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You won't get good support from budget devices, the android builds are generally stable and they work well for general apps from play store etc , I'm talking about s905 and android lollipop here not devices on android 6. Kodi features like audio pass through, fractional frame rate, dynamic frame rate switching are generally broken .
For kodi features Libre Elec is the way to go, the cheap devices allow you to get a good hardware spec at a low cost which is a base to get a good libre Elec kodi experience. These are not devices for people who want everything working out of the box and are not willing to do a bit of reading on forums etc.
Xiaomi mi box is an interesting product but just take a look at the xiaomi forums their software support on their android phones, and other devices is terrible. Bugs that havent been fixed for over 7 months on some phones. Xiaomi make good hardware but software support us not good. Hopefully Google help them out with software... That's the only way the mi box will get good support.
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Just to let you know. Just got the Q-Box- It has S905 processor, 2GB/16GB, Gigabit-Lan and worked so far without freezes or crashes. Same price as my Beelink GT1 which goes back to Amazon now. Looks like I got the box I was looking for.
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2016-11-15, 21:17
(This post was last modified: 2016-11-15, 21:19 by Roby77.)
A friend of mine had the bad idea to buy an android box
What it the best s905x or s912 box with the option to install Libreelec ?
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S905X, but S905 is still a better option I believe.
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Can you suggest a brand ?
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2016-11-18, 15:10
(This post was last modified: 2016-11-18, 15:19 by gsmtech.)
Heads up for UK based people.The mini m8s II box is on offer at gearbest ,25.65 GBP with free priority UK delivery for faster delivery from China. This is dirt cheap.
-Amlogic S905X (yes , the X )
-2Gb RAM
-16gb Flash
Sadly only 100meg LAN and only 2.4ghz WiFi. To be expected at this low price though.Definitely worth a punt now that S905X support is coming along nicely in LibreElec.
Use the code M8SBF to get the price down at checkout, make sure to select UK priority delivery as well it's free and should be faster.
The WiFi will probably have poor range so this device is better off for wired usage. Use LibreElec on this for kodi as it's android 6 so LibreElec will be better on this .
NOTE: I don't know what LibreElec support is like on this box. So do some reading on libre Elec forums first before you purchase.