ZIDOO 8K Media player coming soon.

Can anyone test to confirm if ExFAT actually gives much faster transfer speeds compared to NTFS? It would be a massive amount of work to reformat all of my drives!

 

What's your system language set to?

 

English. Can't for the life of me figure out why there's French subs appearing

 

I see the UHD8000 just got Roon certified. Is the Z3000 Pro on schedule for the same?

 

Same here except instead of French it always chooses German. The only solution right now is to turn off Default Subtitles and use the Forced Subtitles option. Then you'll need to remux all your files to use the "forced" flag on any subtitle track that you want on by default.

 

My zidooPro1000 and my DunePro vision 4k both did smb at around 90 yet my Dune and Zidoo 8k both are around 50>60

 

As @mirror told us (and I didn't realise this) Linux doesn't natively support NTFS and exFAT will perform better.

 

Couldn't resist

As long as your network drives support NFS then they should automatically populate so there shouldn't be anything you need to do on the Zidoo.

But I honestly wouldn't bother with NFS - SMB should perform better.

 

I am not about to format 8 18Tb drives. lol At my age I may not live long enough to accomplish that.

 

mine did the same thing. Even though I had set settings for Eng.

 

BINGO! UHD8000 Roon Ready & Roon Tested! Anyone want to buy a well-cared for Auralic Aries G2 streamer? ...

 

When I change size of PGS subs the film crash (in HT or via the file explorer)

 

I've received shipping notification for my Z9X 8K batch 3! That's a week ahead of schedule! woo hoo

 

Unfortunately I started noticing some frame skips today while watching Star Wars: The Acolyte (terrible show, by the way). The whole reason I switched from the Nvidia Shield to the Zidoo was to hopefully avoid frame skips or stutters.

I'm going to have to try out the Ugoos AM6B+ with CoreELEC to see if that works better. Still have a few weeks to decide.

EDIT: Ok so I figured out the problem is that the show is in 24 fps. All the files with 23.976 fps play perfectly. There seems to be an issue with the match framerate setting... it's probably setting it to 23.976 Hz when playing 24 fps videos.

EDIT 2: It gets even stranger. Turned off auto frame rate switching and forced resolution to 2160p 24hz, but still had frame skips. Then I tried 2160p 23.976hz and it played flawlessly. VLC reads the frame rate as 24.000384 so the Zidoo is correctly detecting the file as 24hz. But for some reason it stutters when auto framerate matching is on, or if 24hz is manually set. The only way to play it smoothly is to manually set it to 23.976hz. What's going on?

 

I'm getting my new Dune HD Solo 8K today and will test it straight away. I have a 480 GB SSD that I can use for this, but also 3 HDDs via USB. If DHL doesn't fail, I'll post the results this evening.

 

Awesome, let us know how it goes! I'm buying a new hard drive and I'll format it as ExFAT to see how it works on the Z9X 8K.

Also I'm hoping that our tech support specialist Mirror can look into why I need to turn off "Auto Match Framerate" and manually set 23.976 in order to get smooth playback on 24 fps videos. This has to be a bug with how the Zidoo handles 24 fps videos. If somehow it isn't a bug and only happens on my system, I will unfortunately have to return it.

 

It will play just fine. just tested it here, same socket, Dune OS. . OTOH, that 24.000384 is not 'normal', so i assume this can be flagged as a wonky rip

 

Incorrect, I've seen that exact frame rate many times in tons of videos, and Kodi has played them all perfectly. Sometimes a 24 Hz video will be exactly 24 fps, and sometimes it will be 24.000384 fps, and they both play perfectly in Kodi with its automatic frame rate matching. Somehow the Zidoo Z9X 8K frame skips in 24 Hz files unless I turn off auto match and manually set it to 23.976 Hz. This absolutely feels like a bug, and I hope it gets looked into.

 

That's right but to reformat large SATA drives from NTFS to ExFAT is really troublesome!! Fortunately my NAS is formatted as Btrfs which runs fine under Linux.

 

Hi, it's exactly what's probably happening. Although it says output 24fps, it's actually going at 23,976fps and so we have regular frame-skipping. I already mentioned this to @Markswift2003, he also noticed this bug and immediately informed the devs. Hopefully we'll get a fix with the next FW.