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I have the Tianle TL869 android tv dongle....I installed the hbogo apps and it runs....it allows me to sign in and select movies to be played...when I play a movie, the hbo logo appears and then proceeds to the rating display...after that, it goes to a blank screen then back to the HBO menu...

any ideas why this is happening...I believe the OS is 4.1....thanks
 
I just got one of these as well, they seem to be needing a good amount of tweaking to get working properly, but hardware-wise is a pretty nice unit. I glued a bunch of little GPU heatsinks to mine to help with heat.

I don't know about the HBOgo app but I cannot get Air Playit working on mine. About time to hack up a ROM for it.
 
Many of these DRM'd streaming and download apps that come from the studios and broadcasters, like HBO Go, Hulu, Sky Go, etc, can be very particular about which devices they will work on. If you got well known device like a Samsung or an Asus or something, usually no problem. But if it's something that's not known at all, which is quite often with these dongles and TV boxes, it's very pot luck and often they won't work. HBO Go is dropping back to the menu, maybe because it's having DRM problems with this particular Chinese "Tianle" TV dongle. Is it rooted?
 
Rooting will cause the problem with a lot of Androids as well with those apps you listed.

The only guarantee that I know of is to have a valid subscription and to use the Chromecast dongle, rooted phone/tablet doesn't matter.
 
I came across this a couple of months ago, my father has a Sky TV subscription, and uses Sky Go so he can watch it on his Samsung tablet, which works perfectly. But when we tried the Sky Go app on an Oppo, which has a custom ROM(CyanogenMod) and is rooted, it just didn't want to know...like "what the hell is this? you must be joking!".

Chinese legal streaming and download services like PPTV are not nearly so restricted, they'll work on very much anything, rooted or not. Only thing they do is restrict streaming to mainland IP addresses only. China is where most of these things like the $14 "TianLe" TV dongle are sold and used, and is not really a problem here.
 
mikedt said:
I came across this a couple of months ago, my father has a Sky TV subscription, and uses Sky Go so he can watch it on his Samsung tablet, which works perfectly. But when we tried the Sky Go app on an Oppo, which has a custom ROM(CyanogenMod) and is rooted, it just didn't want to know...like "what the hell is this? you must be joking!".
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Xposed RootCloak might be solution. Maybe the app doesn't like root
 
EarlyMon said:
I'd be very surprised if that works on a $14 Android stick. :eek:
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So far haven't ran into anything it won't handle. The only gripe I have is that there's no mSD card slot, but it works fine with every stick or USB mSD reader I've plugged into it, and with a couple of symlinks and some app store trickery I've been able to run apps that the store just flat out says isn't compatible. I really expected to not be impressed by this thing, for the price, but I'm really blown away. Next I'm gonna see how it handles PSX emulation (bet it works fine), since its recognized every controller or other device I've plugged into it.

I'm going to try out the root cloak thing, it never crossed my mind that being rooted or certain kinds of DRM could cause issues. With SPMC and Popcorn Time, though, I'm all set! And I highly recommend gluing some small GPU memory heatsinks to it, runs so much cooler, and looks kinda awesome!

 
Fedaykinofdune said:
So far haven't ran into anything it won't handle. The only gripe I have is that there's no mSD card slot, but it works fine with every stick or USB mSD reader I've plugged into it, and with a couple of symlinks and some app store trickery I've been able to run apps that the store just flat out says isn't compatible. I really expected to not be impressed by this thing, for the price, but I'm really blown away. Next I'm gonna see how it handles PSX emulation (bet it works fine), since its recognized every controller or other device I've plugged into it.

I'm going to try out the root cloak thing, it never crossed my mind that being rooted or certain kinds of DRM could cause issues. With SPMC and Popcorn Time,
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Sure both of them are Chinese services, well popcorntime.cn definitely is. Thing is we don't care quite so much about heavy and secure DRM(Digital Restrictions Management) schemes here, unlike Rupert Murdoch, Ted Turner, Hollywood and the MPAA. Which is likely why they work no problem on your Chinese TV stick.
 
You do have a point there I guess, but I never have put much thought into how DRM affects people's experiences across different types of services and devices, save for Apple of course. While I won't justify the morality of the methods I use in the pursuit of my own family's entertainment, I've managed to avoid a lot of the headache and frustration others experience using providers like HBOgo Netflix by always keeping my own streaming server handy. It seems to me like the film and music industry is wasting more money developing DRM technologies, policing torrent trackers, filing lawsuits and pressuring hardware manufacturers to implement tighter hardware controls than they would if they'd just embrace the future and focus on delivering the content people want at a cheaper price. If unlimited TV, movies and music was only 5 bucks a month, instead of 20 or something, I bet a hell of a lot more people would pay.

Whether that day comes or not, I'm quite happy with the quality of the Chinese tech starting to come in!
 
Yeah, the battle cry of those in the other side of copy protection is theft and an argument that it's not with the equivalent of the logic that says that movies would make more money if theaters opened the doors and gave away all of their unused seats for free just a few minutes before the opening.

DRM is defective by design.

So is calling out illegal use and asking for our help, when that could easily get this site shut down for DCMA violation as nothing more than a moral problem that you're ok with.

I don't give a rat's ass about the laws in China, this is a US site.


And this thread is closed.
 
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