It's connecting at ~300 Mbps to my access point about 6m away. I switched to Wi-Fi, though, and that does seem to be working well. I thought I might be able to get away with using the 100Mbps Ethernet, but got stuttering very quickly in the second file I tried (Back to the Future Part II, which works well for testing that because it has very high bitrate scenes in the first couple of minutes). The interface is rendered in a crappy resolution (maybe even less than 1080p?) and upscaled, which made me think the player wasn't outputting 4K at first. It's a lot better than the Zidoo z9x, but not in the same league as Apple TV or LG TVs. I'd give the interface responsiveness of the player a B- grade. The on-screen playback info display is extremely useful with the way it shows the source video and audio formats and current bitrates, and what formats the player is outputting. I like the remote and the setup menus are mostly clear and comprehensive. The quality of the player seems pretty good. Obviously that's not a full movie so I don't know if it MP4 FEL playback would be completely reliable, and I didn't investigate which audio formats would be supported. I had the FEL_test_for_AVS.mp4 file handy so I tried that on a whim and it surprised me by playing fine with RPU and FEL both visibly working. Some other observations about the X800M2: I'll report back whatever happens (might be next weekend at this point). So my next step is going to be to try re-ripping straight from a full disc backup with tsMuxer and hopefully that will give the same good results that is having. Now I'm not devastated, because all my M2TS files were converted from MKV, and so those files have been through a bunch of different tools at various points in their lives, and it seems very plausible that some bug in some version of any one of tools could have broken the strict conformance that a UHDBD player needs. The failure always seemed to happen at the same point in the title, so it looks like there's something in my files that the player doesn't like. Sometimes it happened within 30 seconds, and sometimes the movie played fine for ~10 minutes before failing. Unfortunately most of the files failed at some point during playback: either they just stopped playing (and the player went on to the next file in the folder), or more concerningly they locked up the player and it had to be power cycled. I had a chance to play with my X800M2 today and my experience wasn't quite as good, but I've still got more investigating to do.Įvery M2TS I tried to play worked fine to start with, with DV recognized and sent correctly to the TV.
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