Posts by 5schatten

Quote from Morphy

5schatten I'm having some issues with the LE settings addon crashing on a new RPi build, I had a look at the log and this seems to be the issue:

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2019-02-22 20:16:25.367 T:1275585392   ERROR: ## LibreELEC Addon ## oe::load_config ## ERROR: (IOError('file() constructor not accessible in restricted mode',))
2019-02-22 20:16:25.368 T:1275585392   ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):
                                              File "/home/supervisedthinking/le90-rr/LibreELEC.tv/build.LibreELEC-RPi2.arm-9.1-devel/LibreELEC-settings-37e206b712a46213522a567a408382f5f082502a/.install_pkg/usr/share/kodi/addons/service.libreelec.settings/oe.py", line 515, in load_config
                                            IOError: file() constructor not accessible in restricted mode
2019-02-22 20:16:25.368 T:1275585392   ERROR: ## LibreELEC Addon ## oe::read_setting ## ERROR: (AttributeError("'NoneType' object has no attribute 'getElementsByTagName'",))
2019-02-22 20:16:25.369 T:1275585392   ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):
                                              File "/home/supervisedthinking/le90-rr/LibreELEC.tv/build.LibreELEC-RPi2.arm-9.1-devel/LibreELEC-settings-37e206b712a46213522a567a408382f5f082502a/.install_pkg/usr/share/kodi/addons/service.libreelec.settings/oe.py", line 597, in read_setting
                                            AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'getElementsByTagName'

This looks like something that's related to your build or could this be a more wider bug in LE?

Well I did not touch the LE settings addon

Does this occur after a reboot too?

Quote from Marciano

YESSSSS!

5schatten i did a quick test and i can confirm that this is working on my NUC7i5BNH.

Finally i have sound with my videosnaps in ES!!

This is really great it was the only piece that i was missing in my setup.

Thank you very much for this, your doing really a great job!

Only thing i must test is launching my wii games trough my skin, but i think this is gonna work too now cause PulseAudio is working properly

Thanks!

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Well I guess the audio setup will work properly now. All scripts till load the kodifreeze.sh script so it should work even if you call it straight from Kodi but no promisses since I don't do it that way.

Quote from Kupo91

5schatten I now was able to test some things. My controller and also accessing the profile folder of dolphin work very well now. Thanks a lot for your changes.

I also tested the pcsx_rearmed core in your build and it has the same pixel graphics as the beetle psx core. So my first thought was its no core issue but a retroarch issue. So I tested another retroarch core and indeed there are the same differents.

In the following picture you can see a screenshot of ppsspp libretro core in your build (top) and a screenshot of ppsspp libretro core on my S905X box (bot):

So as I said my thought was its not an core issue but a retroarch issue. However the ppsspp standalone emulator has the same pixel graphics.. so maybe the issue is anywhere else in my graphic settings?

Another question that I have is: I still try to integrate those apps like chrome, retroarch etc. in my skin. I showed the following quote of your faq to the skin author but he told me that he fist have to get an android box to test libreelec. Then I wondered if its possible to execute those scripts as addons? Because you can easily integrate addons in the main menu of aeon mq7. Furthermore I prefer to have those apps in the same place as my addons instead of having them in my main menu. However I have no clue of those things and its just a question if its possible and if yes how complicated it would be. Maybe you can answer this?

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Well you have to check your Retroarch core settings & increase the internal resolution of your PPSSPP core. That's all.

Same goes for PCSX_reARMed. If you run it on an ARM system you can enable the enhancements if it's not an ARM system there is no option for that. And again you could use Beetle PSX & increase the resolution but only if you have a decent CPU as lang as there is no working dynarec on x86-64 CPUs.

But this has nothing to do with this build in particular. I ship PPSSPP, PCSX_reARMED and everything else with default settings and you have to adjust them to your system

If you want to use custom skins ask the devs how to run custom commands and read the example how it works with Confluence. If you can't create menu entries that run commands in Addons you can't place them there. Also it makes no sense to place it in addons because they are not addons but software that is compiled for and with this image.

Build RR-20190221-753d629 is online

• updated to latest LE9.1
• updated to Kodi 18.1
• upgraded Generic kernel to 4.19.24 / RPi to 4.19.23
• updated to mesa-19.0.0-rc5
• updated to vulkan-loader 1.1.101
• updated Emulationstation to v2.8.1
• updated Skyscraper to v3.0.4
• added rr-config-tool
• added lr-mupen64plus-nx
• updated several libretro-cores
• updated citra & dolphin

I've added a first hacky implementation of a config addon. Check out Addons -> My add-ons -> Services -> RR Configuration to configure the emulation stuff. This will replace the advanced.conf file! If you had trouble with audio output select a proper audio device in this tool, select PulseAudio as backend and disable module-udev-autodetect this should force PulseAudio to use your specific audio device. This solved my Vim (S905X) audio problems so hopefully will be suitable for dedicated gpus and other hardware setups too.

Restart your system if you have selected a new audio device to make sure the new config will be used!

Quote from nwfisk

on a Linux Mint VM, fully updated

Version? I'm unsing Mint 19.1 and it runs fine. Have you tried to run a clean build again?

About the mupen64plus-libretro crash I tried to get to the bottom of a matter. Luckily I got my hands on a bunch of x220 Thinkpads ready for scrapyard but still suitable as testing devices.

My guess is that the emulator fails on devices that don't support OpenGL 4.x since I ended up with a crash on the Thinkpads too. I tried to make the devs aware of the problem but see yourself brw_memory_barrier: Assertion `devinfo->gen >= 7 && devinfo->gen <= 11' failed. · Issue #96 · libretro/mupen64plus-libretro · GitHub IMHO they have no real intention to fix it, don't even bother to read logs and it's easier to blame the user system.

I'm not a programmer but If you have a look at the source of code mesa external-mesa/brw_program.c at master · intel/external-mesa · GitHub then you'll recognize that the graphic plugin tries to use OpenGL features that rely on OpenGL 4.x glmemorybarrier.xhtml so it won't work on systems that don't support that.

Fun fact 1: OpenGLES 2.0 (2007) doesn't have all features of OpenGL 3.3 (2010) but the emulator runs fine on ARM devices that only have OpenGLES 2.0 support.

Fun fact 2: Mupen64plus+GLideN64 / parallel-n64 works without problems on this OpenGL 3.3 device too.

Fun fact 3: The new mupen64plus-libretro-nx still crashs.

So all in all it's out of my hand to solve this problem and you either have to chose another core to runs those games or convince the devs to look into problems they have created.

Quote from batesman

Hi there,

first I want to say "Great ROM" seems to have included everything I need.

BUT

As I'm new to the retrogaming "thing" I've some questions regarding how the components work.

I tried several things in the last few days on "Full" Debian System with retropie. That seemed straight forward and worked. But I want an all in one solution like this rom.

Anyhow.

How are the emulators and Frontends related to each other ?

My understanding is that ES (or Pegasus) are additional Frontends to Retroarch/Dolphin et cetera).

I'm asking because I have some issues and don't know how to solve them.

How to load add. cores ? ( From the addon Repo as Retroarch doesn't allow it ?)

How to configure the standalone Emulators like Dolphin ? (only via config file ?)

--> At least for Dolphin you can get to the menu after starting a game. Is there a way to start the Standalone Emulators also in standalone mode to configure them ?

Similar question PPSSPP ... I managed to get into the menu but the emulator just uses only a quarter of my display even that I enabled fullscreen in the menu.

How is the Controller handled ?

I configured it in Kodi itself, retroarch and ES and it worked for navigation within these programs but not in any emulator.

I can't see what is happening in the logs. --> Failure was that I didn' set it as Retropad in Retroarch

How are new roms detected ?

For example even if there are Zip's in "psp" or PBP in "psx" they are not detected in ES or Pegasus. Are there any restrictions ?

But it worked for "Zip" in SNES or "ISO" in Gamecube Folders.

--> Changing fileextension did the job. E.g. Uppercase/Lowercase for psc and Zip vs. Iso for psp

Please tell what further informations are needed to put me in the right direction !

THX

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Emulationstation and Pegasus are just frontends that start either libretro cores or standalone emulators. Pegasus uses the Emulationstation gamelists files too. Retroarch is a frontend and framework for libretro cores.

Once Lakka 3.0 is released you probably can use libretro cores at your will but since it's build system is outdated the cores delivered by the build bot probably won't work correctly. You can't add standalone cores right now without deeper knowledge of the system.

The main question would be what kind of additional cores do you need since basically all importante emulators that work fine are shipped with my builds.

All standalone Emulators can be configured via gui by exiting the emulation while all libretro cores can be configured via Retroarch.

About PPSSPP there should be some option for editing the screen layout. I guess it's an bug if you use a 4K screen.

Anyway this is a support thread to basically make things work. For additional configuration refer to the documentation of each core or check out the dedicated forums.

Quote from andersos

The update channel works, thanks for that 5schatten

Right now there are two releases listed. But it's not possible to see from the names which one is newer. Maybe it's the first one in the list?

Yeah well I probably switch to YYYYMMDD format ... it's because I've uploaded new builds with updated kernel & mesa stuff. 3baa598 is the newer one but normally I wouldn't ship several builds per week & storage is somewhat limited on the LE server too so I won't keep dozens of versions online at the same time.

Quote from alzold

5schatten,

Is there some issue with your update channel?

I have setup kodi in the way you describe but can only see official releases in the channel version dropdown?

Also I cannot find any of the 9.1 / 907 images in your gdrive are they up yet?

Or an i losing my marbles.....

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Is your config correct? it's http://5schatten.libreelec.tv/builds/ and once you've entered the url it pulls the data when you chose the channel.

As I said I'm probably not going to upload the files twice so on GDrive I'll store the images & updates on the LE server.

Quote from Marciano

Sure..

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# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
# Copyright (C) 2018-present 5schatten (https://github.com/5schatten)
[main]
inputFolder="/storage/roms"
gamelistFolder="/storage/.config/emulationstation/gamelists/"
videos="true"
symlink="true"
brackets="true"
maxLength="10000"
unattend="true"
verbosity="0"
hints="false"

# List of supported languages https://github.com/muldjord/skyscraper/blob/master/docs/LANGUAGES.md
# List of supported regions https://github.com/muldjord/skyscraper/blob/master/docs/REGIONS.md
lang="en"
langPrios="en,de,fr,es,it,ja"
region="eu"
regionPrios="eu,de,fr,es,it,us,wor,jp"

[screenscraper]
userCreds="*******:*********"

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In putty/terminal:

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Skyscraper -p n64 -s screenscraper

and after that for creating your gamelist.xml

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Skyscraper -p n64

Well basically it should work out-of-the box. If you change this gamelistFolder="/storage/.config/emulationstation/gamelists/" your gamelists will be stored at the config dir instead of the rom dirs but that's afaik just a matter of personal preference.

Quote from Marciano

Lets hope so.

So we’ll have to wait when the addon is avaible?

Well it's ready when it's done I have to pull in the wip PR and adjust my scripts to let the addon handle the audio stuff & test this on my systems.

Quote from Marciano

That’s great news thanks!

How to use this does it comes with an addon that we have to install?

There should be an addon in the future where you have to set your audio output device and if it works this one should be used for alsa and pulseaudio which should resolve all the audio problems.

Marciano  bigboo  fastpop72  TicklePickle
About the audio setup I've seen awiouy created a PR to add some useful audio tools Refesh audio addons by awiouy · Pull Request #3310 · LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv · GitHub which should allow a graphical setup of your audio output for third party software. Once it is ready to merge I have to see if I can add it straight to my build.

Quote from Marciano

5schatten thank you for the latest build it's working great.

I see in /storage/.config a skyscraper folder.

Does that mean i can use this scraper also in putty/terminal?

If so how to use this scraper.

I can see in the config.ini it is able to scrape videosnaps?

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# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
# Copyright (C) 2018-present 5schatten (https://github.com/5schatten)
[main]
inputFolder="/storage/roms"
gamelistFolder="/storage/roms"
videos="true"
symlink="false"
brackets="true"
maxLength="10000"
unattend="true"
verbosity="0"
hints="false"

# List of supported languages https://github.com/muldjord/skyscraper/blob/master/docs/LANGUAGES.md
# List of supported regions https://github.com/muldjord/skyscraper/blob/master/docs/REGIONS.md
lang="en"
langPrios="en,de,fr,es,it,ja"
region="eu"
regionPrios="eu,de,fr,es,it,us,wor,jp"

[screenscraper]
userCreds="Username:Pass"

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Yes since steven selph's scraper uses a deprecated API I had to find an alternative. Check out this site usecase.md to get a basic understanding how it works it's not polished but I was able to scrape games & videos.

It did not find all games by using screenscraper though UXS was able to scrape them... while both used screenscraper but you can use thegamesdb or other provider too to get a fully scraped rom set. You should have a look at the docs first skyscraper/docs at master · muldjord/skyscraper · GitHub and for example adjust lang & region according to your needs. Skyscraper is really powerful and lets you adjust everything to your needs so read the documentation. But my config should provide a working base, while you should register SCREENSCRAPER - Base de données et téléchargement médias pour front-end gaming multi-systèmes and enter your username & password in the config file.

But beside that the scraper in ES is functional again and works with screescraper and gamesdb too while it lacks the video feature. So feel free to play around and see what suits your needs.

Quote from Marciano

I noticed after updating your builds to a newer builds dolphin is stuttering.

After a couple of times trying if finally runs at full speed.

I did not touch any settings or so.

But it occurs only after updating the builds.

Did you noticed this?

Just want to let you know....

Thanks!

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It's not a bug it's a feature. Or at least you've not enabled it. Dolphin stutters because mesa (=OpenGL/Vulkan driver) rebuilds the shader cache after each mesa update. This also happens if Dolphin got updates that touch the rendering API. Shaders are the small programs your GPU runs to render effects and stuff. If the way they were handles changed they have to be updated so recompiled. To avoid recompilation of an existing shader mesa introduced a shader cache which speeds things up. Read this to learn more about it Dolphin Emulator - Ubershaders: A Ridiculous Solution to an Impossible Problem

If you can deal with some pre generation time to avoid stuttering enable this & set the backend to Vulkan if possible. Then Dolphin compiles the shaders before the games starts if needed. Vulkan gets you a nice status bar while OpenGL showed a black screen in the past. Just get a coffee or a beer or whatever and let it do it's job, once it finished the game starts.

Quote from jbee

Hello colleagues.

Is there a ready-made Kodi image with uploaded repositories and all add-ons like: movies, music, weather, IPTV, netflix, subtitles and other necessary to view videos somewhere? If someone has such a ready image to be able to upload eg. For a micro SD 16 GB or 32 GB card, please send me a link.

I will use the mentioned program on Raspberry Pi 3 Model B +.

How about no? Feel free to grab and use any image you like but you won't get support for any shady addon. Every LE 9.x image comes with Kodi 18.x so you're able to install netflix or other VOD addons. Everything else is standard stuff you need to setuo yourself. Kodi can download and provide subtitles automatically if needed but again it's something you have to enable by yourself.

Quote from Marciano

5schatten is ther any chance to pull the chrome config file?

Chrome is crashing when hiting the sync now button when i try to login with my google account.

So chrome is crashing all the time now and unable to start properly anymore.

And is there a shortcut key to exit spotify?

Thanks!

Check the google-chrome directory in configlfiles it should contain the config stuff. If in doubt then delete the whole dir and & reapply an update to recover the base files.

Alt+Exit quits Sportify -> otherwise I have no clue... the program even lags a proper quit button in it's menus.

Quote from Marciano

Well that worked for me when i tried the first time N64 emulator.

I had the same issue when i tried the first time N64 so i edited the es_systems.cfg and then it works.

Just trying to help.

If you edit es_systems.cfg you switch from a libretro core to mupen64plus standalone -> that's a different kettle of fish. Anyway I'm more interested in solving the problem than just suggesting to use another emulator

Marciano

It makes no sense to speculate while logs are missing. The Mupen64plus libretro core is basically a "fire & forget" core and should run out of the box on all systems. It doesn't need any configuration or bios files. If it crashs then either Retroarch itself has problems or something is really screwed.

Quote from Zenga

Hey Thanks, I was trying to upgrade from vanilla libeelec. clean install worked fantastic. Any guides on how to get the N64 emulator to work? I transferred the rom and it finds it no problem, scrapes no problem but when i try to run it the screen goes black for a second and then goes back to emulation station.

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