[ROM] AlfaWise H96 PRO+ 3/16Gb - 3/32Gb - 3/64Gb - SCV4A-ATV 7.1.2 (DDR3/DDR4 - ANDROIDTV VERSION)

[Akirainblack]

As I said I use Kodi 18 with no stuttering visible (with or without subtitles) on this ROM. That was why I suggested. Have you checked on the forums if there's a solution or asked if anyone knows of one?

[Alejandro Perez]

I'll check again and will provide feedback as well. Depending on the tested ROM I had either stuttering (stock ROM and some other) or occasional pixelation (this ROM I think and many others). This pixellation highly depends on the encoding of the file. Some media files have none, some others are absolutely horrible (as 90% of the time pixellated). I'm not sure whether Kodi 19 can fix it (maybe it can). I'll reinstall this ROM and give all of them a round (FTMC/SPMC/Kodi17/Kodi18).

Thanks for the tip!

[Lacix]

Because Kodi uses Android MediaCodec/Surface for HW acceleration, that with *all* the roms I've tested so far gives problems (either pixellation or stuttering). With the most recent Kernels, there is just a bit of stuttering, but it gets more noticeable when you have subtitles activated because it looses 1 frame every time a subtitle appears on screen. This happens with every player, not only with Kodi, which makes me think that is related on how the driver is handling overlays for putting text on top of video.

However, Kodi 16 (FTMC/SPMC) still keep the code for using AMLCodec and bypassing all the Android crappy drivers, giving you a pretty good reproduction experience. But I've got used to Kodi 17 and using Kodi 16 seems like a step backwards to me (not having access to in-progress movies, tv-shows...). That's why for now I'm using Libreelec on a pen-drive for dual-booting. With libreelec I have Kodi 17 with AMLCodec and Framerate switching, all working perfectly. The drawback of this is tat you have to reboot every time you want to switch from/to Kodi to/from Android apps, which is kind of annoying.

I am using SPMC with Plex kodi connect (with Plex server) and there is an on deck (in progress) and recently added widget too (using Titan skin with Netflix style). There is no such widget for normal Kodi 16?

[Akirainblack]

I have to say, I've had those problems in the past, however (especially with beta 4) things have only gotten better. I've found loading times have dropped to all but non existent even though I have multiple boxes querying an SQL back end on a basic NAS which is doing multiple jobs. Plus someone on the Kodi forums will have had the same issue and may have found a solution or Kodi themselves may have solved it and offer an alternative hardware rendering option.

[Morgan5000]

I just stumbled upon this ATV ROM creator do you think we can take some of their work to improve that of superceleron ???

https://www.atvxperience.com/downloads/#link_tab-s912tab

[ebabilonia]

I use kodi 17 with MediaCodec/Surface for HW acceleration off and work fine with out problem. When turn on this option(MediaCodec/Surface for HW acceleration) the video play pixeled.

[Morgan5000]

I use kodi 17 with MediaCodec/Surface for HW acceleration off and work fine with out problem. When turn on this option(MediaCodec/Surface for HW acceleration) the video play pixeled.

MediaCodec (surface) : enable
MediaCodec : disable

Thanks you Solved my problem of pixeled with kodi 18.4 working now.

[Lacix]

MediaCodec (surface) : enable
MediaCodec : disable

Thanks you Solved my problem of pixeled with kodi 18.4 working now.

Just tried this with Kodi 18beta4 (32 and 64 bit) but nothing is solved for me. Any Mediacodec set to on gives pixelated image in some movies.
Turning it totaly off is no solution because you get severe frame dropping with high bitrate movies. (AMLCodec is only used for Linux editions where it works fine)

[Morgan5000]

Just tried this with Kodi 18beta4 (32 and 64 bit) but nothing is solved for me. Any Mediacodec set to on gives pixelated image in some movies.
Turning it totaly off is no solution because you get severe frame dropping with high bitrate movies. (AMLCodec is only used for Linux editions where it works fine)

With kodi 17/18 i have problem with streamango player mediacodec disable Solve my problem (freeze sometimes)

With FTMC Factory settings 0 problem with all player of stream.

I use also addon ares wizard for best memory cache

[ebabilonia]

Just tried this with Kodi 18beta4 (32 and 64 bit) but nothing is solved for me. Any Mediacodec set to on gives pixelated image in some movies.
Turning it totaly off is no solution because you get severe frame dropping with high bitrate movies. (AMLCodec is only used for Linux editions where it works fine)

I turn off both media codec

MediaCodec (surface) : disable
MediaCodec : disable

[Alejandro Perez]

I turn off both media codec

MediaCodec (surface) : disable
MediaCodec : disable

Turn both off will switch to SW decoding. It might be ok with many sources, but if you try High Profile Full HD and above media files... it won't be able to play smooth. Besides, with SW decoding CPU is stressed more and, consequently, overheating.

So far to my tests, best possible results are achieved with Libreelec (AMLCodec, Framerate switching, Smaller Mem/CPU footprint...), followed close by any of the Superceleron ROMs using FTMC (quite possible SPMC 16 as well) with AMLCodec enabled (you get AMLCodec support and, that also gives you little/none judder even without framerate switching). The Android footprint is smaller than with the Stock ROM.

[loulapirate]

Hello everybody,
I bought a case h96 + pro last week. I currently have a q201_9377-userdebug 7.1.2 NHG47L20180620test-keys
I would like to install the superceleron rom but I do not know if it is compatible with my H96 + pro.

i'am newbie and i'am affraid to brick them..

thank you very much

[Bebe1980]

How annoying.... 7 hours to download and then the md5 doesn't match ...

Is there another site to download the

OTA-SCV4A-ATV-A7.1.2-x64-Alfawise.H96.ProPlus.zip from ?

I've done the SCV1 part and it's working very well for me

[Alejandro Perez]

How annoying.... 7 hours to download and then the md5 doesn't match ...

Is there another site to download the

OTA-SCV4A-ATV-A7.1.2-x64-Alfawise.H96.ProPlus.zip from ?

I've done the SCV1 part and it's working very well for me

7h! I downloaded it in just a matter of minutes, right now! Average speed was 1.8Mbytes/s

[Bebe1980]

7h! I downloaded it in just a matter of minutes, right now! Average speed was 1.8Mbytes/s

I dunno why .... now showing 21 hours and ... I am in the Philippines ... It's like 6.8kb/sec