[wrxtasy]

@Darkscythe, I'm going to have a go at you here man.

Do you even test for proper 23.976fps video sync ?
Your Website you have linked us to is called "Home Theatre Life"
One would think proper movie sync would be a top priority along with properly synced Audio passthrough testing.

I ask this because 4.5 out of 5 stars for a Alpha Firmware box called the Zidoo X6 Pro has got to be some sort of joke ?
See this link here as I do not want to hijack this thread any further:

http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=...pid2140039

[clarkss12]

Before my box died, I played my BluRay rip of Avatar and when I used the Kodi over lay, it showed that it was playing in 23.976. I do have to qualify my statements, I have no idea what that means or if what Kodi shows is accurate. I have no idea what you guys talk about on the video stand point, all I know is when something looks and plays good to me. I can't even confirm or deny if it plays HD audio, cause I have no idea.

Just my 2 cents.

[User 182116]

I ran a variety of test clips for 23.976fps and all played acceptably to my eyes and I have yet to find a video that the hardware supports that does not play flawlessly in Kodi (16 Alpha 2).

One very happy bunny with my out of the box Kodi experience on this device.

Windows seems the way to go for me because Android is always plagued with so many issues that require more specialised skills to resolve.

[dakooga]

I just bought this from eBay... has windows 10 home full on it, activaes out of the box... works perfectly with Kodi...

Plays up to HEVC 8bit in hardware... 10 bit in software, no frame drops up to 1080p I haven't tried higher though...

Let me know if you need any info on the Tronsmart. I'm told you can dual boot but it's not setup for it by default.

~Koog

[Filly86]

CPU load while playing hevc 10 bit fulhd?

[hdmkv]

Does this TV box have the ability to pass-through both HD audio formats?

And/or 3D ISO playback via PowerDVD or TotalMediaTheatre?

[noggin]

You can download a PowerDVD advisor tool can't you - which will tell you (no need to buy PowerDVD to find out)? (Is TMT even available any more?)

[noggin]

CPU load while playing hevc 10 bit fulhd?

That will presumably depend on the bitrate of the 10bit HEVC content?

[dakooga]

CPU load while playing hevc 10 bit fulhd?

Tried a couple of different movies.

Specs
Media Player HC v1.7.9
Intel HD Graphics drivers v10.18.15.4263
Windows 10 x64

Please note I'd read elsewhere that the HEVC decoder on MPC is about 50% more efficient than the one used by VLC (from versions a month ago) I don't know if that's still the case, but with software decoding there's clearly a difference between implementations that's worth knowing about.

The bitrate will vary during the course of the film much more so than with other codec so I've just listed file size and duration so you can work on a avg bitrate.

Man from Uncle 2015, 1080 HEVC Main 10 profile, constant 23.97fps w he-aac 48khz 6ch, 1.4GB for 1h 56m
Pretty stable @ 50-60% utilization across all 4 logical processes, no dropped frames, action sequences see it spike to about 75%

French Connection 1971 Remastered ,1080 HEVC Main 10 profile, constant 23.97fpc he-aac 48Khz, 1.2GB for 1h41m
Variable @ 65-75% utilization, action sequences see it spike to 85%,, content is still pretty grainy even after cleaning so I'm guessing the decoder has quite a bit of work to do versus modern clean content. 7 dropped frames from right at the beginning when windows update was doing something

Pulp Fiction 1994 Remastered, 1080 HEVC Main 10 profile, c 23.97 fps, he-aac 48khz 6ch, 1.7GB for 2h 34
Variable @ 60-75% no real spike during any fast movement scenes, no dropped frames.

The box becomes warm but not hot to touch after playing the movies.

I previously found an update for the Cherry Trail system drivers including GPU and a new official bios from the tronsmart forums.

Hope that helps.

~Kooga

[dakooga]

Forgot to mention in the above tests I had the Tronsmart hooked up to my monitor so it's displaying the films on a 1440p (2560 x 1440) 32" monitor at that resolution rather than a tv or projector natively at 1920.

Also I'm not sure if the decoding process is partial or hybrid with these drivers like it is on some processor (where the processor does some of the pipeline in h/w before handing back to the software). I've read thats a possibility with some 10bit pipelines.

Does anyone know?

~Kooga

[Filly86]

Thank you very much for the detailed analysis!

[Filly86]

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[crashnburn]

What are thought on these units off late?

[porlock]

Any news about HDMI sound output fix on Linux ?

[envagyok]

Capable this device passtrough hd audio under Windows or Linux?