Hi there
Wonder if anyone can help me?
I've just upgraded my X8-H Plus to the official Lollipop RC2 firmware posted in this forum & have installed Kodi 18.2 Leia from the Google Play Store. Previously I was running KitKat 4.4 & Kodi 15.
The MiniX is connected to my home network via CAT6/1Gbit Ethernet, with 1080p movies streaming from a dedicated, always on Windows 7 media server. All my movies have either a DD, DD MA, DTS or DTS HD soundtrack to them. The MiniX is connected to my AVR (Onkyo 876) via HDMI, which is in turn connected to my TV via HDMI too. I have a 5.1 audio setup. In the main Audio settings of the MiniX (home menu), Digital Sounds is set to "auto detection" & it selects HDMI.
When running KitKat/Kodi 15, I had Kodi set to 2.0 speakers with "allow passthrough" & "DD/AC3 capable receiver" both enabled. In the main MiniX settings, audio was set to PCM. The amp would receive the audio signal and decode/show whatever the soundtrack was, e.g. DTS/DD MA. With this configuration, I never experienced video stuttering, however recently I had started to get some occasional audio dropouts when playing movies, maybe 3 or 4 times during the movie, but it was getting enjoying, so I updated to Lollipop in the hope it would cure it.
Since upgrading, I've set Kodi 18.2 to the same settings but now I get terrible & constant video stuttering & audio dropouts. It's completely unwatchable. I've tried multiple other configurations, e.g. 5.1 & 7.1 speakers but this doesn't seem to make any difference. If I disable "allow passthrough" then I get perfect video & audio, but only if I set the number of audio channels to 2.0. If I set it to 5.1 or 7.1, the MiniX just freezes when I start to play video & requires the power cord pulling out to reset it.
My other Kodi audio settings are:
- output configuration: best match
- maintain original volume on downmix: disabled
- stereo upmix: disabled
- resample quality: medium
- keep audio device alive: 1 min
- send low volume nose: enabled
I've tried setting audio to PCM in the main MiniX settings, but this doesn't make any difference.
Any thoughts as to why I'm getting so much stuttering now, but didn't before? I've reset everything (media server, Ethernet hubs, MiniX etc) but it makes no difference. Enable "Allow passthrough", everything stutters, disable it, everything back to normal.
Obviously I could just leave it with those settings, but audio is just as important as video to me, so I'm reluctant to do this. My amp does give a pseudo surround sound with this configuration, but my ears know it's not true surround!
Could dropping to Kodi 17 help or is the problem elsewhere?
Wonder if anyone can help me?
I've just upgraded my X8-H Plus to the official Lollipop RC2 firmware posted in this forum & have installed Kodi 18.2 Leia from the Google Play Store. Previously I was running KitKat 4.4 & Kodi 15.
The MiniX is connected to my home network via CAT6/1Gbit Ethernet, with 1080p movies streaming from a dedicated, always on Windows 7 media server. All my movies have either a DD, DD MA, DTS or DTS HD soundtrack to them. The MiniX is connected to my AVR (Onkyo 876) via HDMI, which is in turn connected to my TV via HDMI too. I have a 5.1 audio setup. In the main Audio settings of the MiniX (home menu), Digital Sounds is set to "auto detection" & it selects HDMI.
When running KitKat/Kodi 15, I had Kodi set to 2.0 speakers with "allow passthrough" & "DD/AC3 capable receiver" both enabled. In the main MiniX settings, audio was set to PCM. The amp would receive the audio signal and decode/show whatever the soundtrack was, e.g. DTS/DD MA. With this configuration, I never experienced video stuttering, however recently I had started to get some occasional audio dropouts when playing movies, maybe 3 or 4 times during the movie, but it was getting enjoying, so I updated to Lollipop in the hope it would cure it.
Since upgrading, I've set Kodi 18.2 to the same settings but now I get terrible & constant video stuttering & audio dropouts. It's completely unwatchable. I've tried multiple other configurations, e.g. 5.1 & 7.1 speakers but this doesn't seem to make any difference. If I disable "allow passthrough" then I get perfect video & audio, but only if I set the number of audio channels to 2.0. If I set it to 5.1 or 7.1, the MiniX just freezes when I start to play video & requires the power cord pulling out to reset it.
My other Kodi audio settings are:
- output configuration: best match
- maintain original volume on downmix: disabled
- stereo upmix: disabled
- resample quality: medium
- keep audio device alive: 1 min
- send low volume nose: enabled
I've tried setting audio to PCM in the main MiniX settings, but this doesn't make any difference.
Any thoughts as to why I'm getting so much stuttering now, but didn't before? I've reset everything (media server, Ethernet hubs, MiniX etc) but it makes no difference. Enable "Allow passthrough", everything stutters, disable it, everything back to normal.
Obviously I could just leave it with those settings, but audio is just as important as video to me, so I'm reluctant to do this. My amp does give a pseudo surround sound with this configuration, but my ears know it's not true surround!
Could dropping to Kodi 17 help or is the problem elsewhere?