Hi. I have 4k HDR movies that are about 60GB a piece. Anyone here manage to stream movies like that? What speed do you get over USB/Ethernet?
My problem is that both my Android TV and Mi box aren't capable of handling so much data, so I'm looking for a solution. I bought the Shield today. While that didn't break a sweat on the network side of things, it has its own shortcomings that IMO doesn't make it the all in one solution I'm after. I need my HDR..:)
Edit: About the Shield. It doesn't seem to have a function to automatically change over between HDR and SDR. Or am I missing something here? It doesn't support HDR on Youtube(VP9.2)?
The Shield does not have hardware decode support for Google's VP9 Profile2 - needed for 4K HDR YouTube.
The Shield also has issues for some users with audio on highbitrate 4K HDR streamed over Ethernet:
https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/1043281/shield-tv/4k-hdr-lossless-audio-drops/
A USB3 > Gigabit Ethernet adapter does work for high bitrate 4K HDR video streaming on the Mi Box, like the ones from Ugreen that have an ASIX chipset, BUT audio passthrough has dropouts when Kodi is used with Mi Box Oreo Firmware.
Oreo Firmware on the Mi Box is a POS. Avoid.
All you are introducing with all these adapters and constant Settings twiddling and experimentation is a poor user experience and instability.
Seriously if you do not need 4K HDR YouTube, get a stable, well sorted out Apple TV 4K where SDR / HDR colorspace switching, for proper coloured picture outputs and high quality 1080p > 4K upscaling all work. It's a set and forget Networked streaming experience.
$105 with a free 3 month DirectTV deal in the USA.