Kodi not in HybridDesk station

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Re: Kodi not in HybridDesk station

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JillyPolla wrote:Am I the only one that's sick of QNAP removing features with no warning?

First, they removed Kodi from HD Station. Then they removed support for AC3 and DTS in their CodecPack. All of these were advertised as features which is why I bought my TS-451+. It ** that after I bought it I found this out.

The worst part is that in the control panel, the HD Station still says Kodi in it. See this:

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I fully agree with you. Frustrating. I just cancelled two purchase orders.
Since 2011, KODI has been my main reason to switch from other NAS manufacturers and go completely for QNAP. A big drop for QNAP. KODI is a software used by tens of millions of users.
Also, not having AC3 and DTS support by QNAP makes the HDMI ports in QNAP machines is another big drop for QNAP.
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Sorry to hear that you cancelled 2 PO's.

There are 2-3 (depending on how you count) KODI 17.x releases available and 2 Plex Client releases available via community apps that would allow you to leverage your HDMI port and support AC3/DTS. While you would have to download them manually to install them, they work just fine.
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Re: Kodi not in HybridDesk station

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Are there any video and or audio settings need to be set or adjusted to work with QNAP, I have constant freezing and pixelating.
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kevinm34232 wrote:Are there any video and or audio settings need to be set or adjusted to work with QNAP, I have constant freezing and pixelating.

Same for me on HS-251+ :(((
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I'd recommend not using HybridDesk Station. It is a featureless piece of kludge and difficult to navigate.

Just install Linux Station and you can use Kodi, VLC Media Play or the play of your choice and have the full power and easy of an entire operating system at your disposal.
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smhealey wrote: Just install Linux Station and you can use Kodi, VLC Media Play or the play of your choice and have the full power and easy of an entire operating system at your disposal.
do you connect to hdmi using this setup?
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Re: Kodi not in HybridDesk station

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Moogle Stiltzkin wrote:
smhealey wrote: Just install Linux Station and you can use Kodi, VLC Media Play or the play of your choice and have the full power and easy of an entire operating system at your disposal.
do you connect to hdmi using this setup?
Has this been answered? I am a new TS251A owner. Basically looking to have a personal cloud server but also wanting to utilize the NAS and VLC to watch videos at variable speed (easily done with VLC).
Have installed the HD Station, HD Player etc as well as the VLC from QNAPClub. Everything works, but don't want to spend a good deal of time hacking around to see how to make VLC the default player for "Video Station" instead of "Video Player".
Only post I have seen about doing this (from November of 2014) refers to this being a browser settings issue?
In any case, new to QNAP but have plenty of Unix SVR4 and Linux experience, so don't mind hacking config files, but would prefer a clean solution like VLC in Linux Station using the HDMI port on the TS251A.
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Re: Kodi not in HybridDesk station

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sierra_canyon wrote:
Moogle Stiltzkin wrote:
smhealey wrote: Just install Linux Station and you can use Kodi, VLC Media Play or the play of your choice and have the full power and easy of an entire operating system at your disposal.
do you connect to hdmi using this setup?
Has this been answered? I am a new TS251A owner. Basically looking to have a personal cloud server but also wanting to utilize the NAS and VLC to watch videos at variable speed (easily done with VLC).
Have installed the HD Station, HD Player etc as well as the VLC from QNAPClub. Everything works, but don't want to spend a good deal of time hacking around to see how to make VLC the default player for "Video Station" instead of "Video Player".
Only post I have seen about doing this (from November of 2014) refers to this being a browser settings issue?
In any case, new to QNAP but have plenty of Unix SVR4 and Linux experience, so don't mind hacking config files, but would prefer a clean solution like VLC in Linux Station using the HDMI port on the TS251A.

Yes, you connect via HDMI. Plug a wireless keyboard Mouse into your QNAP. But in HD Station in control panel you need to enable Linux Station. You will havbe the power of a full Linux Desktop system and can install application of your choice Kodi (if you must) or VLC Player, whatever.
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Re: Kodi not in HybridDesk station

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I'm using the "father" version 17.0 on my TS-470 Pro with no problems at all. Love and thanks to him so much!
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