Posts by Forage

  • [8.0.2c] LibreELEC 8.0 builds for KIII Pro (S912)

    After two weeks of running LibreELEC on my MECOOL KIII I must say I'm quite satisfied with the results already. Yes, there is the random crash every 3 days or so, the slight screen distortion when navigating too quickly and CEC navigation feeling a bit less fluid, but that was to be expected and, while not being perfect, the device is perfectly usable. Many thanks for all your effort guys! Great work.

    There is, however, one thing that does concern me a bit: the temperature. While CPU usage goes all the way down after seeing a movie (no more than h264 1080p), I rarely see the temperature drop below 78 degrees Celsius. This makes the box, and especially the metal tuner connectors at the back quite uncomfortably hot.

    What is your experience with the temperature? Is this acceptable? Can I get it down some what somehow?

  • EVERY version of LE I use has stuttering frames in it. Any ideas?

    Quote from mergleb

    Ok I have a logfile of a 2 minute 1080p video I streamed.

    To my eye I noticed several frame skips and jumps in the 2 mins.

    Ubuntu Pastebin

    Hope someone can decipher all this info please! :)

    Online streaming and through WiFi on top of that...

    There are so many places where this can be causing problems here.

    The only way to determine the cause is by starting with the basics and rule out factors step by step:

    1. LOCAL file (USB drive).
    2. Streaming from LOCAL network device by wired connection
    3. Streaming from LOCAL network device by WiFi
    4. Streaming from REMOTE (internet) service by wired connection
    5. Streaming from REMOTE (internet) service by WiFi

    In case of the last two items you'll need to start with testing from a 'reliable' streaming service (YouTube?) before switching to a 'different kind' of source. If the problem starts with the latter then we'll probably won't help you any further.

    Either you work the list up until the issue begins or down until the issue disappears and tell us your findings.

  • [8.2.2.3] LibreELEC 8.2 for S912

    Now you wait until the process is finished. I don't see what the problem is besides that you didn't wait long enough yet.

    Please use the dedicated KIII thread for follow-up problems/questions: [8.0.1k] LibreELEC 8.0 builds for KIII Pro (S912)

    Make sure you use the device tree from the third post of that thread.

  • New Forum Software

    Quote from CvH

    not too sure what are you see or maybe I misunderstand your problem

    I have this

    There are no longer any page links in the list of threads. Because of this you always need to open a thread first before being able to go directly to the last page. This is at least the case on my mobile phone. Where showing links to all pages is overkill, going to the last one directly is quite efficient, on mobile as well as desktop.

  • [8.2.2.3] LibreELEC 8.2 for S912

    Quote from brimur


    ... Sorry for the unrelated question ...

    That would be the obvious clue to start a new thread instead of discussing something unrelated in an existing thread. And in this case, yes, it is something completely different. Not starting a new thread makes it very hard for all of us to keep track of things and/or filter those things not important/relevant.

  • KIII Pro vs. RPi+USB-tuner

    Hi,

    After happily using Open/Libre-ELEC in combination with a RPi for a long time, I'm now looking for a solution to add a DVB-S2 tuner as well. During my search I discovered the KIII Pro at the same time I found USB tuners to connect to my current RPi.
    It all makes me wonder: why would I opt for a RPi+USB-tuner combination while a KIII Pro gives me an all in one solution with better specs for roughly the same price as a separate USB-tuner I'd have to buy?

    The only reason I can think of is the much larger community around the RPi, with this device getting much more development and tuning attention compared to the KIII Pro.
    What is your opinion? How stable is the current situation with LibreELEC? Will I actually experience a significant improvement with the improved specs despite a much smaller development community?

    Personally I'd prefer to go for a clean solution, getting rid of Android completely, just having LibreELEC running the show. Will this be possible?

    There's mention of the lack of fbdev Mali libraries at this moment, but is this a matter of time or is there no way of telling if they will get released? Apparently it isn't a problem for the previous generation (S905/S905X), assuming the libraries were released for those as well.