Greetings, everyone.

I want to buy Mi Box S for my friend. Primarily, my friend wants to watch MKV format movies from his 2 TB NTFS external hard drive. I read on the internet (and this subreddit) that Mi Box S had a severe problem regarding the external hard drive compatibility in the Oreo version. So, does Xiaomi already fix the issue?

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A little side story: I have a Mi TV that runs great on reading the MKV movies via VLC (I've never tried Kodi). I also tried my friend's hard disk, and it ran great. Can I expect the same thing with the Mi Box S? My friend doesn't have any streaming subscription service nor a descent internet, so the Mix Box S probably is gonna just for the media reading.

I welcome any suggestions. Thank you!

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EDIT:

Huge thanks for all redditors who replied my question!

I purchased and tried the Mi Box S. I also updated the Mi Box S to the 9.0 version. It read MKV movies well with VLC and KODI (I'm not sure if the movies are h264 or h265 MKV). I notice the Mi Box S performs slightly better than Mi TV (perhaps due to Mi Box S' better RAM).