Micca 4K Ultra-HD USB and microSD Media Player, 4K HDMI, Digital Signage | Plays H.265/HEVC H.264/AVC MP4 MKV Videos MP3 Music JPG Photos, Reads 8TB Drives, Autoplay, Looping, Resume, Analog AV

I've been streaming HEVC video over WiFi from a shared network PC drive to a Fire Stick 4k Max using VLC Media Player app. Using 5GHz WiFi band, my WiFi is fast with good streams on all services. The Fire Stick often stutters or stops on any files over 1 GB streaming from the a shared network drive on my PC. Research shows the new Fire Stick lacks the processing power needed for decoding larger HEVC files. This little Micca device is golden. It plays even the largest HEVC and all formats I've tried with never a hang up, no buffering, or stutter. It plays them all perfectly with great HD quality. It won't stream from my network drive of course, so you have to write the files to a USB drive and plug the drive into the Micca. I use the Buffalo 2TB SSD-PUT, formatted NTFS. The Micca has a small remote about the size on the Fire Stick remote. Better is that all remote buttons are for the Micca player only, so you can't accidently press one that sends you into limbo like what happens on the Fire Stick remote while trying to pause a video. So aggravating... The only aggravating bug the Micca has is sometimes when trying to click/rewind a scene back 10 secs. That only works intermittently. The Firestick using the VLC app does not have this problem. The Firestick remote also controls TV on/off and volume, the Micca does not. After getting very used to both methods of playing/streaming downloaded files of various formats and sizes, I've switched to only using the Micca as the better choice because of its smooth flawless playback on anything and everything. You can work around the few bugs it has, whereas you cannot work around the Fire Stick 4k Max not being robust enough to play the larger size files, and/or unknown WiFi glitches. The Micca Speck 4k-Ultra also has the added bonus of letting you delete a file that you have watched. That saves you from having to take the flash drive to a PC to delete a watched file. When ordering the Micca Speck 4k-Ultra, keep in mind that it does not come with an HDMI cable. If you have an extra, you're fine. I had to borrow one from something else and then ordered the Amazon 8k deluxe cable. You will need two AAA batteries for the remote. Also, after getting used to the Fire Stick remote which is mostly Bluetooth, I didn't like having to point the Micca remote directly at the little box. Even when pointing it in the general direction, buttons didn't seem to work on first press. The solution to this, is a much more sensitive remote I/R sensor that plugs into the Micca box and has a 10 foot cable allowing you to place it anywhere. It is ten times more sensitive now, and you don't have to point the Micca remote because the sensor will pick up signals reflected from surrounding areas. I've changed this review several times, only because I want people to know I've tried many methods and devices for playing and streaming downloaded video files of various sizes and formats, and the new Micca Speck 4k-Ultra is the best method so far. Sensor: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N224O0J?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details HDMI Cable: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08M9HND4F?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details

If you need a reliable, high bitrate 4K media player that will handle both HEVC and H.264 encoded content, this is the unit. A key feature of this unit is that it will seamlessly loop video files. Meaning it will replay a single video or series of videos without a titles or playback controls popping up when content cycles. It's a small but important detail. User interface is clear and utilitarian. Autoplay function works reliably at power on/startup.

This device worked excellent up until my media library grew past 1.5TB in my 2TB HDD, the device would not read the HDD anymore. I copied all the movies onto a new 4TB SSD (close to 2TB) and it would not read the SSD either. Weird enough, if I plug in both drives (the HDD and the SDD) at the same time, it reads the SSD but not the HDD......and when it is doing that, it will ramdomly stop reading the SSD as well which means if I am mid movie, then we have to start all over again. The product advertises 8TB external drive support but it couldnt handle even close to 2TB. So not sure what is really going on there, but it is certainly not what was advertised, just keep your medial library at 1TB and you should be fine. UPDATE March2025: it stopped working completely. It couldn’t handle my HDD with just under 2TB, definitely couldn’t read a SDD with 2TB, looks like it got fried trying to handle greater than 1.5TB. Ended up getting a Dune HD, pricier but more reliable for sure. Too bad because this product started off well and super practical, but no good if your media library is large.

This works as described. Plays everything I have in all different formats. I used this to replace a BluRay player I used to play movies from an external hard drive. I'm using NTFS for the external 1 TB drive. The only thing I don't like about it is that when the unit is turned off the drive does not turn off also, instead the drive activity light slowly flashes about one a second, I think this is some sort of 'standby mode' the units puts the drive in. The units needs an automatic shut off for the drive when the unit is turned off. If you disconnect the drive in this state, then plug it into a Windows 10/11 computer it comes up telling the drive has a problem and gives the option to fix it then something with the drive got 'corrupted'. If you let windows fix it then look at the drive you will find a 'LOST.DIR' folder. The 'LOST.DIR' is a directory created by the file system to store files that have been lost or corrupted but the 'LOST.DIR' is empty . So there is a 'corruption' of, in this case a NTFS, drive if the unit is powered down and the drive removed and this also happens if the power is removed from the unit before removing the drive. This means the unit is continually accessing the drive even when its powered off, even in that 1 second activity light flash time in a standby mode. Its safe to delete this 'LOST.DIR', its not a serious actual corruption problem but the fact that the folder is empty indicates something was not recognized as normal for the NTFS file system and that's probably because, it seems, the unit is using an Android based operating system as this is a folder that Android will create and hide on android devices. Other than this issue ... it works fine and does whats advertised, and I like it. But on the drive issue above it could stand a little improvement.

This is a good and reliable Media Player, one you can count on. I've tested several, this is the best I've found at the sub-$100 price range. The User Interface is simple and sharp. I'm currently using this with a 4TB External Hard Drive & the Media Player is quick, fast, ZIPPY. With a 4TB Drive, it takes only 30 seconds or so to pull up all video files on your screen. The Remote is better than what you usually find on budget media players, bigger than I expected and it works well! Support and Customer Help from this seller is outstanding. I had a small problem with my device & order but rather than to go through Amazon I first contacted the product maker's support team. They responded right away and Solved my problem VERY quickly! So here's the bottom line: Good product, Fair Price and Excellent Support from this company. Recommend you buy this, it's win / win / win all around. ...

I like the fact the player is small and can be mounted with double sided tape to easily conceal it. It's easy to use and has ports for a micro sd card and usb. I tried it with a 4tb hard drive and it worked easily. I did notice it does take a little long to load up once its on, it take a bit to scroll through files and can freeze for a second as you try to go onto a different file and the remote, at least for me, has to be close for the player to respond. I tried new batteries and it still had to be semi close to work. I noticed the player will only play what is in a folder. So if you have your seasons separated by folders you will have to scroll back, click the next season folder and start playing the next season. Best advice is create a new folder with all your seasons sepearated and titled in order correctly to binge watch anything you may have. Other than that, it plays flawlessly, plays every file with no issue or freezing, has options to shuffle play and repeat or straight play and stop. Very simple to use and auto detects files.

Pros: - Loads movies and images quickly with almost no lag. - Can seek in large files easily. - Good compatibility with many file formats, even mkv and webp. - User interface is basic, but fully functional for nearly all normal use cases.. - Lets you browse through the file system without any preparation for directories, filenames, etc. so you can just slap in a SD card with no regard to the file structure and immediately use it. Cons: - It didn't work on one of my HDMI monitors (Asus) at all and I had to switch to another one. There's no error messages or any way to diagnose this. - Always shows a red LED when powered off and a green LED when on. I put tape over mine. - A/V output is very dim and the colors are extremely desaturated. If you crank up the settings on your TV you can compensate for this but then the brightness/white levels are all out of whack. I think nobody really tested the video output on a real CRT TV and just cut and pasted some existing circuit for A/V output that was known to the industry. That said, the picture clarity is extremely good. Consider this device to be HDMI-only. - A/V and HDMI outputs won't work at the same time; so you can't get analog audio out of the A/V port while using HDMI playback.

Item works just as described! Seller rates a big A+++

Funziona molto bene, risolve problemi di collegamento dispositivi USB con TV (soprattutto con dischi esterni) e permette di vedere tutte le principali tipologie di file. Utilissima funzio e resume che permette di riprendere visione dall'ultimo punto visto.

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Werkt perfect met alles wat je er in stopt. Match in de instellingen bij 4k bestanden vooral de output framerate met de framerate van het bestand dan loopt alles vloeiend, anders kunnen er kleine haperingen zijn. Met name de ondertitels zijn erg belangrijk en die werken in alle situaties die ik tot nu toe ben tegengekomen en dat was bij andere producten helaas anders.

Macht bisher was es soll. Wird n bisschen warm, steht aber drauf, dass es normal sei. Festplatte von 4TB angeschlossen und läuft super, schneller Zugriff auf die Dateien, einige Verzeichnisse werden sogar als Bilder angezeigt. Man kann in den Filmdateien gut hin und herspringen ohne grosses Warten. Knackpunkt bei uns sind aber die 4K Sachen. Und die bringt er gut auf den TV, der kein 4K ist. Wir haben noch einen anderen Monitor, da sieht es genauso aus. Da er kleiner ist, kann ich es nicht so beurteilen. Aber der TV hat vorher keine 4K Filmdateien zugelassen, oder manchmal ging der Ton nicht, hier mit dem Micca Teil, kein Problem mehr. Günstigere Alternative zu einem neuen TV :) Kabel sind dabei, nur eben keine Batterien für die Fernbedienung, steht aber dabei. Sind 2 AAA Batterien/Akkus die da reinpassen.

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