Posts by Fredouye

Quote from quitroot

I want to buy new device, two choices:
1. MINI M8S II.
2. beelink MINIMXIII II.

Someone has been using these devices and can give an feedback on it?. What about hdr it's work well (no problem with contrast level)?.
Which one would you recommend?

Hi

I'm using a Mini M8S II (see my signature), and everything works :
- 24p working flawlessly (using x264 / 8/10 bits x265)
- optical / HDMI passthrough
- IR receiver is very good, I don't have to point my Logitech Harmony directly to it

The only minor issue is the suspend mode : if I wake up the device after a few seconds, it works.
But I can't wake it up after a few hours.

I installed to NAND too, couldn't wait for the weed-end

I didn't want to start from scratch, so I copied (with Kodi stopped) the .kodi directory (and a few files from .config).

Thanks kszaq.

56 Mb/s testing internal storage, vs. 17 Mb/s with a SanDisk Ultra micro SD...I guess I'll try 'installtointernal' this week-end

I went from 008 to 25/10 dev to 009 without an issue, using the same box.

Did you use the gxl_p212_2g.dtb device tree ?

Hi everyone

I'm currently using a "good" micro SD card (SanDisk Ultra) in a Mini M8S II.

Would I see a performance gain, especially loading fanarts, using a faster micro SD card (SanDisk Extreme Pro or Lexar 1800x/1000x) or a fast USB3 stick ?
Or would it be better to install to NAND ?

Thanks for any advice

Hi

you should try the 7.02.009 release, which is here : LibreELEC

Your S095X box seems to have 1 Gb of RAM, so you'll need also this file : gxl_p212_1g.dtb

IIRC, no X11 with Amlogic :

"Amlogic doesn't use X, it uses EGL and there is no xorg nor xrandr."

Hi kszaq

I updated from 10/28 dev build to 7.02.009, but I can't see any improvement...because everything was/is working flawlessly

- poweron / poweroff / suspend / wake from IR
- x265 8/10 bits, high bitrate (50 mbits/s) x264
- stereo downmix to HDMI and passthtrough to optical
- 23.976/24p working perfectly
- no buffering issues (I'm connecting to a Synology NAS using NFS with 32 kb buffers, that might help)

I've disabled wifi/BT/CEC, as I don't need them.

The only thing I noticed is the size of my Thumbnails folder (which I populated with the texturecache.py script) : 1.1 Gb, instead of 690 Mb on a Raspberry Pi using the same MariaDB shared database.

Really impressed with your work, will buy you some coffees

Quote from kszaq

I'm sorry but the build will be delayed at least until tomorrow. I have to make a clean build due to library bump in LE master and now my server is building 7.0 releases, no more power to build Krypton now.

New dev build, or 7.02.009 ?

Exactly, you have to calibrate for each resolution (1920x1080@60 for Kodi GUI, for example, and 1920x1080@24, 1920x1080@50, etc.)

Small issue with DNS resolver (I realized when using 'wget', every download was slow to start).

Using 7.02.008 and DHCP, I don't get the correct DNS servers (the first one provided by my DHCP server is omitted) :
# cat /etc/resolv.conf # Generated by Connection Managernameserver 37.187.0.40nameserver 185.10.203.37nameserver 37.59.72.228

On a RPI2, which uses the same DHCP server :

# Generated by Connection Manager
nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 178.32.122.65
nameserver 37.59.72.228

Edit : well, my previous issue (unable to install an add-on) was related to the DNS resolver issue, now it's working fine

Hi kszaq

first of all, many thanks for your work.

I've received a Mini M8S II (S905X, 2 Gb/8b) and installed the latest dev version from 10/28, with the correct dtb.img file.

Everything works so far, but I can't install any extension/skin in Kodi (no error message, but I don't see how to browse the repositories).
I'll try with 7.02.008 and report.

Quote from minimoe

I, too, confirm that there is substantial stuttering. Not only with with high bitrate files but also with smaller x264 ones with bitrate around 1000kbps. Looks like Krypton is not ready yet.

Is there a console command to reboot from NAND? I use Amber as my main skin (very nice and fast) and it doesn't have this option in the shutdown menu.

"# rebootfromnand" ?

Quote from Tidav7578

There's fewer info on files when using 'o' or info. Feels like every major kodi update strips more and more info on those screens. I do not like that trend as you have less data for debugging or distro comparison.

Hi

from Codecinfo - Official Kodi Wiki :

"FUTURE KRYPTON FEATURE:The codecinfo window/overlay normally contains information about the currently playing media, such as video and audio codecs, frame skips, decoding method, etc. Starting in Kodi v17 most of this information has been moved to a new window called PlayerProcessInfo. Default keymaps will be adjusted to use this new window (i.e., the "o" key will automatically use the new window). Custom keymaps should change CodecInfo to PlayerProcessInfo"