System requirements
The Media24 Player runs on ordinary Android hardware. There is no special box to buy — most Android TV boxes, tablets, and displays sold in Uzbekistan will run it.
Android version
Section titled “Android version”- Android 5.0 (API 21) or newer. Both Android TV boxes and plain Android boxes or tablets work — the player registers as a launcher on both kinds of device.
- A TV remote (D-pad) is fully supported — the whole player, including the activation-code screen, is navigable with the remote. No mouse or touchscreen is needed.
Hardware
Section titled “Hardware”-
Video decoding is hardware-only. The player uses the device’s built-in video decoder and has no software fallback.
- An H.264 / AVC hardware decoder is effectively universal, so H.264 video plays on virtually every device.
- HEVC / H.265 plays only on boxes that have a hardware HEVC decoder — which is not guaranteed on cheaper hardware.
- Recommendation: publish MP4 video encoded as H.264 + AAC. See What plays and how.
Multi-zone layouts decode at most 2 videos at the same time. A layout with more than 2 video zones is beyond what cheap hardware can decode simultaneously.
Storage: budget for the content cache, which can grow up to 8 GiB of downloaded media.
Network
Section titled “Network”- Outbound HTTPS only. The player reaches the Media24 servers over HTTPS; it needs no inbound ports and no static IP.
- Wi-Fi or Ethernet — either works.
- Once the device has completed its first content sync, it keeps playing even if the network drops — see the offline behavior in What plays and how.