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RE: Asus/HP/Acer/Dell ChromeBox EZ Setup (OpenELEC/Linux+Kodi) [v3.8 - 2015/01/07] - VanillaXtract - 2015-01-17

(2015-01-16, 21:59)Matt Devo Wrote: Use OE's backup function, copy backup file to another machine, do a factory reset, re-run script and set smaller partition size, restore OE backup

The power wash does not restore the partitions to stock? It looks like I need to do the image burner and completely restore it?


RE: Asus/HP/Acer/Dell ChromeBox EZ Setup (OpenELEC/Linux+Kodi) [v3.8 - 2015/01/07] - Matt Devo - 2015-01-17

No, it does not - you need to do a complete reset


RE: Asus/HP/Acer/Dell ChromeBox EZ Setup (OpenELEC/Linux+Kodi) [v3.8 - 2015/01/07] - morbidz - 2015-01-17

I'm getting pretty bad frame skips in multiple videos. Log file below. Any ideas?

http://pastebin.com/R97uXCfT


RE: Asus/HP/Acer/Dell ChromeBox EZ Setup (OpenELEC/Linux+Kodi) [v3.8 - 2015/01/07] - trotos - 2015-01-18

Hi to all.
First time here.
I managed to install standard openelec installation (does not care for chromeos) but open elec is unable to mount my external HDD.
In boot menu after pressing ESC on reboot I can see the device: pic. But it is not in /media after booting to openelec.
Any help is appreciated


RE: Asus/HP/Acer/Dell ChromeBox EZ Setup (OpenELEC/Linux+Kodi) [v3.8 - 2015/01/07] - m0ngr31 - 2015-01-18

If I reboot the chromebox without the tv turned on, XBMC will show up as thinking it's fullscreen even though it's windowed. It just thinks my tv is 1024x768. I can see my desktop behind it, but pushing '\' doesn't seem to fix the issue. Any suggestions?

I'm on Linux Mint 17.1 btw.


RE: Asus/HP/Acer/Dell ChromeBox EZ Setup (OpenELEC/Linux+Kodi) [v3.8 - 2015/01/07] - Matt Devo - 2015-01-18

(2015-01-17, 23:43)morbidz Wrote: I'm getting pretty bad frame skips in multiple videos. Log file below. Any ideas?

http://pastebin.com/R97uXCfT

looks like a network issue, given that your file source is a NFS share

(2015-01-18, 00:12)trotos Wrote: Hi to all.
First time here.
I managed to install standard openelec installation (does not care for chromeos) but open elec is unable to mount my external HDD.
In boot menu after pressing ESC on reboot I can see the device: pic. But it is not in /media after booting to openelec.
Any help is appreciated

can you mount it manually via ssh? Sounds like an OE issue, rather than a ChromeBox/hardware issue. I'd ask in the OE IRC help channel

(2015-01-18, 00:53)m0ngr31 Wrote: If I reboot the chromebox without the tv turned on, XBMC will show up as thinking it's fullscreen even though it's windowed. It just thinks my tv is 1024x768. I can see my desktop behind it, but pushing '\' doesn't seem to fix the issue. Any suggestions?

I'm on Linux Mint 17.1 btw.

don't turn on the ChromeBox without your TV on?

It's a PC, not a CE device, and needs the display to tell it what resolutions it supports at boot time. If you're using an older firmware, I'd recommend updating and not choosing the headless option. This will force the ChromeBox to delay booting until the display is on/ready.


RE: Asus/HP/Acer/Dell ChromeBox EZ Setup (OpenELEC/Linux+Kodi) [v3.8 - 2015/01/07] - morbidz - 2015-01-18

(2015-01-18, 03:22)Matt Devo Wrote:
(2015-01-17, 23:43)morbidz Wrote: I'm getting pretty bad frame skips in multiple videos. Log file below. Any ideas?

http://pastebin.com/R97uXCfT

looks like a network issue, given that your file source is a NFS share

Attached a USB and same issue persists

http://pastebin.com/XVSbG7Bm


RE: Asus/HP/Acer/Dell ChromeBox EZ Setup (OpenELEC/Linux+Kodi) [v3.8 - 2015/01/07] - Matt Devo - 2015-01-18

(2015-01-18, 03:52)morbidz Wrote: Attached a USB and same issue persists

http://pastebin.com/XVSbG7Bm

looks like an audio decoding issue, but kodi decoding errors are out of my wheelhouse. Try checking on the openelec and kodi IRC support channels, someone there (like fritsch) will be able to help out better


RE: Asus/HP/Acer/Dell ChromeBox EZ Setup (OpenELEC/Linux+Kodi) [v3.8 - 2015/01/07] - Sunflux - 2015-01-18

(2015-01-18, 03:22)Matt Devo Wrote: don't turn on the ChromeBox without your TV on?

It's a PC, not a CE device, and needs the display to tell it what resolutions it supports at boot time. If you're using an older firmware, I'd recommend updating and not choosing the headless option. This will force the ChromeBox to delay booting until the display is on/ready.

Yeah, I get the same 1024x768 on a *Windows* system if boot with the amp on but the TV not switched to that input. Usually requires me to put it to sleep and wake it up again.

On OpenElec, though, there could be a solution by forcing a manual copy of the TV's EDID. I've done that on my system to resolve another issue (slightly incorrect calculated PAR) but one side effect is Kodi always knows what the TV supports even if it's not powered on.


RE: Asus/HP/Acer/Dell ChromeBox EZ Setup (OpenELEC/Linux+Kodi) [v3.8 - 2015/01/07] - trotos - 2015-01-18

(2015-01-18, 00:12)trotos Wrote: Hi to all.
First time here.
I managed to install standard openelec installation (does not care for chromeos) but open elec is unable to mount my external HDD.
In boot menu after pressing ESC on reboot I can see the device: pic. But it is not in /media after booting to openelec.
Any help is appreciated
(2015-01-18, 03:22)Matt Devo Wrote: can you mount it manually via ssh? Sounds like an OE issue, rather than a ChromeBox/hardware issue. I'd ask in the OE IRC help channel
Could you please direct me on getting the terminal and how to mount via SSH. Never done any of those.


RE: Asus/HP/Acer/Dell ChromeBox EZ Setup (OpenELEC/Linux+Kodi) [v3.8 - 2015/01/07] - Matt Devo - 2015-01-18

(2015-01-18, 09:25)Sunflux Wrote: Yeah, I get the same 1024x768 on a *Windows* system if boot with the amp on but the TV not switched to that input. Usually requires me to put it to sleep and wake it up again.

On OpenElec, though, there could be a solution by forcing a manual copy of the TV's EDID. I've done that on my system to resolve another issue (slightly incorrect calculated PAR) but one side effect is Kodi always knows what the TV supports even if it's not powered on.

true, though that's a slightly more advanced solution, and wanted to first make sure it's not an issue with using the headless firmware

(2015-01-18, 10:07)trotos Wrote:
(2015-01-18, 03:22)Matt Devo Wrote: can you mount it manually via ssh? Sounds like an OE issue, rather than a ChromeBox/hardware issue. I'd ask in the OE IRC help channel
Could you please direct me on getting the terminal and how to mount via SSH. Never done any of those.

start here: http://wiki.openelec.tv/index.php/Ssh_commands. I don't have anything handy for mounting so your best best is either google or the IRC help channel as I mentioned earlier


RE: Asus/HP/Acer/Dell ChromeBox EZ Setup (OpenELEC/Linux+Kodi) [v3.8 - 2015/01/07] - trotos - 2015-01-18

(2015-01-18, 10:34)Matt Devo Wrote:
(2015-01-18, 10:07)trotos Wrote:
(2015-01-18, 03:22)Matt Devo Wrote: can you mount it manually via ssh? Sounds like an OE issue, rather than a ChromeBox/hardware issue. I'd ask in the OE IRC help channel
Could you please direct me on getting the terminal and how to mount via SSH. Never done any of those.

start here: http://wiki.openelec.tv/index.php/Ssh_commands. I don't have anything handy for mounting so your best best is either google or the IRC help channel as I mentioned earlier

Ok, I will try it and when I got any problems or any update I will come back.

Thank you


RE: Asus/HP/Acer/Dell ChromeBox EZ Setup (OpenELEC/Linux+Kodi) [v3.8 - 2015/01/07] - Boulder - 2015-01-18

First of all, a big thank you to Matt Devo for the script and the OpenELEC+Kodi community for making my HTPC experience very nice and smoothCool

I have a few questions, I'm unsure whether I should ask them in this thread, some other part of the forum or the OpenELEC forum but I need to start from somewhere. Feel free to point me to the right direction if the questions are not appropriate for this thread and should be elsewhere.

1) My LG plasma TV supports 24p. Is it possible to force 24p output for movies with framerate of 23.976 or 24 frames per second? I have tried overriding the refreshrate settings via advancedsettings.xml but my receiver (and thus TV) doesn't get proper 24p signal. It used to work with my previous media player, the Mede8er MED500X2.

2) Subtitle positioning doesn't work. I have set the position in the calibration dialog but still they appear at the bottom of the screen. I can move them by CTRL + +/- and it clearly shows that the position is not what I have chosen in the calibration.

3) MPEG-2 video decoding is not always hardware accelerated, which also means that I'm sometimes missing the advanced deinterlacing techniques such as VAAPI motion compensated deinterlacing. Are there some cases in which the decoding is done via software?

Thanks for any input Smile


RE: Asus/HP/Acer/Dell ChromeBox EZ Setup (OpenELEC/Linux+Kodi) [v3.8 - 2015/01/07] - Matt Devo - 2015-01-18

(2015-01-18, 16:09)Boulder Wrote: First of all, a big thank you to Matt Devo for the script and the OpenELEC+Kodi community for making my HTPC experience very nice and smoothCool

I have a few questions, I'm unsure whether I should ask them in this thread, some other part of the forum or the OpenELEC forum but I need to start from somewhere. Feel free to point me to the right direction if the questions are not appropriate for this thread and should be elsewhere.

1) My LG plasma TV supports 24p. Is it possible to force 24p output for movies with framerate of 23.976 or 24 frames per second? I have tried overriding the refreshrate settings via advancedsettings.xml but my receiver (and thus TV) doesn't get proper 24p signal. It used to work with my previous media player, the Mede8er MED500X2.

I believe you can, but unsure on the exact method. Which frame rate works and which doesn't with your receiver/TV?

Quote:2) Subtitle positioning doesn't work. I have set the position in the calibration dialog but still they appear at the bottom of the screen. I can move them by CTRL + +/- and it clearly shows that the position is not what I have chosen in the calibration.

pretty sure Kodi stores video calibration data on a per-refresh rate basis. So if you calibrate the subtitle position via the settings menu while the output is 60Hz, that's what the calibration is for. Try forcing the UI to 24Hz and then calibrating the position.

Quote:3) MPEG-2 video decoding is not always hardware accelerated, which also means that I'm sometimes missing the advanced deinterlacing techniques such as VAAPI motion compensated deinterlacing. Are there some cases in which the decoding is done via software?

Thanks for any input Smile

I believe mpeg2 is only hardware accelerated for HD video streams, something to do with dvd playback compatibility.


RE: Asus/HP/Acer/Dell ChromeBox EZ Setup (OpenELEC/Linux+Kodi) [v3.8 - 2015/01/07] - Boulder - 2015-01-18

(2015-01-18, 20:35)Matt Devo Wrote:
(2015-01-18, 16:09)Boulder Wrote: 1) My LG plasma TV supports 24p. Is it possible to force 24p output for movies with framerate of 23.976 or 24 frames per second? I have tried overriding the refreshrate settings via advancedsettings.xml but my receiver (and thus TV) doesn't get proper 24p signal. It used to work with my previous media player, the Mede8er MED500X2.

I believe you can, but unsure on the exact method. Which frame rate works and which doesn't with your receiver/TV?

My TV supports 24p, 50Hz and 60Hz modes at least according to what I've seen on its OSD when checking the refreshrate. So "standard" framerates would be 23.976, 24, 25, 50 and 59.94 fps.

Using advancedsettings.xml to put everything encoded at 23.976 fps to refreshrate 24 fps, the "debug" display shows 24 fps while playing the video but my TV stays in 60Hz mode.

(2015-01-18, 20:35)Matt Devo Wrote:
(2015-01-18, 16:09)Boulder Wrote: 2) Subtitle positioning doesn't work. I have set the position in the calibration dialog but still they appear at the bottom of the screen. I can move them by CTRL + +/- and it clearly shows that the position is not what I have chosen in the calibration.

pretty sure Kodi stores video calibration data on a per-refresh rate basis. So if you calibrate the subtitle position via the settings menu while the output is 60Hz, that's what the calibration is for. Try forcing the UI to 24Hz and then calibrating the position.
Thanks, I'll try that too. I had no idea that it would be that way..

(2015-01-18, 20:35)Matt Devo Wrote:
(2015-01-18, 16:09)Boulder Wrote: 3) MPEG-2 video decoding is not always hardware accelerated, which also means that I'm sometimes missing the advanced deinterlacing techniques such as VAAPI motion compensated deinterlacing. Are there some cases in which the decoding is done via software?
I believe mpeg2 is only hardware accelerated for HD video streams, something to do with dvd playback compatibility.
It could be that. I opened a DVD VOB file which was then hardware decoded. When playing a DVD folder, software decoding kicks in. I'll need to test this too.