Posts by HomerJau

Your NUC will give you best performance in terms of UI navigation, scanning files into Kodi libraries, applying LE updates etc.

For me, the only reason you'd consider another box is for Dolby Vision support (you'll need a TV that supports DoVi too although some players will support tone mapping or on the fly conversion of DoVi to HDR10+ using CoreElec, sister of LE).

HDR vs Dovi is not a significant 'upgrade' IMO, but players that support DoVi FEL (more video data) can look better. FEL is on 4K UHD releases only. And not all Dovi UHD releases have FEL. So unless you want to chase technical nirvana, on a subset of releases only, its not critical at all IMO.

Having said that I do have 2 x Ugoos AM6B players, but I only use those for Movies. I mostly use Kodi for music and I use my NUCs for music (nearly 2500 albums & concerts). Scanning those is so much slower using non-NUCs. Many time slower!!

Quote from daniel712

It works great with the right HDMI port!

OMG - what a waste of research and testing time !!! Even in the manual there is no (fu.....) info that there is any difference in the two ports...

Thanks a lot!

I know of about 6 NUC11 users that never got their NUCs working until I mentioned this. I was one it the early days that just put my new NUC11 aside waiting for a LE fix until I stumbled on someone had ‘fixed’ it by simply using HDMI 1.

The reason I use NUCs is speed!

I have a couple of AMlogic players (Ugoos AM6B for Dovi FEL) but scanning my large Music library takes about 20 times longer than using a NUC with an NVME SSD (my recent NUCs have 2.5GBE Ethernet too and by network is 10GBE so that helps of course.

I do some Kodi customisation so testing needs rebuilds and rescans.

I’m using same NUC with same AVR (actually my NUC is 11TNKi3). No issues on that AVR or another Denon in another room.

The trick is to use the right hand HDMI port (looking from the back). Use ALSA in the HDMI settings.

This works with LE 12, 12.2 and 13 alpha

So you should change your thread title to “I have 2 questions” ha ha.

Sorry, but every thread here is a question. Why not give more info in your thread title, you might get a faster answer.

Rebooting this thread:

I can confirm the Simplecom USB to 2.5GBE Ethernet Adapter NU405C works 'out the box' on my test Intel NUC (LibreElec 12.2). Under $25 AUD (around 16USD maybe?)

I can copy a 10GB MKV file to my NUC at 270MB/s over my 2.5GBE network using the adapter above. USB 3.0 (5Gbps port)

I actually bought this for a CoreElec device that is sloowww (limited by its to 1GBE port). To be frank the eMMC drive is no more that 400MB/s compared to my NUCs 5000MB/s NVME SSD (NUC12).

I read saw your Intel comments chewitt regarding bandwidth on 8 ch 192kHz Intel devices.

If this audio issue is limited to 4K + 8ch 192kHz devices is possible to solve by reducing audio sample rate since 4K audio never has more the 48KHz?

I’ve seen both 96kHz and 192kHz on HD blu-ray (music BD) but never on UHD 4K. Streaming is always 48kHz.

The Dolby Atmos TrueHD encoder is limited to 48Hz. Maybe Kodi could just open a 48 or 96KHz connection?

There are already audio mods in Kodi to solve issues like quad audio only playing in stereo and re-routing back channels to side channels for 5.1 audio in a 7.1 system.

Maybe something to pursue if Intel don’t do a kernel fix?

Thanks for taking the time to give a full answer.

I’ve been using your 10 bit script since it was posted. Thought I’d missed a kernel fix

sky42 Does that mean all Alder Lake NUCs with kernel 6.12.16 (LE 12.2.1) are no longer affected by the 4K 23.976Hz bug? Or just N150 based?

THX

I have a related question:

I'm building LE 12.2 with a modified Kodi on a new PC.

Using the PROJECT=Generic ARCH=x86_64 tools/download-tool option

I'm getting errors for 3 files the download-tool option cannot download (sites are down). Example:

--2025-12-29 17:08:44-- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/…rub-2.12.tar.gz
Resolving git.savannah.gnu.org (git.savannah.gnu.org)... 209.51.188.168, 2001:470:142::168
Connecting to git.savannah.gnu.org (git.savannah.gnu.org)|209.51.188.168|:80... failed: Connection timed out.
Connecting to git.savannah.gnu.org (git.savannah.gnu.org)|2001:470:142::168|:80... failed: Network is unreachable.
--2025-12-29 17:09:16-- http://sources.libreelec.tv/mirror/grub/grub-2.12.tar.gz
Resolving sources.libreelec.tv (sources.libreelec.tv)... 65.109.172.87
Connecting to sources.libreelec.tv (sources.libreelec.tv)|65.109.172.87|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2025-12-29 17:09:16 ERROR 404: Not Found.

This repeats trying until it eventually gives up and moves to next download

I can find that file (grub-2.12.tar.gz) and others needed on the web. I thought if I copied them to my local LE build 'sources' folder the build would work, but the build process actually ignores the existing file and attempts to d/l anyway. I noticed a 'Zone.Identifier' file and created one but still the build process wants to download.

Question:

How can I just copy those missing files and stop the build process from attempting a d/l?

(I guess I can wait a few days for the servers to go back on line...)

THX

Garry

Try booting using the other HDMI port on your NUC.

Are you using the right HDMI port (looking from back, left if looking from front). This solves problems on Intel NUC 11TNK/TNH

heretic

Please install the NTFS-3G addon which is now installable from the LE12 (and LE13) repo (in Services)

We had a number of new LE users with external USB drives formatted with NTFS that kept having this problem after connecting their drives to Windows PCs to add new media.

The initial fix was to run: chksdsk /f (repair a ‘broken’ drive) but this addon solved their problem permanently.

Da Flex could you please edit the thread title to include ‘NTFS’ so others can find this fix.

The databases and add-ons will be compatible. Kodi is still based on 21 Omega.

Thanks for your reply!

Hi,

What is the reason for the new 12.2 GitHub branch please?

It appears to be latest Linux + packages from LE13 but with LE12 Kodi.

Does this need specific use case testing?

THX

Garry

These ones work for NUC8 with HDMI 2.1 AVRs:

https://www.amazon.com.au/UGREEN-Adapter-Thunderbolt-Converter-Compatible/dp/B0CNKBB4Z1/ref=pd_ci_mcx_pspc_dp_d_2_t_3?pd_rd_w=3Dfse&content-id=amzn1.sym.c9d8026d-7c0e-4380-bf9e-ee6dc4550161&pf_rd_p=c9d8026d-7c0e-4380-bf9e-ee6dc4550161&pf_rd_r=2659E9DRCWMME3X25RS7&pd_rd_wg=sdldc&pd_rd_r=bfbd58f7-e9e0-4089-a578-1e5e3ab86ad7&pd_rd_i=B0CNKBB4Z1

FYI: I used some on our QQ NUC Special Edition Kodi releases (Add full music tag support for Matroska mka and MKV files, Music Concert support in the Kodi music library (not as ‘music videos’, as ‘music’ with video) and music audio Codec recognition/UI display for Kodi skins).

We delivered 70 x Intel NUC8 to our forum members based on LE12 and the QQ Kodi mods.

I bought a ASUS NUC 14 Pro i7 recently (for s/w development on the road) running Windows 11 Pro and the Ethernet failed after I updated drivers etc. WiFi was good.

The fix was to update to latest NUC 14 bios.

I’m going to take a guess as to why it’s not the default.

CEC had many issues in my experience early on. But recently I’ve found CEC behaves well with more modern gear. Maybe CEC should be enabled as default now?