Telkom LIT Android media box - Tips/Tricks/Apps thread

[Sinbad]

Dropped frames?

I am not sure. Need to map a button on my remote to see decoder stats somehow.
But yes, it seemed like that.

 

[Soul Assassin]

I am not sure. Need to map a button on my remote to see decoder stats somehow.
But yes, it seemed like that.

What was the bitrate?

 

[Sinbad]

What was the bitrate?

I don't know. How do I tell? (I guess I could load it up in VLC on my desktop to see this, right?)

 

[Soul Assassin]

I like to use this:

MediaInfo is a convenient unified display of the most relevant technical and tag data for video and audio files.

If it was just some normal movie or series you downloaded it shouldn't be too high a bitrate to handle, you definitely should bind something to view the info on the box to see what's what.

 

[Sinbad]

It was ~1GB per hour of video, if that helps

 

[Soul Assassin]

It was ~1GB per hour of video, if that helps

One of my files is 1.8GB for a 58 minute file and that's only has a 4Mbps bitrate and the quality is amazing.

 

[Sinbad]

One of my files is 1.8GB for a 58 minute file and that's only has a 4Mbps bitrate.

I'll fire it up in VLC on my PC and see how it looks this evening.

 

[Sinbad]

Data rate 3mbps

Butter smooth on VLC...

 

[Soul Assassin]

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Data rate 3mbps

Butter smooth on VLC...

You will have to check if Kodi is doing hardware decoding.

 

[Sinbad]

It must be. There's no way the cpu could come close.

/edit Confirmed, hardware.

Seems to be slightly better tonight. I dunno.

 

[Soul Assassin]

It must be. There's no way the cpu could come close.

/edit Confirmed, hardware.

Seems to be slightly better tonight. I dunno.

What is the second audio track, maybe it's the DTS HD it doesn't like.

 

[Sinbad]

What is the second audio track, maybe it's the DTS HD it doesn't like.

The audio is passed through.

 

[Speedster]

One of my files is 1.8GB for a 58 minute file and that's only has a 4Mbps bitrate and the quality is amazing.

4mbps is plenty. DSTV Now runs 1080p at less than that (1.7GB/hour)

 

[Soul Assassin]

The audio is passed through.

It's the only thing I can think of, from your screenshot it doesn't seem to be DTS HD anyway it's AC3 aka Dolby Digital, have you tried another player besides Kodi?

4mbps is plenty. DSTV Now runs 1080p at less than that (1.7GB/hour)

4Mbps x265 is even better, the quality is great, I'm a big fan of x265.

 

[Speedster]

It's the only thing I can think of, from your screenshot it doesn't seem to be DTS HD anyway it's AC3 aka Dolby Digital, have you tried another player besides Kodi?



4Mbps x265 is even better, the quality is great, I'm a big fan of x265.

The DSTV stream is most likely H.265

 

[Soul Assassin]

The DSTV stream is most likely H.265

DSTV Catch Up on the Explora 2 uses x265, the stuff the devices auto downloads, that's why they could change to a 1TB HDD down from a 2TB on the Explora.

I highly doubt DSTV Now uses x265.

 

[opinionhated]

I used the android tv app remote last night - worked really well. No need to worry about your remote battery going flat etc.

Can you do setup without a remote? As in use the lit box from the get go without a remote?

 

[Dirtdiver]

Blegh. Think I've found a limitation on the box
Downloaded a 30GB H264 file. Required data rate is about 50Mb/sec - the LIT doesn't cope with that over an SMB share (wired network)

I played larger files than 30GB and the lit played it fine via Kodi.

Played some 1080p DTS-MA HEVC 10 bit stuff last night. It seemed like the frame rate was very low.
Is that normal with HEVC? (Wasn't a network bandwidth constraint, kodi had buffered about 20% of the file

I play my video files via kodi. I thought the lit does not do DTS-MA. I have that option turned off in kodi. If i turn it on, it stutters and losses sound, then switches back etc

 

[Dolby]

Played some 1080p DTS-MA HEVC 10 bit stuff last night. It seemed like the frame rate was very low.
Is that normal with HEVC? (Wasn't a network bandwidth constraint, kodi had buffered about 20% of the file)

I'm sure I tried this and it was perfect :

(I don't have a box now, so can't test it)

http://4kmedia.org/lg-chess-hdr-demo/

Resolution : 3840 x 2160
File size : 842 MB
Duration : 00:01:53
Format : MP4
Codec : HEVC
Overall bit rate : 62 Mb/s
Bit depth : 10 bits
Frame rate : 60 fps

 

[milomak]

Are any of you getting a 503 error (Video Authorisation)