Posts by LybsterKodi

Quote from chewitt

the "what will I lose?" question

So far I've never lost anything - its just the inconvenience of disconnecting the HDD and hooking it up to a Windows PC for a repair. If I had the money (I don't) I'd be happy to have the house rewired and buy new kit & a NAS to run gigabit .

Quote from chewitt

As an example: I've invested thousands of man-hours ripping and recording a large private CD and Vinyl collection

The proverb is "There are two types of IT user: those who take their backups seriously, and those who didn't lose all their data yet"

In my case its probably hundreds of hours - still a lot to repeat. I'd class myself as the first type of user but I operate with a restricted budget so only one backup.

I'm asking because we had a few lights off/lights on sessions today. My Dell Optiplex & 6TB USB HDD were on but just sitting there quietly not playing anything or recording anything and the 6TB NTFS HDD needed repairing.

I could revert to ExFAT and modify my sysncing software to handle the timestamp differences between Linux and Windows or I could (I think) set up a PC to dual boot to Linux so I can reformat the 6TB HDD and copy all the files from backup (around 10 - 12 hours).

EXT4 is often recommended here but what I don't know is how resilient is it. Will LE/KODI/EXT4 handle a power outage or is a repair going to be needed or what?

Environment: Dell Optiplex i5-6500, LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-12.0-nightly-20230923-86f2494.img,Hauppauge WinTV-dual HD - Dual tuner, TVHeadend 4.3, Rumster Forest mast

One of my newsfeeds mentioned a program I'd like to record. Its on BBC 3. I have BBC 3 on my Panasonic TV, and I can find it using SichboPVR on a Windows PC but I can't find it on Kodi/TVHeadend. I do have the 522MHz (which is where the BBC channels are) mux set up but no sign of it. I also have a number of timers set up so don't want to wipe everything and start again. Any suggestions / help?

Quote from frankvw

wired Internet is not practical (as in my case)

Just a thought - I live in a house built with foil backed plasterboard which isn't wifi friendly. My solution was powerline ethernet. Its nowhere as good as proper wired ethernet but it works consistently and goes over the various ring mains in the house albeit slower if it has to cross over.

Quote from django013

Is this the intended behaviour of installer?

Depends on which OS you're using to view the disk. The system partition is FAT32 and the storage partition is EXT4. Windows will not see anything in an EXT4 partition even though its there. If you access the disk with it plugged in and running LE over samba you'll see the folders that have been created.

Quote from django013

Is there any chance to get LE installed to a partition?

I also asked the question and the answer is no.

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RE: Install to partion not whole disk

Thanks for the suggestion. I have done something similar only in my case expanding the partition when moving from a 16GB -> 64GB microSD. Clone then expand partition so I know that works.

LybsterKodi

September 23, 2023 at 2:40 PM

The last point made by VLouis is the critical one. If you want to be able to access the HDD using both LibreElec and Windows then, unless you have a high speed network, you really have to stick with NTFS or ExFAT., otherwise, if you use EXT4 all Windows access will have to be via SAMBA or something like FileZilla.

A lot will depend on how you load stuff onto the HDD. In my case I'm back to using NTFS after a time using ExFAT. I started with NTFS and moved to ExFAT because of the corruption issues (not real corruption ie I never lost anything but LE/Kodi wouldn't boot with the HDD attached). I moved back to NTFS because with one of the upgrades and the move to RPi4 the way file timestamps were calculated on LE and Windows differed which messed up my backup system.

I'm not concerned about the time to move a ripped DVD over to Kodi over my slow network I just wander off and let it get on with it while I do something else, even if it takes an hour. However, when I moved from NTFS to ExFAT I connected both live and backup HDDs to USB3 ports on my PC and it still took 10+hours to copy the c3.5TB of data. If I'd tried to do that over my slow powerline LAN it would have been in the DAYS.

With that out of the way I'd like to say that using ExFAT did give me a lot less problem on LE/Kodi. There was only one big issue. If I tried to boot my Windows PC with a 6TB ExFAT formatted HDD - it just wouldn't. Whenever I forgot it (my backup HDD) was plugged in I had to turn the PC off, unplug and restart. Not a problem with NTFS.

I've never used GParted so my suggestion would be Linux Mint from a thumb drive and use DISKS. I might be tempted to use MiniTool Partition Manager on Windows to do the initial resizing and formatting.

chewitt - sorry to tell you but YouTube have removed the video - you're apparently violating their terms of service.

I've just noticed that after installing the nightly I have a MyVideos121 and 122. Is it safe to delete the 121 version?

Thanks for the suggestion. I have done something similar only in my case expanding the partition when moving from a 16GB -> 64GB microSD. Clone then expand partition so I know that works.

I've finally got round to setting up some new playlists on my Dell based Kodi and I decided to remove some of the categories that I don't want. It seems that the only way to make the changes stick is to reboot Kodi. Is that right or am I being somewhat thick/unobservant by missing a great big SAVE CHANGES button?

In a different thread somewhere on these forums I was told my problem is likely a bug in the version of LE 9 I was running. I'm now running version 12 on a Dell Optiplex and (so far) its fine.

What is your setup?

With the RPi3 all I had a mini wifi keyboard and the TV remote. The RPI3 was left turned on. if the RPi was powered up all I did was press any button on the keyboard and the TV would power up and switch to the right HDMI port. I used the TV remote to switch back to the TV. If powered off then powering up the RPi would turn on the TV and switch to the right HDMI port.

It was the same with the RPi4 I used for a short while - I'm now using a Dell Optiplex.

If you're using some script to manage things if you post it here I'll give it a go on the RPi3 or 4

What platform are you on? I ran 9.2.8 on RPi3 and cec was working at least to the level of using the TV remote.

popcornmix

I wish I could explain but I can't

My collection consists of:

TV->VCR->DVD->Kodi

TV->DVD->Kodi

Bought VCR->DVD->Kodi

Bought DVD->Kodi

TV->TVHeadend->Kodi

Over the years I've used DVDShrink, MakeMKV & Handbrake. Everything goes through Handbrake and the framerate setting is one I've never touched. I just looked and its set at 30fps Peak Framerate

petediscrete

1. SLOW Linux machine

2. Handbrake doesn't contain any mechanism to identify only those with a framerate of 125fps so I'd need to identify and select manually outside of Handbrake

Thanks chewitt. I'm guessing from your answer that I'm better off converting them to 25fps. I'm nearly there, only 3 still to go.

Since the only Linux PC I have is an ultra-portable atom based thing I used Delphi on my main Windows PC. It took longer to find some ffmpeg code to understand that worked than it did to write the Delphi to run it - I do love computers.

Any idea why the RPi3 handled these videos so well when the much more powerful Dell doesn't?

Environment: Dell Optiplex i5-6500, generic v12 nightly 2023-07-29, Panasonic TV

Video: 125fps

Problem: The audio stream is so far ahead of the video the audio offset cannot bring it back into sync. Looking at it I saw that for some reason (video recorded from UK Drama using TVHeadend and then Handbrake to convert to mp4) its at 125fps. I resurrected my RPi3 (LE 9.2.8) from storage hooked it up and it plays fine which is probably why I never noticed it before. I can also use ffmpeg to alter the fps down to 25fps and then things are fine on the Dell.

Is this as it should be working with LE/Kodi unable to cope with an extreme fps or should I hope for a patch in the (hopefully) not to distant future? Would I be better altering all the videos to 25fps? There are 39 at 125fps, the vast majority are at 25fps. If I can figure out how to batch convert them I can set things up and do all the none 25fps ones.