Cheer all
Might just try the tox3 since it has a remote and has less heat. Appranty
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If you need help setting up CoreElec help is on this forum..
I open the new box and power it up but I donāt log it into Google unless you want to put Kodi and other apps on it instead.
There is a Tox3 thread on here somewhere. 
Yep. The vontar box/hk rbox will boot straight to kodi. Be advised that if you want to keep android on it, youāll have to run CE through a USB. If not, then you can just set up a singleboot for CE
I have not seen a thread for the S905X5M chipset, is there one I missed?
I am wondering if any of the cheaper boxes with this chipset has been tested for compatibility with Coreelec since the chipset seems to be supported. Boxes like the X88 Pro X5M, Vontar X5 (or X50), Tanix TX5 Plus,ā¦
Me particularly I just want to run Coreelec and do not need DV video (Samsung TV), what can I expect from those boxes?
X88 Pro X5M here
I have that box for a week. Works great. It is fast and have low temps about 44 Ā°C when watching movies (43 Ā°C when idle) with āondemandā CPU governor, "performanceā governor is almost the same. The cons are no BT support and WIFI is slow (approx 100-180 Mbps), but wired speed is full 1 Gbps. And I must mention small tearing in KODI GUI: Amlogic-NO discussion - #3051 by roidy Btw @roidy is trying to fix that issue: How to apply patch and rebuild - Development / Development & Testing - CoreELEC Forums and I have written to Amlogic support for āFBDEV libMali for all newer Valhall GPUsā.
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Hi there. I try to understand what device i have to buy. I donāt need Android TV, because my Sony Bravia 9 has all the Apps working fine. My Problem is, that Kodi on the Sony, doesnāt passthrough TrueHD Dolby Atmos from .MKV. and i donāt found a fix/solution. Thatās the only reason because i want an media player with CoreELEC. So i see the AM6B+, is the actually best CoreELEC Playerā¦but i see that the AM8 PRO has double RAM and double faster in Benchmarks and is newerā¦but no FEL Support? So ist this the only downgrade? Or is there more? And what happens if i have an FEL Movie and i want to play it? Does it works but with worst colors? How many FEL Movies are out there? I actually donāt understand if i absolutely need this FEL Support. Sorry for the many Questions, but iām reading and reading and donāt come to a conclusionā¦
THANKS A LOT! Ciao, David
When you have no idea about FEL/MEL you will for sure not even notice a difference.
AM6B is very old hardware.
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Thanks. But the AM6b+ is still the best CoreELEC option? or ist it better if i buy an AM8 Pro? Is the only difference the FEL support? The MKV that has FEL, will still play good on the AM8 Pro?
According to ugoos.store, AM8 Pro is EOL and sold out.
āBut the AM6b+ is still the best CoreELEC option?ā
For the Dolby Vison p7 FEL yes.
and without FEL support?
This is one quiz show now?
You made a question, and
you got answer.
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very friendly supportā¦ā¦.
Donāt confuse technical support with a technical support phone line.
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I can see there are a few S905x5 devices on the market and that the team have got full support for at least one, the AM9 (Iāve read the thread on here).
I wondered if anyone can help provide their opinion on the following:
- Will the S905x5 support licensed DV? I guess that would need a S905x5-j/k variant? Or will it be retro licensed?
- Is the S905x5 a step up from the S928x-j/k in terms of media playback? I understand it has native V266 support which will probably be useful in time but for now is there any other advantage in the x5?
- If I did get an s905x5 is there any recommendations? Anything worth waiting for? Iām obviously keen to use a supported CE box
If you want more info about hardware, see the last posts (few weeks) in the thread
Best Kodi-capable Media Players in 2025-26
BTW, I am waiting an AM6B+ and I am not the only oneā¦
Edit: Let me know your choice.
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There will be never a best device matching for anybody. Need features are different, like LAN WiFi, uSD, USB, LED,ā¦
Take a look in this table to get your favourite SoC:
Like AM6B is G12B and on the lower end of the list. AV1 decoding in hardware start with SC2 and H266 with S6.
In general the SoCs are similar, except power consumption and CPU power. Also the GPU get newer but there will be not much difference.
āOn Topā devices are right now AM8 and Minix U8K, both is generation S5 with Dolby Vision support.
Soon there will be AM9 Pro, S6 with Dolby Vision.
This will be the next levelā¦
Sure this is the high end area in function but also price.
CE do support real Dolby Vision (no P7-FEL) with ātrueā TV-LED on CE-22.
Hint:
Itās not like some overpriced open-source community promising true Dolby Vision (DV) FEL support. In reality, itās not real DV at all; itās just a workaround, where the TV uses a tunneled, tone-mapped signal through the HDR10 channel.
This happens because true DV requires a license, and the hardware and metadata are proprietary, protected against reverse-engineering. So, this setup will probably be short-lived until Dolby Laboratories takes action regarding the use of their technology.
All the discussions about ātrueā TV LED and DV FEL are essentially pointless. HDR10 with tonemapping is probably the best youāll get ā assuming it even works properly.
Just be cautious and donāt fall for the hype in open-source community forums.
To be honest, if a small 2-3 person company manages to get something working that hundreds of others canāt, itās worth questioning how sustainable that solution is. 
Edit:
Such statement even of one of the main devs from the closed source project shows they have no idea about itā¦
This becomes even more strange:
How can be code seen of a open source project? This sounds schizophrenic and will confuse more users to get them picked up a overpriced device. How can open source not be read?
By create a diff between kernel source tarballs itās clear to see how they cheat DV and use the HDR channel by reversing the RPU in their, sorry closed, encrypted dovi module.
Their advantage is that non professional just canāt check the real md metadata and sell non licensed DV as DV. Fact is it canāt be as itās a license violation. First item about the violation is the RPU decoder. Sure itās encrypted - so nobody see it?
So the fact about ālong term supportā is also nonsense as the users get again dependent on their will if they go to work on it or not. So same bad as the bad called Amlogic way. Again sounds schizophrenic, isnāt it?
The fact is the closed source project pick up code from every where and use it to sell devices.
But this is the bad of real open source these days anyway.
But use a open source platform like Kodi forum to make advertisment to try to get even more users to sell devices is hard open source violation.
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Thanks for taking the trouble to answer, appreciated.
So Iām pulling from what you say above:
- The chips series s6/S7d improve but capability wise it isnāt necessary to have the latest/greatest to run CoreElec
- CE22 provides the best real/ātrueā DV experience (except P7-FEL)
- There will be a future products based on a DV licensed S6 SoC (tbc). Possibly an AM9 Pro
So putting that together it sounds like I should stick with running CE22 on my S928 based SoC, appreciate the ever sharpening CE22 build and see what an AM9 Pro or equivalent looks like running it
Thanks!
Thanks for the link. Iām waiting for an AM6B+ too. Should arrive next week. For me, i think the important things, are that itās free of stutter, snappy, and the main Reason, that it can passthrough TrueHD Atmos from MKVs Remuxes (because my Sony TV with Kodi doesnāt can/do this). I donāt need more, so I think I should be happy with this device and CoreELEC. For all streaming Apps, I use the Android TV on the Sony Bravia 9, that works fine.
Thank you for this answer, that helps me more than the first answer, and slowly I understand more about all this stuffā¦.Can I install CE on the emmc on an AM8 Pro/SK1 or Minix U8K? I read for the Minix no root access, iām not sure if this has to do anything with the install on emmc?
Sorry if i ask, is the DV Fel Support on the AM6B Plus real/true or not? Iām a bit confused.
Do you know if the AM9 Pro will have DV FEL support?