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LibreELEC 9.2 Beta 2 (Leia) has arrived based upon Kodi v18.4, the 9.2 Beta 2 release contains many changes and refinements to user experience and a complete overhaul of the underlying OS core to improve stability and extend hardware support.
If no serious bugs appear that the final version of LibreELEC 9.2 should be available with the release of Kodi 18.5 in approximately 2 weeks.Changes since LibreELEC Beta 1:
- several Bugfixes
- improvements for the RPi4
- added firmware updater for RPi4
Update the firmware at the Raspberry 4:
easily update your RPi4 firmware
Change for Raspberry 4:
With LE 9.1.002 and later you need to add “hdmi_enable_4kp60=1“ to your config.txt if you want to use 4k output at the RPi4. Before you needed “hdmi_enable_4k=1“ that is now deprecated.
Beta Notes:
LibreELEC 9.2 for Generic x86/64 and Raspberry Pi 0/1/2/3 devices is a solid beta quality release. Raspberry Pi 4B images are more “late stage Alpha” and are not feature complete or perfect. Normal LibreELEC testing rules apply; if you do not want to experiment on your family’s primary entertainment system – please stick with your current version and wait for the final/stable release. If you do want to experiment – please be prepared to submit log files and work with developers to hunt down problems and test solutions.
Raspberry 4:
It would be nice to have the 4B running the latest mainline kernel as other devices in LibreELEC 9.2, but adding support for an all-newSoC chipset is a huge effort and the Pi Foundation needed to align initial 4B software with the current Raspbian release to maximise compatibility with existing software and to keep the workload sensible. Generic x86/64 devices are running Linux 5.1, while Raspberry Pi devices (0/1/2/3/4) are using Linux 4.19 with some new/extra code.
In this initial release 1080p playback behaviour and performance on the 4B are broadly on-par with the previous 3B/3B+ model, except for HEVC media which is now hardware decoded and massively improved. New 4K video capabilities still have plenty of rough edges to be smoothed out, but the Pi Foundation developers have been pushing fixes to the test team at a phenomenal rate over the last month and that will continue as the userbase expands.
The 4B now uses SPI flash for the bootloader. Current firmware supports SD card boot only – Network and USB booting are still on the Pi Foundation to-do list. Also on the list is HBR audio (current audio capabilities are the same as the 3B) and 3D video. The 4B hardware is HDR capable, but software support has a dependency on the new Linux kernel frameworks merged by Intel developers (with help from Team LibreELEC/Kodi) in Linux 5.2 and a kernel bump will be needed to use them. Once the initial excitement and activity from the 4B launch calms down, serious work on HDR and transitioning Raspberry Pi over to the new GBM/V4L2 video pipeline can start.
Rockchip:
Our Rockchip releases remain in an Alpha state with limited support. The Kodi version is updated but there are no significant video/audio improvements to the Rockchip 4.4 kernel codebase – and none planned. Our work on Rockchip support has refocussed onto the Linux 5.x kernel to use the modern kernel frameworks needed for the next-generation Kodi video pipeline. This work is progressing nicely, but it means the 4.4 codebase “is what it is” until a future kernel bump.
Amlogic
Our original goal was to announce Allwinner and Amlogic images alongside Rockchip as part of the LibreELEC 9.2 release, but while overall readiness has greatly improved in recent months – each has specific technical challenges to overcome before they meet our basic critera for a public release. On the human side of the project several maintainers also have reduced availability for support due to work and family commitments. Combining these factors together, the team felt it was better to be patient and not rush releases.
So instead of releasing LibreELEC 9.2 alpha images we are announcing the start of official nightly images from our master development branch. At the moment the master branch uses Linux 5.2 and Kodi v18 so nightlies mirror LibreELEC 9.2, but in the near future we will start moving master towards Linux 5.4 and Kodi v19.If you experience problems, please open an thread at our forum. You can also open an ticket at our issue tracker.
Upgrading
On first boot the Kodi media database will be upgraded. Depending on your hardware and media collection size this could take several minutes. Please be patient.
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LibreELEC (Leia) 9.2 Beta 2
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Tried it for about 2 hours of usage (RPI4 1GB).
Everything i am using seems to work just fine.
2 issues still persist from earlier builds.
1.Occasional tearing on KODI GUI (seems less frequent then previous builds)
2.Pictures viewer causes total system freeze (only power unplug releases it) from time to time.
viewing same pictures from file manager works just fine.
Also after restoring my backup from previous libreelec (RPI 3B+) i had same occasional system freezes until all thumbnail data was kinda refreshed.
So my guess there is some issue with picture loading/analyzing , tried to find something on debug logs , found nothing.
I assume i am not the only one with this problem since i can easily reproduce it with almost every jpg i try.
Keep up the good work.
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So my guess there is some issue with picture loading/analyzing
I assume i am not the only one with this problem since i can easily reproduce it with almost every jpg i try.
Thumbnail creation may still be the culprit there. Create a new topic/thread with a log file and some sample jpg's that are freezing things up for you.
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Sorry, just to clarify, when Linux 5.2 is the base for Libreelec, that's likely when the os will fully support 4k and HDR with the Pi4?
I'm curious so that I know for future reference. (I may consider a Pi4 then)
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Hi,
How do I know if I have the latest firmware on Pi4?
The menu appears like this, "Bootloader EEPROM (up to date:2019-09-10)"
Thanks for the work...
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The same here with pictures. If my scraper tries to fetch an image, then all the other movie images are going black (even the backgrounds). They appear after a few seconds, tough.
Can I do a role back? The old Beta version didn't had this problem at all. So I can wait for a fix.
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Can I do a role back?
You can do a downgrade as you can do an upgrade.
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You can do a downgrade as you can do an upgrade.
Thanks!
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Sorry, just to clarify, when Linux 5.2 is the base for Libreelec, that's likely when the os will fully support 4k and HDR with the Pi4?
I'm curious so that I know for future reference. (I may consider a Pi4 then)
LE master branch is already on 5.3 and will bump to 5.4 soon .. but not for RPi4 which needs to remain on 4.19 until more V4L2 plumbing has been completed. Kodi is slowly inching towards HDR support. It's already possible to hack something up that works for some SoCs (not RPi4 yet) but we'd rather do it properly at a more measured pace. I'm not expecting to see "proper" HDR support for some time yet.
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Hi,
How do I know if I have the latest firmware on Pi4?
The menu appears like this, "Bootloader EEPROM (up to date:2019-09-10)"
Thanks for the work...
^ what's not clear about "up to date" ??
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^ what's not clear about "up to date" ??
Forget it, sorry ...bad english.
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sem problemas
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WLAN still does not work properly.
2.4 GHz connects and is very slow.
5 GHz connects sporidically and is even slower.
Libreelec Cofigurator Tool brings the system to crash and reboot more often. (In connection with wlan) -
Well, updated ok. But strange, right after the update, the firetv remote didn't work. Went to Bluetooth and it was there, but not connected. I tried to connect it, no luck, said auth error. Disconnected it and was able to connect but it won't control the menu anymore. Anybody else have issues?
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That was fast. Thanks very much for x502!
- Video judder and stutter seems nearly gone. I'm not completely sure, still have to test with subtitles, but the audio/passthrough related dropouts are reduced to a very few, which I'm not sure could have other reasons. In any case: video is much smoother with HW and multichannel audio.
- CPU temperature in average is now about 5°C lower (with or without HW-acceleration). How is this possible, but maybe I'm wrong and I changed something...
- Can't detect the GUI-tearing in 1080 at the moment - has improved very much.
Thanks very much and Greetings! -
Well, updated ok. But strange, right after the update, the firetv remote didn't work. Went to Bluetooth and it was there, but not connected. I tried to connect it, no luck, said auth error. Disconnected it and was able to connect but it won't control the menu anymore. Anybody else have issues?
Same with my Harmony Companion remote on RPi4. Gone. No input at all. Couldn't reconnect so far but I'll keep trying.
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Hi,
I haven't tested it yet, but big thumb up for no tearing GUI, if it's true.
Did someone tested if HBR audio is fully supported (DTS HD MA and Dolby Atmos)?. That's what I want so bad on my RPi4. My home theatre just crying.
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Hi,
I haven't tested it yet, but big thumb up for no tearing GUI, if it's true.
Did someone tested if HBR audio is fully supported (DTS HD MA and Dolby Atmos)?. That's what I want so bad on my RPi4. My home theatre just crying.
DTS HD Master Audio is losslessly decoded to PCM 5.1/7.1 (and the Pi4B supports 192k/24bit at 5.1/7.1 and isn't limited to 4.0 at 192k as previous models are, I believe) - so it's only Atmos that your Home Theatre is crying for? (Or is stream metadata vital for your use case??)
