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Review on πŸŽ₯ Ultra HDMI Media Player: Black Mini 1080p Full-HD for MKV/RM on HDD USB Drives & SD Cards by Pedro Movie

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Hardly any of my files played come back

I have many videos in my library in different formats all supported by this device. I thought it would save time compared to making my own Raspberry Pi based player, boy was I wrong. Trying to play the video took longer than building my own device and installing Kodi. First, I downloaded 20 movies of different formats to the flash drive. Of these 20 films, only one was actually shown. ONE. I compared the video format, codec used, audio encoding to my video format reading software and set up the video encoder (handbrake) to transcode the unplaying movie to exactly match the one being played. To my disappointment, after waiting over an hour to transcode it, the video still didn't play. I moved the video to a USB flash drive instead of a micro SD card and it started playing and then stalled and I had to unplug it to turn it off and on again. This device seems extremely demanding in terms of file size, SD video card format and USB stick. Path to many variables to make this a workable solution.TLDR; It's complete rubbish and I've spent more time getting it to work than building my own. I will be back and will never buy from them again.

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