- what box would you recommend that fits my requirements (see the list below)?
- the Vero 4K+ was fine in the past, but OSMC is not stable any more and I want to move back to LE. Would the Vero4K+ work with LE and which image to use?
Use case
- home cinema
- AVR with 7.1 speaker system
- 4K 3D projector
General Media-Center-specific requirements:
- IR or BT Remote control, also for power on/off
- CEC for fallback
- silent
- low power
- missing something important?
General Performance requirements for media center:
- 1 Gbps ethernet and AC wifi access: library database and content are served from remote via NFS, SMB, MySQL, PLEX
- fast local storage (SSD): metadata and fanart are stored locally
- smooth handling of content for
- 1080p24, 1080p60, 2160p24, 2160p60, with 3D, with 10-12 Bit color space (HDR10, opt. Dolby Vision)
- 7.1
- HD audio supporting FLAC 24 bit, 192 kHz
- content decoding of H.264, H.265, MPEG4, MPEG2, preferrably in hardware
- HDMI audio passthrough: PCM, Dolby Digital, Dolby TrueHD, Dolby Atmos, DTS, DTS-HD, DTS-HD MA, DTS:X
- opt. hardware deinterlacing
- Automatic Resolution & framerate switching (to match the video file)
- missing something important?
Specific Kodi-Platform requirements:
- IR Receiver,
- opt. Bluetooth 4.2 or higher (ext. USB device is ok)
- Power on/off via IR and/or BT
- HDMI 2.0b, optional 2.1, CEC
- Ethernet 1 Gbit
- opt. Wifi5 AC or WIfi6 (ext. USB device is ok)
- USB 3.2:
- 2x A-Connector,
- opt: additional 2x C-Connector
- SSD built-in (250GB or more) or free mount bay for SSD
- opt. passive cooling (no fan)
- silent
- opt. low power consumption of platform
- Intel CPU
- GPU: 10 bit HEVC (Mesa 17.1 or higher, Kaby Lake or newer)
- HDR10 capable
- opt. SDR capable
- opt. hardware deinterlacing
- HDMI audio passthrough: PCM, Dolby Digital, Dolby TrueHD, Dolby Atmos, DTS, DTS-HD, DTS-HD MA, DTS:X
- missing something important?
