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2016-01-08, 04:28
(This post was last modified: 2016-01-08, 04:29 by wrxtasy.)
I will link these up to Post Number #1 on this thread.
Need confirmation as well the Network connectivity issues are fixed from actual end users ?
(Mine has never had ethernet problems)
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Droidelec, thank you very much for your work. I suppose this is the same version that I could find in Wetek forums this morning, isn't it? If so, I have my image ready and will test it this afternoon.
Wrxtasy, I will inform about network issues asap since I am one of those who suffer it from the beginning.
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2016-01-08, 20:35
(This post was last modified: 2016-01-08, 20:36 by Milkado.)
wrxtasy, my ethernet connection is fixed too!!!!! Terrific!
After one hour of use:
- Connection with my Mac via Samba: OK
- Mac address as it should
- Connection with my NAS via NFS: OK
- Installing addons: OK
My Core is now configured just like the other 3 devices in my home (2 profiles, Aeon Nox and shared database).
Tomorrow I will make the final test: seeing a complete movie using my projector (23.976 frame rate not tested yet) and my A/V (toslink not tested yet). Till now I'm using a TV close to my Mac to make the tests.
I'm sure it will work (it works using Android). I'm very happy!
Thank you wrxtasy and all the Wetek staff.
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Hmm..as well as the slowdown in the GUI, I am seeing some pretty shakey 23.976fps performance with this release. Lots of stuttering in pan shots and even still dialogue scenes. I didn't see any of this with the wrxtasy build I upgraded from. I'm not sure what's going wrong here.
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Pull up the Codec info OSD page, you may have to attach a Keyboard and hit the O key.
if you see:
dc: ff-mpeg4, then you are getting ffmpeg Software decoding of video files which is causing the Slowdowns on Highbitrate scenes.
Basically a patch is needed for the Kodi code itself and is likely missing to Hardware accelerate mpeg4 on AMLogic devices.
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No, mine says: P(FR:23.976, VQ1%, DC:AM-H264,MB/S:6.55, DROP:1, SKIP:433, PC:NONE)
VQ is flashing between 1&0% SKIP is raising all the time. I measured that it skipped 98 frames in 1 minute.
CPU usage is what I would call high (CPU0 70% CPU1 50% CPU2 61% CPU3 39%) obviously these figures are always changing, but I don't think my X4 ever had values this high, they were always between the 5 & 20% mark.
Strange.
Interestingly, if I turn off hardware acceleration I get VQ:99% and barely any frame skips. CPU values are a little lower, but not by much!
It's odd, it's like the hardware acceleration isn't working.
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Also just noticed that skips forward and back are awful under hardware acceleration, but work perfectly fine under software rendering.
So far turning of hardware acceleration has improved my box loads!
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Have installed the OE7 Wetek Core testing build.
For fun I thought I'd try some 4K content connected to my UHD set (which accepts 2160/60p in 4:2:0 and 2160/30p and below in 4:2:2).
H264/AVC 3840x2160/24p and 4096x2160/24p content played very well - as they do on a Chromebox (note this is H264 NOT HEVC) This was sourced from various locations - one was an off-air recording from a DVB-S2 test. However H264 UHD (aka 4K) stuff is likely to be quite rare and is unlikely to be something that is encountered that much in the future.
H265/HEVC 3840x2160/50p and 3840x160/59.94p content played - but in what seemed like slow-motion. Not particularly surprising I guess given that the Core doesn't have HDMI 2.0 output - but pleasantly surprised I got pictures!. This was sourced from DVB-T2 test broadcasts in the UK in 2014 (World Cup and Commonwealth Games)
3D MVC and ISOs are played in 2D - but I think that is what is expected on the Core OE builds currently.