Recommended Books about content development, help authoring tools, and MadCap Flare. Includes HTML5, CSS and other web development topics. HTML Version; You are currently reading the free HTML version of the book, the most recent of which is always available at http://linkeddatabook.com/book. MINIX NEO X8- H Plus Review. Home. > AMLogic, Android, Hardware, Testing, Video. MINIX NEO X8- H Plus Review. MINIX NEO X8- H Plus Review. I posted pictures of MINIX NEO X8- H Plus media player a few days ago, and in this post I will report my impressions and testing results for the box, the first Amlogic S8. I’ve fully reviewed so far, which adds H. Gigabit Ethernet, and 8.
Wi- Fi to the original MINIX NEO X8- H. You can check my previous post for the full specifications of MINIX NEO X8- H Plus. First Boot, Settings and First Impressions. The package includes both MINIX IR remote, and MINIX NEO M1 RF air mouse. I did not use the infrared remote at all, and instead I mostly used the provided air mouse, together with Mele F1. Deluxe air mouse when I needed to input text, or for comparison. NEO M1 comes with a built- in battery, and Off/On button, and can be used as a standard remote control, or as a wireless mouse. In most cases it works fairly well, but inputting text may be a little cumbersome as you need to use the software keyboard, and I’ve noticed when I scroll several times, for example in Google Play going through my list of apps, its behavior becomes erratic, and frustrating to use. I’m tried to charge the NEO M1 again, and re- calibrate it, but it did not help. I’ve also disconnected the other RF dongles to make sure there was no interferences. The Mele F1. 0 (Deluxe) does not have this problem, so overall the “air mouseness” of NEO M1 isnot as good as the one of Mele air mice. 9789583016936 9583016934 Francis Bacon - Retrato de Una Pesadilla 4995879236796 Starlight Lounge (Import), Brigette 9780300115062 0300115067 The Invisible Museum. UpdateStar is compatible with Windows platforms. UpdateStar has been tested to meet all of the technical requirements to be compatible with Windows 10, 8.1, Windows 8. Extensible Markup Language as a Proposed RecommendationI’ve connected an Ethernet cable to my Gigabit hub, an HDMI cable, an SD card, a USB hard drive, a USB webcam, and a USB hub with three RF dongles for the two air mice, a wireless gamepad, and a USB flash drive. After connecting the power, you need to press the button to start the device. The boot took a massive 1 minute and 5. So I removed all USB devices, and boot time decreased to one minute, better, but not really a fast booting beast. For refernce some RK3. Android Home Screen in NEO X8- H Plus (Click for Original Size)The status bar is hidden by default, but you can simply pull it up if you need it. As with other MINIX NEO device you can choose between MINIX Metro launcher, or the default Andrid Home Screen as shown above. If you want to checkout the user interface in more details, read my review of MINIX NEO X6, which includes screenshots of MINIX Metro, and a video walk- through. The resolution was correctly automatically detected and set to 1. Although I connected the box to Ethernet, Wi- Fi was selected in the settings, so I had to go into settings before I get an Internet connection. Small detail. The Settings menu is very similar to NEO X6 with a MINIX green and grey skin with four sub- sections: Network, Display, Advanced and Other, but it adds some extra options highlighted in bold: Network – Enable and configure Wi- Fi or Ethernet. Display. Automatic or manual HDMI resolution: 4. Hz, 5. 76p/i @ 5. Hz, 7. 20p @ 5. 0/6. Hz, 1. 08. 0i @ 5. Hz, 1. 08. 0p @ 2. Hz, or 4k. 2k 2. 4/2. Hz/smpte. Hide or Show status bar. Display Position. Start screen Saver (Never, 4, 8 or 1. Advanced. Miracast. Remote Control (For Rockchip/MINIX remote app)Google TV Remote (for Google TV remote app)CEC Control. Screen Orientation settings. No Output to USB Audio. Digital Audio Output (Auto, PCM, S/PDIF pass- through, or HDMI pass- through)Dolby DRC settings – On/Off, and DRC mode selection (LINE or RF)Other – System Update: Local file or OTA (connects to server OK), Backup; “More Settings”: redirects to standard Android Settings. K video output and S/PDIF are extra hardware options supported by MINIX NEO X8- H Plus. DRC stands for Dynamic Range Control, and it aims to improve audio quality in various environments. Rather than simply compressing the audio program at the transmission source to work well in the poorest listening environments, Dolby Digital encoders calculate and send Dynamic Range Control (DRC) metadata with the signal. This metadata can then be applied to the signal by the decoder to reduce the signal’s dynamic range. Through the proper setting of DRC profiles during the mastering process, the content producer can provide the best possible presentation of program content in virtually any listening environment, regardless of the quality of the equipment, number of channels, or ambient noise level in the consumer’s home. Many Dolby Digital decoders offer the consumer the option of defeating the Dynamic Range Control metadata, but some do not. Decoders with six discrete channel outputs (full 5. Decoders with stereo, mono, or RF- remodulated outputs, such as those found on DVD players and set- top boxes, often do not. In these cases, the decoder automatically applies the most appropriate DRC metadata for the decoder’s operating mode. Most people won’t probably use this, but in case you want to turn it on, I understand you should probably select LINE if you own a 5. AV receiver, and to RF for other audio receivers / TV. Corrections are welcome. MINIX NEO X8- H Plus features a 1. GB e. MMC flash with a single 1. GB partition, with plenty of free space (1. GB+). In the “About Media. Box” section of Android settings, the model number is “NEO- X8. H- PLUS. The firmware is not rooted, and I did not try to root it either, but the micro USB OTG port means it should be feasible. At first, I thought NEO X8, NEO X8- H, and NEO X8- H Plus shared the same firmware, and seeing a new release, I tried to update my box, but don’t do that, as a separate firmware is available for NEO X8- H Plus. The latest release is dated November 2. I kept the pre- installed firmware (November 1. I tried the online OTA update, but after a slow checking on the server, it just reported “no updates available”. MINIX seems to have a two weeks window between the firmware update, and the availability of their OTA server(s) in Hong Kong. Google Play Store worked pretty well, and I did not need to side- load any apps for this review. The only apk I installed was Amazon App. Store, in order to play Riptide GP2. The power button on the side of the box cane be used to power on the device, enter and exit standby mode (short press), and call the power menu (long press) showing “Sleep”, “Restart”, or “Power Off”. NEO M1 power button can only be used for standby mode, as a long press does nothing. Mele F1. 0 Deluxe can only be used to enter standby mode, but not exit it, probably because the power key is an Infrared key on NEO M1, and Mele code is different. You can still power on the device with any remote by clicking on the “soft” power button on the task bar to activate the power menu. It’s not possible to turn on the box with the remote control. NEO X8- H Plus does not overheat. After Antutu 5. 3 benchmark, the max. I never experienced slowdowns, freezes, or hang- ups. The only time I felt there may be issue is when doing repeated scroll downs with NEO M1 air mouse, where the mouse pointer did not feel responsive, but this had nothing to do with the device, only the air mouse limitation, as I had no such repeatable issues with Mele F1. Deluxe. Video Playback. MINIX NEO X8- H Plus came with XBMC 1. MINIX Edition pre- installed, and contrary to my review with MINIX NEO X6, I did not install XBMC 1. Beta MINIX Edition, which supports automatic refresh rate switching, and better support for . Built on July 2. 8, 2. So I installed it to give it a try. XBMC user interface renders at around 3. I had no problems connecting to SAMBA shares in Ubuntu 1. XBMC or ES File Explorer. Most videos have been tested with XBMC, but I also switched to “4. K Movie. Player” app to play some 4. K videos. Videos samples from samplemedia. H. 2. 65/HEVC videos (Elecard), and a low resolution VP9 video: H. MP4 container (Big Buck Bunny), 4. OKMPEG2 codec / MPG container, 4. Mostly OK, but some people may feel a slowdown @ 1. MPEG4 codec, AVI container 4. OK, although XBMC reports 7. VC1 codec (WMV), 4. OKReal Media (RMVB), 7. Mbps – RV8, RV9, and RV1. OKWeb. M / VP8 – OKH. MPEG TS container (3. Audio only, and the 1. XBMC exit. Web. M / VP9 (no audio in video) – Does not play at all (Stays in XBMC UI). I wanted to install the “Frequency Switcher” in the Video Add- ons, but all I got was a message saying the platform was not supported. So no automatic refresh rate switching is possible for now, at least with this version of XBMC. I also played some higher bitrate videos: ED. Tested with Sintel- Bluray. MPEG2 videos (Grid. HD. mpg & Pastel. HD. mpg) could also play. K videos playback is quite a disaster in XBMC, especially since this version of XBMC does not seem to support HEVC: HD. Club- 4. K- Chimei- inn- 6. OKsintel- 2. 01. 0- 4k. OK. Beauty. My Panasonic TV is not a 3. D TV according to the specs, so I can only check if video decoding is working. NEO X8- H appears to handle 1. D 4. K video: bbb. Hardly noticeable to me. However, I could not play IFO files, only VOB, and I noticed XBMC sometimes report videos are not played at the original frame rate. For example, while playing a complete 1. MKV / 3. GB) to test stability, I noticed the frame rate oscillated between 2. I’m not sure if this is expected, or improvements are needed. Nevertheless, I had no problem to play the movie fully, but over 1. XBMC live debug log. Links to various video samples used in this review and be found in “Where to get video, audio and images samples” post and comments. Network Performance (Wi- Fi and Ethernet)I transfer a 2. MB file between a SAMBA share (Ubuntu 1. ES File Explorer in order to evaluate network performance of Wi- Fi, repeating the test three times, and averaging results. NEO X8- H Plus support both 8. I tested both. The first one with my older TP- Link TL- WR9. N, and the second standard with TP- Link TL- WDR7. Archer C7). The device averages a disappointing 2. MB/s with 8. 02. 1. MB/s with 8. 02. 1. Throughput in MB/s (Click to Enlarge)The actual performance you get may vary depending on the router used, and your environment. Transferring a 8.
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