Re: Dvblink Tv Source Crackle
Sibyl Piccuillo
My model I bought can also be had off eBay for around $52 delivered. The neighbour bought it yesterday of an eBay website on Tuesday night. It says delivery from China and expect it to arrive Tuesday to Friday next week.
I have bought Mini M8S II Smart TV Box Amlogic S905X Android 6.0 4K 2GB / 8GB from eBay and arrived in this morning and all good but the thing was it comes with SPDIF output from Audion and I do not have to connect with speaker.
My logitech speaker system is only 3.5mm jack pin or RCA only.
When can I get adapter for SPDIF output jack pin, I was trying to fin in eBay and abit confusing with the product, help me please, thanks in advance.
if your using kodi on pc or whatever you have to play with the settings .... i.e. I have the latest kodi on my mini laptop with 4gb ram and hdmi to big tv and I found if I set decoding to software only and unchecked dxva2 live streams seem to work better.
Also one thing to add is some live streams are at fault for buffering .. too many people on the server ... so this is why go thru all your live tv addons and add to favourites all your channels and when there is something on you want to watch you have 5 or 6 backup channels ... if you pay for iptv $6 a month then you would not get buffering ... well some do such as dna tv which used to be great ..
I am trying to install a full all in one kodi or Spmc, including addons etc Is there such a thing??, interested in salts, onechannel etc as addons. I do have kodi on NVidia shield and firetv 2015 but takes ages to configure everything, install repos etc.
I don't have an Nvidia but I do have a Minix Neo X8-H Plus and use the following instructions to mirror an install across several devices. I use the File Manager HD app to navigate and I have allowed that app to see 'hidden files' in 'Settings'.
George, navigate to the files from your Nvidia found in Device, Android, data, org.xbmc.kodi (or a similarly named folder for sempermax), Files, and in .kodi you will find 5 folders (addons, media, system, temp and userdata).
These 5 folders hold all of your kodi/SPMC stuff, addons etc. So if you were to copy those to your PC and then paste them into a the same .kodi folder on your new device you will have the same kodi/SPMC mirrored on both devices.
Lastly, as has been stated before, these add many addons, including one's you may not use. As such, you need to either uninstall the one's you don't want (if the build will let you), to ensure all your ram is not taken up.
I asked as I own an old Aldi TV which can't received HD channels so rather than throwing out the TV all together, perhaps looking for Kodi box with DVB TV receiver. Are these combo boxes up to date with Kodi 16 and andriod 6 or should I just bite the bullet and purchase a KODI box and a DVB receiver seperately?
You do not need to get the sat/terrestrial/kodi box mentioned, as there are many types as well with android and dvb-t combined only, if thats all you want. Just look in places like AliExpress, gearbest, videostrong,joinwe etc, and the world is your oyster.The other main shared one's come under names of K1 plus, etc.
There's always cheaper alternatives due to the branding or specs but in the case of the supplier, Aliexpress ship slower than most eBay suppliers so you can get your device in 1-2 weeks from eBay or 4-8 weeks from Aliexpress, hence the big price difference.
No such animal these days (fox channels). There used to be, but too much public talk about it got them shut down/scared off.
There are lots of sports addons with varying quality. Start with looking at Phoenix add on and SportsDevil.
If looking for links in add ons, you want links to "BT Sports". They play the A league broadcast in the UK. Normally those links are fairly common.
Or go to the pub/game (I am in ear shot of my local team stadium).
new to kodi and have found that if you stop a video before it finishes the wallpaper displays a still from the video from the last position when it stopped. I understand the point of this, but is it possible to stop this from happening in the settings?
Well it works perfectly on my android phone, Android tablet, Windows tablet and iPad. Only android media box is not working. So it's not the service, my next move is to buy an HDMI cable for the Windows tablet as it has a mini HDMI port. Hopefully that will work.
I use Real Debrid. I have a 6 month subscription now after 'trialling' a 15 day account. You are supposed to get access to better 'paid for' download streams. Works OK for me but you still get a few minor buffering issues and quite a few links which don't work.
I've just ordered the Sunvell T95X. Looks like a reasonable box for US$34 delivered. I spent the weekend moving the database from my media centre Kodi box to a MySQL database on my NAS and am going to replace the old media player (which doesn't run Kodi) in the bedroom with the Sunvell so that it can share the same database as the main player. Will be nice to be able to use the same metadata on both players.
or your friend may want 7.1 audio pass-through to an AVR, then also other options should be explored.
HEVC/H265 is becoming more "available" so not having the processor capability to play, really is a short term option.
Somehow my Kodi music database is reading ID tags on music files that iTunes doesn't show. In iTunes, my music is set up perfectly with dates, albums artists ect but when it gets to Kodi its all pear shaped. What would be the best method for fixing? An older version of itunes allowed you to delete ID tags which i did but they old info is still appearing in Kodi.
I like my albums to be fully tagged and my singles just to be empty with no data apart from artist and song name and a year for newer music (to help with establishing "new music" playlist). This is what shows in itunes but in Kodi its a mess.
absolutely.. my 15TB NAS was approaching capacity, I've been going through and RE-ENCODING 720p MKVs and the resulting file size is generally about 50% of the original file size and the encoding quality loss (from an already compressed source) is negligible.
I'm using handbrake to batch convert folders, then I have a quick look through and comparison against the source h264 encoded files before I replace them with the smaller h265 re-encoded files. I keep the original audio and subtitles from the source files.
Hey guys, I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to all this. I'm looking to replace my WDTV Live streaming player with an Android box running Kodi. It needs to be able to play videos off of my two 4TB local drives (currently plugged into the WDTV) and be able to playback 1080p mkv files and 4K video. Basically just looking for something to completely replace the WDTV that has a few more features, etc.
It needs to be able to play videos off of my two 4TB local drives (currently plugged into the WDTV) and be able to playback 1080p mkv files and 4K video. Basically just looking for something to completely replace the WDTV that has a few more features, etc.
I guess you have mapped the drives attached to your WDTV and can access them from your PC via your wireless network. If not check out the WD Discovery program. Now they are visible on your network, an Android TV Box will 'find' them as a network drive and stream files from them. I keep my old WDTV in standby with a 1TB drive attached and use it as a network drive.
Now the question on 'which box' to buy, that's like how long is a piece of string! The more you spend the better the level of support. I have two boxes, an earlier model Minix Neo X8-H Plus I bought for under $200 and a Sunvell T95 I bought recently for $50.
The Sunvell has been requisitioned by a neighbour and he is having a ball playing all he wants (streaming from online) on it. The little time I had it (about a day) it worked fine for me. Note also because of newer technology the $50 Sunvell plays more file types than the Minix. The top choice for a TV Box is the Nvidia Shield at anything up to $300 so it is up to you.
Got a laptop with HDMI? Install FreeTelly for Windows on that, plug in your HDMI lead and there is your quickest way to have a go at Kodi. FreeTelly is a preconfigured version of Kodi especially for Windows and is a free download.
That's the plan tho I just tested out my PC with Logitech z506 and couldn't get it working right.
Researching some expensive speaker kit and and AVR to go with my Nvidia Shield for some better sound and wanted to make sure the content is out there before I spend $7k or $8k.
Can anyone advise how to go about adding a logitech K400r keyboard to a new Mini M8S II 4K Smart TV Box Amlogic S905X ?
I upgraded firmware etc.
Keyboard doesn't work automatically by just powering unit up with its usb dongle.
Easy to move across to LibreElec. Manually update the same way you would if you were updating OpenElec by downloading LibreElec tar file, placing in Update folder on your Openelec machine and then reboot and it will update to LibreElec.
It should all remain intact. Take a backup of the whole OpenElec install from the OpenElec settings prior to upgrading and you can always reinstall OpenElec and then the backup if there are any issues.
I guess I hadn't really noticed the lack of updates to OpenELEC. It is an interesting thought experiment to compare my desire for new features to how convenient it is that my current OpenELEC/Kodi setup is super-stable. (Good WAF!)
Does anyone experience the following issues when stopping video playback on Shield
- audio pop/crackle from avr speakers
- Video flash before returning to menu
Never had this issue when I ran openelec on PI2
1. Get MySQL working and create a "kodi" user
2. In Kodi, export database from Kodi box to NAS. This creates files containing metadata (images, watched status etc) on the NAS in the same place as the video or music files. This is a good thing to do regularly anyway as it backs up your Kodi data in case your Kodi box dies.