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hdmkv Thanks for the thread and hence keeping FullHD 3D in the list of relevant features (few others than you would have ;-).
1. Maybe worth noting in post 1 that Sam did confirm that the firmware bugs for 3D will not be fixed by the SoC vendor - not even for the Vero5k SoC ;-(. If need be i can dig up the thread from the OSMC forum where that was asked and answered.
2. I wonder how you came to say "no FullHD 3D" Support on Intel N100. It might make sense to include a pointer to the following normative URL in post 1 pointer
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/...phics.html. And i can confirm that i played around long with some N95 miniPC to confirm i could never get the Full HD 3D display mode by the driver. Whereas i can get them from older Intel CPU.
In result of this N100 and other newer Intel CPU limitation, one actually may consider to include a pre-gen12 miniPC as an option. Not sure if the N5000 series was still ok., but certainly J4125 and the like. And of course core-I up to 11xxx. BUT: All the china originated Intel boxes i had, whether they where N/J or core-I series did not give me HDCP 2.2 under windows 10/11. For example BeeLink boxes, which are otherwise fine. The reason seems to be that Intel managed to make HDCP 2.2 very hard to implement. Seemingly it needs to be in the VBIOS, which is part of BIOS, and seemingly at most american/taiwanese vendors may care (i've only tested it working with one older ASUS motherboard).
So, what does work well, and what is my geneal purpose HTPC are AMD Ryzen based builds or MiniPC. I managed to get some ASUS PN50 for cheap ($150), and also a new BeeLink SER5. All Ryzen systems do HDCP 2.2, even the older Motherboards which initially didn't announce it - because the whole HDMI encoder is in the CPU, and not in external chips as in most Intels. side note: I have also never managed to get 4K @ 60 Hz with HDR out of Intel systems - thats the 18Gbps HDMI signal, as opposed to the cheap 4K@60 (no HDR) that is marketed for all those Intel MiniPC, and which uses 4:2:2 8 Bit, and hence uses only HDMI 1.4 12Gbps instead of HDMI2.0 18Gbps.
Anyhow: My vote is for including the "any" Ryzen systems with Windows 11, e.g.: BeeLink SER5
- HDCP 2.2
- Up to 18Gbps HDMI video, 4K @ 60 Hz with HDR
- All Audio option
- Full HD 3D with PotPlayer
- 4K/HDR Netflix with Netflix App or Edge Browser
- 4K/HDR AppleTV with AppleTV app
- ... alas i think other streamers do not support more than 1080p, but i have not fully investigated those
- Dolby Vision i am missing the display capability so far to test.
. I kinda know what to expect out of a S905X4 device, but the kicker w/this is 3GB of RAM, which should (in theory) help w/performance. And, given it's limited by a 100M LAN port, WiFi 6 should work well for HTTP streaming.
. This device won't do framepacked MVC 3D, but like almost any media player, can do half-SBS & half-TAB. Kodi's media library management & skin options make Zidoo's HT4 feel like Windows 98 IMHO.
