this might be relevant in a few years time, they got Dolby Vision FEL working on windows insider
jjd-uk (Team-Kodi Member)
I don’t think that helps Kodi as the only DV video playback API is only for UWP apps.
https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=381447
Competition is heating up in the windows space for ARM chips / Intel / AMD maybe mediatek+Nvidia
in a couple of years time, windows might be the only boxes selling FEL capable devices lol
also came across this
the 8440U is probably the best device if anyone is interested in Kodi on Windows. someone I know is in the process of buying this box and I’m interested in the performance, according to this
https://www.reddit.com/r/AMDLaptops/comments/1ee6jur/8840u_vs_8840hs/
The cooling solution on this is awesome too (same box has 54W rated chips while the 8840u is 28W rated), so can see it running 15W while Kodi is playing. and single core will be good enough that it beats a S9228X for kodi in windows even. anyway will be reporting the Python single core when he gets round in benchmarking it on the community sheet I’m updating.
Windows boxes will start to extend their performance lead , especially since AMlogic release a new chip every 4 years. The S928X isn’t that much better than the S922X released 5 years ago. Als ARM for windows will be competitive enough in a year or 2. Hope it spurs AMlogic to do more releases