Hi - first time post. I acquired a Minix X8-h plus for free and am trying to set it up as a secondary streaming box in a bedroom. I've flashed it successfully with Lollipop as per instructions here, and installed Kodi 19.4 on it no problems. However, I can't seem to get it to work quite as I want. Three things specifically:
1. The box will auto-switch the display frame rate if I use the (default?) app 4k Movie Player, but despite 'change display refresh rate' being switched to 'on start/stop' in Kodi I can't get it to play. So everything plays back at a display rate of 60fps, causing horrible judder.
2. Some of the streaming I want to do is from F1TV, which sends streams at 1080p50. I've installed official and unofficial apps for this, as well as a Kodi plugin, and none of them play a 1080p50 stream smoothly. There is constant slowdown/speedup. Is this because the box just isn't capable of smooth 1080p50 output? The streams are better, though still not great, if I lower them to 720p50.
3. The default players (4k movie and mx player) don't seem to like AC3 5.1 over HDMI - I just get no audio output. The only audio codec they seem to play is AAC. Is this normal?
Thanks in advance!