McBlunas-Home-Theater-DB-Tool

Enabling ANSI colors in Windows

By default McBluna’s Home Theater DB Tool uses ANSI colors* for output. To disable ANSI colors please edit the cmd or shell file and remove -Dpicocli.ansi=true. To use ANSI colors in the Windows cmd requires setting VirtualTerminalLevel via registry editor [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Console]”VirtualTerminalLevel”=dword:00000001 Or you install Windows Terminal from Microsoft Store

McBlunas-Home-Theater-DB-Tool

How to start

Before you start you should have read my Guide How to backup your Home Theater data and the section Test Environment to get an idea what the tool is doing. For all database operations you need a backup file of your Home Theater library. Version 1.1.0 introduced an auto backup mode. Export to Excel Export … Read more

McBlunas-Home-Theater-DB-Tool

Test environment

I’ve setup an test environment with dummy files K:\Test K:\Test\Movies K:\Test\TV Shows K:\Test\Movies\Rogue One – A Star Wars Story dolby.5.1.iso K:\Test\Movies\Solo – A Star Wars Story dtshd.5.1.iso K:\Test\Movies\Star Wars Collection K:\Test\Movies\Star Wars Collection\Star Wars Episode I – The Phantom Menace.iso K:\Test\Movies\Star Wars Collection\Star Wars Episode II – Attack of the Clones.iso K:\Test\Movies\Star Wars Collection\Star Wars … Read more

McBlunas-Home-Theater-DB-Tool

Command Line Interface (cli)

synopsis description command1command2 a single commandhometheater.cmd command1 … <parameter> a command parameterhometheater.cmd command1 <parameter> -option=value-option value a required optionhometheater.cmd command1 -option=value [-option=value][-option value] an optional option -flag a boolean optionhometheater.cmd command1 -flag ‘ ‘ blank between options / groups logical operator and between options or group of options ‘|’ pipe between options / groups logical … Read more

McBlunas-Home-Theater-DB-Tool

Feature List

◆ support for Home Theater v.2.6.5 – v4.3.05 and upcoming versions ◆ GUI support ◆ NFO file import This tool reads all supported information stored in Kodi conform NFO files for Movies and TV Shows and transfers them into a Home Theater backup archive (ztb). The tool insert, update and delete Movies, Movie Collections, TV … Read more

APK Download

Update for modded APKs

After a comment regarding Home Theater v4.0.39 is not working on X8 I’ve rechecked my creation process. By mistake I’ve created the modded APKs with API Level 25 (Android 7.1 Nougat) and not with API Level 23 (Android 6 Marshmallow).*

UHD3000

Zidoo UHD3000 Firmware Download

Quick Navigation: Version v6.0.90_G(Google-Apps preinstalled) v6.0.90 Build Date 2020-12-31 2020-12-31 MD5/SHA-256checksum file* Official Download Alternative Download System 1. Fix the problem that some Dolby Vision videos are stuck (some MKV videos). 2. Fix that some TVs cannot output 3D by default. 3. Optimize online video streaming. 4. Optimize HDMI IN preview. 5. Fix the problem … Read more

OlivierQC’s opinion on the Zidoo Z9X

A special thanks to OlivierQC for giving me the permission to publish his content. “A new thread to give my opinion on the new Zidoo , it will certainly be one of the best-selling models and we can already say that Zidoo keeps its lead and provides an excellent base and that it is going … Read more

Zidoo

Zidoo Recovery Images

Overview of the Recovery Images of all supported the Zidoo Players. Quick Navigation: X8 Version v2.0.25 Build Date 2018-05-25 MD5/SHA-256checksum file* DownloadThe download contains the zipped img file. Extract the zip file and rename the img file to install.img and follow the Zidoo Support Guide. 556,306,184 bytes X8 v2.0.25 Zidoo Support Guide How to flash … Read more