Zidoo X5 S905 Cortex A53 64bit

[trebor]

Zidoo X5 S905 Amlogic 1/8 GB

The Zidoo X5 a good all round media player with features that should meet the demands of a Mid Priced Media Player easily
Not to forget the great support from Ziddo with its producs.

The Unit has the goods HDMI 2, SPDIF out running lollipop 5.1
Performance for a 1/8 gb unit I find is pretty good compared to other units with similar spek.

Good looking unit very functional remote and advanced power features.

Testing: kodi 15.2 Fifa_WorldCup2014_Uruguay-Colombia_4K-x265 with Spidf, Good.

Would have liked to see AC WIFIi, Gig Lan and 2/8 at least,
Maybe the next model
I guess to keep it at a price point things must be sacrificed.

[trebor]

More on the Zidoo X5 S905 1/8 GB




Review from CNXsoft

PROS

• Recent Android 5.1 OS firmware
• Video Output – HDMI 2.0 up to 2160p 60Hz; 24/25/30/50/60 Hz refresh rates supported
• Close to perfect power handling (On. standby, reboot, schedule off) with low power consumption in power off (0 watt) and standby mode (0.4 watts)
• Performance is good and stable over time (no noticeable throttling)
• 3D games are very smooth (due to 1280×720 resolution)
• Kodi/ZDMC – Dolby 7.1, and DTS HD audio pass-through is working (most of the time) as is automatic frame rate switching.
• 4K video playback in MoviePlayer app
• Some small extra features: autostart app, scheduled power off, …
• 10/100M Ethernet performance is solid.
• OTA firmware update

CONS

• Kodi/ZDMC is not very stable, as the app would often exit by itself, especially when playing 4K videos, and audio pass-through may have audio cuts in some files.
• 10 MB free space bug on some USB device is still not fixed, resulting in some USB drives being read-only.
• Some slowdowns due to slow write speed of the eMMC flash, especially noticeable when installing apps in the background
• Complete lack of DRM support
• No Dolby and DTS licenses, which can be an issue if you don’t use Kodi.
• Irregular WiFi performance – Very good at times, and very slow (100 KB/s) at other times.
• Mouser pointer to small to be usable when 2160p video output is selected
• Framebuffer resolution set to only 720p

[trebor]

Zidoo X5 S905 Cortex A53 64 Bit

More From Zidoo X5

Release new firmware V1.0.11.
Changelog:
1: Add ZDMC(base on koid 16.1), improvement the passthrough of zdmc, support DTS HD, TRUE HD, etc.
2: Improvement the NTP service, get time more faster from the network.
3: Upgrade google play store, use the new version.

download link: http://apidl.zidoo.tv/zidoo_x5/p201-ota-20160325.zip
amazon mirror:http://ota-cloudfront.zidoo.tv/zidoo...1.0.11_ota.zip

How to upgrade: http://blog.zidoo.tv/2015/02/how-to-...o-x9-firmware/

Version support one key root, link:
http://forum.zidoo.tv/index.php?thre...root-tool.997/

[Nofan Tasi]

What does p201 actually stand for ? I ask because it seems mxq pro 165 firmware ota updates are also called p201-ota-YYYYMMDD.zip.
Would this mean one can run 'Zidoo X5' S905 firmware on the 'MXQ Pro' S905?

[freeroc]

What does p201 actually stand for ? I ask because it seems mxq pro 165 firmware ota updates are also called p201-ota-YYYYMMDD.zip.
Would this mean one can run 'Zidoo X5' S905 firmware on the 'MXQ Pro' S905?

No, you can't.
They are come from the same SDK source that release from AMLOGIC. so they have a similar ota name.
But there have many changes include hareware interface and encryption on software..etc..