Posts by libreAU

  • Intel true 10bits/HEVC/HDR support... ?

    Looks like all the 11th gen nuc panther and tiger canyon models have irix xe integrated GPUs:

    Intel® NUC Kits
    Designed for businesses, students, educators, and DIYers, the collection of Intel® NUC Kits features customizable boards and chassis.
    www.intel.com

    An i3 would be plenty for a while it's mostly about the gpu.

    A whie ago I was lucky enough to get some i5's on sale or pricing error that was honoured for ~AUD$300(US220), they are mega overkill but hey...I run them with the cheapest kingston 8gb sodimm and a $20(US17) 32GB intel optane nvme ssd (cheaper than a usb stick and lasts longer) for the OS.

    Intel Optane Memory M10 Solid SSD M.2 2280 MEMPEK1W016GA PCIe 3.0 3D Xpoint NVMe | eBay
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    The only issue you might find is finding a supported 11-i3 nuc,i had a quick look through the list and most are discontinued 3 days after launch, as intel like to do :D

  • Intel true 10bits/HEVC/HDR support... ?

    ok english is not my first language. Most people don't get australian:thumbup:

    Have you tried connecting to your Media sonic using a different version of the SMB protocol ? Change the minimum SMB version to SMBv2 in Settings/Services/SMB Client (use Expert mode for settings)

    Or even better turn of smb v1 on your media sonic doobalacky

    Gone off topic but all good ^^

  • Intel true 10bits/HEVC/HDR support... ?

    Quote from lrusak

    Hmm, I'll have to double check this. I use a NUC8i7HNK as my daily and last I tested it worked, maybe I borked something or the LibreELEC builds aren't working correctly.

    If you disable the HDR mode in settings -> player -> video -> processing -> "allow hdr mode"

    tbh i didn't really check it for more than 3 reboots. I don't use it as the 11 gen i5's replaced those, i just pulled it out of the cupboard for testing purposes to report back :)

    I'll check it again this week..hopefully............

    I don't think i've seen that setting before in previous builds, must be new. Actually I just checked and can't see it at all, am I on crack?

    I remember I got it working by disabling the drm_prime codec but that kinda defeated the purpose of using these builds ;)

    cheers mate

    Quote from HDGuy

    Why is the SMB server so slow in these more recent builds? I’m running an older celeron on LibreElec 17.6 and am maxing out the bandwidth to my external drive bay. When I try a newer Matrix build on the N4020 box I have my transfer speeds to my drive bay are halved.

    don't use smb it sucks hard. especially if you're trying to stream 4k content over wireless instead of gigabit cable.

    donkeys ago i did that but replaced smb/cifs with NFS and it increased the wireless link speed enough to stream most 4k over wireless but i was still messing around with advancedsettings.xml and buffering and what not. Eventually I had enough of random skipping and pauses then busted out the hammer drill and ran cat 7 to the nucs in my joint.

    Long story short now i just press the play button and relax.

  • Intel true 10bits/HEVC/HDR support... ?

    Finally got around to testing on 2 x NUC11PAKi5. Seems to work fine running from USB. will dd to nvme after a week.

    Also smp's build LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-11.0-devel-20210904012247-ebf2ee0.img.gz (SMP79) seems to fix playing trueHD audio problems where previous SMP builds would randomly not playrueHD 7.1 audio files. I don't use knodi nighlty builds for obvious reasons so whereever the fix came from...

    Nekromantik Sound outputs only on 2.0 channel on the above nucs but if you set it to passthrough doesn't it just pass through in PCM format and your AVR takes care of it ? I pass through to a 7.1 ch samsung receiver which seems to be doing it's thing when kodi is set to 2.0 channel & pass-through.

    I also pass-through audio to a sony 8000h tv and seems to work OK.

    Please let me know if i'm wrong about kodi 2.0 ch and passthrough and i'll try:

    LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-11.0-devel-20210917015956-1a8a027-ffmeg-4.3-2audiochannelfix.img.gz

    SMP made for Nekromanik. Otherwise i'll check when i can get around to it.

    yee ha.

    Update:

    NUC8i5INH with radeon graphics - doesn't play, blank screen same as previous builds

    NUC7PJYH4 works fine

    I also have a NUC5PPYH but thats a pita to get to. It's got hdmi 1.4b which i don' think supports hdr. I can check if someone wants...at some point.

  • Intel true 10bits/HEVC/HDR support... ?

    Hi Ken,

    Haven't had a chance to test SMP's latest build but I will on the weekend and report back. I've got 5 different intel/amd/radeon nucs running here, looks like i'll be running round like a blue arse fly :D

    Keep up the feedback :thumbup:

  • Intel true 10bits/HEVC/HDR support... ?

    Below is my experience, links contain info of cpu,gpu etc


    I have successfully tried LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-10.0-devel-20210524004323-f9d2c33-INTELGFX.img on:

    2 x Intel® NUC 11 Performance kit - NUC11PAKi5 Product Specifications

    1 x Intel® NUC Kit NUC7PJYH Product Specifications

    and unsuccessfully on:

    1 x Intel® NUC 8 Mainstream-G mini PC (NUC8i5INH) Product Specifications (has amd radeon)

    LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-10.0-devel-20210601032257-86a07cd-AMDGFX.img

    unsuccessfully on:

    1 x Intel® NUC 8 Mainstream-G mini PC (NUC8i5INH) Product Specifications (has amd radeon)

    black screen for both images even after fiddling with drmprime options

  • Intel true 10bits/HEVC/HDR support... ?

    Quote from vbs

    I did delete the folder ".kodi" after updating and rebooted. Maybe that was not enough.

    just grab 2 usb sticks. use the custom libreelec installer from their download page and install SMP's image on one. boot with both inserted and install on the other. Easy

    i copied over the userdata/* files (smashed for quick testing but ugly) to SMP's build but from what i can see the DB structure is different/ in a diff location along with other settings from v9 to v10.

  • Intel true 10bits/HEVC/HDR support... ?

    Wow, hey thanks mate, appreciate it :)

    Well it booted... but unfortunately there was just a black screen when trying to play HDR content. Any content for that matter, i tried various files. Black screen, audio was fine.

    errors like : ERROR <general>: CBaseRenderer::GetShaderFormat - unsupported format 181

    whatever that means :)

    Anywhos I attached the logs in case you are curious of what happened (both standard and debug). It's a tarball but I had to rename it with a zip extension due to adding attachment constraints of the forum.

    ( mv kodi-64-10.0-devel-20210601032257-86a07cd-LOGS.tgz.zip kodi-64-10.0-devel-20210601032257-86a07cd-LOGS.tgz )

    ill try the intel build (LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-10.0-devel-20210524004323-f9d2c33.img.gz) when the boss stops using the tv with the nuc with intel graphics.

    Happy to report back with outcome and logs if that helps you in some way/you're curious. Just let me know.

    thanks again for providing that build for me.

    Update:

    20210524004323-f9d2c33 build works on intel nuc 7pjyh (Intel® NUC Kit NUC7PJYH Product Specifications) on sony x8000h tv.

    Cheers,