Minix Neo X5 - Full review - Androidpc.es

[Naismith]

Hi!

You can check here our last review, Minix Neo X5

The best Set Top Box in the market today.

If you need some explanation please question me.

[newuser121]

Thanks for the review!

Since you're in Spain, could you answer me this please?

Can you watch flash streams on the Neo X5 from places like USTREAM or Justin.tv? I heard flash wasn't that good, but I mainly want to watch streams from ROJADIRECTA.ME to see Barca, or Real Madrid play live

[Naismith]

Hi soccer fan!


Sometimes rojadirecta using web is not the best way to see soccer, have little problems with the flash player.
Use SPORTSDEVIL plugin in XBMC


Check our apps selection in the Google Store and streaming websites, most of the users in spain use this to see the matchs in AndroidPC's.

http://foro.androidpc.es/showthread.php?tid=228

Best regards

[newuser121]

Hi soccer fan!


Sometimes rojadirecta using web is not the best way to see soccer, have little problems with the flash player.
Use SPORTSDEVIL plugin in XBMC


Check our apps selection in the Google Store and streaming websites, most of the users in spain use this to see the matchs in AndroidPC's.

http://foro.androidpc.es/showthread.php?tid=228

Best regards

Muchas gracias! I know Spanish well, but will use English, to respect this forum.


Last question:

In your full review I didn't read in detail information about what some people call "hardware decoding" and "hardware acceleration" (maybe Silverlight for Netflix) for this device, and that most HD content plays shaky or "jittery" because of this for some apps, including XBMC. Would you say this is true?

Example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=fG15W-pfZDo#t=320s

[code]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=hmUSaFBlmRY#t=45 s/code]


I guess if this is true, and it's software related, it could be improved in the future since the hardware is there, right?

[Naismith]

Muchas gracias! I know Spanish well, but will use English, to respect this forum.


Last question:

In your full review I didn't read in detail information about what some people call "hardware decoding" and "hardware acceleration" (maybe Silverlight for Netflix) for this device, and that most HD content plays shaky or "jittery" because of this for some apps, including XBMC. Would you say this is true?

Example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=fG15W-pfZDo#t=320s

Hi.


Respect of course.


The SOC RK3066 (GPU Mali400) at this moment dont have full support for hardware decoding in some internal players. XBMC is using one of this... and i suppose Netflix


But... as you can see at the end of the review i use three XBMC releases for testing and the last one have HW decoding (experimental), the developers in XBMC are working hard in this way... someday jumps from experimental to final.


If you want full HW decoding in a android set top box the best solution now is SOC AML8726-M3... but is single core.


In MX player you can play HW decoding well... of course.


See you!