<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Wow thanks for the options, Android box looks promising but how and where the backend go ? Thanks</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Rama</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 1:51 PM, Joel Wirāmu Pauling <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joel@aenertia.net" target="_blank">joel@aenertia.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Not all of them have HDMI2.0b support or HDR - so it's a bit of crapshoot. And the firmware updates are generally the issue rather than the SoCs. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">But if you do go down the ali-express route look for:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">10Bit HDR Support, VP Profile 2 (this is what Youtube HDR encodes in).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">And Gigabit Ethernet <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I am a fan of the Rk3399 based board like the firefly - <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Unfortunately at the moment there is no HDR support under linux for any of the drivers (closed or open). Intel is working on extensions for wayland, and nvidia are implementing some deep-field extensions for glx surfaces - but not even herculean compilation efforts building from working trees renders a usable stack at the moment (I've tried)<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Android on the other hand has several HDR graphics drivers. The Nvidia one being the most feature complete. The Mali implementations are lacking and require proprietary SoC add-on chips - which in turn means being limited to the integrators firmware builds.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 26 September 2017 at 13:37, Nick Rout <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nick.rout@gmail.com" target="_blank">nick.rout@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span>On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 10:17 AM, Joel Wirāmu Pauling <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joel@aenertia.net" target="_blank">joel@aenertia.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Vote for the Nvidia Shield - currently easily the best TV front-end media box out. <br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">You will need to order from Amazon/Ebay as no-one seems to be importing them locally. But the non-hdd version can be had for $300 NZD mark.<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">There are some reasonable Chinese variants around but Updates/Frimware and really knowing your SoC's is required in order to make a good choice. <br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>If you want an economical kodi front end then buy an s905/s905x/s912 android box from china and put libreelec on it. I have three and they are brilliant, and you cannot beat this price:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.geekbuying.com/item/MECOOL-M8S-PRO-Plus-4K-TV-Box-381461.html" target="_blank">https://www.geekbuying.com/ite<wbr>m/MECOOL-M8S-PRO-Plus-4K-TV-<wbr>Box-381461.html</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Also the Odroid C2 is a good choice.</div><div><br></div><div>With those chipsets you get 4k decoding. </div><div><div class="m_-8831774415096014121h5"><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204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