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Can the new Gigabyte Brix with Kaby Lake support playback of H.265 ?
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Yes. That's built in into GPU that's part of Kaby Lake generation of CPU's.
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Regarding 10-bit and HDR, is it decoding only or output to a HDR TV ?
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I hope Kodi / VLC support HDR playback in the near future. Really weird from Asrock to advertise that the Beebox-S is capable of HDR playback but doesn't give the software to play it.
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(This post was last modified: 2016-12-04, 02:19 by wesk05.)
I don't see any false advertisement here. Kodi and other video players need to enable HDR support. It has to do with the way HDR is implemented in Windows. Android certainly has the advantage here in implementation. Before nVIDIA enabled HDR on the Shield, not a single person (outside nVIDIA) knew what it would take to enable HDR in Kodi. It so happened that HDR was built into MediCodec Surface.
Shadow Warrior 2 game has HDR support in Windows and you should be able to enable HDR output within the game on these boxes (at least it works with nVIDIA GTX 1060 that I have).
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Yes, you have to use something else but not Kodi. But I think 10-bit HDR output is hardware/firmware specific, right ? Simply, can your box output 10-bit HDR or not ?
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2 steps away from ordering a Beebox-S 7100...
ony thing on my mind...
How about watching live tv with a box, which has only USB 3.0 ports...
Found a lot of German Forums, in which USB 3.0 with a DVB-Tuner was a huge Problem.
Someone using a Box with only 3.0 ports an can confirm that its working flawlessly with a USB TV-Stick?
Its the only thing keepin me away from buying this barebone.
Best regards an thanks in Advance.