Following up on:

h11ps://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidTV/comments/8qltha/new_hisense_tvs_with_android_tv_built_in_and_a/e0rf9ib/

My earlier efforts to make the Hisense Fox Sports 4K World Cup app available to all Android users: many of you said that the streams were a little bit laggy (and not due to the network)

I have updated the Fox Sports App with another patch which allows you to launch an external player. While VLC does not seem to work, MX Player with HW+ Decoding works perfectly. I have not tried Kodi or others, but as long as they support opening an Intent with an HTTPS m3u8 link it should work.

For MX Player: You must enable HW+ Decoding to be the default for network streams

Furthermore for owners of Hisense TVs and maybe other Android TV boxes, please try the following to get smoother playback: disabling "Motion enhancement", "Noise reduction", and "Digital noise reduction" in picture settings.

All other Android TV owners should probably set their refresh rate to 50hz, as that will match the broadcast content. FIFA uses European standards.

The patched app will be available to all of those that donated to finance me buying two Hisense TVs and all the effort that went into patching it. Please PM me for the updated APK for your device.

For those that did not donate, you can use the web browser method (I detailed it in the post linked above) to extract an URL and use ADB (or any other method) to open the URL with your favorite player, see h11ps://developer.android.com/training/app-links/deep-linking , it should work just fine but is less convenient. You can also pick up an older version of the app by seeing the previous post.

Update July 1st: Version 11 was released by Fox, and the patched version is available for those that donated. Earlier version remain available for everyone else.