2015-03-31, 17:19
Yep, it's been talked around quite a bit but any time a comparison between the Vero and any kind of Cubox is done all i hear is that it isn't a Cubox. That's fine. I'd like details on exactly how a Vero is different.
(2015-04-01, 14:52)zaphod24 Wrote: Edit: Sounds like the Vero experience is about the same, https://discourse.osmc.tv/t/vero-performance/2415/14
Edit 2: There was a pretty good discussion going on in the OSMC Vero forum referenced above but that thread was locked and Vero owners having any video playback issues were advised to use email to get help.
(2015-04-02, 06:40)touser Wrote: The vero was supposed to be my way out from under the support rock! I know better than most the tech industry culture of today is to ship products in a beta/alpha stage so teething issues on the vero while disappointing are not unexpected at all. Trying to cover them up is completely unacceptable and something I refuse to support.
smallint Wrote:Excerpt of architecture:
- Instead of render VPU decoded buffers with GPU (which involves expensive memory copy operations in combination with de-interlacing) we now render exclusively to another hardware framebuffer (fb1)
- Rendering directly to this new framebuffer can be combined with de-interlacing in one step DP combines both framebuffers in hardware with alpha blending (if 32bpp) or colour keying (if 16bpp)
- Together with the optimizations brought in by @FernetMenta regarding video rendering we can now even achieve double rate de-interlacing of 1080i streams
- In a nutshell: video rendering with GPU is bad, IPU is good
(2015-04-02, 09:33)fritsch Wrote: In case of subs on fb0, data needs to be transfered. This is the reason why navigating menus while watching content or sadly subs make a penalty.Well, no, that's the point. You can render the subs and gui on fb0 with holes and the video on fb1, so there should be zero penalty, unless there are imx-specific limitations.
(2015-03-23, 22:15)Sam.Nazarko Wrote: Clearly OpenELEC and GeexBox have not provided you with enough, or you would not be posting here. We don't lock down our bootloader: so users can do whatever they want with a Vero.
Can we actually have people who purchased Vero comment here? Instead of a paranoid developer who sees his user-base slipping by the day and disgruntled CuBox users?
I think this thread should be locked and a new one made, where people that have actually bought a Vero can comment in it.
This will be my last post in this thread. We work on improving the Vero experience, and the Vero experience only. Please start a new thread for i.MX6 issues.
(2015-04-02, 06:40)touser Wrote: I'm not usually very vocal and have been quietly rooting for Sam for a very long time, but if they are attempting to censor user feedback that is extremely concerning. I've looked forward to recommending the vero to many of my friends/family for some time with the hope it would be a truly hands off experience for me once it was setup and running. I've supported openelec since its inception on at least 15 different devices for friends/family and there is always some minor issue that crops up during a software update that requires my assistance (I'm a huuuuge kodi fan/whore and push it on as many people as I can).
The vero was supposed to be my way out from under the support rock! I know better than most the tech industry culture of today is to ship products in a beta/alpha stage so teething issues on the vero while disappointing are not unexpected at all. Trying to cover them up is completely unacceptable and something I refuse to support.
(2015-04-02, 16:13)Koying Wrote: Yeah. Worse part is that we will be the ones solving his issues while he packs the money
I very much doubt he is able to solve this subtitle thing on his own, or any kodi/imx issue whatsoever. So the "3 yrs support" just hangs on us continuing to support/improve the imx platform.
But yeah, that's basically the case for all businesses having Kodi at their core, really...