• veroxii@aussie.zone
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    7 months ago

    What’s missing in the shield? I have a gen 1 and it still plays anything I throw at it. High bitrate HDR 4k video etc.

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      7 months ago

      I believe its missing h265 and av1 hardware support and while it probably has enough performance to handle those codecs in software, I wasn’t willing to drop more than 100 euros on a 5 year old device without hardware decoding for them

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        7 months ago

        That’s untrue. I specifically bought it for h265 decoding. Which it does have in hardware. I play h265 content exclusively and never had an issue. Even 80~100mbps blue ray UHD rips. And because it has gigabit ethernet there’s never any buffering issues either from my NAS.

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          7 months ago

          Ah, I guess I was only looking at AV1 support in that case. I only remembered it was missing something I wanted due to its age

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      7 months ago

      Nothing is missing - but mine’s 5 years old and I want to make sure it can be replaced before it finally dies.