Hi All,
I hadn't done much with LibreELEC until now. I've used OpenELEC on the Raspberry Pi.
I have a Ditter U20 Android TV Box. I think this model comes in versions which use Rockchip, Allwinner, and AMlogic. The Rockchip and Allwinner versions appear to have dual core processors and the AMlogic is the S805 quad core with 1G RAM and 8G Flash memory. The one I have is the S805 version. The version of Android (4.2.2) and Kodi (16) which comes preloaded on this box is very buggy, and playing video files with certain audio tracks will cause the whole box to stop playing any sounds until you do a factory reset. Luckily on this box there is a reset switch next to the USB on the left hand side. Since this is a very cheap and nasty box, there are no updates or support which I expected. I have been using it for a couple of years now, mainly as an audio player, but my kids will use it to play videos sometimes and then I get the inevitable crying because the sound has stopped. I had pretty much given up on this box as a video player and was looking for a new one when I stumbled on this thread.
I thought I would just leave a message to let people know that I tried the LibreELEC-S805.arm-8.0-8.0.1a-MXQ.img on this box and so far it is working very well. This was the first image I tried, and I haven't tried the others. I've only had a brief play with it and none of the video files I have thrown at it lock up the audio like before although there are still issues passing through the audio via HDMI to my TV (TCL) and then back to my AV Receiver (Yamaha). However with down-mixing turned on at least the kids can get audio on the problem video files. I haven't had enough time to test the various combinations of setting yet to see if there are other solutions. I've also found the CEC doesn't seem to work, but once again I haven't had a good look at this. CEC is a problem normally for me even with the TV and AVR or my Samsung Bluray player because I can get the TV or Blueray to turn the AVR off, but have never got it to turn on, and the AVR turning other things on is pretty much a no go. Under Android, this box could turn off the TV and AVR, but not reliably so I'm probably going to use the universal remote instead.
I haven't installed LibreELEC on the box, it is just on an SD Card. It boots up fairly quickly compared to the original Android. Getting it going initially was a case of putting the SD Card in, and power cycling while the reset button was held down. It then just loaded LibreELEC and there was no requirement or prompts to go into any recovery modes. It just booted straight into LibreELEC, and now if the SD card is plugged in it boots to LibreELEC, otherwise it boots Android.
Speed of the box appears good with LibreELEC. Initially while Kodi was scanning my media it was a bit slow to react to remote commands, and I'm not sure the remote is responding quite as quickly as it does in Android, but I think I saw some options for changing remote timing in the settings which I'll have a play with. So far no issues with video files although I haven't done much testing yet. When I get some more time I'll have a bit more of a play with Audio and Video settings and perhaps try logging what is going on in CEC to see what is being passed in and out of the box. If I get any results I'll post them here.
The one strange thing happening is that when the box is turned off either via the menu item or remote, the blue power indicator stays on. Under Android this changed to a red indicator.
I might even plug in one of my old Playstation Play TV dual tuners to see how they go. I have found these good on a Ubuntu box, but unreliable on the QNAP NAS.
I only ever bought this box as a network audio player for a home audio system, but now it looks like the kids will make use of it for videos as well.
Thanks very much to Kasaq and everyone else involved with this.