If your video is being hardware decoded then you will be getting AMLogic hardware deinterlacing when watching mpeg2 or H264 interlaced content.
That is why the CPU software deinterlacing options are greyed out.
Attach a keyboard and press "O" and look for am-mpeg2 or am-h264 which means video is being hardware decoded.
or is there any other solution to this without nuking android? Any ideas?
Yes - and likely safer as well because you are just copying LE's data partition to faster internal eMMC flash and only using the SD card to boot:
[HOWTO] Boot from SD card, use internal memory for data
Usually with Android TV ROM's as well if they do a .zip OTA update - the shared (user) Data partition remains untouched during the update process.
For the above MECOOL type remote here is a remote.conf I prepared earlier:
You do not need any glue of clips, just wiggle the heatsink on to the thermal paste to smooth out any air bubbles.
The dirt cheap heatsinks usually weigh sweet F.A.
Pushing down too hard on the heatsink runs the risk of Silver, conductive paste spilling over on to adjacent electrical components and frying something when power is applied.
Then I usually run the box for a while and then unplug power over night and the paste cures.
It's a repeat of the whole patented Dolby Digital audio decoding era...
Where if you did not have a Dolby Audio licence, a media player could Not decode DD 5.1 and output that to a 2.0 PCM audio only TV.
NVIDIA Shield owners that watch DD 5.1 TV are familiar with this limitation when using specific Apps.
Kodi uses a free reverse engineered open source DD audio decoder/encoder that is included in with it's packaged ffmpeg:
So I suspect without a DolbyVision licence we likely have no hope of processing the DV metadata layer that Blurays use.
The MINIX U9-H may be DV capable hardware, but does it even have the (probably needed) DV licence to begin with ?
No DV support with PowerDVD on Windows either.
Dear developers, please keep the 'niche feature' in your 'community builds'
This is the far safer, reliable method that carries the least risk and 98% of the faster day to day box running from eMMC LE benefits, plus you still retain internal Android:
My issues are that playback of recorded files and live TV using the client hardware causes Pixelation Artifacts within seconds of playback. It seems to only happen on one station. 7HD. The recordings of 7HD seem to also be the the only files that cause this. ( More Testing required )
Checked the SoC temps ?
cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp S905 SDR boxes cannot convert HDR > SDR for viewing on a SDR only TV. The picture result is washed out colors.
S905X / S905D / S912's can do HDR > SDR conversion and colors look good on a SDR TV.
The 30% silver paste I uses set and cured just fine, the heatsink weighs bugger all anyway. You do not need great pressure on the Heatsink to attach it to the paste, just wiggle it a bit.
Be careful, because Silver conducts electricity - you do not want that stuff everywhere, use small amounts - about a match head worth of paste or less.
No look at the Chart in Post #1 - the S905 in the ODROID C2 does not support HDR. S905's are SDR boxes only.
Best bang for the buck for 4K HDR LE Kodi is something like the Gigabit (1000M) LAN - KM8 Pro (S912) any other sort of Gigabit AMLogic S912 box.
You really need Gigabit LAN for high bitrate 4K HDR REMUX's
I was thinking about re-applying the thermal paste on my Mecool M8S Pro+ but the heatsink seems to be a glued.
Can I just remove it of will I break stuff?
Run the device for a while to get it nice and warm, then open the Lid and twist clockwise and anticlockwise until the Heatsink comes off.
The GPU command cranks up the GPU clock from 500to 666 MHz for a slightly quicker Kodi user interface.
You need to keep an eye on SoC Temps - which should be stable after Thermal paste sets properly after 24 hrs.
Why not gigabit ethernet adapter based on asix ax88178 chipset ?
I've been looking into this today and the Ugreen USB3 > Gigabit adapters and/or Hubs have the AMLogic compatible ASIX chipsets in them.
The Ugreen on store on Ebay have them (click)
Once you get into high bitrate 4K HDR REMUX playback - Gigabit ethernet is really needed.
I've deleted the post linking to Reddit that Discusses PIracy and Chinese UHD Oppo clone media players.
Trust in what wesk05 tells us that LE 8.2 cannot playback DV and pass the correct metadata to a DV display. He has HDMI analytical equipment that can log and give detailed info on such video streams. I seriously doubt LE 9.x Leia is any different if it runs the same AML Nougat based Linux Kernel
Frankly 99% of Reddit posters have no idea what they are on about.
There are NO DolbyVision UHD .mkv Rips, just demo clips - and even then very few of us have DV capable TV's to test such clips.
It is simply impossible at this time for UHD Ripping and REMUXing software to process and add the seperate DolbyVision Profile 7 metadata track to a .mkv container
www.makemkv.com • View topic - Any luck with Dolby Vision titles?
Believe us 4K HDR IS working. escalade must having been living under a rock or in a cave somewhere lately. 
The best thing you can do for these cheap S905X or S912 boxes and dongles is run them for a while and then open them up and twist or remove the heatsink off the SoC. Then clean up the SoC and heatsink with something that does not leave a greasy residue, like electrical Contact Cleaner.
Most heatsinks look like they are just fixed on with some sort of Silicon which makes for pretty bad heat transfer.
Then simply get some 30% Silver (or better) thermal paste, you only need tiny amounts and use this Sandwich Wrap method for applying the paste:
How to Apply Thermal Paste - iFixit
Just did this yesterday to a MECOOL S905X that would get pretty hot, especially when using Android and it now runs 10 - 20 Degrees C cooler as a result AND I can increase the GPU Mhz for a snappier, smoother LE Kodi user interface !
Some LE Temp monitoring tips:
SSH Login and....
echo "cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp" > temp
chmod +x temp
watch ./tempand I use this for the GPU:
echo "echo 2 > /sys/class/mpgpu/scale_mode" >> /storage/.config/autostart.shW.
I bought this KM8 P TV Box from the above link and just received it after 3 weeks of shipment. Anyway, I already prepared a USB boot disc using the dd utility as mentioned in the LE wiki - installation. When I inserted a tooth pick into the AV port, it just went in all the way, i.e. no reset button inside. I also booted into the Android OS, did a factory reset, and it just booted back into the Android OS. So, has anyone had some ideas how to proceed to install/boot LE on this device using a USB memory stick?
Install the following Android Reboot Update Android App and try running that:
kjack9 the following post about LE AML S9xx Audio Settings & MCH testing will interest you:
