For the video playback tests, we used the the following setup

• TV: Panasonic 50S20 Plasma
• A/V: Yamaha RX-V775
• Sound Options (under settings): RAW

The specific TV does not support 3D, so we didn't test the player's 3D features.

We connected the TV (HDMI2) to the A/V receiver and the Zidoo X9 player to the the A/V receiver as well, using the included HDMI cable. HDMI-CEC is NOT supported, meaning you have to use an additional remote control instead of your TV's.

The player doesn't support 24Hz playback. This means that all files will be playbacked at 60p, resulting to a less "cinematic" experience. Zidoo promises to fix this with a future firmware update. In addition, the player does not support DTS files as it was supposed to, probably due to a chipset limitation. Instead, they are played at 5.1 channel.

You can playback a video file through the Media center tab, which gives you the option to use KODI or the Explorer app:

Launching the Explorer app, you can navigate across local and network devices and filter video, audio or images:

Of course, you can also select to browse for files stored in any connected device, either locally or through the network:

Pressing the Up button takes you to following window, in which you can filter the displayed contents - ALL, Video, Music, Picture or APK

By pressing right button of the remote, you go through the functions you see below -- viewport, choices, copy, delete, cut rename etc.

The Explorer software gives you easy access to local SMB folders :

The main video player supports hardware acceleration for all videos.

Pressing the Menu button after loading a video to the player gets you more options as showed below. You can select another video file, subtitles (inner/external/none), audio tracks, video (3D to 2D, ) aspect ratio and finally get information about the currently loaded video:

We connected a USB3.0 device loaded with many video/audio test files to the Android player and got the following results:

As we discussed earlier, the player only supports 5.1 channel audio. The DD 7.1 files are not playable even down to 5.1. In addition, although the DTS 7.1 audio files were playable, playback produced a slight audio distortion to the pitch of the track. This was confirmed by using various audio files, so this is something Zidoo should look at.

We are moving on to playback of various video files:

The Zidoo X9 media player showed strong video playback capabilities. It managed It manages to playback up to 120Mbit video files, 4K H.264 and 4K H.265 files without any problems. Some files from Elecard did not produce good results but most players have problems with them. In addition, older DivX 5, DivXHD video files had only sound but again, that's not a big deal. The only issue we can see is that the DVD-ROM ISO doesn't playback and that there is no full menu support for Blu-Ray ISO files.

- Subtitles

The VideoPlayer software supports and internal/external subtitles. Although many options are provided, the flexibility related to the size and position of the subtitles is limited.

Below you see the internal subs from Jurassic Park 1 (1993) 1080p DTS-HD MA 5.1-HighCode (H264 file), with BIG size selected:

Internal subs from Blu-Ray ISO movie (Casino Royal):

Don't forget to select UTF-8 encoding in order to display subtitles perfectly: