There is really no reason to go for RPI these days considering how cheap the S905X boxes are and they do a LOT more than RPI ever will.
So buy a S905X box from Ebay for 8€ and call it a day!
I was also at same point a while back, then I first stumbled upon ODroid aswell but finally found out about S905X platform, they did cost a bit more back then, like 30-40€ but they are a steal these days.
I guess this project is pretty dead.
Whats with the random long freezes (10min+ probably)? Happen randomly when navigating the menus, no real cause to it, can happen pretty much anywhere. Last a long time and then work like nothing happened again.
Why do I get really jerky playback on a file like this? I don't see any reason why it would cause a choppy playback issue, it skips like every 10 seconds and audio playback is fine, video stutters like hell. Also my TV says it doesn't support it either for some reason which I find really weird (Samsung KS8000).
It plays fine on my PC so it's not an issue in the file itself. Any other HEVC file I play works fine.
Video: HVC1 1920x1080 23.976fps [V: hevc main, yuv420p, 1920x1080 [default]]
Audio: AAC 44100Hz stereo [A: Japanese Stereo [jpn] (aac lc, 44100 Hz, stereo) [default]]
This seems good otherwise but still has the same problems playing 4K HDR content over network as the 7.9 does.
How is the latest release? I'm currently running some 7.9 or something on my box and just noticed this thread, worth it to upgrade to this for HDR content?
Display MoreAre you playing from USB hard disk or streaming from addons ? I can't get HDR to work on either options.
Please share the video setting information.
Using LE 5b on s905x, 2gb ram
Samsung 60" 4K tv
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I was playing the file from my PC over DLNA (Universal Media Server), works fine. Your TV needs to be in Movie mode I think to automatically recognize HDR.
Havent tested anything on USB yet.
Any idea if Steam Controller works with these?
I think he wants to setup a nfs share like a smb share so his Kodi devices can access it (presume his media is stored on a computer running a Windows OS)
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This but most solutions I found have to be paid for?
Easiest way to setup NFS on Winblows?
Display MoreSome people are adamant NFS is faster, but for large video files it's roughly the same speed as SMB in my experience.
The chart is SMB performance over ethernet and the numbers are megabyte/sec, so multiply by 8 for mbit - 10MB per sec is 80mbit.
upnp/dlna gives me fastest speeds, but it's not a protocol I particularly like.
Same as adding smb or nfs - Add source > uPNP devices > Select your server
Yes but you cannot see them on your Library, you can watch them through there but they don't show up on your library which sucks 
Kodi 17 Final, AFAIK 4a has RC4
Oh I only noticed RC4 on the site :o
Must be really new.
I have uploaded 7.95.beta5 build with Kodi 17.0. I'm mobile-only now, will update OP in a few hours.
Doesn't the 4a already have Kodi 17? Pretty sure it says Krypton on start :o
Here is a quick photo I took:
Well I just tried to play them on my box through DLNA/UPNP and they work flawlessly. So it has to be Samba being a bottleneck for me, apparently it is that bad then.
Now I got the problem of how to add UPNP source to my library...
So maybe if I add the movies from the Media Server instead of over SMB it might work better? If SMB is so inefficient but I don't understand that chart at all, doesn't make any sense with those numbers like jd17 said.
my 'big' sample fileon my external HDD
impossible via network(cable) from NASCodeDisplay MoreFile size : 50,3 GiB Duration : 1 h 48 min Overall bit rate : 66,5 Mb/s Video ID : 1 Format : HEVC Format/Info : High Efficiency Video Coding Format profile : Main [email protected]@High Codec ID : V_MPEGH/ISO/HEVC Duration : 1 h 48 min Bit rate : 60,9 Mb/s Width : 3 840 Pixel Height : 2 160 Pixel Display aspect ratio : 16:9 Frame rate mode : konstant Frame rate : 23,976 (24000/1001) FPS Color space : YUV Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0 Bit depth : 10 bits Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.306 Stream size : 46,0 GiB (91%) Writing library : x265 2.0+18-b0ec268aef60:[Windows][GCC 6.1.0][64 bit] 10bit Language : Deutsch Default : Ja Forced : Nein Color range : Limited Color primaries : BT.2020 Transfer characteristics : SMPTE ST 2084 Matrix coefficients : BT.2020 non-constant MasteringDisplay_ColorPrimaries : R: x=0.680000 y=0.320000, G: x=0.265000 y=0.690000, B: x=0.150000 y=0.060000, White point: x=0.312700 y=0.329000 MasteringDisplay_Luminance : min: 0.0001 cd/m2, max: 1000.0000 cd/m2 MaxCLL : 1000 cd/m2 MaxFALL : 500 cd/m2 Audio #1 ID : 2 Format : DTS Format/Info : Digital Theater Systems Mode : 16 Format settings, Endianness : Big Codec ID : A_DTS Duration : 1 h 48 min Bit rate mode : konstant Bit rate : 768 kb/s Channel(s) : 6 Kanäle Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE Sampling rate : 48,0 kHz Frame rate : 93,750 FPS (512 spf) Bit depth : 24 bits Delay relative to video : 5 ms Stream size : 594 MiB (1%) Language : Deutsch Default : Ja Forced : Nein Audio #2 ID : 3 Format : DTS Format/Info : Digital Theater Systems Format profile : MA / ES Matrix / Core Mode : 16 Format settings, Endianness : Big Codec ID : A_DTS Duration : 1 h 48 min Bit rate mode : variabel / konstant / konstant Bit rate : 4 893 kb/s / 1 509 kb/s / 1 509 kb/s Channel(s) : 8 Kanäle / 7 Kanäle / 6 Kanäle Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, Back: L R, LFE / Front: L C R, Side: L R, Back: C, LFE / Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE Sampling rate : 48,0 kHz Frame rate : 93,750 FPS (512 spf) Bit depth : 24 bits Compression mode : / Lossy / Lossy Delay relative to video : 6 ms Stream size : 3,69 GiB (7%) Language : Englisch Default : Nein Forced : Nein
Why would that be impossible over network? It's only like 67Mbps overall bitrate.
Stige: can you absolutely confirm that you get proper-looking HDR input from the box on your HDR TV and that the TV reports it's receiving HDR signal? That would confirm that the box is not doing HDR-SDR conversion but is configured for native HDR output... That would explain light blacks on SDR TV's, but why then it even attempts to alter the look when all it needs is send picture as is, with added HDR metadata...
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Yes it's 100% correct HDR. TV recognizes it the moment the movie starts and shows the "HDR video playing" popup in top left corner as usual.
And black are as good as they are when I play the same file directly on the TV.
