(2015-06-17, 22:19)Soli Wrote: You could swap in a pentium m 780 2.26ghz cpu. That one will do 1080p. Costs about 18usd shipped from ebay.
I may think about this in the future. Years back I didn't consider such an upgrade because the laptop already had pretty poor cooling.
(2015-06-18, 15:59)RockerC Wrote: That is an ancient laptop by todays standard and it does not even met the minimum supported hardware requirements, see http://kodi.wiki/view/Supported_hardware .
Minimum is Intel GMA 950, but even that does not support HW decoding of H.264 and VC-1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_GMA#...hree_based
Don't see why insist on runing Kodi on more than 10-year old hardware when it's relatively inexpensive to buy Raspberry Pi 2 or Amazon Fire TV Stick.
A cheap alternative for a such old setup could be to get a hold of an old modded Xbox and run latest XBMC4Xbox on it http://www.xbmc4xbox.org.uk
If I had money, I would have already ran out and bought a Raspberry Pi 2 or something :p But for now, I have a huge TV in my room, and the only spare computer I have that's remotely capable of handling Kodi is this laptop.
Anyway, I think I might have improved my experience quite a bit just by adjusting the fan I use on the laptop (apparently it wasn't angled right before, which caused the CPU to warm up enough to throttle to 800MHz).
The only real issue I still have is the inconsistent playback with one series (No Game No Life) I have in-particular.
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00:02:54.007 : en:Part A
00:10:58.992 : en:Part B
00:23:39.918 : en:Next Episode Preview
Sometimes it might start off playing in-sync, and then randomly go out-of-sync (A/V), followed by audio stuttering, then go back to fine maybe 5 minutes later or something. All the rest of the media I've thrown at it so far doesn't do this, including a 1080p video:
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00:03:04.518 : :Chapter 2
00:04:43.617 : :Chapter 3
00:06:03.738 : :Chapter 4
00:10:37.470 : :Chapter 5
00:12:28.665 : :Chapter 6
00:19:05.311 : :Chapter 7
00:22:30.182 : :Chapter 8
00:23:54.892 : :Chapter 9
00:26:18.952 : :Chapter 10
00:29:34.398 : :Chapter 11
00:34:33.113 : :Chapter 12
00:36:44.577 : :Chapter 13
00:39:37.542 : :Chapter 14
00:44:26.539 : :Chapter 15
00:45:32.313 : :Chapter 16
00:48:58.352 : :Chapter 17
00:52:12.796 : :Chapter 18
00:56:30.178 : :Chapter 19
00:58:39.683 : :Chapter 20
01:04:07.635 : :Chapter 21
01:11:05.386 : :Chapter 22
01:20:24.486 : :Chapter 23
01:24:48.208 : :Chapter 24
01:26:57.546 : :Chapter 25
01:31:58.888 : :Chapter 26
01:34:21.739 : :Chapter 27
01:43:15.189 : :Chapter 28
01:46:23.002 : :Chapter 29
01:51:43.488 : :Chapter 30
01:56:16.052 : :Chapter 31
02:03:33.740 : :Chapter 32
02:05:48.791 : :Chapter 33
I could convert that series to another format if needed, but I need to figure out what's causing the problem to avoid it in the future.
