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also this is the first device that makes use of my TV's UHD HDMI DEEP COLOR mode, not sure what that is or what it does but probably something to do with hdmi 2.0 if i had to guess.

UHD deep color is for 4K 50/60Hz 8-bit 4:4:4 or 12-bit 4:2:2. S905 only does 4:2:0 for 4K 50/60Hz. So, you are not going to see any benefit by turning on UHD deep color mode.

i didnt think so but any device i've plugged into the tv so far shows up with HDMI mismatch, please disable UHD DCM but with this device it stays enabled, probably only because its hdmi 2.0 .

To keep this somewhat updated about the mini mx, Openelec is just too buggy to run for now, i think were waiting on sdk improvements or tweaks from Amlogic or Kerber, or Codesnake or someone ;-) but under android i have been playing with the box and managed to figure out the hardware decoding stuff, in order to use the hw decoder amcodec you need to have mediacodec(surface) enabled, basically leave all 3 decoder options checked on. am-264 and am-265 is what you get like that, with that said, 4K resolutions are OK but there are playback issues with certain 2160p h264 and some h265 stuff, i get audio only and black screen. Ive tested kodi 16B3 16RC1 and 0127 Nightly, same issue with all versions, SuperSu from the playstore roots the box with no issues, i tried WRXtasy amlogic init.d script which works but doesnt work to adjust refresh rates.