Posts by Richdem

Quote from chewitt

I can tell from the original report that Kodi is falling back to CPU decoding; hence the suggestion to try a newer kernel which might have more functionality added (as upstreaming codecs takes time). If the situation didn't improve you won't see magic happen - no codec driver means Kodi will CPU decode and this probably requires a high-end i7 or i9 chip to work. If the HEVC driver exists under Windows and you need to play 4K HEVC media .. use Windows.

I have downloaded one of the nightly images, I plan to give it a try later. I just had this tiny PC lying around so I thought I would give it a try.

It won't be a major issue to run Kodi from windows if that's what I need to do.

Appreciate the help

Quote from mglae

AFAIK Intel has implemented a HD4600 hybrid HEVC driver for Windows but not for Linux.

So are you saying this is why I am seeing much better performance running Kodi on Windows?

Quote from chewitt

I'd start with a current nightly image and see if the issue is resolved with newer kernel (and its newer drivers).

Thank you Sir I will give that a try,

At least I know this little PC can handle 4K so I am curious to see if I can improve the performance in LibreELEC

Quote from libreelekuer

Hi

I have an Odroid C2 that I have been using a media center with LibreElec and later CoreElec, but it is old and the HDMI is giving up. It gets overheated and the signal randomly gets lost until I give it a break. So I want to buy a new device that will act only as media center with LibreElec. What I need:

- 4k HDR support (it will be connected to a Samsung Q80R).

- Gigabit ethernet, no storage will be attached (source is a local Jellyfin server plus Youtube and other streaming, but no Netflix or any other DRM streming service).

- No need for DRM, no Netflix or similar (as mentioned above)

- Interested in lowest power consumption, specially when idle.

For what I have read in the forums the two main candidates are the rPi 4b and the Odroid N2+. This is only my conclussion from reading this forum so I am open to other suggestions. For what I've read, the rPi 4b got 4k HDR support recently with HEVC but there are still a few minor quirks left to solve (although since it is such a popular platform they should be solved timely). The Odroid N2+ is a bit older but also fits all the requirements, apparently has great audio out (which I will use in the future) and is avaiable to buy while it might take a few months for the rPi 4b to be back in stock.

I would like to know:

1. Is there any other device that fits my needs and I have missed?

2. Are there any other advatages/disadvantages the rPi 4b or the N2+ have on each other for my use case?

3. I would be interested on a comparisson of power consumption of each device, specially when idle as that is how it spends most of the time.

Thanks

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Last year I picked up a Khadas VIM3L,

I do boot straight into CoreELEC but it handles all the 4K content I can throw at it with ease. Comes with 2GB RAM & built in 16GB eMMC. I also looked at the Odroid N2+ but it is too expensive here in Canada. The VIM3L came in a kit with a case & remote control although the remote of my Sony 65 X90J controls it perfectly

Hi All,

I have a Lenovo M93P Tiny PC that I have been playing around with. It has an i5-4570T CPU with HD4600 integrated GPU.

I installed LibreELEC directly to the 128GBSSD and I can play 1080P content without issues, with 4K however the playback is not smooth and when I checked the system information the CPU was constantly at 80% - 100% (I presume the GPU is not being utilized)

Just for fun I installed Win 10 Pro and then Kodi directly. I can now play the same 4K content without any issues, CPU sits around 10% utilization and the GPU is around 75%

Is there anything I can do within LibreELEC to improve the performance as I would rather have it boot straight into Kodi rather than use Windows.

Regards

Richard

Quote from Klaver7

be better to run CoreELEC as I do on my U1

Thank you ,

I came across CoreElec by accident and it works perfectly

Good Afternoon,

Does this work for Minix Neo U1 (S905)?

I have been running LibreElec 8 for the longest time and would like to upgrade

Thanks in advance for any help

Thank you very much guys,

Really appreciate the quick responses

Hi All,

I have just discovered this awesome site after I had horrible playback issues with Kodi after upgrading to 17.1 on my Minix Neo U1.

I have everything setup and Kodi is running fantastic. I love that I can boot back into Android when I want.

I was just curious what the difference was between the build with the temp sensor disabled and the regular build ? I just chose the 1st one (temp sensor disabled) and it seems to work without any problems.

Regards

Richard