![]() ![]() Those TV boxes are extremely popular with countless supported applications, affordable prices and excellent reviews.Ĭhoosing an Android TV box may be tricky as there are many TV boxes on the market. Just saying "buy a nvidia shield instead" has to be said with "from NVIDIA directly".An Android TV box is a streaming device that you can plug into your TV to watch movies, series, sports, live TV and much more. Personally, I'm surprised Nvidia has yet to withdraw the shield device and put some proprietary OS on them so that they can't be used as piracy boxes. It's a game to them if they can get the thing for free. ![]() It is not worth the effort, but some people like to be spiteful pirates. If you wanted to watch a movie, you might spend 2 hours trying to find a working one. These IPTV piracy boxes basically connect you to websites like facebook being used as "file dumps", and things disappear pretty fast. Like, holding nothing back, a person must be incredibly bored to want to go through this much effort to watch a cammed film same-day showing with chinese subtitles on it. Mom is never going to subscribe to Netflix, she barely knows how to use the SmartTV. Which worked fine until February of this year. and it's such an absurd pain in the behind to actually watch anything on the device I, at the time, volunteered my netflix account to my mom to just not use this stupid thing. Most of the piracy IPTV STB devices sold in the US/Canada are Nvidia Shield devices preloaded with Kodi and the piracy plugins, and has always been that way.Īnd they don't work very long either, my dad was. Just saying this T95 is bad and a NVidia Shield is good isn't very helpful. It would have been helpful if we would have gotten a list of which devices were actually tested and which are suspected of/confirmed having malware. ![]() But it's stuck running malware-ridden Android. This is a crime, because for the most part, this is really good hardware (although I think it's probably the case it's as shoddily assembled as the Android that runs on it). Any modification to the 4.9.170 kernel bricks the T95, and I never succeeded in finding RAM timings that allowed the mainstream U-Boot to get completely up and running. So to "just install Linux" you need to either convince the vendor-provided U-Boot to boot a different kernel than it has been set to load, or boot from an SD card using the upstream U-Boot, tweaked with hardware parameters that are known by very very few people. I can't find any kernel source, Allwinner BSP, U-boot source. Then, there's Allwinner, where I don't even know how a BSP escapes for their hardware, and your best bet as an English-speaking developer is to download shady looking shit on Chinese-only websites.Īnyway, for the T95 H616 in particular, Linux 4.9.170 (I think) is the kernel someone built for Android 10 to support the H616 and, that's it. After that, there are companies that release a BSP when the release their hardware, and that's the last thing they ever do. Second best case scenario is something like what NXP does, which is frequently update their BSP for the latest Linux kernels. Best case scenario is that the hardware is supported in Linux and in U-Boot upstream. These ARM boards usually get released with a Board Support Package (BSP), which help you compile the Linux kernel and include support for the various hardware on the board. Possibly matter for a follow-up (part two-ish) about the garbage these boxes shove into their kodi installs?Īs someone who has spent months trying to get vanilla Linux running on a T95, I feel personally triggered when people go "well, just install Linux and." For the Allwinner SOC at least, it is absolutely not that easy. and i'm pretty darn sure linus himself is aware of this detail. This might be the first time i'm *actually* annoyed by a detail being missed in an LTT video, because of the enormous impact this detail has. Meanwhile kodi is actually in legal hot water because of these boxes, with the only way to protect themselves being the choice to either fight expensive legal battles trying to explain to a 179 year old judge what a "plugin" is, or to just remove 3rd party plugins as a possibility outright. which is a thing that appears to be entirely missing from this video, and is actually a pretty major part of the problem. Kodi itself has no piracy-enabling features, and the official plugin repository (shouldnt) either.Īll the piracy garbage is in (equally shady as these boxes) 3rd party plugin repositories. which is *actually* a big problem for the kodi project. I just want to mention that the video seems to imply that kodi is inherently enabling piracy. ![]()
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