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RE: Asus/HP/Acer/Dell ChromeBox EZ Setup (OpenELEC/Linux+Kodi) [2015/08/24] - ggp759 - 2015-08-29

Sorry if this has been asked before but can i get 4k@60fps with a displayport to hdmi cable from Asus M115U chromebox? Thanks

RE: Asus/HP/Acer/Dell ChromeBox EZ Setup (OpenELEC/Linux+Kodi) [2015/08/24] - Matt Devo - 2015-08-29

(2015-08-29, 10:15)ggp759 Wrote: Sorry if this has been asked before but can i get 4k@60fps with a displayport to hdmi cable from Asus M115U chromebox? Thanks

no, 30Hz max at 4K

RE: Asus/HP/Acer/Dell ChromeBox EZ Setup (OpenELEC/Linux+Kodi) [2015/08/24] - FouxAM - 2015-08-30

Hello everyone, I followed the recommended settings in the wiki page and there is one problem.. Local mkv playback is choppy, severe frames drop and CPU usage is close to or over 100% whenever I disable recommended vaapi method. Turning it back on seems to take care of the problem but the picture doesn't look right.
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated
-chromebox standalone
All video settings are default
Tried hard reset and still no go. I'm stuck pls help Sad
I tried to read through all the posts but after an hour it's overwhelming..

RE: Asus/HP/Acer/Dell ChromeBox EZ Setup (OpenELEC/Linux+Kodi) [2015/08/24] - monsen - 2015-08-30

I have just run into a diskspace issue. It seems my storage partition has run full:

OpenELEC-Chromebox:~/logfiles # df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs 1990064 140528 1849536 7% /dev
/dev/sda6 247919 150322 93501 62% /flash
/dev/sda7 1032088 1015704 0 100% /storage
/dev/loop0 140544 140544 0 100% /
tmpfs 1991948 0 1991948 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 1991948 5620 1986328 0% /run
tmpfs 1991948 0 1991948 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs 1991948 8 1991940 0% /tmp
tmpfs 1991948 248 1991700 0% /var
/dev/sda12 16334 1456 14878 9% /var/media/EFI-SYSTEM
/dev/sda8 11760 24 11412 0% /var/media/OEM
/dev/sda1 9694036 1197120 7981436 13% /var/media/sda1-ata-LITEONIT_LSS-16L

I have not done too much with the system and i wonder why that is the case. If i run out of diskspace now already setup must be wrong or there is some wasted space.

Here is what i found under /storage:

drwxrwxr-x 6 1000 1000 4096 Mar 31 23:44 OpenELEC-Generic.x86_64-5.0.8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 153415680 Jun 23 21:32 OpenELEC-Generic.x86_64-5.0.8.tar
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 29 08:57 backup
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Aug 30 08:57 logfiles
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Jun 23 21:31 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 23 21:34 music
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 23 21:34 pictures
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 23 21:34 screenshots
drwxrwsr-x 29 1000 1000 4096 Apr 15 2014 syslinux-5.10
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8608506 Jun 23 21:31 syslinux.tar.bz2
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 23 21:34 tvshows
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 23 21:34 videos

Most of the dirs are empty but i wonder if can get rid of the OpenELEC-Generic.x86_64-5.0.8 tar and folder?
I am also wondering if there is a way to partition better?

RE: Asus/HP/Acer/Dell ChromeBox EZ Setup (OpenELEC/Linux+Kodi) [2015/08/24] - busta.rhymes - 2015-08-30

Hi Matt,

so yesterday evening my box wokeup again... so i jumped to the pc and ssh to the box to get the log for you.

Here it is:

http://sprunge.us/AfhW

Thanks in Advance for any help... i cant rely tell anything by reading it

RE: Asus/HP/Acer/Dell ChromeBox EZ Setup (OpenELEC/Linux+Kodi) [2015/08/24] - Matt Devo - 2015-08-30

(2015-08-30, 08:02)FouxAM Wrote: Hello everyone, I followed the recommended settings in the wiki page and there is one problem.. Local mkv playback is choppy, severe frames drop and CPU usage is close to or over 100% whenever I disable recommended vaapi method. Turning it back on seems to take care of the problem but the picture doesn't look right.
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated
-chromebox standalone
All video settings are default
Tried hard reset and still no go. I'm stuck pls help Sad
I tried to read through all the posts but after an hour it's overwhelming..

sounds like you disabled VAAPI acceleration altogether, vs the one option which was necessary in the old 4.x builds. With anything 5.x or later, all VAAPI settings should remain enabled (which is the default). I should probably update the wiki page at some point.

(2015-08-30, 09:10)monsen Wrote: I have just run into a diskspace issue. It seems my storage partition has run full:

<snip>

I have not done too much with the system and i wonder why that is the case. If i run out of diskspace now already setup must be wrong or there is some wasted space.

Here is what i found under /storage:

<snip>

Most of the dirs are empty but i wonder if can get rid of the OpenELEC-Generic.x86_64-5.0.8 tar and folder?
I am also wondering if there is a way to partition better?

looks like you only allocated 1GB for OpenELEC when doing the dual boot setup, which isn't enough. You can delete the installation files (which the script should have deleted, but seems did not), but that's not going to buy you a whole lot. You basically have 2 options: 1) do a factory reset, then re-run the script and choose a larger partition size for OpenELEC, or 2) use a tool like partedmagic to resize the existing partitions to shrink sda1 and enlarge sda7.

RE: Asus/HP/Acer/Dell ChromeBox EZ Setup (OpenELEC/Linux+Kodi) [2015/08/24] - FouxAM - 2015-08-30

Thank you for the response Matt,
The only settings that I disabled was vdpau method and "preferred vaapi rendering method"
The rest of the options are still selected-mpeg2/mpeg4/vc1
The problem is it doesn't happen right away. Movie played fine the first few minutes, CPU stayed around 8-16% and then Boom frame drops, CPU shot up, choppy video.
I have tried 3-4 mkv files all, all behaved the same. They were playing fine in my old wd tv
I reset to factory settings and the "only" option I disabled was "preferred vaapi method" and that was enough to cause it to behave like that...I'm not sure what else todo

RE: Asus/HP/Acer/Dell ChromeBox EZ Setup (OpenELEC/Linux+Kodi) [2015/08/24] - busta.rhymes - 2015-08-30

ok so the box just woke up again while i was gone... here another log

http://sprunge.us/hOcP

RE: Asus/HP/Acer/Dell ChromeBox EZ Setup (OpenELEC/Linux+Kodi) [2015/08/24] - noggin - 2015-08-30

(2015-08-30, 16:20)FouxAM Wrote: Thank you for the response Matt,
The only settings that I disabled was vdpau method and "preferred vaapi rendering method"
The rest of the options are still selected-mpeg2/mpeg4/vc1
The problem is it doesn't happen right away. Movie played fine the first few minutes, CPU stayed around 8-16% and then Boom frame drops, CPU shot up, choppy video.
I have tried 3-4 mkv files all, all behaved the same. They were playing fine in my old wd tv
I reset to factory settings and the "only" option I disabled was "preferred vaapi method" and that was enough to cause it to behave like that...I'm not sure what else todo

What codec are the videos and what is the content? If they are interlaced VC-1 then that's the one format that causes Intel VAAPI hardware decoding issues and it has to drop to CPU decoding.

RE: Asus/HP/Acer/Dell ChromeBox EZ Setup (OpenELEC/Linux+Kodi) [2015/08/24] - FouxAM - 2015-08-30

(2015-08-30, 17:41)noggin Wrote:
(2015-08-30, 16:20)FouxAM Wrote: Thank you for the response Matt,
The only settings that I disabled was vdpau method and "preferred vaapi rendering method"
The rest of the options are still selected-mpeg2/mpeg4/vc1
The problem is it doesn't happen right away. Movie played fine the first few minutes, CPU stayed around 8-16% and then Boom frame drops, CPU shot up, choppy video.
I have tried 3-4 mkv files all, all behaved the same. They were playing fine in my old wd tv
I reset to factory settings and the "only" option I disabled was "preferred vaapi method" and that was enough to cause it to behave like that...I'm not sure what else todo

What codec are the videos and what is the content? If they are interlaced VC-1 then that's the one format that causes Intel VAAPI hardware decoding issues and it has to drop to CPU decoding.

Hi, thank you for helping. here is the on screen log I took just a while ago while playing Tron (.mkv) ripped from blu ray using makemkv I believe
Image

as you can see the severe frame drops and high cpu usage. It does this sporadically off and on every 3-5 mins or so.

RE: Asus/HP/Acer/Dell ChromeBox EZ Setup (OpenELEC/Linux+Kodi) [2015/08/24] - FouxAM - 2015-08-30

also toggle on/off VC1 Vaapi doesn't change any thing Sad

RE: Asus/HP/Acer/Dell ChromeBox EZ Setup (OpenELEC/Linux+Kodi) [2015/08/24] - Matt Devo - 2015-08-30

(2015-08-30, 16:20)FouxAM Wrote: I reset to factory settings and the "only" option I disabled was "preferred vaapi method" and that was enough to cause it to behave like that...I'm not sure what else todo

there's no need to disable 'prefer VAAPI renderer' anymore, not that that is causing the issue

(2015-08-30, 19:09)FouxAM Wrote: Hi, thank you for helping. here is the on screen log I took just a while ago while playing Tron (.mkv) ripped from blu ray using makemkv I believe
as you can see the severe frame drops and high cpu usage. It does this sporadically off and on every 3-5 mins or so.

I've run in this before, MakeMKV has some bugs, and I'd bet that's the issue here. Run the file through mkvmerge without changing anything and see if the file it produces plays correctly

(2015-08-30, 19:11)FouxAM Wrote: also toggle on/off VC1 Vaapi doesn't change any thing Sad

from your screenshot, it's an h.264-encoded video, not VC-1, so toggling that setting would have no effect.

RE: Asus/HP/Acer/Dell ChromeBox EZ Setup (OpenELEC/Linux+Kodi) [2015/08/24] - FouxAM - 2015-08-30

Thank you! I will definitely give it a try

RE: Asus/HP/Acer/Dell ChromeBox EZ Setup (OpenELEC/Linux+Kodi) [2015/08/24] - fritsch - 2015-08-30

With newer libva-driver-intel, that we have in OE since 5.0.8 vc1 interlaced should not segfault anymore. The Decoder will return false and you get a black screen only :-)

Intel had no intetest to ship interlaced vc1 decoding code, though available for at least ivb.

RE: Asus/HP/Acer/Dell ChromeBox EZ Setup (OpenELEC/Linux+Kodi) [2015/08/24] - jerndl - 2015-08-30

I think I may have screwed something up. I have tried for quite awhile to solve this by myself using this thread and the wiki. I have a Asus chromebox M004U that I originally setup using the info in this thread in May 2014 using a single boot openelec. My plan was to now use a single boot Kodibuntu. So I 1st updated the firmware using the instructions here (logged into openelec using putty). The update appeared to be successful. See output.

Code:
login as: root
[email protected]'s password:
##############################################
# OpenELEC - The living room PC for everyone #
# ...... visit http://www.openelec.tv ...... #
##############################################

OpenELEC (official) Version: 5.95.4
OpenELEC:~ # curl -L -O https://goo.gl/SoCQtG
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   263    0   263    0     0    851      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--   851
100  5433  100  5433    0     0   8771      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  8771
OpenELEC:~ # bash SoCQtG

ChromeBox Firmware Updater v1.3
(c) Matt DeVillier <[email protected]>
**************************************************

!! WARNING !!
This firmware is only valid for Haswell-based Asus/HP/Acer/Dell
ChromeBoxes with Celeron 2955U/2957U, Core i3-4010U/4030U, Core i7-4600U CPUs
which are already running my custom coreboot firmware.
Use on any other device will almost certainly brick it.

Do you wish to continue? [y/N] y

Checking if update available...

Firmware update available (20150618)

Install "headless" firmware? This is only needed for servers
running without a connected display. [y/N] n

Default to booting from any connected USB device? If N, always boot from the internal SSD unless selected from boot menu. [y/N] n

Downloading flashrom utility

Downloading cbfstool utility

Reading current firmware
Failure extracting MAC address from current firmware; default will be used

Downloading coreboot firmware

Installing firmware: coreboot-seabios-hsw_chromebox-20150618-mattdevo.rom

coreboot firmware successfully updated.
Please power cycle your ChromeBox to complete the update.

OpenELEC:~ #

Now I appear to be stuck. The chromebox now boots immediately to openelec without giving any time to enter any keyboard command (using a simple wired keyboard). So I try to put unit into developer mode with the paperclip and it still boots straight to openelec. I am obviously missing something that's probably something simple but I sure would appreciate any help on how to proceed from here. Thanks.

Jay