Just recently, I decided to try running kszaq's latest build for an ARM/s905 box I have. It was very simple to try this. I just downloaded the image, copied it to a microSD card and booted from it and I was running LibreELEC on the s905 box. Nice. Very simple. No need to futz around with an "install" step.
Today, I'm trying to nail down some particulars about a bug that is apparently causing playback to simply lock up, specifically when I am playing any member of a particular subset of the mp4 videos I have on hand, and when I use the left arrow button on my remote to try to skip forward. It appears that this bug is present in both kszaq's latest build for the s905 and also in the latest release (8.0.2) of LibreELEC for x86. In short, it is clearly not a hardware-specific problem.
Before reporting this bug formally, I'd like to try to pin down exactly what the last version of LibreELEC was that this actually worked properly in, i.e. just before the breakage occured. (I know these same videos had no problems with the ancient OpenELEC I had been using in the past.) If I can nail down when the breakage started... i.e. which exact version of LE... then perhaps I can help the developers to isolate whatever code changes caused the breakage.
But the thing is this: The x86 releases of LE seem to have this annoying requirement that you first put the "installation" image on a stick or a card, and then you run that to install the thing onto some different stick or card, and only then can you actually run the thing. This will quite obviously be tedious, e.g. if I am going to be experimenting with several successive x86 LE releases (which I do now plan to do).
So, um, am I missing something? Are there some LE x86 images someplace that can just be run (in "live" mode) without installing them? And if not, why not? It would be a great help to have such things.
