Posts by astrotrain

Quote from LNorden

Thinking about switching from the AM6B+ to a mini pc that can do LE. Specifically one that's 16GB ram and H 255.

Wondering what I'm gaining here. Will Plex 4K Kodi be able to read higher bit rates? Will it has LLDV as good as the UGOOS? Sorry if all of these have been answered but I just want cliff notes.

I made the switch and I don't regret it. Basically, the Ugoos is stuck on a very low powered system with a proprietary linux version and a black boxed Dolby Vision support. DMDreview's testing proves that the official Dolby Vision is horrible to say the least with as low as 2% accuracy. The only advantage the Ugoos has is the ability to boot from a remote.

LLDV is coming and you can wait for that. I also believe that we'll start seeing more minipc's designed for LE as this becomes more popular. You don't need more than 4gb ram and storage to run LE. On the other hand, bluetooth range, fan noise, and the ability to boot from a remote matter more for LE systems.

I bought a barebones system for $179.

I think there are alot of recommendations for minipcs that more powerful than necessary. I would advise to consider noise and bluetooth range. The first minipc I tried had very limited bluetooth range so the remote barely worked and you could hear it in all the quite scenes. My silent 5600u Topton has external wifi with excellent range and no noise. It doesn't need any more power and only goes into the 130s f after a FEL movie.

I’ve been around since the first days of CE having FEL support and I watched CPM get burnt out by incessant requests while the CE team got so fed up that they banned all discussion of forks. I don’t want to see this replicated here. The code is already an enormous amount of effort that has taken over CroqueMr life over the past month. I’ve seen them delay their work to fix this which is a danger sign. I also want perfect Dolby Vision, but not at the cost of somebodies mind, job or happiness.

DP-to-HDMI conversion adds a whole new layer of complexity to code and support. Sure, it would be nice, but, frankly, not necessary. Let’s let the core work be finished and give all the devs a well-deserved break.

I got a silent R5 5600U barebones system added a 16tb Optane drive, 4gb 3200 DDR, and Ugoos UR02 remote. All for around $203. It works great and is completely silent. It has the same performance as a R5 7430U but does not have hardware AV1 decoding. However, software decoding of AV1 w/wo Dolby Vision works.