It looks like skin uses low resolution thumbnails in 1080p
It’s the same thumbnail in both images the only difference is the change in kodi’s GUI resolution. I’ll also note that this is with the following settings in advanced.xml
<imageres>9999</imageres>
<fanartres>9999</fanartres>
So that no scaling occurs when the artwork is first downloaded. The only scaling is what kodi’s rendering engine does.
Poor GUI texture scaling has been a long standing issue with kodi, there’s a large thread on the kodi forum about it https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=200401
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So I guess I will keep my N2 order and see how it works and test it for my needs, thanks to the CE team for all the hard work😉
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It’s already at a better level than the S912 and fully functional, it’s only minor bugs that we have left to fix.
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Even the HDR, and the Color Space Switch ? 
And, Can we send you one or more Beelink King when it is released?
You can see my previous post on that.
This thread is for N2 discussion but please refer to this post.
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There’s no point repeating questions and answers that have been posted numerous times already.
I’ve mentioned that HDR and HLG are working fine. There’s still no auto color depth switching, but we’ll get there. Currently, simply running it at 422 10bit should be fine for most users.
Audio passthrough can be a little glitchy sometimes, but overall it works well. These glitches need to be investigated further.
We plan to first get the N2 running up to our standards. Once we iron out most of those little issues, we’ll consider (note the bold text) adding support for other devices. Also, SBCs will always have priority over cheap Chinese Android STBs.
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SBC = Single Board Computer (Like the Odroid N2, C2, Le-Potato, KVIM, etc.)
STB = Set Top Box (Like all the Android TV boxes)
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The Odroid N2 has a microSD card slot, so you can either use a microSD card or eMMC. Currently there’s no support for booting from USB.
You don’t need to do anything special, just the normal installation.
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Is there any benefit to using an eMMC card ?
Yes, it’s faster.
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I read on the Hardkernel forum that you can boot via usb using SPI. I understand it’s not supported but looks like it’s technically possible.
As @TheCoolest said “Currently there’s no support”
To add support for booting from both eMMC and sdcard we had to patch u-boot and with our changes USB booting is not currently supported regardless of if you are using the SPI flash or not.
Thanks for the clarification
Small demo of 4K HDR playback with Subs, this was streaming a ~15GB HEVC via the HK WiFi Module 5A, 0 dropped/skipped frames, no stuttering
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I know this Thread here is long but try to scroll back a little as we talked about this before. All those questions keep popping up again and again.
eMMC is way faster, you can compare it to SSD vs. HDD on a PC. tar update takes 1-2s. If you use IO intensive stuff in your Kodi (lots of cached covers etc.) you should see an improvement.
But also the SD speed with my SanDisk Ultra card is very good. Even without eMMC this thing is super fast. So if you don’t want to spend the extra on eMMC it’s totally fine.
And before the is this question again about the Adapter. You don’t really need it. I edited the script I wrote for the LePotato eMMC installation. So you can pop in the emmc and boot from a temporary SD card and install to eMMC. It will also move your userdata. So you can just remove the SD card after that and it will boot from eMMC. If you ever need to repair something because you made a bad update/downgrade just insert a SD card and you can repair it from within CE. But I personally find the microSD to eMMC Adapter very handy. I don’t have the USB3 to eMMC Adapter.
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Is emmc compatible from c2 or rock64?
From C2 yes. No idea about rock64.
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=6279&pid=39162#pid39162
https://wiki.odroid.com/accessory/emmc/reference_chart
I’ve no idea what the pins do in that guys post analysis.
I’ve got a Rock64 eMMC 64GB that I’ll try when i get my N2