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zido x8 and x9s
- SoC – Realtek RTD1295DD
- System Memory – 2GB DDR3
- Storage – 8GB (x8) / 16GB (x9s) eMMC flash + micro SD slot + SATA 3.0 (x9s only)
- Video Output / Input – HDMI2.0a output up to 4K, HDMI input with PVR and Time Shifting support (up to 1080p), and AV port (Composite + stereo audio)
- Audio I/O – HDMI Out and In, AV, and optical S/PDIF
- Connectivity – 10/100/1000M Ethernet, 802.11ac Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0
- USB – 1x USB 3.0, 2x USB 2.0 host ports.
- Misc – ON/OFF switch, IR receiver
- Power Supply – 12V/1,5A
- Dimensions – 17.5 x 15 x 3.3 cm
- Android 6
As a ethernet stream source
instreamer
The instreamer app allows to stream the HDMI input via Ethernet / wifi to a stream sink
To be able to use instreamer, an ffmpeg binary compiled for the ARM CPU needs to be placed in /mnt/sdcard. Such an binary can be found e.g. at https://github.com/WritingMinds/ffmpeg-android/releases
After the first launch, press Menu for the Settings. This is the ffmpeg command that already worked on the Tronsmart Pavo M9:
ffmpeg -i - -c copy -absf aac_adtstoasc -f flv rtmp://100.122.3.243:1935/source/tronsmart
Interesting Stuff
Firmware
Firmware download: http://www.zidoo.tv/Support/downloads.html http://ota-cloudfront.zidoo.tv/X8/ota/ZIDOO-X8-v1.2.12.zip
Preinstalled Apps are in the /system/apps/ directory.
Recording
The preinstalled HDMI app contains features to record (as TS and MP4) and stream over UDP (Broadcast/Multicast/Unicast)
Display on front (VFD)
Displays only current time - or when playing media - the current play position. Does not seem to have an seperate “recording” LED that could be used.