OK - I've now got one of these dongles. Shows lots of promise and did some first tests with JRiver for Android:
- Install of JRiver for Android: Straight forward and loaded a library from my Server
- Audio Files: Played fine no issue
- Video Files: Hit and Miss. Most single files will play (eg MP4), no BD/DVD rips will play, some files have glitchy audio but others are fine. It does not look like the new dongle has the power to play 4k/50p files (eg my camcorder footage), starts playing, stutters then playback stops.
- URL (eg Radio Streams): Played fine though there was an oddly long delay
- TV (from HD Home Run): Nothing is displayed, though the HD Home Run app works great
- Presentation / UI: Not great, the other apps have a more Icon based layout, with JRiver it is more a flat roller. Thumbnailing was also not great with lots of grey boxs but then some stuff will then fill in.
- Stability: Not great, at one point my JRiver Server Instance crashed and had to be restarted
- Other: There does not seem to be Frame Rate changing option for Video so plenty of Video miss frame rate jitter
Using "Casting" from JRemote (on a phone) to the dongle worked well (as usual).
It is amazing what such a cheap device can do. There is a bunch of stuff to make JRiver for Android work well with this dongle however but it certainly has plenty of promise.