HomeOpen Hour Chameleon is a pretty good device, with a stable firmware, properly working Gigabit Ethernet, EXT-4 file system support for external devices, relatively decent video playback capabilities in SPMC.
XBMC / Kodi / SPMC 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, except a few FLV which make SPMC exit, and the system return to the launcher.
Open Hour Chameleon supported video codec:
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
How to play FLV (unsupported) on Chameleon with SPMC?
It is well known that FLV is a Flash Video container file format used to deliver video over the Internet using Adobe Flash Player version 6 and newer. FLV usually contain material encoded with codecs following the Sorenson Spark or VP6 video compression formats. It can hold many different type of audio, video codec such as H.264, H.263, MPEG-4 ASP, MPEG AAC, etc. FLV may contains information such as duration, width and height, framerate, encryption, metadata... If there are some video, audio or other information that SPMC does not recognize, it will make SPMC exit, and the system return to the launcher.
To play FLV files smoothly on Open Hour Chameleon, the best solution is to transcode FLV files to Open Hour Chameleon best compatible H.264 video codec with AC3 audio codec. Here, Pavtube Video Converter- Acted as the best FLV to 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 complete the FLV 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 FLV files to Open Hour Chameleon. Besides FLV, 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 SPMC.
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 FLV to Chameleon Best Format?
Download the best FLV to Open Hour Chameleon converting tool.
Step 1: Import FLV files.
Launch the application on your computer, click "File" > "Load Video/Audio" or "Load from Folder" to import FLV files to the program.
Step 2: Choose proper format to watch FLV files on Chameleon.
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 AC3 codec to output.
Step 4: Start the conversion.
Go back to the main UI and click "Convert"button to start FLV to Chameleon supported H.264 file format conversion process.
Then you can transfer the converted files to Chameleon.
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