like they are local stored. So you can extend your local movies with amazon instant links.
You don't have to switch between your library and amazon Instant.
Adding ALL amazon Videos to library is not implented yet, i'm working on it
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Yepp what are you working on tho ?
Trying to see what causes some videos not to play. Thanks !
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Add-on works but as mentioned not all Movies / Shows are playing.
Not 100% sure yet but it appears to me that HD are not playing.

iGetThis said:
Add-on works but as mentioned not all Movies / Shows are playing.
Not 100% sure yet but it appears to me that HD are not playing.
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Hd plays for me. Change quality settings. The guy who made is busy and I have no idea if he will fix it.
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patt2k said:
Hd plays for me. Change quality settings. The guy who made is busy and I have no idea if he will fix it.
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It is set to [email protected] I thought about the HD because everything it plays shows SD after played.
And looking at my Watchlist the HDs are not playing whereas the SDs are. Was just my first impression.
Are you aware of another addon for Amazon Prime Video?

iGetThis said:
It is set to [email protected] I thought about the HD because everything it plays shows SD after played.
And looking at my Watchlist the HDs are not playing whereas the SDs are. Was just my first impression.
Are you aware of another addon for Amazon Prime Video?
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There are other but require to use real version of chrome not mobile.
It somehow uses chrome then passes video to kodi/xbmc addon.
I would give this dev some time he will for sure fix it. This is already one of the best I have seen.

This plugin broke the genesis plugin for me. .. would be great to have this working. specially when the AFTV skin for Kodi is released.

psycon said:
This plugin broke the genesis plugin for me. .. would be great to have this working. specially when the AFTV skin for Kodi is released.
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I don't see anyway this could break another plugin which is weird. And yea I tried googling for the aftv skin for kodi but all they do is show bunch of youtube videos.. I would gladly even pay few bucks for this.
With root this could be huge adding android apps etc.. making kodi act like a launcher.

This would be great for those with rooted devices who may one day be able to upgrade to CM12 / Android TV ROM. I am fairly certain that this upgrade will eliminate access to the current Fire TV Launcher and Amazon content. It would be nice to be able to access Amazon Prime if and when CM12 is possible from other sources.

Anyway to get this to pass 5.1 sound information to my receiver?
Or can that data not be captured from the Flash version of Prime.

This is very worth while if it works. Lots of people like to boot right into Kodi. Plus I hate just about everything about KFTV launcher. I think it's too tedious to navigate. The voice search was a great idea and the tech is perfect at picking up your voice but it often yields a bunch of results that you need to pay extra for. I think kodi has the best interface.

Hi I am from India and I have a Indian prime video account. Will this add-on work for that??

The format of "The Beast" looks weird

Has anyone else noticed the formatting of the beast looks very weird and words are cut off/not aligned properly on the shield tv? The home bar with all the tabs is in the middle of the screen rather than the bottom like on other devices. I spoke to my buddy who uses beast on multiple devices and he is having the same issue on his shield tv but not any other devices. I will upload a pic to show how mine looks. Are we installing something incorrectly?

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Has anyone else noticed the formatting of the beast looks very weird and words are cut off/not aligned properly on the shield tv? The home bar with all the tabs is in the middle of the screen rather than the bottom like on other devices. I spoke to my buddy who uses beast on multiple devices and he is having the same issue on his shield tv but not any other devices. I will upload a pic to show how mine looks. Are we installing something incorrectly?
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I had something similar in result when you using the beast package on non compatible kodi version. I had no problems on kodi 15.2 but on 16 same glitches and even worst, which is normal not compatible yet. Give him favor, Report that bug to Chris if you use kodi 15.2 or >
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visitor29 said:
I had something similar in result when you using the beast package on non compatible kodi version. I had no problems on kodi 15.2 but on 16 same glitches and even worst, which is normal not compatible yet. Give him favor, Report that bug to Chris if you use kodi 15.2 or >
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that is interesting. I am on 15.2 isengard and installed the latest beast from the chrisb repository following his instructions. What version did you install of beast? I used the one called like best available or something. So you are having no issues with yours on your shield tv? Mind sharing a picture? Yes I have already reported the bug to him!

vtotheinay said:
that is interesting. I am on 15.2 isengard and installed the latest beast from the chrisb repository following his instructions. What version did you install of beast? I used the one called like best available or something. So you are having no issues with yours on your shield tv? Mind sharing a picture? Yes I have already reported the bug to him!
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I used theBeast_201509 from http://spartanpixel.net/Kodi/thebeast/ on 15.2 and was ok except turning off / shutting down / quit...was take around half minute and yes was without glitch on 15.2 shield tv, samsung f8000, don't using coz some options are not handy with shield remote. And sorry don't wanna touch existing setups / library / collections rolling back to 15.2 for just some screen shots. My existing setups are here on kodi 16 beta 2 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=64085255
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