Q5 pro, intermittently stuttering picture with VU+ PVR addon

[raverke95]

Playback the movies stored on my NAS gives an awesome fluent picture. Both played back in Kodi or with the wrapper.

For playing back streams and recordings of my VU+DUO2 satellite receiver, I use the VU+ addon of Kodi.
Both with playing back recorded pictures and live streams, you sometimes see an annoying stuttering picture; a kind of frame dropping. Very intermittently.

Since I'm using the beta 1 of Kodi 17, it's lots better, but sometimes the stuttering comes back.

Network is OK, other mediaplayers don't have the issue.

What could be wrong.

HDMI settings:
1080i50
RGB10bit

tnx
Gert

[MortUK]

Hi Raverke95,

Did you ever manage to sort the stuttering out.?

Mort..

[raverke95]

No, unfortunately not.
I even don't use the HiMedia anymore, because it also gives problems with 4K movies and it blocks all the CEC signals on my TV.

I use a Chinese S912 box who works well with all the signals, also the Vu+ streams.

[MortUK]

Thank you.. can you link to your box.?

Mort..

[raverke95]

If you mean making a connection between PC and the box... I haven't done it yet. But in the past I did the same thing with a Philips Android tv.

Why?

[MortUK]

No. I mean it m interested in knowing the make and model of your new box..

[raverke95]

It's just a brandless S912 Chinese thing. Bought on Ebay. 1000 + available :-)

One disadvantage: the picture is good, but when the HiMedia works fluently for one time, you can see the picture is sharper in details. Especially on 4K.
But you can't watch a complete movie whithout several stutters and other problems. The S912 does it better

[futeko.com]

The S912 chipset is well known for it's poor Kodi performance. Check out Kodi forum hardware section. If you really want to go down the cheap c**p route then S905X is much better. Get one of those running LibreELEC and it will work great for most Kodi streaming addons.

Saying that, Q5/Q10 Pro should also be able to handle them. Raverke95, I am very surprised that you find Kodi 17 better for a streaming addon than Kodi 16.1. There is a lot of feedback on this forum and otherwise that suggests the opposite. I have no direct experience of VU+ addon (hence lack of replies before now) but I would have thought Kodi 16.1 on Q5/Q10 Pro would handle it without a problem. Looking at your initial post the problem might be related to your framerate switching. What franerate are the VU+ recordings? How are they transmitted to the Q5/Q10 Pro?

[raverke95]

The S912 chipset is well known for it's poor Kodi performance. Check out Kodi forum hardware section. If you really want to go down the cheap c**p route then S905X is much better. Get one of those running LibreELEC and it will work great for most Kodi streaming addons.

Till last week I owned a Philips Android tv. Kodi installed on that set worked acceptable, but it became a disaster for 4K movies. Philips' software is and stays buggy. I had the chance to change it for a 3 year old non-Android 4K Sony. So now I need a good mediaplayer. Because the S912 doesn't deliver good picture, but the Vu+ streams and HDMI-CEC work well on it and the picture quality of the streams is better as eg.  a Raspberry pi, I could use that S912 on the TV set in my working room. (It's a 40" Full-HD, so that picture coming from the S912 is good enough for the 40" TV)


The HiMedia now...
I could connect it to my Sony 4K on which I don't need the Vu+ streams (the Vu+ itself is directly connected to that TV), so forget PVR addons on the HiMedia.
What I want to do now on that HiMedia:
Playing back full HD, 4K and 3D movie files stutterfree(most of them are MP4 and MKV), with DTS and AC3 sound. I download the subs using Kodi subtitle downloader and sometimes need to synchronise them.
At last, I also use some streaming addons of Kodi.
On that TV I have, beside the Mediaplayer, 2 devices connected which must be controlled by HDMI-CEC (Soundbar, etc). Connecting HiMedia blocks all the other CEC commands and HiMedia doesn't accept a single CEC command.

So, now you have a good overview of the targets I wanna do on my (HiMedia) mediaplayer. Is this possible with this Q5pro whithout stuttering, problems or whatelse?
If yes, I would get very grateful if someone could tell me which firmware I have to use and wich version of Kodi (or SPMC)

@the moderators: if this text had to be set in a seperate topic, please adjust it.

Thanks!

[MortUK]

Just an update with this I ended up going for the Zidoo x9s box..

In th Zidoo box the PVR works perfectly... for reference I'm using..

VU+ Enigma PVR Addon
Zidoo version of Kodi
zGemma H2H cable tv box

Mort..
 

[Mount81]

Have you tried to turn off both acceleration options in the Video Playback settings in KODI?! May not be related, but it's an essential "must do" for stutterfree online streaming...

[futeko.com]

Just an update with this I ended up going for the Zidoo x9s box..

In th Zidoo box the PVR works perfectly... for reference I'm using..

VU+ Enigma PVR Addon
Zidoo version of Kodi
zGemma H2H cable tv box

Mort..

Zidoo XBMC is based on Kodi 16.1 and you are entirely reliant on Zidoo continuing to produce updates. I see this as a big drawback.

I'm pretty sure that setup / those add-ons would work on Q5/Q10 Pro running Kodi 16.1 also.

[raverke95]

Have tried several things to solve this problem, all with no succes.

These days I'm using the HiMedia for streaming from Kodi addons and playing back movies on my NAS. Even with wrapper installed and configured you sometimes have stutterings.
Solutions are changing video output from 1080P60 to 1080i50, especially for European movies/streams.

Shortly said: it works, but it's always half an hour playing with settings for having a good stutter free picture. Very annoying if my wife wants to see a movie. She doesn't like it at all.

The hardware of HiMedia boxes is very good, but his software is terrible. I can't understand why it's impossible to make a bug free software...

For me I will wait one more software update, if all the stuttering problems persists, like they do since August when I bought this box, it will be something for the dustbin. On a certain moment it has to stop.

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