Same here... But I'm afraid that ship has sailed for me.
I'm not an audiophile either. A bit of tinnitus made sure of that.
there are many open source Linux audio operating systems that these codes could be borrowed... Snakeoil os, daphile, rune audio.. calling on any coders to see if this would be an easy task??
There are "ultralow" motherboards with a built-in laptop power slot.
Such as this one : Products | Kontron Embedded Computers
You have a similar solution as a PicoPSU, but these mobos tend to be more expensive as well.
Yeh that would be ok if it had hdmi.
My plan was to buy a pink faun i2s card for audio if I do stick with a PC. I'm an audiophile so audio means more than video to me.
And then I saw the price!
So after all of this, would I just be better getting a raspberry pi4 with a pihat such as the pi2aes? PI2AES - PRO AUDIO SHIELD
I could get a cheaper LPS.
I need to look into this more, the only things I worry about is, can libreelec do dsd audio? I have tried searching in the past, I thought I found it audio decoders/encoders but that ended up being a Dreamcast gaming audio codec. I am unaware if rpi can use windows or anything that I could potentially get mpd and dsd working.
The other thing I wonder is if video output via the HDMI of a rpi4 and audio could be output via the pi2aes i2s output.
Mpd audio wrapper is another thing I can't find any information online regarding libreelec. I know there is a mpd server/remote that doesn't work but is there a way to have music files use mpd as their wrapper?
I wish I could code. I would add all of these things so that all the audiophiles would switch to libreelec.
google "pico psu" , I have this running at a old J1900 for years 24/7 without any problems
ARe they linear power supplies connected? A linear supply connected to the Pico converter could be exactly what I need
The Asrock J4205 and also J5005 boards and possibly others have an optical port.
The mobos have a normal 20pin PSU connector, so a normal or a pico PSU can be connected.
I would love to be able to find a motherboard that I could use a linear power supply that is not an atx as they cost farrrr too much.
The power input for a laptop I guess would be the closest I can think of
what about a J4215 system or similar (ASRock J4125M) ? likely cheaper and more future proof then some gpu
They look nice but no optical just incase?
How do these motherboards work with psu?
I have PC mini-tower with a GT1030. Your CPU is probably overheating because the GT1030 will not do hardware-acceleration on 10bit videos and therefore the CPU has too step in, simply because the Nvidia video driver is not capable of that under Linux. Certain players in Ubuntu can do 10bit Nvidia stuff, like MPV using NVDEC/NVENC, but that's another story.
I have a simple fanless Asrock J5005 board with an Intel HD605 and a pico psu, which is a dead silent setup, and it practically plays everything I throw at it. There are successors by now for that onboard CPU, although the J4205 should also be a good enough option upto 4K30.
A 4th gen i5 ...which is almost 9 years old, may not handle 1080p hevc very well, let alone 4K 10bit hevc.
it handles 1080 very smooth. With dts hd audio... I have been using it as a music streamer so its been years since I've had Kodi installed.
Even the 2nd and 3rd gen i3s-i7s have no problem playing 1080p video and dts hd audio in libreelec.
I'm going to put my Nvidia 1030 into a windows PC.
So there is no ati fanless cards at all?
I suppose I could get a rpi4 and put it in the big chassis and no one would be the wiser. Or even an Nvidia shield.
I guess maybe time to ditch the PCs and turn one into a storage device.
Tell me more about the Pico psu, as that would be great with my music streamer. I replaced the CPU fan with a giant heatsink from arctic, still sitting around 40°c when playing dsd 5.6mhz audio files so I'm happy with that however there is definite noise coming from the PSU and it leaks static into my usb dac, I will eventually switch the dac to a i2s connection instead of usb, however that's a bit in the future as I need to sell some of my current equipment.. and the government here in Sydney has pretty much locked everyone in their houses and destroyed all of our careers and jobs again... For the second year.
I have so many nice Silverstone chassis and if I could find a fanless atI card i would get it.
Otherwise would a 4th gen i5 play 4k from the Intel graphics?
I currently have a Nvidia gt 1030 fanless. I think Linux support for Nvidia is not the best because playing 4k content my CPU hits 85°c where as with windows it just plays smooth.
I have another gt560 or something that does the job with 1080p on my older tv
Now I'm wondering if there is a fanless Radeon graphics card that would be worth purchasing?
It's strange 10 years ago Radeon was so buggy with Linux and openelec, tearing everywhere. Now it seems to have great drivers or am I wrong?
One more thing and I hope I can post it on here. Castanigit addon is not working for me on thin clients. It's keeps saying password error. Something I haven't seen since last year?
The light speed of TOSLINK is fast enough for any bitrate, so the problem is your sound / graphics card. I'm sure bitrate will be the same on HDMI and TOSLINK. Not sure where an USB audio interface grabs the audio data from, but that's probably the only way to increase bitrate.
Sorry but this is not true. Optical is capped at 44.1khz when doing 5.1
It is capped at double that when doing 2 channel, possibly 96khz
Some recording interfaces use 2 optical cables to achieve a higher bitrate.
Hdmi 1.4 caps at 192khz with 7.2 channels, hdmi 2.0+ can do alot more channels at 192khz
Audio interfaces for recording can do many channels with thunderbolt, FireWire and usb.
Digital to analog converters are capable of doing dsd audio 5.6 MHz at 1bit on 2 channel stereo via USB or i2s.
I2s uses a HDMI cable to go from source rpi (not a PC) or high end sacd player to a high end dac using HDMi cable but not hdmi signals. It's called dsd
Some DVD, blu-ray players can play dsd to certain receivers in dsd of the CD has a super audio cd layer. This results in 5.1 dsd, something pretty fantastic
Well done, that's a pretty cool media player now!
PS: You can check RAM usage by activating the debug logging HUD. 16GB is probably overkill on LE.
Yeh it's using basically none of the 4gb of ram. The CPU is a different story however it never cuts out or lags. Skipping during 4k is also a problem. I plugged the optical in both a high eend dac and also an avr.
Got 5.1 from the avr. If only optical could do a higher bitrate.
Out of interest has anyone ever used an is2 or i2s via hdmi cable as their audio output to a dac from a rpi or something similar.
Pink faunn cards are way too expensive
Yeah ofcourse. I don't know how it happened but I restarted it a few times and not only am I getting 2 channels I'm getting 5.1 with the settings at 5.1 in Kodi.
$27 + $7 ssd +2 dvi-hdmi +2 3.5mm optica cable and it's a pretty good streamer. Even playing 4k at 1080p.
I would suggest if anyone went this route to get one with a better processor. Will try putting 16gb ram in it and see.
Ok so an update. I was able to change the 3.5mm jack to optical in the bios.
Optical cable is showing red.
Still only getting single channel audio...
Wyse ZX0 AMD G-T52R is the model if anyone can work it out
As far as I can research dvi-d will carry 2 channel audio with a dvi-hdmi cable.
In libreelec settings there is the 3.5mm jack option and hd output which isthe dvi-d and it works just one channel.
Would love to get 2 channel working on libreelec. Would make these 4 wyze thin clients perfect machines.!!
I am using a wyze thin client and I'm so impressed how it plays 1080p content. It will even play 4k at 1080 as long as I don't skip through.
High quality audio files (dsd 5.6mhz) no problem. However I am only getting one channel audio from my dvi-hdmi cables. I have tried two. Does anyone know a fix?
Very true. I'll pop them on today and see if they get any bights
They are Wyse ZX0 AMD G-T52R 1.50GHz / 4GB / 8GB Flash Thin Client Z90S7
