2016-06-07, 23:18
(2016-06-07, 19:18)Natural Sound Wrote: Hi Guys, new member here so please go easy on me.I have done a lot of research on this subject but I'm kind of confused at this point. I may have more than one problem. Here is my situation. I bought a ASUS Chromebox (Celeron) late last year around Christmas. I prepared the box and installed a dual boot Chrome/OpenElec system using the EZ Setup script and set up the box to the recommended settings. (Running OpenELEC 6.0 / Kodi 15.2 (stable: 6.0.398-Intel_EGL) and the stock firmware.
so far, so good
Quote:I had problems right off the bat when streaming video. It would play for a while and then I'd get stuttering video (almost like slow motion) and the audio would drop out. If I paused it for a few seconds and then hit play again it would work for a while. This was with WiFi. Thinking that I had a network issue I plugged the box directly into my router. It seemed a little better but the problem persisted especially with HD content, SD tended to work OK. I tried a bunch of recommendations that I found on this forum but nothing seemed to work. I kind of got frustrated and gave up for a while. Now I'm interested in getting this thing going again. One of the tips I found recommended disabling hardware acceleration. I did that and it appears that most of the stuttering is gone. I feel like I made a lot of progress. Yet the underlying question is, why doesn't the hardware acceleration work? And does it really matter?
what you're describing doesn't sound like a playback issue, but the only way to be sure is to try with local (vs streaming) media. Hardware acceleration works perfectly fine with these boxes, esp with the version of OE you're running.
Quote:I also notice that OpenElec has been replaced with LibreElec. I'm wondering, should I pursue an upgrade? Will this allow me to use hardware acceleration? If so can I perform an upgrade using the EZ Setup or must I upgrade by USB? If it is the latter then I will probably have some more questions.
Thanks in advance.
-Tom
you should upgrade if you want to move to Kodi 16.1 (or the 17 pre-beta builds). Upgrade instructions are linked on the wiki, and do not require running the script nor a USB.
