Hello everyone, I’ve come across this box sold by Walmart in the US called Onn 4K Pro which has the S905X4-J/K with DV capability.
Does anyone know if this box has an unlocked bootloader and can run CE? If not, will there be any other way for it to play DV FEL?
Basically, the answer is no, Onn devices are heavily locked down & region internet IP blocked boxes.
Are Tivo’s set-top boxes the same? I have a Tivo Stream 4K (S905Y2-J) and it can be booted using the s905y2_2g.dtb, but it can’t hardware decode videos. Do I need a specific dtb file to unlock the hardware decoder?
It looks like ST-DL P7 files were playing fine through Plex in Android itself back when it launched and it’s confirmed in this old community post: Dolby Vision FEL playback? | TiVo Community Forum
However, I’m not sure if this is still the case with the latest updates to this box. You can try digging deeper in that forum or maybe even try your luck by buying one.
Can anyone point me to the instructions for moving the data partition alone to the emmc as stated here?
Maybe this? Homatics Box R 4K Plus - #278
Right, thanks. Looks a bit complicated and easy to make a mistake. I might stick with a good SD card instead.
Please tell me, is Ugoos AM6+ which has no “B”, any worse than AMB6+? Of course I mean how it works with CoreELEC and Dolby Vision, not the android part.
It is same. B version have wifi 6, becasue this model is from 2021.
I read somewhere that AM6+ may have other SOC revisions, is it not important (for VC-1 software decoding, for example)?
S922X SOC revisions are unrelated to S905X4 SOC revisions. The VC-1/H264 issues in CE-NG (kernel 4.9) are specific to S905X4 rev d SOCs.
As far as I know, all DV licensed S922X/Z SOCs are rev b (no relation to S905X4 rev b).
Hi there !
I am planning on getting the cheapest hardware I can find (second hand, in France) to run CE on. I tried to look on the forums but I couldn’t find exactly what I was looking for. Please redirect me if such a thread already exists.
These are the kind of files I’ll be playing :
So my question is, what would be a good device for playing those files, for a decent price ?
I found an odroid-N2 (with emmc and psu) for 80€, seems reasonable to me. Wondering if this is fine, or maybe this board is lacking some features ?
TOX3 (not tox4)
example only.
Edited, found one cheaper.
A post was merged into an existing topic: [S922X] Ugoos AM6(+), Help & Support
So there is no way to take an already open and used Fire Cube Gen 2… and install Coreelec? Is that not possible? As far as I can tell it has to be a new/sealed one… which is a bummer since I have one laying around the house lol.
Not unless it’s been powered off for 2 years or you blocked updates a while back. The unlock to make booting CE possible is only possible up to firmware PS7292. The last batch of 2nd gen Cubes manufactured shipped with PS7229, that’s why any new one is sure to by unlockable.
I ordered the cheap TOX3 from Aliexpress and got it in 3 weeks (to South Africa). I replaced the firmware with Slimbox 34 ATV to prevent the ‘Missing partition super on eMMC!’ error and then was able to load CE from SD card.
If you don’t have a DV capable display, then I can easily recommend this box for CE use.
I was about to ask what a recommended box was if DV wasn’t required. Sounds like TOX3 meets that requirement.
Do people think it’s worth future proofing and getting the Ugoos even if DV isn’t needed for at least a couple of years?
What is future proof defined as???
Lol
If you do not care about Dolby Vision
Maybe you don’t even have Dolby Vision TV/Monitor
You probably dont need the Ugoos Am6b Plus
Do some more reading/comparing
There are some excellent Boxes out there!!!
Happy Testing
I think they’re suggesting that he may get a Dolby Vision TV in the future. I don’t think it’s a bad shout getting the Ugoos now if they think they might head that way.
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