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Originally Posted by NewChief
So Fish:
You know I bought the Gbox MX2 a few years back. It's serviceable. The main issue I have is with latency on high quality streams. I really noticed this when I tried to watch the NFL on the Pro Sports app. I'm hardwired and on a good internet connection, so I'm wondering if it's something with my video acceleration or processing on the MX2. Basically, the sound is fine, the picture is crytal clear, but the video is either slow motion or jerky.
I should add: there's no buffering on these streams (which makes me think it's not buffering). It's just a poor quality of video. Often, if I let it keep playing (in slow/stutter motion), it will eventually crash the box.
Are there some settings that I should look at to try to help with this?
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Yes, I'd guess video acceleration settings. Are you using the most recent version of KODI? If you haven't updated KODI itself in a while, I'd do that first. Then check your hardware acceleration settings. Go to System\Video. Look in the bottom left corner(Confluence skin) for "Settings level". Click that and change it to "Advanced" or "Expert". Then click on the new Acceleration tab that is only visible at those settings levels. Under Acceleration, there will be two main settings you'll need to worry about. "Allow hardware acceleration - libstagefright" and "Allow hardware acceleration - MediaCodec".
First, I'd try it with libstagefright on and mediacodec off. That's generally the most compatible setting with most Android devices. But if that doesn't work, then try different variations to see what works best for the videos that are giving you problems.
The Gbox MX2 is capable of some hardware decoding. But that's good and bad. Hardware decoding is a lot more hit and miss than software decoding. Gbox MX2 can hardware decode H.264, MPEG, VC1. But it can't hardware decode H.265. So it may just be crappy out trying to hardware decode H.265.
Another useful test is to turn on the codecinfo overlay. Plug in a keyboard, and find a video that's giving you bad performance. While the video is playing, hit the "O" key on the keyboard. This will give you all kinds of info on hardware usage and codec info. See what codec it's using, and try to identify if its one specific codec that's killing it.
Also, check audio settings. Make sure you don't have something turned on that shouldn't be. It sounds crazy, but sometimes that can be a source of video stuttering.
Hope that helps.