Posts by pm80mkll

Shield TV,

I bought a shield TV, according to me RPI will not be sufficient for netflix (4K with atmos) .... Unless DRM is arranged to allow hardware decoded playback by Pi

Did some testing again. Still don't understand the behavior of the inputstream setting. I select streams manually now.

Whether a stream is playable depends on the bitrate of the stream.

Most 1080p videos without HD audio have around 700kbit/s rate vp9 decoded streams. These I can play fine. processor load is around 40%.

More then 750kbit/s results in stuttering.

So I think it is still fine. But just misses that small bit for the full netflix experience.

We need hardware decoding. Otherwise it is impossible. I think popularity will decrease as a media player when there is no license agreement to hardware decode for online streaming like netflix.

I am going to try the chromium browser route. See where this ends.

Some measurements of smooth playing 1080p 24fps with atmos video (6 underground) from netflix.

LibreELEC:~ # more /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp

73060

LibreELEC:~ # /opt/vc/bin/vcgencmd measure_temp

temp=73.1'C

LibreELEC:~ # iostat -c 2 2

Linux 4.19.106 (LibreELEC) 08/10/20 _armv7l_ (4 CPU)

avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle

43.61 0.36 2.15 0.07 0.00 53.81

avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle

48.86 0.13 2.54 0.00 0.00 48.48

My RPI 3B+ has small cpu cooling and set the force_turbo=1.

RPI is running 1,4 MHz so no overclocking.

I am happy !!!!

Regards

Hi I run Libreelec on RPi 3B+.

Today I installed the netflix add on.

First had problems with audio out of sync and stuttering video.

After trying different settings. It works.

Can play 1080P DD+ and Atmos!!!!! netflix content.

Amazing...

Weird was that I had to enable "Enable VP9 profiles" in Netflix addon settings.

What has netflix todo with VP9?

Other important settings:

Netflix addon settings:

Enable "Enable Dolby Digital Plus"

In system/player settings

Disable "Sync playback to display".