naughty001
Expert Member
one quick tip - if you wish to play 4k or higher res files from the hard drive then connect that drive to the USB 3.2 10GBps ports on the hub to get a glitchfree experience
i have stored some 4k and upscaled 8K files on the onboard storage of the phone (mostly Indian song clips just for demo)
heres a video on youtube that demonstrates how the setup plays demo stuff - the first file played is upscaled 8k and then the second file is 4k - each time the files were played in zoomed mode - zooming in was done via fingertip stretching - you can set it to play in better apps like Kodi and set the zoom and scale you wish to play so it starts in the size you want - these two demos are Indian songs - sorry if you don't like that stuff but the idea is just to see that video actually plays - and the third file played was from the hard drive - i don't have too much content on that drive right now - so this was only a 720p downloaded file but it does give an idea of how most files would play - the higher res stuff played via the hard drive plays just as well as if it was stored on the phone itself - sorry if it all seems amateurish but this was one of my first attempts at uploading a video i made to youtube
Also some details of how the pictures and videos were done ...... i used my buddies Samsung S21FE which is not a hugely high end camera so remember that all of this stuff looks a lot better in real life and i have zero knowledge of lighting and how to use it to your advantage when taking photos etc so apologies for glare and reflections etc - i will add some video of the actual Dex user interface and how it works at a later stage - today i just did the video of actual video playback capability - if someone has some demanding material they want to try out then they can suggest it, and i will see if the setup can play it or is tripped up, but i have tried a few 4k files with Dolby Atmos but those were the HDR versions - i also want to try some of the DV versions but my main movies and TV series drive just crashed a week or two back so i need to download new demo material - also i will have to try and play the DV stuff on my TV instead of on the portable monitor because the portable is not DV capable - the phone in Dex mode also does multimedia on the TV brilliantly - i just need to also see what happens with regards to DV and HDR/HDR10 when i introduce the USB-C hub in the playback chain
and yes a more modern laptop or an Apple laptop will do all the stuff that Dex and the phone combined with the monitor does, but i already had the phone and how many modern laptops or Apple laptops will come in at R6k to R7k that can do all of the above - so it was worth the time and expense for my circumstances IMHO
and this is just the stuff from external storage and stuff transferred to internal storage on the phone itself ..... i also have the DSTV Stream app as well as Netflix and Youtube all installed on the phone too, so i doubt i will run short of stuff to watch during load shedding whenever it starts again
i have stored some 4k and upscaled 8K files on the onboard storage of the phone (mostly Indian song clips just for demo)
heres a video on youtube that demonstrates how the setup plays demo stuff - the first file played is upscaled 8k and then the second file is 4k - each time the files were played in zoomed mode - zooming in was done via fingertip stretching - you can set it to play in better apps like Kodi and set the zoom and scale you wish to play so it starts in the size you want - these two demos are Indian songs - sorry if you don't like that stuff but the idea is just to see that video actually plays - and the third file played was from the hard drive - i don't have too much content on that drive right now - so this was only a 720p downloaded file but it does give an idea of how most files would play - the higher res stuff played via the hard drive plays just as well as if it was stored on the phone itself - sorry if it all seems amateurish but this was one of my first attempts at uploading a video i made to youtube
Also some details of how the pictures and videos were done ...... i used my buddies Samsung S21FE which is not a hugely high end camera so remember that all of this stuff looks a lot better in real life and i have zero knowledge of lighting and how to use it to your advantage when taking photos etc so apologies for glare and reflections etc - i will add some video of the actual Dex user interface and how it works at a later stage - today i just did the video of actual video playback capability - if someone has some demanding material they want to try out then they can suggest it, and i will see if the setup can play it or is tripped up, but i have tried a few 4k files with Dolby Atmos but those were the HDR versions - i also want to try some of the DV versions but my main movies and TV series drive just crashed a week or two back so i need to download new demo material - also i will have to try and play the DV stuff on my TV instead of on the portable monitor because the portable is not DV capable - the phone in Dex mode also does multimedia on the TV brilliantly - i just need to also see what happens with regards to DV and HDR/HDR10 when i introduce the USB-C hub in the playback chain
and yes a more modern laptop or an Apple laptop will do all the stuff that Dex and the phone combined with the monitor does, but i already had the phone and how many modern laptops or Apple laptops will come in at R6k to R7k that can do all of the above - so it was worth the time and expense for my circumstances IMHO
and this is just the stuff from external storage and stuff transferred to internal storage on the phone itself ..... i also have the DSTV Stream app as well as Netflix and Youtube all installed on the phone too, so i doubt i will run short of stuff to watch during load shedding whenever it starts again
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