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Am I expecting too much of my H96 Pro+?

Added by Martin Kernick about 7 years ago

Hello, I'm fairly new this so bear with me.

I have an H96 Pro+ s912 TV box on which I'm running LibreELEC. You can tell what a newbie I was because at the time of purchase I didn't know that the graphics drivers for the s912 were unavailable. Those clever guys at LibreELEC have dug me out of that particular hole!

So I'm running the latest experimental build (8.1.10) for s912 LibreELEC with some success, and now I'm trying to add live TV. I bought myself a Hauppauge WinTV Dual tuner only to find that only one tuner was recognised under LibreELEC - I understand that there is a patch for this but I'm not clever enough to work out how to install it! In any case from what I can glean, the patch will be pre-applied in LibreELEC 8.2.

LibreELEC helpfully include in their own repository for Kodi back end and front end addons for Tvheadend which I installed on my H96 PRo+ and got running after a fashion. Unfortunately I experienced occasional glitches in SD and HD was unwatchable. These appear to be down to 'continuity errors'.

I originally thought that this was down to the signal. I had replaced the coax with the modern stuff, installed a masthead amplifier (aerial is in the loft), and messed around with the best position for the aerial. The TV is giving glitch-free performance, the windows software works well on mu dual-boot windows 10/linux mint PC, no glitches there. But there are still glitches using Tvheadend under Kodi/LibreELEC.

So with other arrangements working well, I'm now of the opinion that the signal is probably fine.

Finally I installed Tvheadend on my PC under Linux mint and used the PC as the backend with the Hauppauge device plugged into the PC. I set up the Kodi front end addon on the H96 Pro+ to use this back end and hey presto! No glitches even in HD.

So what I want to know is whether I'm simply asking too much of my little H96 Pro+ to run both the back end and the front end, or should this be achievable? From reading around, people seem to be running back end and front end software on the Raspberry Pi. So am I missing something?

Hopefully there will be someone out there who has tried something similar?

Bonzo


Replies (2)

RE: Am I expecting too much of my H96 Pro+? - Added by Robert Cameron about 7 years ago

Devices with Amlogic chips have poor graphics support in Linux; they are only really supported under Android. I imagine this is the root of your problem. (Amlogic devices have poor support in general under Linux, but the state of graphics is worse than other arm chips.)

Until they release proper drivers, you are going to have an uphill battle with that device.

RE: Am I expecting too much of my H96 Pro+? - Added by saen acro about 7 years ago

It's too much platform fragmentation = near no support
Chinese brand = zero support

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