Hi folks. I mentioned selling this a couple months ago and I finally got around to wiping it and boxing it up. It's ready to be shipped. If you're interested, just pm me. I don't think it's even six months old. It works fine but I found the tweaking and adjusting settings maddening.

Am I losing my mind, or is DTS-HD MA genuinely better than DTS:X and TrueHD Atmos tracks?

I was comparing the audio tracks on my Fast & Furious UHD remux via passthrough to my sound system, keeping the volume locked at 15 across the board. To my absolute shock, the DTS-HD MA track completely blows the other two out of the water.

Before I continue, I tested this with two setups:

1. UGOOS AM9 Pro with DV FEL and SamuriHL Build and PM4K addon

2. Nvidia Shield with Plex App

The plex server is local and the file playback was done via DIRECT PLAY. So nothing was lost or being transcoded. The file is a full 80GB remux.

The opening race scene with Ja Rule, Vin and Paul Walker etc.

Scene 1: First Race - license plate flies off:

* TrueHD/Atmos: Weakest of the bunch. Light immersion, just a faint emphasis on the right side

* DTS:X: Better - you get soundstage on both the right and left sides when the number plate flies past.

* DTS-HD MA: Insane. Way louder, more aggressive, bassier, punchier and the license plate actually sounded like it skimmed right past my head.

Scene 2: First Race - Vin Diesel hits the NOS and crosses the finish line

* DTS-HD MA: Deep, room-shaking bass right beneath my feet, with a hard-hitting, aggressive zoom across the finish line. When Vin hits the NOS, you immediately feel that hit under your feet from the sub. When he crosses over the line you hear a loud scream.

* DTS:X & TrueHD Atmos: Thin, light, and flat. Absolutely no rumble under my feet when the NOS hits, and the finish line cross sounds totally muted by comparison with a feint scream. It's a night-and-day difference.

The results above were found across both devices.

Can anyone explain what on earth is going on here? Why is the uncompressed non-object track outperforming the object-based tracks by this much? I am curious what your thoughts are based on your own experiences.

I think you can reproduce the same levels of energy with the Atmos and DTS X track by pumping up the volume more. But man I am shocked.

Hey guys, I haven't set my Ugoos player up yet, but am curious if I'm to use this thing rather sparingly, at least not enough to leave it on all the time, when I do want to use it, is it going to take forever for it to load my 54tb library of 4k movies to the front end - like the movie artwork and info etc. from the selection screen each time I boot it up? Just curious, I bought the Ugoos and ripped my library almost a year and half ago and never got around to flashing it with coreELEC ..but the thought has come across my mind a few times - am I going to be in for a long wait every time I boot this thing up with this size library, ya know? Thanks guys!

Hi, I could have sworn the first nightly build I installed on the Am9 pro had a remote button operated stats overlay which seems to be absent on newer nightly releases. What's the simplest way to get this back?

Hi, I recently ditched streaming services and I started buying and digitising BluRays onto my NAS.

I went ahead with a Fire TV stick 4K Max. It's great. I am able to direct stream 4K from my Jellyfin. The problems started, when I used VLC to open a disc menu of a Gladiator. The experience was really great and it's much much better than just playing it from Jellyfin. That's when I decided I need the disc menus.

From the research I did, CoreElec has a better support than LibreElec which made me buy a budget Xiaomi Box S 3 instead of using my spare Pi 5. I plan to use BDMV format stored on my NAS.

Is this setup going to work? I also have a USB BD reader. Is it going to be possible to play Blurays directly? I read that it's possible to install MakeMKV which decrypts the disc

Thank you!

Edit: one factor influencing me is also the ability to choose extended or theatrical version from one disk. I have seen many discs that I have to include seamless branching to add an extended version into one disk. I spent the whole night trying to create MKV with seamless branching (it's called different for MKV) but Jellyfin doesn't even support it.

The other thing is that I will have extras easily available (if it works) instead of having to either spend a lot of time organising it into Jellyfin (aka manually exporting and naming the extras based on the length which is really time consuming) or grabbing the BD.

Another thing is that I can create a really "low" quality mkv (4GB or less) for streaming outside my house as I don't intend to stream 30 or 60GB files through the internet.

amazon.com/dp/B09TLFJ6JC

This is by far the best box you can buy today, for any kind of media streamer, whether you want to run Plex, Emby, Jellyfin, Kodi, or CoreElec. It has been rooted and you can do anything you want, replace stock launcher etc.

Its much better than the Shield Pro which is overpriced and has many limitations. Its as good/better than the popular Android boxes. And its far cheaper.

I'm using an AM9 Pro with SamuriHL and a Harmony Elite connected via Bluetooth to control it. Every time i switch to a different HDMI source (also using bluetooth) and then go back to the AM9 theres a pop up to pair with the harmony that needs clicked 2 or 3 times.

I've tried deleting and re-pairing many times, using a separate bluetooth adapter (behaves exactly the same) and using *find /storage -maxdepth 1 -type d ! -user root -exec chown -R root:root {} \; * that i saw in an old post here but nothing helps.

Anything else i can try? Keep in mind its all new to me.

Title: Ugoos AM9 Pro, Android Kodi: audio late at playback start (lips first). VLC on the same box is fine

Setup:

Ugoos AM9 Pro, Android firmware 2.2.0, Kodi 21 (Android)

Ugoos HDMI → Denon AVR-X4400H → LG C2 77"

Local MKV rips (Blu-ray and UHD, some Dolby Vision) over SMB

Kodi: refresh rate switching on start/stop, passthrough on (TrueHD/DTS-HD), Sync playback to display off

Problem: at the start of every film the audio is late (lips move first). It happens with both passthrough and PCM. Changing any TV setting used to resync it, but now even that doesn't help.

Already tried, no change:

Kodi: delay after refresh rate change (2–3 s), refresh switching off (worse, and the audio drops out for about 10 s after unpause), seeking back

Ugoos firmware updated to 2.2.0

Denon: Auto Lip Sync off

LG: ALLM off, Game Optimizer off, Filmmaker Mode

Key test: VLC for Android on the same box with the same file has near-perfect sync. So it looks like Kodi's Android audio path, not the hardware.

Questions:

Has anyone fixed this in Android Kodi on the AM9 Pro?

For CoreELEC 22 RC1 on the AM9 Pro: is s6_s905x5_ugoos_am9_pro.dtb included in the image, or do I download it separately and rename it dtb.img?

Is a separate dovi.ko still needed for Dolby Vision, or is it built in now? If needed, where's the current one?

Anyone running CoreELEC on the AM9 Pro through an AVR: is lip sync solid with TrueHD/Atmos?

Thanks!

Is there any way to make xiaomi mi box s 3rd gen remote work on coreelec? Cec remote has slight delay and signal usually getting blocked by my soundbar.

I recently rooted a FireCube 3 and installed CoreElec on it to serve as a home theater streaming box, using my desktop PC (and the media drives on it) as a local server I can access from my living room TV.

I'm a little new to this, so I still don't have a full grasp of some of the specifics of how transcoding works from a server to a client or how a locally-hosted Jellyfin server vs windows SMB could affect something like bit-rate.

My first and biggest question is whether there's any downside to using the "Jellyfin for Kodi" plugin to both make my desktop media files accessible via a Jellyfin server and rely on Jellyfin's metadata collation to help organize my library. My major concern is the possibility that I'd risk lowering the quality of what's streamed through the Jellyfin server due to transcoding or bit-rate limitations after going through the trouble of installing CoreElec specifically for its high-quality and high-compatibility playback. Is this the case at all?

After setting up a basic SMB of my media library for direct file sharing to CoreElec, I've discovered that CoreElec/Kodi seems to have done a rather poor job of actually labeling/sorting my files after scanning them with well over half my library unrecognized and much of what is there showing as incomplete. This is made worse seeing that I only seem to be able to label a given media folder as either TV Shows or Movies, rather than a mix of both. Much of this issue is likely due to the fact that I have a pretty extensive anime library, and I'd been looking into Shokofin as a Jellyfin plugin to help with anime meta-data. Would Jellyfin for Kodi actually help with labeling and organization in this scenario where (as I understand) the plugin is integrated into Kodi's own directories? Or is it a better idea to try and wrangle the organization through Kodi's own plugins?

Any advice is highly appreciated!

Hi! Is there any way to get immersive 3D audio (Dolby Atmos, binaural audio, virtual surround, etc.) over headphones when watching movies and TV shows on CoreELEC?

Hello,

recently I’ve bought the LG oled OLED83C54LA.

It’s connected to a Denon AVR-X3500H receiver.

At the moment, I’m using a Nvidia Shield Pro 2019 with Kodi to watch my movies and series on TV.

I’m reading alot about the Ugoose AM9 pro and I was wondering if this device would work with my components?

I’ve read alot of positive responses about this device but is it really worth to change from Shield to AM9 pro?

At the moment they are at 259 euros in France.

Thank you for your replies.

Greetings Tom

EDIT:

Hello,

thank you all again for your replies.

My choice is made, I’m going to buy a new Ugoos device.

But, before that, I got a link where they compare Android devices and in that list, they still think, the Ugoos AM6B+ is the best.

I myself, prefer a newer device like the AM9 pro.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Uyuw_1dADsRw7u1LGW6qTSZDLLNXWVK82gmHX7L6M3I/edit?gid=0#gid=0

There for, I have two questions;

1) is the Ugoos AM9 pro still the best option for local media and YT? (jennifer gala…)

2) Do you have a link what to do after receiving the box?

Installing coreelec etc.

I’d prefer to ask before the box arrives to prevent ‘stupid’ mistakes.

Greetings,

hopefully, soon, a happy Ugoos customer,

Tom

I just bought an AM6B+ and did a fresh install of AVDVPlus R10 with Jellyfin for Kodi. I thought everything was buttery smooth, but it turns out that fast-forwarding or seeking screws up the audio sync.

What other alternatives do you recommend I install? I'm honestly a bit annoyed considering how much praise AVDVPlus gets.

Thank you in advance.

I have been having an issue with a particular high bitrate file lately, and it seems to be down to the video player for some reason using software decoding for h264 for it. I can play back a similarly high bitrate h265 4k/DV file with zero issues and very low CPU usage, but this particular file seems to be causing the player to switch to software decode, which then spikes CPU usage to 100% and crashes during the higher bitrate scenes.

Any tips on what I can do or why this might be happening?

Anyone tried this? https://github.com/ysosrs123/NuvioTV-Fork

Was gob smacked to play Saving Private Ryan in Ful Fel earlier following a simple APK install. I think only works on very few devices but working fine on Ugoos.

So I’ve recently sold my nas and 2 ironwolf pro enterprise 20tb drives and moved to zurg nightly with rd and torbox. I stream movies on my ugoos am6b plus on a Sony ke 48a9 which I’ve had for 5 years since buying my first place.

With the money from the drives I made plus adding abit more wanted to know if upgrading to a lg c4 or c5 or even the g4 which will unlock display led dv on coreelec make a night and day difference or should I keep my current Sony which plays fel but limited to player led dv. FYI using pannal P3i build.

I know it will be slightly better picture as newer oled compared to my oled from 2021 but does display led really make fel unbelievably distinguishable

Can anyone confirm the best/correct setup. I have tried Embycon and can search for individual titles but cannot get a massive curated poster style view of everything like you can in Jellyfin/moonfin/Emby installed on Android. I have also tried Emby for Kodi (Next Gen) but since this caches everything locally I woke up to quite a hot box which has obviously crashed at some stage.

How are people viewing their files on a remote server using the above to get an experience equivalent to that via the mentioned apps on android - thank you

I just received this box and I’m trying to set up CE. I already updated to android firmware 2.2.0.

I downloaded a nightly build and formatted the disk on Windows using Rufus. I copied the appropriate file to root (aka coreelec partition) from the device tree and also placed the .kindle (for FEL 7 support) into root.

I am using a phixero 128 gb usb drive and plugging into the usb-A port.

From what I read online, just a simple restart should boot into CE. Instead, I keep booting into the stock software.

I tried different USB ports and restarting a few times as well as the toothpick recovery method, which did not boot it into CE.

The file browser in the stock android software is able to see the USB flash drive (both the corelec and storage partitions) so I don’t think that the USB stick is the problem.

What am I doing wrong? Or do I need to just give up and do a hybrid boot method with an SD card?