OK, new to the forum as well as owning a MyGica box (ATV582) however I have owned an IXOS DS for a couple of years.
Downloaded the beta FW 20/06/2015 and ran through the install process and found the following.
1), Took two goes to install the firmware. this was consistent as I performed a number of rollbacks and re-updates. What occurs is that first time around it appears to get mostly through updating and then seems to hang. A restart and reapply does succeed on the second time around.
2), Kodi issues. Kodi 14.2 playback is unusably slow (at least for myself) Tried combos of Software and Hardware decoding, restarts, library rebuilding all to no avail. Installed XBMC 13.2 and all was fine for playback both hardware and software decoding. Updated the 13.2 XBMC install to 15.0 B2 and video playback was also Ok apart from audio which as soon as a movie file was played audio was lost (all audio including interface feedback sound). Exiting Kodi and resetting the MyGica digital audio detection brought the sound back until another movie file was played. Most of my movie/TV shows are h264 with AAC 5.1/DTS audio with a smattering of DVIX and XVID from SD to 1080p HD and none functioned.
On the other hand the IXOS DS box has Kodi 14.2 and works perfectly, best it's ever been actually and totally usable. I mention as a comparison. I still like the MyGica because it has more capable hardware where as the IXOS was always lacking in that regard.
So for the moment I've rolled back to the March FW: and am runnning XBMC 13.2. I've also tested Kodi 14.2 on said FW and it's playback speed is too slow to be usable.
I hear others don't seem to have such an issue with playback speed, however I've installed nothing else apart from the default firmware and XBMC/Kodi and I was hoping to have both the MyGica and IXOS both running Kodi 14.2 so I could run a central library on one of my NAS.
Any hints as to anything I can do for the unusable playback speeds for Kodi 14 and above?
Also how do I get XBMC/Kodi to place data on an SD card? For the IXOS DS if an SD card is mounted the system will automatically use the card for data storage but that doesn't appear to be the case for the 582?
I'll also post my findings over to the Kodi forums as well.
Cheers Tony M
