There is nothing like old Sigma Designs chipsets, if you don´t mind about HDR get a Dune HD Duo 4K
It is what it is.
Sadly you are absolutely right!
On this week I tested these 3 Realtek RTD1619D + Android based players:
- Dune HD Pro Vision 4K Solo
- Zidoo Z9X
- Dune HD Real Vision 4K
All have the same annoying bugs regarding to playback!
Starting video and Pause/Resume also works about the same.
(Zidoo Z9X is the worst in video starting because it can not set the proper framerate BEFORE starting...)
I am very disappointed.
My HDI Dune HD Base 3.0 works well since 12 years!
(It is just a little outdated, no gigabit ethernet, no USB 3.0, no H.265, etc.)
Also Apple TV 4K (1st gen) + Infuse 6 worked me flawless for about a year, then in Infuse v7.3.7 a new bug was introduced (rare random micro-stutters) and is unfixed since 9 months(!!!).
And Infuse 6 was removed from App Store (and I did not bought a lifetime licence).
So now I have no access to the old version, that worked well.
(I also bought the newest Apple TV 4k (3st gen) 128GB, but does not help with this bug.
It is really inside Infuse. See here:
link
Sadly only few people are noticing it and even fewer are reporting it to the developers.
So they do not hurry to fix it...)
Are there really no really good media players in stores currently?
I am using an older 1080p SDR TV (Sony Bravia KDL-43W755C) and a very old receiver (Onkyo TX-NR708). So I just need 1080p and 5.1 sound (no need for 4K, HDR or HD audio formats).
But I want to play everything flawless! No occassionally frame drops. No clicking sound. LOL
(As I wrote my HDI Dune HD Base 3.0 can still do it. But I can't find anything else that can it too.)
So no solution at all?
Newest Android 12 based TV boxes with latest KODI are buggy too?
(I installed latest KODI on Dune HD Real Vision 4K and it is far more better than Dune's own player and Andorid's built-in media player. KODI does not produce the loud clicks on the optical output (I think because it is not using the buggy Realtek drivers)! But it is not optimized to this hardware, so not everything is working (for example Dolby Digital Plus is not)...)