Posts by bpatterson007

Quote from chewitt

Most nVidia GPUs suffer from under-development on closed-source VDPAU so even if the card is vastly superior in mathematical compute capabilities it may not necessarily be any better than the Intel GPU which is still capable of hardware accelerating the same range of media. Kodi is not a complex OpenGL app, so it doesn't really need or benefit from high-end GPUs.

Perfect, this is what I was trying to discover. I know the GPU is technically much more powerful, but is it even worth bothering with the Intel igp. I couldn't find a direct answer on if the Intel could handle 264/265, 1080p/60, 4k/30 or 4k/60 with hardware decoding.

The BIOS is very bland, even when updated to the most recent A13, nothing pertaining to any graphical options at all unfortunately

Finally decided to repurpose a Dell Precision M3800 for my HTPC. I just did a fresh install of LibreELEC. The laptop has an Intel i7-4712hq with built in Intel HD 4600, but also has an Nvidia Quadro K1100M that is MUCH more powerful. When viewing system information the GPU = Mesa DRI Intel(R) Haswell Mobile.

I may be wrong, but I feel the Nvidia Quadro would be ideal. Is there a way to make it use this GPU instead?

Intel CPU specs = Intel® Core™ i7-4712HQ Processor (6M Cache, up to 3.30 GHz) Product Specifications

Nvidia GPU specs = NVIDIA Quadro K1100M - NotebookCheck.net Tech

Long story short... We have an Amazon overstock near me and it was $2 for anything today. I bought a box containing (from the label) a Guanzhi Android TV box 4k HD 2.4g WiFi HDMI Ethernet. I presume it's a clone box, but for $2 why not learn a bit more and try something different than my usual setup?

Upon bootup it was on Android 6.0.1 1gb RAM and processor was unknown according to Android.

It came preinstalled with Kodi 16.1 and in there I was able to determine the following:

GPU = Mali-400 MP

CPU = ARMv7 Processor rev 5 (v7l)

Hardware = sun8i

What i would like to do is run Libreelec on here as I strictly only would use it for Kodi. How do I go about wiping this thing? What version of Libreelec is needed? Thanks so much in advance!