[stinuz]

Thanks for posting your current configuration. I did notice that I'm missing some options:
- I can't set the fixed refresh rate to 60hz in the display settings
- Decode the stereo stream from 3D files is also missing.

I'm using RC2 (12/30/2016) and you are on RC1 and that is probably the reason. For smooth playback we came to the same settings and we both turned on the sync playback to display and adjust display to refresh rate. Thats the only combination that works for me. Further I needed to finetune some intel display settings with regards to staircase patterns in some movies. I needed to turn off contrast enhancement. Luckily somebody on this forum already solved this issue and this saved me probably a lot of time.

Another thing I turned on is stereo upmixing. My music collection is also imported in the kodi library and it's nice to hear the music coming from all my speakers.

If I understand the apollo thread a bit, because it seems it's a supertechnical thread, I assume that you mean libreElec instead of Ubuntu? I tried installing openElec before, but it fails big time on the Beebox-S 7200 kaby lake. I tried almost everything but couldn't get it running. After several attempts I was finally stuck in the fact that the OS could not load StartX and after a couple of hours I gave up and used Ubuntu. Maybe LibreElec will work better but I'm happy with windows right now.

Another user in the thread mentions that windows is way worse than linux because of the fact that windows runs a lot of background tasks consuming overhead / power / ... I don't think this is relevant for the Beebox-S 7200... those systems are really horsepowers. Ok they will consume more energy but the system is here in sleep mode when I'm not using it.

Two other things in the thread I don't understand are frame packing and windows MVC (I think MVC is something specific for 3D...) , so far I don't watch 3D movies and I probably will never do this at home.

And to continue my journey I will need to make a choice between AEON NOX or the new default Estuary skin. I did like the thing that AEON could create custom top level menu items and I did not found this yet for Estuary. I do like all other things in Estuary, so far.. Especially the movies in progress or recently added summary view.. What are you using?

Br,
Stijn