(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.

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?

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

(2016-06-07, 23:18)Matt Devo Wrote:

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.

(2016-06-07, 23:40)Natural Sound Wrote: Thanks Matt. If by local you mean playing video (mostly MKV's in my case) via a USB stick or hard drive, yes that seems to work fine. Streaming recorded programming on MythTV, network storage or internet streams is where I seem to have trouble. I was originally thinking that I had a network problem but my ROKU/Plex setup on the same network works fine.

(2016-06-08, 01:23)Matt Devo Wrote:

(2016-06-07, 23:40)Natural Sound Wrote: Thanks Matt. If by local you mean playing video (mostly MKV's in my case) via a USB stick or hard drive, yes that seems to work fine. Streaming recorded programming on MythTV, network storage or internet streams is where I seem to have trouble. I was originally thinking that I had a network problem but my ROKU/Plex setup on the same network works fine.

plex is transcoding everything down to a lower bitrate, which is likely why you're not seeing any issues. If MythTV is just recording the raw ATSC/DVB/S stream, then it's playing back somewhere around 20Mbps, which shouldn't be an issue, but can be in some environments.

My brother had a similar issue with his Chromebox, even audio streaming would skip from time to time. Doing a full reset on his router and then setting up fresh fixed that, now he can stream 50Mbps bluray ISOs without issue. Something to consider as well.

(2016-06-08, 04:30)Natural Sound Wrote: Again, thanks but that is one of the first things I tried. I expect that my issue is something unique. I'll keep trying different things until this is resolved.

(2016-06-08, 08:29)Matt Devo Wrote:

(2016-06-08, 04:30)Natural Sound Wrote: Again, thanks but that is one of the first things I tried. I expect that my issue is something unique. I'll keep trying different things until this is resolved.

how about performing a file xfer from another box to see the sustained throughput? it's definitely something network related if local media plays back without issue

(2016-06-13, 10:30)olympia Wrote: Hi Matt,

I am using the USB Pulse-Eight CEC adapter and I also had to add an edid emulator to have it work perfectly in the way I want (I had no luck with custom edid).
It works OK that way, but now I have a real bird's nest of cables and also I am not fully happy to have a hdmi cable "broken and extended" two times.

To clean up the mess a little bit, I was looking at the Pulse-Eight internal NUC CEC adapter what is assuming a hdmi header in the motherboard. Does the Chromebox also have such MB header to get that connected?

(2016-06-16, 13:02)xi_Slick_ix Wrote: Hi Matt, quick needy user question:Is there a way to automatically toggle between two different operating systems using Seabios? I want to run LibreElec and Lakka on my chromebox, and if every reboot the chromebox then booted to the next OS without user interaction, that would be a quick, smooth system to jump back and forth.

Any thoughts,

Thanks!

(2016-06-16, 16:06)Tobor Wrote: Wow, thread started May of 2014. I've owned my Chromebox since shortly after these instruction appeared, and it has been working beautifully ever since. Thanks Matt.

tobor

(2016-06-16, 16:06)Tobor Wrote: Wow, thread started May of 2014. I've owned my Chromebox since shortly after these instruction appeared, and it has been working beautifully ever since. Thanks Matt.

tobor