u mean yr mecool does deliver dtshdma and ddtruhd audio as shown by your onkyo avr?

if so, that's pretty good.

jz notice xiaomi mi box s doesnt come with LAN port.

will this affect the performance?

Hey guys, I just bought the Mi box s and recently I've been trying to setup vpn and also changed its dns just to watch Netflix shows and movies from another country. Unfortunately, I can't get this to work for example Netflix always showing messages like this show or movie is not available in your country and all that. Can anyone here teach me how to setup this thing properly as i've followed many tips on youtube and Google but still fail to execute it perfectly 😭

HBO GO Malaysia version 1.0.95(updated) sideload on my box and it's working now after login. No more crashing.

May i know how to play downloaded movies from my usb thumb drive?

I got a mi box 3 which I seldom use. Want to use it for replacing Astro but didn't have the time.

Then my friend bought this android box that comes with all world tv channels. Can watch TV shows from China, Taiwan, Thailand, US and so on. And it is lifetime too. No need to pay monthly for the channels.

Should I sell my mi box and get this android instead?

Hi all,

Is it a good option to get the Mi Box S now since 12.12 is just around the corner or wait for the newer Mi Box version. Purpose mainly for local movie playback, kodi light streaming, movies apk's.  Thought of going for the Nvidia Shield but over my budget just best alternative would be Mi Box S i guess. 

Thanks for your reply in advance. 

hi, want to ask. what apps u use to stream those m3u playlist ?

lots of iptv player out there, but i wonder what apps u guys use.

My sole purpose is watching YouTube.

Is Mi Box good for watching YouTube 4K contents? Any lag or drop out from its wifi connection while watching YouTube 4K contents?

If not then any other box good for YouTube 4K contents with LAN connection?

Thanks.

plan to buy mi box s this weekend, before i buy i want to ask couple of questions.

1. after i buy the box, what should i do? just plug and enjoy?
2. if i had to install something (apps, etc) at mi box, is it difficult?
3. and after i installed the "apps", does the warranty void?
4. i already read at the 1st page, but that was long ago, 2015.
5. should i buy the mi box at authorized dealers (local stores @aeon) or just buy at shopee?

hope sifus about mi box s can clarify me. thanks a ton!

100% better. At the moment only mi box and nvidia shield are fully certified android boxes by google. All the other android boxes are oem or third party and not certified by google so a lot of apps are not optimized and will not work well.

That's probably LAN from 10 years ago?

Nowadays Gigabit LAN is the norm at 1Gbps

Hahaha. Of course la. We’re talking about mi box s. There’s no built in lan. So you have to use a usb lan adaptor and the box only supports Max 100mbps.

Nope. Actually 100mbps can stream 4K hdr smoothly and very healthy over buffer speeds.

Some streaming box do have built-in smb server or allow certain app to run as smb server. Just attach any usb storage device to the usb port, you'll get simple network attached storage (NAS).

For example, nvidia shield do have built-in smbv3 server, that allow any usb external storage that is connected to the usb port, to be accessible by any device within the same local network via wired/wireless. So in this case 1Gbps lan is really useful to speed up the transfer time compare to 100Mbps, especially when you're transfering huge files from it and vice-versa.

Don't get me wrong, streaming offline media content from NAS via 100Mbps lan should be fine and the quality shouldn't be affected.

My scenario was, my 8TB drive(with external enclosure) was originally empty and I plan to use it to backup my media (movies, tv show, music, etc) from my pc, as well as to set it up as backup destination for my pc, laptop and phone's important files.

So to make it easy, I just plug the external drive to the streaming box and set it up as a NAS and transfer all of my terabytes of files to it, here the 1Gbps lan is helpful to speed up the transfer.