ZIDOO UHD 2000

What made you favour the Zidoo over the Zappiti? Zapitti seems to be reviewed favourably by more professional reviewers. Did you have any specific issues with Zappiti?

 

It was mainly the lack of forced subtitle support, the old chip, and lack of proper metadata for UHD files. Again, I am not trying to knock them at all, but I wasn't going to pay $1000 for an old 1295 zappiti pro that's not future proof for my needs. I decided to just keep the Zappiti Duo HDR for now, but the UHD2000 replaced it yesterday; the wife liked fluidity of the poster wall, etc.

 

The Zappiti pro was a joke. Zidoo got it right by going for the ESS Sabre DAC. Are you having issues when playing non-animated 4K movies - stutter/freezing etc?

 

Mainly MKV files of tv shows like the Outsider, See, etc. It always freezes for like 10-15 seconds, and then plays. Once per episode usually.

I do agree on the Zappiti pro... They have a very good poster wall, but kind of dragging their feet on the chip, etc. Soon, Zidoo would have just as good of a poster-wall and they (Zappiti) would be just another media player.

 

we are checking this issue. can you feedback more information? such as the file names.

 

Mainly mkv files H264... Tv shows like SEE, Outsider, Chance, etc. will exhibit such behaviors.

 

I finally downloaded media info for the file for an mkv file that would freeze for a few seconds, and then play again. I hope this helps...

General
Unique ID : 61887457232285279674025194675427244329 (0x2E8F17388B9F0A5618A9537191BA7929)
Complete name : Y:\Fast & Furious Presents Hobbs & Shaw.mkv
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 4
File size : 8.65 GiB
Duration : 2 h 16 min
Overall bit rate : 9 058 kb/s
Encoded date : UTC 2019-10-15 07:17:25
Writing application : mkvmerge v21.0.0 ('Tardigrades Will Inherit The Earth') 64-bit
Writing library : libebml v1.3.5 + libmatroska v1.4.8

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4
Format settings : CABAC / 4 Ref Frames
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, Reference frames : 4 frames
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 2 h 16 min
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 8 416 kb/s
Nominal bit rate : 10 000 kb/s
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 800 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 2.40:1
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.229
Stream size : 8.04 GiB (93%)
Default : Yes
Forced : No
Color range : Limited
Color primaries : BT.709
Transfer characteristics : BT.709
Matrix coefficients : BT.709

Audio
ID : 2
Format : E-AC-3
Format/Info : Enhanced AC-3
Commercial name : Dolby Digital Plus
Codec ID : A_EAC3
Duration : 2 h 16 min
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 640 kb/s
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel layout : L R C LFE Ls Rs
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate : 31.250 FPS (1536 SPF)
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 626 MiB (7%)
Language : English
Service kind : Complete Main
Default : Yes
Forced : No

Text #1
ID : 3
Format : UTF-8
Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8
Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text
Duration : 2 h 16 min
Bit rate : 70 b/s
Count of elements : 2238
Stream size : 70.1 KiB (0%)
Language : English
Default : No
Forced : No

Text #2
ID : 4
Format : UTF-8
Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8
Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text
Duration : 2 h 16 min
Bit rate : 78 b/s
Count of elements : 2690
Stream size : 78.5 KiB (0%)
Title : SDH
Language : English
Default : No
Forced : No

 

Another one:

General
Unique ID : 21857329897637118658808647421650526868 (0x10719190C7BD13D6EDAD6B0D4DCBE294)
Complete name : X:\Ray Donovan\Ray.Donovan.S07E10.iNTERNAL.1080p.WEB.H264-GHOSTS.mkv
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 4
File size : 3.14 GiB
Duration : 1 h 1 min
Overall bit rate : 7 354 kb/s
Encoded date : UTC 2020-01-19 08:50:02
Writing application : mkvmerge v34.0.0 ('Sight and Seen') 64-bit
Writing library : libebml v1.3.7 + libmatroska v1.5.0

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4
Format settings : CABAC / 4 Ref Frames
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, Reference frames : 4 frames
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 1 h 1 min
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 6 712 kb/s
Nominal bit rate : 10 000 kb/s
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.135
Stream size : 2.86 GiB (91%)
Default : Yes
Forced : No
Color range : Limited
Color primaries : BT.709
Transfer characteristics : BT.709
Matrix coefficients : BT.709

Audio
ID : 2
Format : E-AC-3
Format/Info : Enhanced AC-3
Commercial name : Dolby Digital Plus
Codec ID : A_EAC3
Duration : 1 h 1 min
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 640 kb/s
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel layout : L R C LFE Ls Rs
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate : 31.250 FPS (1536 SPF)
Compression mode : Lossy
Delay relative to video : 18 ms
Stream size : 280 MiB (9%)
Title : English
Language : English
Service kind : Complete Main
Default : Yes
Forced : No

Text #1
ID : 3
Format : UTF-8
Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8
Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text
Duration : 59 min 6 s
Bit rate : 34 b/s
Count of elements : 661
Stream size : 15.1 KiB (0%)
Title : English
Language : English
Default : No
Forced : No

Text #2
ID : 4
Format : UTF-8
Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8
Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text
Duration : 59 min 6 s
Bit rate : 40 b/s
Count of elements : 760
Stream size : 17.7 KiB (0%)
Title : English [SDH]
Language : English
Default : No
Forced : No