Posts by eraser215

    Hi greycat


    After much wrestling of powering the TV, hifi, and pi off and on again in different orders, I finally have it all working again as if nothing was ever wrong to begin with. I won't pretend to understand how I did it but now I am afraid of touching it lest I break it again!

    I don't need 4k but the Pi 4 is the only Pi I have so i will sadly persist with the headaches until they are resolved. Good luck with your Kodi-ing!

    Hi all,

    I have what comes across as the same issue, except my AVR is a Pioneer VSX-529.

    - Plugging my Pi into the receiver: No HDMI CEC

    - Plugging my Pi into TV regular HDMI port: No HDMI CEC

    - Plugging my Pi into TV HDMI ARC port with AVR unplugged: HDMI CEC works!

    - Plugging my Pi into TV HDMI ARC port with AVR plugged in again: HDMI CEC broken again

    It seems like there's a bizarre interaction between the CEC from the Pi and from the AVI.

    Did you find the same behaviour greycat?

    eraser215 i recently tested master on my cubox-i4pro - works

    Do you mean the master branch? Can you please send a link to the image you used?


    It's a while since I tested one but Cubox-i devices were booting and could handle H264 decoding last time I looked. The SoC has no support for HEVC so will need to software decode that format .. I doubt with good results. I have no time for testing anything right now but you can boot from an SD card and have a look at current test images and report back.

    The OE forum link is dead for me .. I wasn't able to reacht the forum there for over a year now.

    Thank you for replying. I played a 1080p H.264 50FPS video and it wasn't quite keeping up, in that the video was not perfectly smooth and lagged behind the audio. I ran a back to back between the cubox and a RPi 4 and the difference was night and day, unsurprisingly. I will keep trying out different versions.

    Long time lurker/user and first time poster. I am looking to get a clear idea of what the status is of Cubox-i4pro (iMX.6) support and development. I have been following some threads involving chewitt but am not quite clear on what the nightly builds for this device are capable of.

    My understanding is that the hardware is capable of H.264 video decoding, but this cannot be implemented properly due to dependencies on upstream software. However I have not found anything definitive on this. I do not believe the hardware is capable of supporting H.265 however.

    Does anybody have any more information on this or a clear explanation? It would be great to have this so I can make a decision on what to do with these great devices, and maybe repurpose them if they aren't capable of driving modern video codecs via hardware decoding any more.

    I will also add that there has always been an issue where the cubox-i4pro has never been able to stream over the network with the ethernet interface at 1000baseT/Full, requiring a manual setting to 100baseT/Full for playback to work. This was originally posted at the link below for the now defunct openelec.tv web site:

    http://openelec.tv/forum/125-soli…buffering-issue

    Thanks!