[Matt Devo]

Wow that sounds like a big deal! Is there a large difference between OpenELEC and LibreELEC? Why the switch, only because OpenELEC is still in beta?

Currently no, but moving forward I feel like LE will be the better option. Either one will work just fine however

[sonico7]

HI

I want to know if it is possible connect headphones via Bluetooth on Asus chromebox or I need to buy a bluetooth transmitter?


thanks in advance

[robca]

I have set up a system with an HDHomeRun tuner, a Chromebox as the main Kodi box in my media room, and a RPi3 as a secondary Kodi box in my kitchen (both running OpenElec 17 beta). The HDHomeRun tuner, Chromebox and RPi3 are all connected with a Gigabit switch, on an otherwise mostly unused home network.The Chromebox has a small 32G USB3 stick I use to store recorded programs (yes, too small for real use, but I'm still testing, and 32G is enough to record a few programs). The Chromebox is acting as the tvheadend server, and the RPi3 is using the tvheadend client (so are a couple of Windows PC I'm testing with)

I can watch TV just fine both from the Chromebox and RPi3, including HD programs. I can watch TV from any of my Windows PCs running Kodi for Windows, too. When I record an HD program, I can watch it without problems from the Chromebox. But if I try to watch it remotely (RPi3 or a Windows PC), the video is choppy and the audio starts choppy, then disappear. I can watch SD programs without problems

What am I doing wrong? Clearly the network is fast enough to watch a stream directly from the HDHomeRun. But once that same stream is recorded, it looks as if the network (or the Chromebox) is too slow to handle the stream... how can I start troubleshooting the problem?

Are you in the US?

Have you bought the £2.40 MPEG2 codec licence and installed it correctly on your Pi 3? The Pi 2 and Pi 3 can software decode SD MPEG2 (The Pi 1 and Zero can't) but you really need the licence for 1080i or 720p HD stuff, particularly HD 1080i as deinterlacing and software decode is too much for even a Pi 3.

Thanks for your suggestion. Indeed I will need to buy the MPEG2 decoder for my RPi3, luckily it's cheap

Actually I had 2 unrelated problems, in addition to the missing MPEG2:

• All of my Windows computers (with more than enough graphic horsepower) were choppy. I was using a USB3 stick formatted with ExFAT. I'm now using a 2.5" SATA HDD with a USB3-to-SATA converter, and I formatted the HDD with ext4. The drive is clearly slower than the USB stick, but very likely ext4 performs much better on Linux. I might have had some other problems on my USB stick, but now that I'm using ext4 and the new HDD, Windows PC can play back anything at 1080p, no problems
  
• On the RPi3 I had both wired and wireless network enabled. Somehow the RPi3 must have used WiFi instead of wired, and it was choppy even playing back 720p videos (I have poor WiFi signal where my RPi3 is). Once I disabled WiFi, the RPI3 can play 720p fine, and play "almost"1080p (you can see that a few frames are skipped, but it's not as choppy as before). Getting the MPEG2 license will solve this, I'm sure
  

Bottom line: when using external HDD/USB sticks, the format you use might make a big difference

thanks for the help

[nickr]

No, more likely because OpenELEC only has one team member left, and LibreELEC has 45 (not all programmers).

LE is, IMHO, the future.

[Matt Devo]

HI

I want to know if it is possible connect headphones via Bluetooth on Asus chromebox or I need to buy a bluetooth transmitter?


thanks in advance

Sure, if the OS supports it. Milhouse's LibreELEC 8.0/Kodi 17 pre-beta builds do, and it works quite well. Downloads and support over in the linux/live support forum

[MrCrispy]

No, more likely because OpenELEC only has one team member left, and LibreELEC has 45 (not all programmers).

LE is, IMHO, the future.

This is a bit sad to hear. Since OE is much more widely known and has a lot of info out there, in their forums etc. What happened, did they all leave to join LE?

[sonico7]

HI

I want to know if it is possible connect headphones via Bluetooth on Asus chromebox or I need to buy a bluetooth transmitter?


thanks in advance

Sure, if the OS supports it. Milhouse's LibreELEC 8.0/Kodi 17 pre-beta builds do, and it works quite well. Downloads and support over in the linux/live support forum

Thanks! only work in Milhouse's LibreELEC 8.0/Kodi 17 pre-beta builds ? not in Kodi v16.1 “Jarvis /OpenELEC 7.0 Beta 1?

[Matt Devo]

Thanks! only work in Milhouse's LibreELEC 8.0/Kodi 17 pre-beta builds ? not in Kodi v16.1 “Jarvis /OpenELEC 7.0 Beta 1?

Correct, OE/LE 7 Kodi 16 builds do not support BT audio

[Mark the Red]

Thanks Matt for all the support on this thread. This thing has been going strong for a while now.

Question: What do you use to stream TV on this thing? I have inched closer to cutting the cord and I have read Phoenix Add-On is the best for this purpose. Can you recommend one to me? I know some people like piddling around trying all 99 flavors of Kodi add-ons, but I'd just as soon trust your recommmendation on this and run with it. The SuperRepo depository has way,way,way, too many add-ons to chose from right now.

[Hufvudet]

Hey Matt! I see on the chromebox wiki that you only link to Jarvis Libreelec build. Isn't this Isengard build still superior as far as video quality goes?

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9830...el_EGL.tar

Or has everybody moved on to Milhouse libreelec builds for EGL treatment?

Thanks!

[jmhenry5150]

Matt,

I am still having really bad HDMI handshake issues - video just drops out and comes back in sporadically...sometimes over and over in a matter of seconds.

Should I just start from scratch and do a reinstall using your script? Is there something else that I could try?

I have changed out HDMI cables and tried a different input to my Denon receiver...

Please help - i'm at my wits end

Thanks!

-Mike

[wackid]

Hey Matt! I see on the chromebox wiki that you only link to Jarvis Libreelec build. Isn't this Isengard build still superior as far as video quality goes?

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9830...el_EGL.tar

Or has everybody moved on to Milhouse libreelec builds for EGL treatment?

Thanks!

Was wondering the same thing. EGL is far superior.
But maybe the Libre elec has the EGL function? Or not?

[M4tt0]

EGL is not avialable in Jarvis-based systems (and never will be), but in Krypton-based test builds. So you can look for LE/OE 8.0. I still use fritsch's 15.2 EGL build on my production system and milhouse's new LE 8.0 builds for testing purposes on my Intel HSW NUC. Have been skipping Jarvis for the same reason...

[Matt Devo]

Thanks Matt for all the support on this thread. This thing has been going strong for a while now.

Question: What do you use to stream TV on this thing? I have inched closer to cutting the cord and I have read Phoenix Add-On is the best for this purpose. Can you recommend one to me? I know some people like piddling around trying all 99 flavors of Kodi add-ons, but I'd just as soon trust your recommmendation on this and run with it. The SuperRepo depository has way,way,way, too many add-ons to chose from right now.

please see: http://kodi.wiki/view/Official:Forum_rul...ed_add-ons

Hey Matt! I see on the chromebox wiki that you only link to Jarvis Libreelec build. Isn't this Isengard build still superior as far as video quality goes?

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9830...el_EGL.tar

Or has everybody moved on to Milhouse libreelec builds for EGL treatment?

Thanks!

yes, the OE 6.0.398 / Kodi 15.2 build will provide superior quality/performance, but the majority of users won't notice, and are better served running the latest stable version of Kodi. I'll re-add the 15.2 EGL links to the wiki as an alternate option, but the script will be 16.x still.

Matt,

I am still having really bad HDMI handshake issues - video just drops out and comes back in sporadically...sometimes over and over in a matter of seconds.

Should I just start from scratch and do a reinstall using your script? Is there something else that I could try?

I have changed out HDMI cables and tried a different input to my Denon receiver...

Please help - i'm at my wits end

Thanks!

-Mike

Mike, have you tried connecting the Chromebox directly to your display vs thru the AVR? Just to rule out an issue with the box itself? I don't think it's a software issue / would be resolved with a clean install

Was wondering the same thing. EGL is far superior.
But maybe the Libre elec has the EGL function? Or not?

no Kodi 16.x-based versions will have EGL; either stick with OE 6.0.398-Intel_EGL or jump ahead to the LE 8 / Kodi 17 test builds (EGL will be the new/only Linux renderer for Intel devices in Kodi 17)

[cd2022]

Matt,

I am still having really bad HDMI handshake issues - video just drops out and comes back in sporadically...sometimes over and over in a matter of seconds.

Should I just start from scratch and do a reinstall using your script? Is there something else that I could try?

I have changed out HDMI cables and tried a different input to my Denon receiver...

Please help - i'm at my wits end

Thanks!

-Mike

I've just installed the latest Milhouse libreelec builds and now I don't have to switch input back and forth on my Denon AVR-391 to get the Chrombox's video and audio to my tv.