Last box I bought was subject to heavy charges on importation.
box cost + delivery is the value used for computations.
Customs charges on any value over ~€23 incurs VAT @ 23%, plus a €10 ‘handling’ charge.
It can mean the unshipped price doubles by the time it has been received.
Of course those prices quoted for USA do not include local taxes etc as far as I am aware, which would add a bit to the ‘out of pocket’ cost when buying there.
Still I am watching out for the availability of the N2 and will decide then based on need.
I’d not want to get a S905X2 now although it should be fine for CoreELEC too.
I do have one of these and if CE ever becomes available for it I will be trying that. I really hope this does happen.
Whatever it comes out at i would say it will probably be good value anyway. Still i have been toying with going intel next time simply for .the inclusion of SaTA out of the box. Some of the good chineses minipcs are coming in at about €130 which makes them good value.
We don’t know yet. But wrxtasy said he is able to play 1080p NF with a slightly overclocked Odroid C2. The cpu on the N2 is 30% faster and the passive cooling is superb. Also we have the possibility to overclock already.
That’s not possible on a overclocked C2.
720p netflix SW decoding is the highest what you can get.
wrxtasy mentioned on the kodi forum that the ODOID N1 (RK3399) is able to do netflix 1080p SW decoding.
Hardware decoding of 10bit h264 Hi10P Anime is also possible he said.
It does handle 1080P H264 Hi10P with ease, at about 35-40% CPU load.
There’s no hardware decoding of H264 Hi10P, but software decoding is more than enough.
How long would you say before there is a stable build for the N2? My C2 seems to have packed it in and I now have the dilemma of waiting for the N2 to be available, and for a stable build to come out, or just pick up another C2… First world problems!
We don’t have any projections. I hope that we can make something (not necessarily stable) available by the time the N2 ships in April, but we can’t guarantee anything at this point, since we only just started working on it a few days ago.
It’s looking promising. We have a working build already. There are still a lot of issues but basic stuff works like GUI, SW decoding, CEC, and some HW decoding. @shanti also tested some of the retrogame stuff and it’s impressive. A lot of people on the Team got a N2 so people are motivated to get it to work properly.
But we will probably encounter a lot of issues we don’t know yet.
Okay, I need to visit the forum more often, I have missed news about this beast!
From both a benchmark perspective, and user pespective, what kind of advantages does S922 have over S912?
