You are always going to be limited to USB2 write speeds with SD cards since this is the interface bottleneck on most systems. A decent speed eMMC can have much higher access speeds and should have a much better pathway to the CPU/GPU. For me installing to emmc is always worth it unless you have a particularly crap eMMC.
Shoog
So it turns out to be the same product with a different packaging.
Openelec died as a viable general product and retreated into a cosy little niche.
Libreelec has far surpassed Openeelec and it goes much deeper than simple packaging.
Shoog
Did anyone try to backport drivers for the Khadas VIM2 dvb board. Its supposedly run from the kernel, but the driver embedded in the kernel will not scan channels because it was not sufficiently adapted from the KI pro driver it is based upon. I see little chance that it will be fixed within the kernel so is their a backport driver. It works within the Leia builds of CE but not within the test builds of LE Leia.
Running Leia has been as right royal pain in the ass and I would dearly like to revert to a stable Krypton build on my VIM2.
Shoog
"installtointernal" was removed as policy by the Libreelec team.
As far as I am aware the only "community" build, that runs Leia, that has retained this is Coreelec - which is not Libreelec but a fork of it for AMLogic hardware.
Krypton builds of Libreelec are the last builds to support this feature.
Shoog
Just a heads up, Coreelec is not Libreelec and the latest Coreelec nighlies are located at
CoreELEC nightly builds
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Jeffers, I am going to either wait, as there is a a lot of stuff coming - ie: Rockchip Libreelec build(s), new Amlogic processors, or consider an S905D processor/box. S905D are a bit hard to find and more expensive than S912. The curious thing is that the Mecool and Magicsee units show lan as 10/100, so no 1000.
In the end, I have had lots of advice to skip the S912.
I have a 3x S812 boxes that are running great on Demetris's 8.2.2 build and he is shortly going to release Leia builds when it goes Beta. That will keep them alive until Kodi 19 I guess. I also have 1 S905X box (Mecool M8S Pro+) which runs really well and 2x S905W boxes I will likely get rid of.
So I don't need anything now but like to play with new tech.
My reading of the data indicates that the KI Pro has S905D and Gigabit, its the KII Pro which only has the S905 and 10/100M.
Shoog
Mecool KI pro has a S905D and has gigabit and SAT2 and terrestrial tuner I. Good well supported boxes. A bit more expensive but any gigabit s905 box is coming in at A similar price for less hardware.
The RKM-MK06 is S905 based with good specs and Gigabit Ethanet.
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I would say that performance should be as good with a S905x box (video cores are less on the S912 and the CPU clock is throttled to 1.5Mhz) - but future support for S905 chips will be more reliable as we move towards a V4L driver.
Shoog
Not on a RSP3, but on a S912 chip, I installed a small heat sink which I salvaged from a south side bus cooler off an old Motherboard. I used loctite threadlock to glue it to the chip. I then used an old salvaged graphics card cooling fan run at 3V3. Runs whisper quiet and keeps my AML S912 down at 50 centigrade. This is enough to keep slow downs at bay.
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Im looking to install the coreELEC beta version of Leia from Releases · CoreELEC/CoreELEC · GitHub but can't find the device trees. Any idea if they are needed or where they are located please?
The device trees are all pre-loaded and located in a dedicated folder within the Coreelec system disk.
Copy out of the folder to the root directory, delete the dtb.img and rename the copied file to dtb.img
Simples.
Shoog
Powered USB hubs are cheap.
Shoog
Restoring addon backups between builds often ends up with a broken system as they tend to drag in incompatible python helper addons. Unless its a straightforward upgrade from one version to the next, its always a good idea just to start from scratch. A pain I know but if you don't it can often lead to unexpected problems way down the line that breaks a subsequent upgrade.
Shoog
so you are the first one with S912 with smooth Netflix streaming or what and how are you using streaming?
which LE image you use and which settings for inputstream please?
Your question is specific to Netflix (which you never explicitly stated), so you better address your question to someone who uses it. There are many real time streaming services and the ones I use work fine within the limits of my broadband.
It seems that you will have to wait for a successful implementation of this open source driver before you get Netflix playback, either that or buy a S905 box. That is what I was alluding to in my previous post.
S912 netflix addon really poor playback - Hardware - CoreELEC Forums
Shoog
CE 8.95.0 streams fine for me on my S912 VIM2. I suspect that if you are having issues with streaming then it is a problem of optimization within LE for your specific hardware.
However the S912 chip uses a different GPU to the S905 chips, and the GPU within the S905 has been around for a lot longer than the S912 GPU so have been better optimized.
As to the potential for this new driver to revolutionize the AML box experience, I would caution that things might turn out to be a lot less exciting in reality. I point to the long and painful road that Nvida user have followed with regard to the open Source Nouveau driver and the fact that most people choose the propitiatory Nvidia driver due to it significantly better performance than Nouveau - even after years of development of the open source alternative.
Its my firm belief that ultimately AML will fall by the wayside for this application.
Shoog
Checked in again on this build. Still no sign of a backport for the VIM2 dTV board driver from afl1.
Shoog
In the end, I never fully solved the problem, so I switched to CoreElec 8.90.4. Since then I don't have freezing problems. BUT I think that Libreelec 8.2.4.1 was actually a smoother user experience than Corelec, I mean navigating through menus, scrolling the GUI, etc was smoother in Libreelec (except for when it crashed of course!)
For some reason the wave visualization causes freezes on both the Krypton and Leia builds on my Rasp Pi and my Vim2. In fact the default visualization seems be be the only one which dosn't cause freezes.
Shoog
CoreElec works as well as LibreElec in regard to HDR so there is no reason not to try it out. Versions 8.90.2 and 8.90.5 seem to be the best available versions. CoreElec has some small fixes which have not yet been ported into LibreElec so in some specific use cases (VIM2 dTV board support for example) it is definitely superior.
Until we arrive over the rainbow of mainline kernel, 3.14 is the best we all have and there's no use in griping about that reality or complaining that other have accepted that fact. If you are using a S912 board then you can realistically expect that 3.14 will always be the only option available and that means that eventually Libreelec is likely to stop supporting those boards.The position with regard to mainline is exactly the same within CoreElec and LibreElec, they will adopt it when/if it is ready.
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