Kodi 14 on Pipo X7 - skipped/dropped frames

[Bigman1]

I live in the UK. Desk fans aren't something we need that often! I'll see what I can find - possibly a hair dryer on cold.

Haven't tried a VPN or Virtual Box yet. My next job is to try Ubuntu and see what Kodi does under that.

Me too but the tricked worked with an old sapphire graphics card in a desktop so thought it may hrlp

thanks for your help, look forward to reading the rest

j

[noggin]

Going to order a bunch of cheap heatsinks from **** and see what I can come up with.

Think I'll try a heatsink on the heatpad first, and if that doesn't work I'll remove the heat pad and try a replacement.

So annoying that they've not put a decent heatsink in this box.

[bluesmanuk]

It's also worth testing VLC Rincewind that has experimental decoding of HEVC and Webm/VP9.

I had trouble playing some HEVC files on an old PC and this version of VLC allowed them to play correctly.

https://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/2.1.2.html

[noggin]

Forgive me if I don't understand the issues but if it is not a heat dissipation problem is this likely to mean that I would have problems streaming HD content from SVTPlay on this box?

To answer your question - just watching SVT Play in Internet Explorer on my X7.

In "Högsta kvalitet" (720/25p) med "textning på" (subtitles on) I don't get over heating but I am definitely getting dropped frames.

The same programme in the same quality in the Kodi add-on in SVT Play with subtitles on definitely plays better. So far I'd say perfectly. (Though the CPU runs hotter)

[.oOo.]

Thanks for that Noggin.

[noggin]

And under Ubuntu the same 720/50p files play with no skips or drops. 1080/50i with Bob deinterlacing does well - but slowly the CPUs hit capacity as throttling kicks in - so temperature still an issue.