[mcord]

I am sorry as I can see this topic has been covered and I have read a decent amount but I am on the cusp of hitting a point where I can no longer return my chromebox and I am not sure if it is worth keeping with this issue. Running stand alone Openelec 2gb ram HP Chromebox

the hardware acceleration, I noticed the stops in the video with the sound continuing then the video would catch up. I tried the following

enable SW filter for VAAPI - this played fine for a while till the picture froze and the sound kept going. With this setting clicked it never fixed itself and I had to manually power down unit.

Disable VAAP all together - with this any movie 720 or above does not play smoothly

Disable hardware acceleration all together - playback not smooth

I have been trying to read up as much as I can and I see there is discussions of a potential build with different drivers, but for the time being what set up are people currently mitigate the issue? I think today is the last day I can return the box and although performance wise it is solid this issue almost defeats the purpose of having it at all.

for the time being I am going to the suggested settings in the wiki. Maybe the freeze I had using the sw filter was a random one off, I dont even remember the file I was viewing when it happened

as I stated I am sorry for asking questions that have been gone over, its just that it is hard to tell which post or ideas to fix are current, or just something that was posted 2 months ago that has been identified as being useless. Thanks in advance for any help