I'd sort of given up on my TX6 but the latest nightly Libreelec 13 (Kodi 22 alpha) is a big step forward imho. Only thing I've found is glitchy playback of SD TV streams that are mpeg2 in a day's testing. To me this is insignificant. I'd recommend anyone to try it.
Thanks to Libreelec team for this.
You know about PM4K then? It's a Kodi add-on but I think it's awesome.
Let's hope that chewitt's rummaging was fruitful and he can sort it out.
I've tried the test file on LE12/Tanix TX6 and it does play "jerky". I thought the bit where the helicopter flies overhead was the unmissable showcase for the problem. I've played it on other (non LE) devices and it's buttery smooth.
If it helps I have a TX6 and I don't get this problem with direct to plane. I don't do 4k and most of my stuff is H265. I noticed a bit of wobble when osd was on but that's all. Trying an old fix with an advanced setting for dirty regions made full screen wobble a bit tho, so I'm not using it.
Which Plex add-on are you using? The one from the Kodi repo doesn't work on the latest Kodi versions.
I use the one from the Plex forum and it is superb, having started out as an update to the broken Kodi add-on. It's now so much more. Hope this helps
https://forums.plex.tv/t/pm4k-plexmod-for-kodi-18-19-20-21/481208
The Plex add-on update came thro this morning and worked as expected. I can now turn auto updates on again.
Thanks so much to everyone involved in providing this fix.
aptalca I've copied the file from GitHub for Plex and applied it to my system and Plex starts and runs without any problem. Hope this is what you meant in your latest post
Thank you HejDu, it works for me too😄
excalibur, I'm a bit thick could you explain how:
1. You force usage of arm64v8 latest
2. You update. I'm thinking you have to do a manual update and then comment out the sleep infinitely again.
If it helps, I'm trying to use your workaround on Plex.
Thanks in advance.
Catch-up TV and more has a live section that has STV in it. When I watched it, it was the same as ITV(1). Risky I suppose for watching England games as you might find an episode of Heartbeat if the SNP have any influence over it.
Catch-up TV and More from the Kodi repo has a section STV (Scottish TV?) that has many/most/all? the ITV progs. I add the section as a favourite and play stuff from there.
A bit more feedback on the latest n2 (20220611) although I noticed it on 20220610.
The only way I can get 23.976 framerates to play at 24 on my tv is to set the gui up at 24fps. If I do that, live tv switches to 50 as I'd expect given that I have refresh rate switching set to On Start/Stop. I don't use whitelist. The same video files switch to 24 on my tanix tx6 which is running 10.02 and has gui set to 50. It would seem that the problem lies with fractional framerates because I can set the gui to 50 on the N2 and 24p material will switch to 24fps but 23.976 plays at 50.
Hope this helps development and is not too confusing.
Thanks chewitt. I've had to reread yours several times in order to digest it's content. You've made it clearer for me and what you say does align with the stuff I've read and partly understood. Being only up to 1080 and happy with an external DAC, I'm sticking with LibreELEC. The internal DAC would be a nice to have but I don't practice the dark arts.
HDGuy, why not get an SD card and try it for yourself? You could answer my questions then😀.
For me, the biggest advantage is that I can watch HD channels on UK Freeview via TVHeadend without any "micro stutters" for want of a better word. It seems I'm unique in this as I've been a pest on the CoreELEC forum about it. My semi logical feeling is that there's something in the vendor kernel because firestick and the earlier vendor kernel don't exhibit this. LibreELEC, uses mainline kernel and behaves beautifully with these channels.
I'm using the version for odroid N2. I must say that I'm impressed by the performance and picture quality but should I expect to:
A. Have no analog output from the 3.5mm jack? I've got round this by using a usb dac but it seems a waste of the onboard one.
B. Have to turn off the DRM PRIME decoder to get H265 to play? Attempts with it enabled caused the system to lock. The N2 seems to do a fine job of software decoding and I only use up to HD, so it's no big deal for me.
Sorry if these issues have been covered before but I can promise you I've searched quite a lot before asking.
Hi mod81. I'm having the same problems that you had but I'm not as good at googling as you are. Could you give me some pointers as to what and where you added maxcpus=2?
Many thanks in advance.
I'm wondering why I bothered with my reply. A response would have been nice.
