Voyo V3is one of the first Intel Atom x7-Z8700 based mini PC announced so far, comes with 4GB RAM, and a 128 GB SSD. It was announced at the very beginning of the year, at the time it was not shipping yet. The good news is that the device is now available, as GearBest sent m...
Last week, I explainedhow to build U-boot, the kernel, and Android for Freescale i.MX6 HDMI donglereference platform. Since them, there has been a bit more activity, withRichtechie releasing source code to some ARMTvTech members. However, this source code is very similar to the one releas...
I feel like a home theater PC is the best way to utilize this stick. I tested out Kodi, Plex, Emby, and HD Homerun app. All of which played well. I was able to play some 4k content but only up to 8-bit HEVC. I could not get 10 bit to play in any player. All the 1080...
or that many patchsets were still submitted to Kodi to fix Amlogic S905 support, I decided to give up on Kodi on this device, and instead do all my testing with Video Player app in Android. That means you’ll either need to wait for Kodi 16, or go...
The results however were disappointing, so I also used HDMI audio pass-through using MX Player / MoviePlayer app too through myOnkyo AV receiverthat can handle TrueHD, DTS-HD and Dolby Atmos. Not really the results we want to see, even for new devices… ...
The main difference betweenS905X4 and S905X3is that the former has AV1 support. This up to an amazing 4k120fps 10-bit. So I downloaded some 4K AV1 preview videosfrom Elecard, and I tried playing them with the default MoviePlayer. They all played smoothly. ...
only if auto-frame switching and DTS-HD audio pass through are supported. Otherwise yet another disappointing chipset and wait for the next chipset in the hope it has those essential media player features. Reply Rodrigo August 24, 2016 at 18:29 ...
(casing assembly, Ubuntu & Android boot, and development). I also planned to run some benchmarks and test videos, as according to a poll on Wandboard website many people want to use it as a media player, but I’ll do that a bit later since the current Android image is not up to ...
I intended to play a 1080p H.264 video at this stage, but ffmpeg, nor any other video player like vlc or smplayer, were installed. So I tried to install ffmpeg: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 sudo apt install ffmpeg ... Preparing to unpack .../00-linux-libc-dev_4.9.88-1+deb...
However, porting Android to a media player platform is rather time consuming and TViX XROID A1 is not yet available (August 2011). Digital Versus got a pre-release version, but the firmware is still not stable enough for them to provide a meaningful review. Dvico has nonetheless setup a ...