I’m using a VIM2 and I’m having lags with Kodi on Android, it has small freezes of let’s say 1/10 second every 2 seconds. One after another. It doesn’t run smooth. So I was thinking that the problem is because Kodi is running over Android and there is a problem with the GPU driver (but I really have no idea what is behind).
Then I make a comparison with a Raspberry running OpenELEC with the same movie (720p) on Kodi, and there was a huge difference, no lags with the RPi3…
So I started to read about to test the VIM2 with LibreELEC (not done yet), and I found the following, link below:
" Amlogic has not released fbdev Mali libraries and has no plans to release them. These builds use libhybris and Android gralloc Mali driver to provide OpenGL for Kodi - this is an experimental approach with CPU overhead - this means suboptimal GPU performance. If you consider buying a device for LE, do not buy Amlogic S912! Issues: Kodi may sometimes crash or restart "
I have to say I become a little worried. The performance of Kodi over Android was not the expected, and it is clear that is not running smooth. Is there a was to fix it? I have only installed Kodi on Android, so there isn’t any app making “noise” in the background.
I feel that the performance of Kodi on Android is similar when you have an old PC after reinstalling the OS, but without installing the GPU drivers. You can see videos, however they have small freezes regularly.
It seems that there is software (driver) issue in this. When I open the stats the CPU is working at very low level, however I don’t have info about the GPU. I feel that the GPU is not working properly, because with 720p movies the performance should be very continuous and smooth.
I see that android has OpenGL ES 3.0 drivers installed for the Mali T820 GPU.
I see that there is No Ubuntu image that has any GPU drivers.
I don’t know about OpenElec.