Nexus Player Root Method! LMY47D

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The video above demonstrates how to root the Nexus Player. This will root the latest version of Android for the Nexus Player LMY47D Android 5.1. This root method will require an unlocked bootloader. This is a simple root script which you will download and run from your Nexus Player. Just double click the root.bat and follow the onscreen guides.

SU app and binarys gets installed to /system/* directory's, The insecure boot.img gets installed to be able to access root adb shell and install those binarys

The root-boot boot.img is temporarily booted once during this process on the first boot of installation, it does not flash the boot.img
The previous boot.img before the installation is restored after SU is installed

Grab the proper file for your version of Android from the link below.

Via XDA