I just picked up one of the new zidoo players, the UHD8000 which is the new top of the line. It has 2 HDMI outputs, one for video and one for audio. The audio plays multichannel dsf, just like the eversolo dmp-a6. It just received Roon certification ( I am running the latest beta) but the implementation of Roon seems odd and nothing like I experienced with the eversolo player. When I look at the signal path, it downmixes the 5.1 channels to 2 channels and downsamples the multichannel dsf file to 48K. The eversolo player did not do this. When you look at the configuration choices for the device, they are very limited compared to the eversolo player. Just channel mapping and clock master priority. You had many more choices on the eversolo, and nothing about recognizing the player has outputting 5.1 channels. Anyone else have this experience or understand what is going on. Both eversolo and the zidoo player are android based, yet the functionality seems very different.
@steveoat87, I do not own either of the devices you are referencing, but you may want to request this from Zidoo also. What you may be experiencing may be limited by what Zidoo exposes, or can expose, to Roon for Roon certification compared to the Eversolo products.