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Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Xiaomi TVs and Box; Changing the Default Video Player

13 February 2018

Introduction

When playing some western movies or displaying some advertisement,  the Xioami device will act strangely.   Sometimes without any warning,  announcement or displaying any message,  Xiaomi will hang or re-start or just freeze totally.  The only recourse is to power  off the device and reboot to restore.  Sometimes,  a reset in the recovery mode would  be required.

Why?

Xiaomi TVs,  boxes and even handphones  have their own Xioami Video Players for some reasons.  After some testings and observation,  it is found that when Xiaomi device is playing video or displaying picture of other formats that cannot be accepted by Xiaomi's defaulted  video player,  it will react strangely.

What are the Support Format of Xiaomi?


Hence,  the Xiaomi Device will just hanged,  reset or just stop playing altogether if there is video with other format.

What is the Solution?

Change the Default Video Player

How and What’re needed?

  1. One will need
a)      Default App Manager Lite 2.4 (download from here or from here)

b)      All Format Video Player (download from here  or from here)

c)    Other players such as MXPlayer, VLC, xPlayer   and also MXPlayer Codec
          

            Note that video players like MX players,  Youtube's html5 players etc may not have all    the  necessary formats.  also the All Format Video Player many not necessary all all the formats.

  1. Install the 2 APKs and open up the Default App Manager first,  one will reach the following screen.   Navigate and select “Video”

  1. In the following screen,  select “Video Player”. Note that it is the "All Format Video Player" Ignore any error thereafter.


   4.  Make sure one has selected "Always" when this screen appears



   5.  One successful setting,  one should find a green tick sign at the right hand side of the defaulted app as shown



  
   5.  Restart by rebooting the TV or box

   6.  You are set to play almost any movie or advertisement that contains different formats.  .

Other Articles About Xiaomi TV or Box 

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6 comments:

  1. One will have to make sure it is the correct App to use and also there must a tick on the right side of the app when setting is successful. Try other apps until it can work.

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  2. Thanks for explanations about Xiaomi Tvs and Box. It's nice to know how to unfreeze it. It sucks when devices act strangely.

    Here's a cool new phone with amazing features. Xiaomi’s Mi Mix Alpha is almost totally made of screen.

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