Official LE13 Test Images for Amlogic (Kodi-22)

    Thanks for info. There is one more aspect to the story - all those older devices, used for Kodi, mean that no new stuff has been bought. Which means less polution, less carbon dioxide etc. etc. - it is simply greener. Hence, nice to have those old devices supported!

    Both the nightlies and chewitt's experimental builds are giving me issues with symbols for libwidevine. Not sure if something changed with libc, this had been working a month or so ago. If need be, I can find time to trace it down to a specific

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    error <general>: AddOnLog: inputstream.adaptive: Initialize: Initialize: Failed to load library: /storage/.kodi/cdm/libwidevinecdm.so: undefined symbol: __aarch64_ldadd4_acq_rel

    I ran this script, https://github.com/AsahiLinux/wid…devine_fixup.py which adds some stuff for those symbols, resulting in a working library again.

    A couple things to let people know:

    (1) To close out the widevine issue, it was related to changes in inputstream adaptive and is already resolved per

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    joyn / widevine does not work

    I installed joyn (ip tv provider) to watch some tv shows in german. Unfortunately, i get an error and the plugin aborts.

    In the logs i found this:

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    Anyone an idea whats going on? Is it the wrong widevine that this plugin downloads? Unfortunately i have no netflix, otherwise i would install that addon and see what it downloads.
    olze
    November 16, 2024 at 6:35 PM


    (2) I notice, with the latest bump of Kodi in both the nightlies and chewitt's experimental builds, the GUI no longer renders on my Odroid C2. That is due to a bug in Kodi, looks like the following should correct that https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/25981 once it is merged.


    (3) Found a minor error being thrown related to the clock:

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    error <general>: SETTINGS: execute # Command failed: /sbin/hwclock --systohc --utc 2>/dev/null

    The latest images in my testing share have some changes:

    • FFmpeg bump to v7.1 - In brief testing I didn't see changes (no regressions, no improvements) but none were expected.
    • Some patches from @sarbes that improve GUI performance - although we're firmly in the realm of marginal gains so don't expect performance changes to be overly noticeable.
    • Ethernet performance on WP2 appears to have doubled (33MB/s is now 76MB/s) - although I am not sure why, but I suspect recent kernel changes suggested-by kszaq are responsible. It's nice to see as it's always bugged me why the WP2 NIC ran at half the speed of the (also 1Gb/sec) NIC on a N2+ or RPi4/5 board. I've no idea if this impacts other boxes .. but maybe. EDIT: An N2+ board also shows improvement from 75-80MB/s to ~110MB/s so this appears to be a general improvement.

    Luni the subtitle issue is due to Kodi changes from @sarbes that impact Mali 400/450 GPUs. I've flagged the issues to him.

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    FWIW I just tried the latest testing img 12.80 on my Minix U9-H and got two errors.

    https://pastebin.com/raw/uE2wqUAe

    I suspect the file system errors are because of my SD card (Samsung 256GB). I guess this might not be supported by the HW, but unfortunately I do not have other SD card at hand.

    Whether these FS problems have caused also the panfrost error I do not know.

    The system seemed to boot fine in textmode and ssh and only after I run systemctl start kodi it went south (60th second of dmesg). Kodi did not start complaining about not being able to create /storage/.kodi dir, which was probably related to already borked FS.

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    FWIW I just tried the latest testing img 12.80 on my Minix U9-H and got two errors.

    https://pastebin.com/raw/uE2wqUAe

    I suspect the file system errors are because of my SD card (Samsung 256GB). I guess this might not be supported by the HW, but unfortunately I do not have other SD card at hand.

    Whether these FS problems have caused also the panfrost error I do not know.

    The system seemed to boot fine in textmode and ssh and only after I run systemctl start kodi it went south (60th second of dmesg). Kodi did not start complaining about not being able to create /storage/.kodi dir, which was probably related to already borked FS.

    Also just tried the lastest testing img on my Minix Neo U9-H. It failed to open Kodi. The screen went black for a second, presumably to load Kodi, but it fails and just returns to the LE splash screen.


    Tried to boot with ssh parameter, but I was unable to connect to it. It did not accept the default password "libreelec". Not sure if it was something that was going wrong on my end, but I tried numerous times and even tried copying and pasting it.

    Instead then, I booted into textmode. Tried to start ssh with "systemctl start sshd", but that didn't work.

    I ran "dmesg | pastebinit" which gave the following log:
    https://paste.libreelec.tv/possible-ringtail.log  

    "journalctl -a | pastebinit" gave the following log:
    https://paste.libreelec.tv/alert-eagle.log

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    Current images have intentionally dropped a load of "WIP" Linux kernel patches because I've had some long periods of downtime on LE during 2024 and I basically forgot what patches were added for what purpose on what device. I have fuzzy recall a change to SD/emmc speeds is needed for U9-H, but I'll need to poke around in old kernel trees.

    NB: I don't think the panfrost error is itself important, it's most likely a casualty of overall OS instability caused by the I/O issues.

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    Current images have intentionally dropped a load of "WIP" Linux kernel patches because I've had some long periods of downtime on LE during 2024 and I basically forgot what patches were added for what purpose on what device. I have fuzzy recall a change to SD/emmc speeds is needed for U9-H, but I'll need to poke around in old kernel trees.

    NB: I don't think the panfrost error is itself important, it's most likely a casualty of overall OS instability caused by the I/O issues.

    FWIW you managed to fix the SD card problem with Samsung "high performance" cards in LE12 testing image already, but at that time I used 32GB card. Now it was failing with 256GB card, so maybe it was fixed for the voltage/clock, but did not work for the capacity being too large?

    Anyway I never manage to make LE12 running on my U9-H to my satisfaction (tried only few times), had problems with live TV (TVHeadend) and stuttering.

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    I don't think SD card capacity makes any difference, and (as mentioned above) the patches I added for LE12 are missing from LE13 so it's more of an omission than a regression.

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    I've pushed an updated set of images to my test share with:

    • Linux 6.12.9
    • u-boot 2025.01
    • Tanix TX9-pro device-tree (not new, authored a couple of years ago)
    • Fix for UHD 4K @ 59.94 which is useful for YouTube VP9 media

    I'm interested in any reports of HDMI sync loss when playing media (along with mediainfo details) as the fix for YUV420 @ 59.94 fiddles with HDMI clock plumbing.

    I'm also interested to hear if WeTek Hub boards are booting fine now? - some folks had an issue we suspected of being noise on the UART that caused it to see a keypress and enter the u-boot console instead of booting. Feedback would be nice.

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    I am using a Tanix T95 ZMax S912 with the latest nightly. Everything works except the ethernet. I am using the qxm 201 dtb.

    If I use the qxm 200 then I get a Failed to start ethmactool-config.service at the bootsplash screen and I cant even start the Wired Networks option in LE settings.

    Any suggestions? Would have liked to have gbit lan connection.