N2 uses so little power it can be left on 24/7. Kodi works better anyway on a dedicated Linux OS device such as the very well supported ODROID N2 - CoreELEC edition.ĬE running on the N2 by the way includes a Plug n Play HDD, SAMBA file server that can stream files over your home network to the Apple TV 4K very easily: Seriously get yourself a simple DIY home networked NAS, they don’t even need to cost the earth like this ODROID HC2: You have to roll up your sleeves to even get it to work properly with Beta Hotfix Firmware - which can have other issues.Īndroid TV also uses a 1080p only user interface, it does not look as sharp and clean on a big 4K TV vs the 4K GUI that tvOS has on the Apple TV 4K. The 2019 Shield out of the box has colorspace issues as well. It can be setup to auto scrape Metadata from files and categorises everything once done. Kodi is there for power users and for those that like to tweak. There is Plex if you like a “Shades of Brown” GUI and you will also be interfacing with some sort of Networked File Server anyway. Nothing will be as bling or beautiful looking as Infuse on the ATV 4K, or as simple to use. I mostly use VLC to read my video files, but it has a lot of bugs, which is why I have Kodi as a back up which I find less elegant in terms of UI & UX. It's not a big let down but it would have been great. I just wish I had elegant app like Infuse to read my media. The only thing I stream is YouTube videos and occasionally Netlflix. I mostly watch content from my HDD on it. If Apple TV supported that I would have bought one immediately over any other set top box, in part because it has Infuse, which is one of my favorite apps.īut Apple doesn't support reading local storage, and probably never will, so the best solution for me is no doubt the Shield TV Pro. The reason I bought a NVIDIA Shield Pro TV, the reason I wanted a TV Box in the first place, is so I could play my own media files from a USB stick or an HDD. And it doesn't support mainstream cloud services like Google Drive, Dropbox, or Mega. It can't just read my files from a USB or HDD, it requires he cloud. Indeed it has amazing UI but unfortunately it's not the right solution for me because it doesn't work like infuse. This avoids transcoding (which happens when you play using the plex player) but it does not track your watch progress meaning when you come back a week from now it won't have tracked which videos you have watched. Plex on mobile devices organizes your media all nice and lets you play them on your default app (vlc for example). It's not available on android because android users generally don't pay for apps, and certainly not as much as infuse costs. Infuse was designed to fix the problems with plex, so there's nothing like it. This causes buffering regardless of your internet speed or local playing. Plex is the closest you will come to infuse it is prettier than infuse but has an annoying problem called transcoding, it forces your files to convert to plex-compatible formats and only chooses to do that when you are playing the file. Kodi requires constant tweaking from the start and it's very ugly. Bad news: there is no android equivalent. Just take your time, and if all else fails, read the instructions.I have the 2019 Shield and the Apple TV 4k. So when you upgrade your OS from GB to ICS yes you need to flash a ICS kernel, same for JB. The kernel talks to the hardware telling it what the OS wants and the hardware responds to the requests. But software sets it to go only at 1Ghz a program or coding in the kernel access the speed setting and can push it to go faster. That is to say a 1Ghz can go faster or slower, it is a guesstimating the speed. Like putting a four barrel carb, on an engine to make it go faster, over clocking the CPU, making it go faster then its rated speed. The kernel can be modified so that you can use the hardware at a different spec. You need one written for ICS to run ICS, and jb to run jb, from what I gather. Well I am not too versed on the first topic, bow ever the kernel is the program or driver that is the middle man between the hardware and software or OS operating system.
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