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MXQ S8. 5 Android TV Box (Amlogic S8. Review. Home. > AMLogic, Android, Hardware, Testing. MXQ S8. 5 Android TV Box (Amlogic S8. Review. MXQ S8. 5 Android TV Box (Amlogic S8. Review. MXQ S8. 5 (aka MXQ OTT TV box) and EM6. Q- MXQ are two main Full HD H.
Android media players based on Amlogic S8. Chinese online stores. I’m lucky enough to have received both, and I’ve already completed the review for EM6. Q- MXQ, so today I’ll complete MXQ S8. I’ve already taken picture of the device, accessories, and checked out the board’s components in my unboxing post, so in this post, I’ll focus on the user interface, evaluate performance, and test most hardware features of this media player. First Boot, Settings and First Impressions. I’ve started by a quick test of the IR remote control, and it works as expected after inserting two AAA batteries, before switching to Mele F1.
Deluxe air mouse for convenience. I’ve connected all ports of the device except the S/PDIF output: Ethernet cable, HDMI and AV cables, micro SD card, USB hard drive, USB webcam, and a USB hub with two RF dongles for my air mouse and gamepad.
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Videos were playing from SAMBA share in Ubuntu 14.04 over Ethernet using XBMC 13.1 pre-installed in the system, switching to MX Player for videos that failed to play.
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It’s not quite as fast as higher RK3. TV boxes (2. 0s), but it’s much better than the boot time on EM6. Q- MXQ (1m 5. 0s), so the flash must be faster. Home Screen (Click for Original Size)The user interface is the Android Home screen, but you can also switch the Media.
Box launcher with a Metro- style user interface found in many Amlogic S8. X TV boxes, by going to the “Home” section in Android settings. The box automatically selected 1.
Hz video output, and the user interface resolution is 1. I’ve noticed that switching to 7. I’ve highlighted difference in bold. Network – Enable and configure Wi- Fi or Ethernet. Display. Automatic or manual HDMI resolution: 4. Hz, 5. 76p/i @ 5.
Hz, 7. 20p @ 5. 0/6. Hz, 1. 08. 0i @ 5. Hz, or 1. 08. 0p @ 2.
Hz. CVBS Mode Setting: 4. CVBS or 5. 76 CVBS (if Composite output selected on TV). Hide or Show status bar. Display Position. Screen Save (Never, 4, 8 or 1.
Advanced. Miracast. Remote Control (app)CEC Control. Location for weather (Chinese cities only)Screen Orientation settings.
Digital Audio Output (Auto, PCM, S/PDIF pass- through, or HDMI pass- through)Other – System Update: Local file or OTA (not working), Backup, and “More Settings” for standard Android Settings. So it’s exactly the same as EM6. Q- MXQ, except the current firmware also supports 1. Hz. I’ve also tested composite output, and both 4. CVBS and 5. 76 CVBS settings worked fine. There’s no component (YPb. Pr) output in this box.
I have not made a video for MXQ S8. EM6. Q- MXQ, except you have the option to switch between the Android home screen or Media.
Box launcher, 1. 08. S8. 5 is a little more responsive. But you can watch the video I shot for EM6. Q- MXQ if you haven’t already where I walk through the user interface and settings, XBMC user interface (1. Looking into “About Media.
Box” section, we can find out that the model number is “S8. The firmware is rooted, and after I started the review I found firmware 1. Amlogic USB flash tool, but I have not tried. All apps I needed for the review could be installed with Google Play Store including Antutu, 3. D Mark, ES File Explorer, MX Player, Beach Buggy Blitz, A1.
SD benchmark, Sixaxis Controller, etc. But you can usually work around these issues by spoofing your device name with an app (paid), or changing build.
I’ve also downloaded and installed Amazon App. Store, in order to play Riptide GP2. Albeit the box features a power button, power handling is not perfect, as a clean power off is not possible. You can either use the remote control power button to enter and exit standby, and the power button on the unit, can be used to achieve real power off, and to turn the device on, but it’s and hardware power off which powers off the device immediately, Android does not cleanly shuts down. The device temperature is pretty cool: 4. And after playing Riptide GP2 for about 1. However, the flash is fast enough no to experience various slowdowns, or making apps randomly exit.
Android did pop up the “app not responding” windows at load time for some games, so it’s not perfect, but answering “wait” will start the games normally. Nevertheless, although it’s clearly not as snappy as the latest Amlogic S8. Rockchip RK3. 28. PCs, I did not find MXQ S8. EM6. Q- MXQ. Video Playback.
Videos were playing from SAMBA share in Ubuntu 1. Ethernet using XBMC 1. MX Player for videos that failed to play. I had no problems connect to SAMBA with XBMC and ES File Explorer. I started with videos from samplemedia. H. 2. 65/HEVC videos by Elecard, as well as a (low resolution) VP9 video: H. MP4 container (Big Buck Bunny), 4.
OKMPEG2 codec / MPG container, 4. OKMPEG4 codec, AVI container 4. OKVC1 codec (WMV), 4. OKReal Media (RMVB) – RV8, RV9, and RV1.
OK but not that smooth (S/W decode)Web. M / VP8 – 4. 80p OK, 7. H. 2. 65 codec / MPEG TS container. XBMC – Audio only.
MX Player – OK (H/W decode), but seeking does not work properly. It will switch to S/W decode, and the video becomes unwatchable.
Web. M / VP9 (no audio in video). XBMC – Won’t even start. MX Player – OK (H/W decode). Then I played some higher bitrate videos: ED. USB: No problem with audio, but video feels slow. A Blu- ray ISO video (Sintel- Bluray.
XBMC. Although S8. K video playback, I tried to play two 4. K videos in XBMC, and each time the system will freeze. This should not happen. I tested over a dozen other videos from my library (AVI, MKV, FLV, VOB/IFO, and MP4 containers), and they could all play with any A/V sync issues. I also watched a complete 1.
MKV / 3. GB), so no problem with stability either. Links to various video samples used in this review and be found in “Where to get video, audio and images samples” post and comments. Network Performance (Wi- Fi and Ethernet)A 2. MB file between a SAMBA share (Ubuntu 1. ES File Explorer.
Wi- Fi transfer speed is still pretty good @ 2. MB/s on average, although not quite as fast as EM6.
Q- MXQ media player. Update In Hibernate With Where Clause In Access. Wi- Fi Transfer Rate in MB/s. Ethernet worked at 1.
Mbps connected to my Gigabit Ethernet switch, with performance similar its competitor. Tronsmart Orion R2. Meta is way ahead, simply because it’s the only box I have that actually supports Gigabit Ethernet. Ethernet Transfer Rate in MB/s. For a raw benchmark of Ethernet performance, I ran i. Perf app using “iperf - t 6. It does not quite maxes out Fast Ethernet bandwidth like Rockchip RK3.
EM6. Q- MXQ just like with the test above. TCP window size: 1.
KByte (default)————————————————————. That’s common to all Android mini PCs I tested, except A8. Optimus. Board which could mount the EXT- 4 partition too (but in read- only mode). File System. Read. Write. NTFSOKOKEXT- 4. Not mounted. Not mounted.
FAT3. 2OKOKBTRFSNot mounted. Not mounted. A1 SD Bench was used to benchmark USB hard drive and internal flash performance. The read speed was 1. MB/s, and the write speed of 2.
MB/s fore NTFS partition in /storage/external. I did manage to see the image in Skype once, but never long enough to make a phone call. The camera is not detected at all in Hangouts. Gaming. Candy Crush Saga, Beach Buggy Blitz, and Riptide GP2 could run on the box.
I played Candy Crush Saga with my air mouse, and switched to Tronsmart Mars G0. Beach Buggy Blitz and Riptide GP2. For each game, the system showed up pop up with “App XXX is not responding. Do you want to close it?”, but selecting “Wait” could load the games just fine. Beach Buggy Blitz framerate felt good using the default settings (low res), but I did notice some very short freezes (< 1s) from time to time. Riptide GP2 is not really enjoyable with default settings (high resolution), but lowering the resolution makes it relatively enjoyable to play.
Riptide GP2 freezing I encountered on other Amlogic s. S8. 05 devices, and Allwinner A8. I’m not sure if the game itself is buggy, or the GPU drivers/libraries are.
I checked the maximum temperature on the top and bottom of the device at that time, and I got 4.