Posts by AllanMarcus

Quote from Aroosha

My advice is, stick to your odroid C2 and ATV until new kernel available for s9XX or something come up with HDMI 2.1.

I was under the impression the C2 cannot do HDR. That it was a hardware thing. Wrong impression?

Regarding the ATV, I'm aware of MrMC, but the issue is that the ATV doesn't pass through Atmos. I think that issue is at the firmware or OS level.

Quote from wrxtasy

Yes because they have Gigabit ethernet which works well for high bitrate 4K HDR REMUX's with HD audio.

If you want quality buy the MINIX U9, see post #1 for the reasoning.

Basically it's superior hardware, especially it's thermal cooling and Wireless remote that has no issues switching the Box OFF / ON.

U9 is a snappy setup once you copy LE's data partition to faster internal eMMC storage.

Be aware you may encounter slight 4K HDR flickering with the current S912 LE 8.2.x from kszaq

The same as Vero 4K LG OLED users saw it this thread:

HDR Slight flickering (Workaround available) - Vero 4K - OSMC Forums

I know what the dithering fix is for it is, because it's in the newer AMLogic Linux Kernel.

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Oh joy. Thanks for the info. Seems like I should wait until the next version of the AMLogic Linux Kernel or wait for Apple to add Atmos to the ATV4K.

Any ETA for the new kernel and LE?

Quote from solamnic

Are you using MrMc in your apple tv?

nope. I got the ATV through the DirectTV deal, and solely to play the occasional 4K HDR Atmos movie from my plex server. I didn’t do my research. We (wife and I) are perfectly happy with the Odriod C2 and LE for everything else. If I could have one box that does it all (see prior requirements), I would go for it.

Quote from solamnic

I think you should wait for the new 2018 nucs i3 and up....

ok, thanks. It’s also possible Apple will add Atmos support to the ATV, then I would just use plex for the few movies I watch.

Aroosha thanks.

Quote from Aroosha

Check this out MECOOL KI PRO
S912 devices (TX92,MINIX U9 ) doesn't have proper GPU driver (for now) in linux and it may plays videos choppy with subtitles, Vero 4K has its own OS called OSMC not the LE.
MECOOL KI PRO has a Gigabit Ethernet, dual band 802.11 b/g/n/ac Wi-Fi, support for HDR10 and HLG, Video Codecs: 10-bit H.265, and VP9 Profile 2 up to 4K60, H.264 up to 4K30.
keep in mind all S9xx device which has HDR capability produce fake HDR 8 bit and not true 10bit colores.

Thanks! I'm willing to spend a little more money to get better quality. What's the next step up from an S9xx device that meets my needs?

Sorry for yet another "what should I buy" questions, but damn, this is confusing. Thanks for this great thread, forum, and LibreElec in general. Thanks.

What I want:

• Kodi with LE. I don't need Android, dual boot, or another else.
• GB ethernet
• no netflix or other streaming. Just Kodi (reading files from my Linux server)
• 4K/HDR remix streaming
• Dolby Atmos support
• can boot directly into Kodi

What I have:

• Apple TV. Can run Plex. Can do 4K/HDR. Cannot do Atmos (go figure)
• 2016 LG OLED TV. Can run Plex. Can do 4K/HDR. Cannot do Atmos.
• Odroid C2. Can run Kodi. Can do Atmos. Can do 4K. Cannot to HDR
• Yamaha RX-A2050 receiver and 5.1.4 speakers set up. The 2050 can pass through 4K/HDR

From what I've read, The TX92 and the MINIX U9 are the top contenders.

Question 1: Anything better that would meet my needs? New Odroid?

Question 2: Does it matter which brand TX92? Do I need 3GB of RAM, or is 2 OK?

The Vero 4K looks good, but a little pricey, but not much more than the U9

TIA

I have an oDroid C2. Pardon my ignorance, but with 8.2 will I be able to play this movie: Note, my AVR and TV have the capability. It's Kodi I worry about.

...UHD.BluRay.REMUX.HDR.HEVC.Atmos.mkv

Hi. Just wondering if any progress has been made to determine why these file cannot be played.

Quote from Mario77

Just tryed this on Rpi2 and playing fine..are those subtitles compressed in the mkv?

I guess so. The original file is what I downloaded. I didn't create the file.

Thanks. 1M didn't work (dd: bs: illegal numeric value), so I just put in 1000000 and got about a minute. Here's the new file. I guess I didn't notice the first test file I made was about the same size as the original, so it just transcoded it; didn't clip it. At any rate, this new file is only 50MB, not 650MB.

note: use lower case "m" for the bs argument on BSD (including OS X)

50MB clip

test1.mkv

Original file

original.mkv - Google Drive

Also, turns out the file doesn't not play well with HW acceleration off. For some reason it worked once, but I tried again, and it plays like crap on the ODroid with acceleration off.

So, any help getting this file, and others like it to play, is greatly appreciated. Or at least figuring out why it doesn't play so I can avoid them.

If you want a link to the original file, let me know and I will PM it to you. I put it in my Google Drive.

Quote from wrxtasy

I was wrong about Hi10 H264

Codec info says Part10 not Main10

Played the file and the OSD Codec info is constantly flickering between 29.97 & 59.94fps with long freezes.

Weird encoding I suspect.

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That might be an artifact of the ffmpeg clip. The original file plays consistently a 59.940FPS. Here it is running on my Mac.

Here ya go. Please let us know what you find out, and thanks for your help!

It might not be 10bit, but it definitely doesn't work with HW acceleration.

Dropbox - test.mkv

no, wait. It is attempting to play, but it is not playing with HW decoding. It plays with software decoding. I'm proposing that HW decoding should not even be attempted for these types of files, and that should be hard coded. Like I said, it plays fine when acceleration is turned off.

I'd be happy to, but I have no idea how to. Any help, Mac or Linux, is appreciated.

Thanks, but it plays fine when acceleration is turned off. Maybe the devs could hard code acceleration off when the chroma is set to 4:2:0 and the CPU doesn't support it. Would that be possible? Right now Ihave to manually turn off acceleration, watch the video, then turn it back on. A bit of a hassle.

I though I read 4:4:4 is hard coded. Not sure about 4:2:2. Maybe an advanced setting could be added to auto turn off HW acceleration when playing 10bit H264 on an AMLogic S905(x).

Possible?

Hello. I have an ODroid C2 with LibreELEC 8.1.1. When I try to play this one MKV file, I get the first frame, then only audio. If I try to skip forward, I get endless buffering. This happens over ethernet, or even if I copy the file to the local ODroid device, so it's not a network issue. Here's the log, FWIW.

I can play the file just fine in Kodi on my Mac. This happened to a different file a few days ago. Many others files play just fine.

I'm happy to get the file to anyone that might want to look at it.

A little more info. I noticed this file frame rate is 59.940060 and decoded formate is Planer 4:2:0 YUV. Could that be an issue?

Any ideas? Thanks.

update: moe info. If I turn off Accelerate H264 in Kodi settings, the file plays fine. Is this a known issue?

22:24:21.017 T:547970502656  NOTICE: VideoPlayer: Opening: /storage/linuxserver/tv/active/Full Frontal with Samantha Bee/Full.Frontal.with.Samantha.Bee.S02/Full.Frontal.with.Samantha.Bee.S02E18.720p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-doosh.mkv
22:24:21.017 T:547970502656 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player)::Put MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
22:24:21.017 T:545511174368  NOTICE: Creating InputStream
22:24:21.026 T:545511174368  NOTICE: Creating Demuxer
22:24:21.111 T:545511174368  NOTICE: Opening stream: 0 source: 256
22:24:21.111 T:545511174368  NOTICE: Creating video codec with codec id: 28
22:24:21.113 T:545511174368   ERROR: Unable to load libamplayer.so, reason: libamplayer.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
22:24:21.113 T:545511174368 WARNING: CAMLCodec::CAMLCodec libamplayer.so not found, trying libamcodec.so instead
22:24:21.117 T:545511174368  NOTICE: Creating video thread
22:24:21.117 T:545511174368  NOTICE: Opening stream: 1 source: 256
22:24:21.118 T:545511174368  NOTICE: Finding audio codec for: 86018
22:24:21.118 T:545486008544  NOTICE: running thread: video_thread
22:24:21.119 T:545511174368  NOTICE: Creating audio thread
22:24:21.119 T:545511174368  NOTICE: Opening stream: 2 source: 256
22:24:21.119 T:545502785760  NOTICE: running thread: CVideoPlayerAudio::Process()
22:24:21.130 T:545502785760  NOTICE: Creating audio stream (codec id: 86018, channels: 2, sample rate: 48000, no pass-through)
22:24:21.162 T:545486008544  NOTICE: CAMLCodec::OpenDecoder - using V4L2 pts format: 64Bit
22:24:43.884 T:547970502656  NOTICE: CVideoPlayer::CloseFile()
22:24:43.884 T:547970502656  NOTICE: VideoPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
22:24:43.889 T:545511174368  NOTICE: CVideoPlayer::OnExit()
22:24:43.889 T:545511174368  NOTICE: Closing stream player 1
22:24:43.889 T:545511174368  NOTICE: Waiting for audio thread to exit
22:24:43.897 T:545502785760  NOTICE: thread end: CVideoPlayerAudio::OnExit()
22:24:43.897 T:545511174368  NOTICE: Closing audio device
22:24:43.905 T:545511174368  NOTICE: Deleting audio codec
22:24:43.905 T:545511174368  NOTICE: Closing stream player 2
22:24:43.905 T:545511174368  NOTICE: waiting for video thread to exit
22:24:43.905 T:545486008544   ERROR: Got MSGQ_ABORT or MSGO_IS_ERROR return true
22:24:43.905 T:545486008544  NOTICE: thread end: video_thread
22:24:43.905 T:545511174368  NOTICE: deleting video codec
22:24:43.928 T:545511174368  NOTICE: Closing stream player 3
22:24:43.929 T:547970502656  NOTICE: VideoPlayer: finished waiting
22:24:44.187 T:547970502656  NOTICE: CVideoPlayer::CloseFile()
22:24:44.188 T:547970502656  NOTICE: VideoPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
22:24:44.188 T:547970502656  NOTICE: VideoPlayer: finished waiting
22:24:44.188 T:547970502656  NOTICE: CVideoPlayer::CloseFile()
22:24:44.188 T:547970502656  NOTICE: VideoPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
22:24:44.188 T:547970502656  NOTICE: VideoPlayer: finished waiting