2023-01-27, 02:36
@popcornmix
Thank you for providing the link from LE in the Kodi Forum, which I find rather non-relevant to what I actually reported:
https://wiki.libreelec.tv/hardware/raspberry-pi
- its title and content is about HEVC, which I'm not playing/using, but only MPEG2 & H264
- then it contains false statements like "Raspberry Pi 2/1/0 models can normally manage 720p media but will struggle with 1080p." I never had any issues with 108p H264 media (local files / internet streams) on Pi0 (initial version) and Pi2B (never owned a Pi1), with both HW accel. and SW playback, but only with PVR if OpenMAX was not used. Even without OpenMAX, playback of PVR looks fine, it's just the waw-waw audio (Kodi 17/18 MMAL) & video (Kodi 19.x) effect that is annoying. Given that OpenMAX handles the playback perfectly, actually very efficient too, it's the Kodi default player and its implementation that kills the Pi performance.
- and ambiguity ( plus non-relevance - not using LE but focusing only on Kodi) - "LibreELEC 10.x also dropped support for Raspberry Pi Zero and other 512MB RAM devices as 1GB is now considered as the minimum RAM needed for a good Kodi experience." Why that? I mean, one of the secondary reasons (I didn't mention before, trying to be respectful towards the LE devs & their work) I'm not using LE is because I find it bloated (Kodi itself full of features) and the OS, even if stripped, is still more bloated compared to Slackware.
I did report issues with PVR only, and according to my experience (feedback I presented in the previous post) I only get OOM's in a very particular case while playing HD Channels - 1080p H264 for longer time and switching the channel to another HD Channel. Again, it looks like memory management issues (cleaning up buffers (garbage) before switching to another HD channel) and not that much memory limitations.
Anyways, I'm convinced now I need to sell the remaining Raspberry "arsenal" I own and focus on some SH x86 thin clients for media consumption under Kodi, as OpenMAX, the only implementation that really excelled, became history.
Watching PVR (tvheadend) is still my main "media" activity.
Thank you for providing the link from LE in the Kodi Forum, which I find rather non-relevant to what I actually reported:
https://wiki.libreelec.tv/hardware/raspberry-pi
- its title and content is about HEVC, which I'm not playing/using, but only MPEG2 & H264
- then it contains false statements like "Raspberry Pi 2/1/0 models can normally manage 720p media but will struggle with 1080p." I never had any issues with 108p H264 media (local files / internet streams) on Pi0 (initial version) and Pi2B (never owned a Pi1), with both HW accel. and SW playback, but only with PVR if OpenMAX was not used. Even without OpenMAX, playback of PVR looks fine, it's just the waw-waw audio (Kodi 17/18 MMAL) & video (Kodi 19.x) effect that is annoying. Given that OpenMAX handles the playback perfectly, actually very efficient too, it's the Kodi default player and its implementation that kills the Pi performance.
- and ambiguity ( plus non-relevance - not using LE but focusing only on Kodi) - "LibreELEC 10.x also dropped support for Raspberry Pi Zero and other 512MB RAM devices as 1GB is now considered as the minimum RAM needed for a good Kodi experience." Why that? I mean, one of the secondary reasons (I didn't mention before, trying to be respectful towards the LE devs & their work) I'm not using LE is because I find it bloated (Kodi itself full of features) and the OS, even if stripped, is still more bloated compared to Slackware.
I did report issues with PVR only, and according to my experience (feedback I presented in the previous post) I only get OOM's in a very particular case while playing HD Channels - 1080p H264 for longer time and switching the channel to another HD Channel. Again, it looks like memory management issues (cleaning up buffers (garbage) before switching to another HD channel) and not that much memory limitations.
Anyways, I'm convinced now I need to sell the remaining Raspberry "arsenal" I own and focus on some SH x86 thin clients for media consumption under Kodi, as OpenMAX, the only implementation that really excelled, became history.
Watching PVR (tvheadend) is still my main "media" activity.