2020-02-23, 20:00
I have this one: Fire TV Stick 4K Ultra HD
Most network adapters for this stick are limited to 100 Mbit/s - which is far slower than what I achieve via AC WLAN.
For the rest:
As said above I only ran kodi in 1080p50 back at intel times. My primary use-case back then was 1080i50 livetv via DVB-C, therefore the VAAPI MCDI was what I used most. In detail I used a J4205 Apollo Lake and was happy with it, Was a passive system (pico psu) and SSD, combined with 4 GB RAM. Besides the hdmi 2.0 lspcon sucked hard until it got some fw updates.
If you run kodi's gui in 1080p - all of the above will do.
In fact: I never ever had a core i3 or something higher for kodi. I went:
AMD E350 (got me into kodi, we developed the long dead XVBA with it)
J1900 Celeron (needed it, cause it was cheap and we developed VAAPI postprocessing with it)
Zotac Celeron 1007U Zbox (we used it for performant implementation of GPU2CPU copy with ffmpeg's yadif as intel's deinterlacing sucked hard at this time)
Celeron 1820T Haswell (needed it for MCDI deinterlacing)
Asrock J3105 (needed it for HEVC 8 bit development)
Asrock J4205 (needed it for HEVC 10 bit development)
With those I developed the 200 rule :-) Never ever invest more than 200 $ / € as technology changes too fast.
I contributed to Android since a very long time, but many don't know - blindly - I just wrote the code without possibility to test it :-). When I moved and family extended, I went for the easy way with FireTV 4K above. The first Android box I got myself.
Most network adapters for this stick are limited to 100 Mbit/s - which is far slower than what I achieve via AC WLAN.
For the rest:
As said above I only ran kodi in 1080p50 back at intel times. My primary use-case back then was 1080i50 livetv via DVB-C, therefore the VAAPI MCDI was what I used most. In detail I used a J4205 Apollo Lake and was happy with it, Was a passive system (pico psu) and SSD, combined with 4 GB RAM. Besides the hdmi 2.0 lspcon sucked hard until it got some fw updates.
If you run kodi's gui in 1080p - all of the above will do.
In fact: I never ever had a core i3 or something higher for kodi. I went:
AMD E350 (got me into kodi, we developed the long dead XVBA with it)
J1900 Celeron (needed it, cause it was cheap and we developed VAAPI postprocessing with it)
Zotac Celeron 1007U Zbox (we used it for performant implementation of GPU2CPU copy with ffmpeg's yadif as intel's deinterlacing sucked hard at this time)
Celeron 1820T Haswell (needed it for MCDI deinterlacing)
Asrock J3105 (needed it for HEVC 8 bit development)
Asrock J4205 (needed it for HEVC 10 bit development)
With those I developed the 200 rule :-) Never ever invest more than 200 $ / € as technology changes too fast.
I contributed to Android since a very long time, but many don't know - blindly - I just wrote the code without possibility to test it :-). When I moved and family extended, I went for the easy way with FireTV 4K above. The first Android box I got myself.