(2016-08-14, 20:14)Matt Devo Wrote:

(2016-08-14, 19:55)jacko5 Wrote: Matt,
Got something happening.
Changed the 2 ram memory chips in the samsung chromebox and now i have something on screen,
What does this mean ?

it means that it's alive and you just need to install LibreELEC from USB. It's trying to boot ChromeOS off the SSD, but can't do that with the new custom firmware, only Linux.

(2016-08-14, 22:08)jacko5 Wrote: Matt,
Got it working now mate.
It must have been a bad image on the USB Flash drive.
I made another Libreelec USB disk and it flashed 100% ok.
Many thanks for all your help ;-)

(2016-08-14, 19:22)Matt Devo Wrote:

(2016-08-14, 14:55)darby427 Wrote: I just picked up a lenovo chrombox - 10H50003US - celeron 3205 for very cheap so I figured I dont have much to lose to see if I can get kodi working on it. Based on what I have read it should work - anyone have any experiences with it?

My current pc that I am using for kodi has seen better days (core2 duo 8300 / nvidia 430) most usb ports dont work, the video card fan is shot and starts to overheat and for some reason I lost bitstreaming of the DTS MA track - always defaults to the DTS core.

works perfectly as a Kodi box using the instructions here. A great deal at $109 shipped from Newegg on ebay at the moment as well.

(2016-08-14, 09:53)Matt Devo Wrote:

(2016-08-14, 02:16)robca Wrote: I changed as per your suggestion the video settings to 1080i/29.97 (since the mpeg video is encoded that way: here's the analysis of the video I played: http://pastebin.com/BFiUspyx). After changing he settings, the frequency of the problem has decreased dramatically (from a couple of times every 2 hours to once in 3-4), but it's still there... Did I change the right settings?

Kodi's output resolution should be 1080p59.97 (or 60). 1080i60 content needs to be deinterlaced to 1080p60, not do some weird field drops to get 1080p30. Ensure

while the video is playing, bring up the video settings menu and set Deinterlacing to auto, type to Motion Compensated, and scaling to Bilinear; then save as default at the bottom of the settings menu.

(2016-08-15, 00:56)Matt Devo Wrote: what's the video format / decoder being used? take a screenshot with the codec window up

(2016-08-15, 05:13)robca Wrote: Here it is

(2016-08-15, 05:16)Matt Devo Wrote:

(2016-08-15, 05:13)robca Wrote: Here it is

looks good, there's nothing config wise that seems incorrect, which leads me to think it might be network related. can you copy a file to the Chromebox or USB and see if playback I better? You should be able to do full MCDI and have no drops/stuttering, I can here with similar sample files

(2016-08-15, 16:17)robca Wrote: The files are all local, stored on a USB 2.5" HDD.

If it were a connection problem, would it really peg once CPU to 100%? There's no stuttering: the video playback completely stops for 5-8 seconds, none of the payback buttons on the remote have any effect, and one oft the CPUs is 100% loaded. After 5-8 seconds, it returns to the list of recorded shows, and I can can restart playback from where it got interrupted

I'll try ad find another HDD to test with, but as I said there aren't any other problems with that HDD, so it's not my primary suspect

(2016-08-16, 05:29)Matt Devo Wrote:

(2016-08-15, 16:17)robca Wrote: The files are all local, stored on a USB 2.5" HDD.

If it were a connection problem, would it really peg once CPU to 100%? There's no stuttering: the video playback completely stops for 5-8 seconds, none of the payback buttons on the remote have any effect, and one oft the CPUs is 100% loaded. After 5-8 seconds, it returns to the list of recorded shows, and I can can restart playback from where it got interrupted

I'll try ad find another HDD to test with, but as I said there aren't any other problems with that HDD, so it's not my primary suspect

I'm struggling to come up with a cause, and I'm unable to reproduce here. I even recorded the NBC feed from my HDHR and played it back over WiFi, with MCDI deinterlacing, and had 0 skips,0 drops, and no CPU spikes of any kind

can you boot the LE installer in live and mode and test a clean config?