my questions about Pi3B+ was just something I wanted to know, I am not buying that one yet, see no advantage for my use over the standard Pi3...

I will keep on with my 2 Pi3:s, they work nice so far....

2 things:

Why is the Pi3b+ so much more unstable? or is it?

And is there anyone who has measured what gpu load(HW decoding) when playing 1080p bluray videos with Pi3?

Ive always wanted to know that, but I know there is no easy way to measure it, but maybee someone has?

The cpu load is fairly low 20-25%, that is easy to check, but it would have been very interesting knowing the gpu load also.......

I have some time ago tested with different 1080 p bitrate files, If I remember right there was a limit around 80mbit/s and over, but dont know how well that relates to GPU load, as "normal bluray" is around 40mbit/s you could guess the load should be somewhere around 50%, but as I said, I dont know if thats the way you have to calculate it....

Is there any 1080p "bluray" h.264 or VC-1 that are close to the limit of what the Pi3 can handle? maybee som 60fps videos?

I have a few option, well to be honest I have 10 different hardwares to play LE in right now.(2 Rpi3, 2 Android boxes with S905 and S905X, 6 HTPC:s with different harware all from Intel Graphics, AMD and Nvidia).......

And if only the main porpuse is to: playing 1080p videos (H.264 and VC-1) and letting kodi put out LPCM 5.1 sound with LE 8.2.x

I found the most stable and reliable Hardware until now to be Raspberry Pi3....

With both Android:s and HTPS:s, I have a few problems that I remember, all different types, cant mention all of them now, but cant remember any so far with Pi3...

With the most stable I mean: no hickups, no stutter, no black screens, no strange audio fenomen or other weird things happening....

With the most reliable I mean: Easy startup, compability with other hardware like usb drives, usb sticks, mouses and keyboards. And also the boot and the way it feels stable when in menus...

AM I RIGHT? Or should they all perform flawless, if everything else in the chain is perfect as can be..

did check another portable 2.5" harddrive with the same video that gave me problem before, didnt know I had that video there also, now it plays fine... so its not related to the drive being to slow I think.... Maybee just a glitch that time somehow....Will not dig too deep into it...if it happens again I will write here..

Quote from blueribb

Are the files located locally or through network attached storage ?

good question, they are locally threw a 2.5" portable harddrive...... Maybee the harddrive is to slow between those m2ts files, because the other ones I tested that worked fine where located on a USB stick...... Have to check that more..

update: meybee it is something with that one video file, when I checked other videos also with multiple m2ts files, it is all OK! even on other PC i have, no problems.... If I get more problems with videos like that, I will continue asking here.....

I dont have that specific video longer, so I cant check that one in other PC i have with LE ..... But as I said, it is all OK with other videos, so I guess that one must have been strange someway...

When running a 1080p 24hz video H.264 with mupltiple m2ts files, LE 8.2.5 buffers between these, and skips like 4-6 seconds, same place and always between m2ts(where the one eds and next is suppose to continue)...... It never happens when the video is ONE big m2ts file or one big MKV......

Never happens in Windows with Kodi 17.6, never happens in Windows with MPC-HC...

Just asking if there is a way to prevent this, or something I missed to enable/disable in settings...

Also wunder if my PC is to slow, but I think it should be fast enough to handle 1080p h.264 files even if the folder contains several m2ts.....

PC specs:

Intel Core2 Duo E8400 @ 3.00GHz

Single 4gb ddr ram

Asus GTX 730 2gb silent

The cpu load is around 10%

and the GTX 730 should not have any problem running 1080 p videos at all from my knowing..

Any tips?

Windows 7 PC:

Is it ok to install LE on a USB stick using PC1, it works fine, and boots fine. Then later use the same usb stick on another pc: PC2 directly?

Will it boot and load eveything fine?

Or is it a must to install on usb stick each time on its own PC to get it correct?

thanks again, Now Im more informed...........

• Intel (i915) using VAAPI on Linux 4.18+

what is intel i915? what cpu:s from intel will support the new LE10(kodi 19)?

haha, infected,,, of course I meant affected....

Thanks, I will read and try to take in the info as good as I can..

Forgot to ask: how will the S905X be infected? I have S905 and S905X boxes(cheap chinise ones), will they be ok in LE 9 and LE10? Supporting HW decoding

That makes my wunders to clarification.... Now I think I understand.

YES, I do software decode VC-1 in my 7770 card, load is around 25-35% as highest in my CPU (AMD A8 6600K), so no major problems,,,

When its time for Kodi 19 and LE10, I think I will have one or two newer HTPC:s with Intel CPU and Intels Graphics to support....

THANKS!!!

OK, many thing to read, getting a bit confused....

I only use LE Kodi to play internal Videos 1080p(H.264 and VC-1), So I guess LE 8 is more the enough for me as long as I only do this and have my "older" hardware.....

From My understanding: the newer LE 9? and LE 10 will not support HW encoding with some older graphics-cards like GT 5-7 series and GTX 6 series?

Also this new NVDEC is only supported in newer card ?

Quote from Klojum

Yes, Nvidia has been VDPAU-friendly for years, but that will stop as per LibreELEC 10.

Sorry to ask,dont follow, why will it stop? will there be no support(VDPAU) for Nvidia cards with LibreELEC 10?

Hi, noticed that there is no VDPAU VC-1 HW support on my Asus ATi Radeon 2GB Graphics Card, If I enable VC-1 under VDPAU HW, the picture is bad, cant see much.

If I disable the VC-1 HW under VDPAU, the picture is perfect again...

Is it the card not supporting VC-1 HW encoding, or something in Libreelec having trouble?

Only tried the latest LE 8.2.5 so far.....

Dont have any problems with VDPAU HW VC-1 support on my other computers running Nvidia card: GT 520, GT 610, Gt 710, GT 730, GTX 660...

I thought Radeon card did support VC-1? especially the 7 series, did I miss something

Quote from wrxtasy

Just keep following the version number as they increase, all previous additions are included in subsequent versions.

Otherwise look at the file dates:

ie v8.2.5.1 is the version after 8.2.5

v8.2.5.2 will be the next version after 8.2.5.1 and so on...

You need specialist audio equiptment to actually test bit perfect 24bit audio output as detailed in this Vero 4K development thread:

24-bit output - Vero 4K / Vero 4K + - OSMC Forums

And yes the 24bit Kernel HDMI output signalling changes talked about in that thread are in the LE v8.2.5.x versions onwards.

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One thing more:

What is the difference between:

LibreELEC-S905.arm-8.2.5-Chroma.422.10bit.img.gz

downloaded 2018-08-20, size: 125 833 107 byte

LibreELEC-S905.arm-8.2.5-Chroma.422.10bit.img.gz

downloaded 2018-09-01, size: 125 842 349 byte

Same namne, different sizes.....

I cant see the later one is called 8.2.5.1

Quote from Tim_Taylor

Most people will use passthrough and let AVR decode

If I could I would

My receivers only accepts LPCM in lossless sound formats, It dont do DTS HD MA or Dolby TRUE HD...

Thats why its important to me to get LPCM 5.1 in 24 bits....