HomeOpen Hour Chameleon is yet another Rockchip RK3288 based Android TV box, but it comes with aluminum enclosure, and boots from SD card instead of internal storage like all other devices I-ve seen on the market so far.
Hi, just got my open hour yeterday, configured it with Xbmc gotham and my NAS synology on SMB network.
Every video i play, from 1080p iso bluray to 720p mkv is laggy, not smooth at all, wih micro stutters. It worked fine on my A100.
I tried to turn pff hardware acceleration in xbmc, everything. But i guess the problem is from the hardware since this laggy problem comes in MX player too.
How to make DTS Audio playable with MX Player on Open Hour Chameleon
MX player is not pre-installed in the firmware, but the company recommended me to install SPMC 13.3.4 apk apparently modified and optimized by RockChip and the SPMC team. Most of the AVI, MKV, FLV, VOB/IFO, FLV and MP4 videos in my library could play fine.
You should make sure that you have downloading the latest versions of MX Player where you had to have seperate files and put them in a folder. It changed and went more legit, and simply download the ARM07 Neon codec from Google Play along with MX Player. Then set the setting to decode audio only via software when you require this for your DTS files.
Or you are using a very old Firmware or your Audio settings in Settings of the Open Hour Chameleon is set wrong, or your Receiver is set wrong. You guys are doing something wrong.
After testing around with the settings I got it to work! You should guarantee the follow two settings:
You must select the H/W decoder.
With H/W+ or S/W decoder there's no sound.
Now you can make the DTS Audio on Open Hour Chameleon playable with MX Player.
How to make all files playable on on Open Hour Chameleon playable with MX Player
The very first thing we should know is what video codec supported by Open Hour Chameleon. We list below:
Videos samples from samplemedia.linaro.org, plus some H.265/HEVC videos, and a low resolution VP9 video:
H.264 codec / MP4 container (Big Buck Bunny) - 480p/720p/1080p - OK
MPEG2 codec / MPG container - 480p/720p/1080p - It-s playing sort of OK, but it could be more smooth (Playing at ~22 fps instead of 25 fps)- OK
MPEG4 codec, AVI container - 480p/720p/1080p- OK
VC1 codec (WMV) - 480p/720p/1080p - OK
WebM / VP8 - 480p/720p/1080p - OK
RealMedia - RV8/RV9/RV10 - OK
H.265 codec / MPEG TS container - 360p/720p/1080p - OK
Some higher bitrate videos all played fine in SPMC:
ED_HD.avi - OK, no problem even in fast moving scenes
big_buck_bunny_1080p_surround.avi (1080p H.264 - 12 Mbps) - OK
h264_1080p_hp_4.1_40mbps_birds.mkv (40 Mbps) - OK
hddvd_demo_17.5Mbps_1080p_VC1.mkv (17.5Mbps) - OK
Jellyfish-120-Mbps.mkv (120 Mbps video without audio) - OK (That-s over Gigabit Ethernet)
High definition audio codec (downmixed to PCM output):
AC3 - OK, but video does not feel that smooth
Dolby Digital Plus 5.1 & 7.1 - OK
TrueHD 5.1 & 7.1 - OK
DTS-MA and DTS-HR - OK
Then you should make sure the video codec you want play on MX player on Open Hour Chameleon is in the list. To play incompatible files smoothly on Open Hour Chameleon with MX Player with DTS sound, the best solution is to transcode incompatible files files to Open Hour Chameleon best compatible H.264 video codec with DTS-MA and DTS-HR audio codec. Here, Pavtube Video Converter- Acted as the best Open Hour Chameleon converting tool - is recommended highly. It features a simple yet sleek interface and performs files conversion with fast speed enables you to convert all incompatible files to H.264 codec task with least quality loss in just a few clicks at your fingertips.
This video app is undoubtedly the best video converter of all times. You can Clip, Crop, Merge, Apply effect, set output parameter, add watermark, snapshot, rotate etc. before import files to Open Hour Chameleon. Moreover, this video app allows you to convert 70+ video types such as MOV, Tivo recordings, MKV, H.265 *mp4/*mov, *mxf/*mts/*m2ts from JVC, Panasonic, Canon, Nikon, Sony cameras and camcorders, etc. to almost any audio/video format for free entertainment on Chameleon with MX Player.
This video app provides both Mac and Windows Version, Pavtube Video Converter for Mac (Mac version) also available for you.
If you have 3D Blu-ray ISO files, DVD Video_TS folder, and want to watch them on Open Hour Chameleon, please feel free to get Pavtube BDMagic (Mac / Windows).
How to Convert Any File to Chameleon Best Format with DTS Sound on MX Player ?
Download the best Open Hour Chameleon converting tool.
Step 1: Import Source files.
Launch the application on your computer, click "File" > "Load Video/Audio" or "Load from Folder" to import source files to the program.
Step 2: Choose proper format to watch any files on Chameleon with MX Player.
Click "Format" bar, from its drop-down option, select to output Chameleon best playable video formats by following "HD Video" > "H.264 HD Video(*.mp4)".
Step 3: Customize to output Chameleon playable audio codec.
Click "Settings" to open "Profile" settings window, in "Audio" section, click "Codec" drop-down list, select Chameleon playable 5.1 DTS codec to output.
Step 4: Start the conversion.
Go back to the main UI and click "Convert"button to start source files to Chameleon supported H.264 file format conversion process.
Then you can transfer the converted files to Chameleon and then playing with DTS sound on MX Player.
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