Vero V - First impressions vs RPi5 + LE

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Howdy all, I just wanted to share my first impressions of the Vero V + OSMC after the last year running LibreELEC on a RPi5 (and another year before on a Pi4).

WOW… I think you guys have it right here. This box appears to fit the only missing piece that a Pi5 running LE couldn’t do and that is of course Dolby Vision (and HDR10+).

In the 2 days I have had the Vero V running, with Jellyfin for Kodi as the backend, it has been faultless. Streaming 70GB 4K DV + Atmos/DTS-MA files no problem at all, just like LE on the Rpi 4 and 5, except now I have Dolby Vision rather than just plain HDR10.

The GUI is fast as well, not quite as fast as a Pi5 which can render the LE/Kodi Estuary skin at 4k/60 buttery smooth. But at 1080p/60 its slick. Who knows, maybe this is just the default OSMC skin being heavier?

Well done team! You have the best all round media player on the market here!

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The Kodi skinning engine doesn’t really handle 4K for the GUI, so the device has to upscale almost every piece of the interface. It’s likely the RPi5 has a bit more raw horse power to do that than the Vero V. The recommended settings for all devices (not just the Vero V) is to run the GUI at 1080p and then set it so that videos can run at their native resolution.

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We output a real 4K UI now if a user picks 4K. Some other platforms clamp this at 1080p which is cheaper graphically, but limits viewing things like 4K photos.

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So is the recommendation no longer to stick at 1080/60, @sam_nazarko ?

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No, you should stick with 1080/60 unless you have a specific reason not to.

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