I’d like to share my (short) experience about Odroid C2 that I’ve just received today.
Best player ever (ever ever …) tried. I’m a Plex Pass user since almost 2 years, having a complete home installation with multiple NAS servers, a central Plex server (Mac mini) and 3 players dispatched at TV or projector places around the house.
So far, was using Raspberry Pi2 as players with overall good satisfaction, even having 2 issues that I wasn’t able to fix:
no way to get passthru working on audio HD format (DTS-HDMA, ATMOS, DOLBY TRUE HD, …)
From time to time “lagging” and freeze without any special reasons (which was making my wife saying… “You see, that doesn’t work…”
Today, I received my brand new Odroid C2, download specific 1.6.2 open PHT for this specific platform… Few minutes or confirguration tweaks (thanks NedtheNerd for your nice advice…) and then the MAGIC happened !
all HD Audio format passthru worked smoothly and recognized by my A/V amplifier
Surprise to disciorver 4K video out in the settings and then played immediately an UHD content within a second and enjoyed the view on my 4K TV… (A/V amplifier confirm receiving 2160p…)
Image quality isn’t yet optimal, have to tweak further, but this is just an AWESOME player
The best I ever tested so far, especially at a price point below 70€…
We should have a discussion around this new super performing platform on the Plex forum, reason I’m writing this post. Let’s see how far we can leverage that great new hardware. And maybe later on see PMP being compatible with…
Some items to add to the temporary con list to consider:
HDMI can only support 2 PCM channels.
Minimal dongle support for WiFi and BlueTooth
DTS-HD 7.1 decode is missing
All 3 should be solved or get significantly better once HardKernel updates their Linux kernel and enhances driver support. Compared to the rPI kernel, it’s considerably out of date.
Tried much more UHD 4K content and finally came to the conclusion that image quality depends on the quality of the source file. Many source files that claim 4K resolution are indeed effectively 4K but coming from 2K movies that have been expanded to 4K. In that case comparison side by side with original 2K isn’t noticable.
When playing “true” 4K (meaning movie authored by 4K digital camera), then the result is totally different.
Stumbled across this as looking for a new device that supports 4k content. Was considering an rpi3, but that doesn’t have h265 hardware acceleration and I notice this does.
How does the plex “experience” compare to rasplex on pi?
@elrao said:
Stumbled across this as looking for a new device that supports 4k content. Was considering an rpi3, but that doesn’t have h265 hardware acceleration and I notice this does.
How does the plex “experience” compare to rasplex on pi?
@G44# You mentioned in your original post that image quality was not optimal yet. Could you expand on that point a little please. I’m using a RPi3 and an ATV4 at present. I’m interested in the Odroid, but not unless the image quality is at least as good as my current players.
Thank you
Malcolm Clark
@chenks Yes, I agree that there is a comment about the comparison of different videos from different sources on the same player. But no comment regarding quality compared to other players.
First post says that image quality is not optimal; fifth post says that some videos are better than others, but that does not necessarily mean that overall the result is less than optimal.
I recently got two Odroid C2s to replace my Rpi3’s because I have a lot of 10 bit x265 content and I was tired of my CPU having to transcode a lot. But I noticed for TV episodes, it starts 3 to 10 seconds into the videos and I have to rewind 30 seconds to get them to start from the beginning. Has anyone solved that issue who runs an OdroidC2?
