Posts by popcornmix

Quote from @fterlife

I wonder how the Pi 4 will behave with enclosures such as these that are basically one large heat sink for all chips.Would make it easy to carry around also. I refuse to rely on active cooling. A Pi has to be completely silent to begin with, and I travel quite a lot so the less parts and wires that can break the better.

I'd expect that to work well assuming it is a large piece of aluminium with good thermal connection to SoC.

Flirc cases have historically worked very well using the same principles.

I'm also expecting the new Pi4 version of Flirc case to work well when I get to try one.

Looks like we are sending the same signal in the working and non working case.

You can make absolutely sure of this by booting directly connected to TV (which works),

and then uplugging hdmi cable to go through amp (while kodi is running). Do you get a display?

Connect back to TV to confirm signal is still being sent).

If you see picture on TV before and after and no picture when using amp, I'd say you have some faulty

hardware outside of Pi. Check all cables. Try different cables. Try different sockets on amp and TV.

Try a different amp if available to try to narrow it down.

Can you ssh into the pi when display is working (direct connection to TV) and when not working (going through amp)

and report output of "tvservice -s"

I wonder if the amp is advertising support for 4kp30 which the TV can't handle.

Yes Pi3 builds support 3D

If you provide a link to the problematic file I can take a look.

3D is not supported yet on the Pi4.

It will come but it's not the highest priority.

Quote from Freestyler

Hi I didn't enabled this option in config.txt and I was able to play 4k HEVC movie anyway. Is that possible? Now i tried enable this option and only difference is, that I can put Kodi interface to 4k 60fps mode, previously I could use just 4k 30fps.

enable_4k=1 adds support for 4kp60 HDMI output (which requires higher clocks and voltage). 4kp30 (and lower) doesn't require this setting.

You can play 4k HEVC videos with or without this option (most video content is 4kp24).

Quote from benneh79

Quick one, when on the menus moving about, there seems to be alot of screen tearing, is this just down to it being early days? Im displaying on a Samsung NU7020 at 3840 x 2160 and just wondered what it was.

Yes tearing is a known issue. It is significantly reduced with the testing firmware (that fixes the stutter with some video files).

It's a software issue - it will be fixed in a later update.

Quote from pi-lung

I had the same issue. For me it helps to use the other HDMI port. I do not know if its a hardware or software related problem.

Yes - use HDMI0 - it is more capable (larger fifos means it can be run with lower clocks).

HDMI1 is largely untested with kodi.

Quote from Selwro

Issues: I can select resolutions of 4096x2160p @ 30, 29.97, 25, 23.98 and 3840x2160p @ 30, 29.97, 25, 23.98 --- but not at 60fps

Also the same content that used to be 4K HDR under the Rock64 build won't activate HDR on the RPI4.

Add hdmi_enable_4k=1 to config.txt and you should see the 4kp60 modes.

(4kp60 requires higher clock frequencies and scrambling so isn't enabled by default).

HDR isn't currently supported but should come soon.

Quote from Tenbrink

The Kodi Plex Add-On have a setting to allow HEVC, and hardware acceleration of it works in Kodi on my Windows laptop, so I wonder if the RPi4 will be able to do that as well?

Does anyone of you who owns an RPi4 and use the 9.2 Alpha also use Plex

I don't use Plex, but HEVC decode should be fine on a Pi4.

LE for Pi4 is listed as alpha.The device has only been out a week.

Atmos/DTS-HD are supported in hardware but support isn't in kodi yet.

Quote from coniman

Hi! I've bought a Pi4 2GB to use it in my restaurant to display menus and offers. I'm trying to boot with two LG 4K Tvs connected but I get a rainbow screen. If I boot with only 1 TV connected it works. I'm wondering if it's posible to make Kodi work with more than one display connected and play different videos on each screen. Maybe it would be easier to run two instances of Kodi and sign each one to a screen. I've tried VLC and OMXplayer but I think they don't support HW HEVC decode at this moment.

I don't think kodi supports dual video output on any platform, so no.

HW HEVC support is coming to VLC and that should support running fullscreen on either display so that should be an option.

You could use omxplayer and H.264 videos is you want a solution that works now.

Quote from noggin

This fixes the issues I have seen with h.264 1080i interlaced content (i.e. Freeview HD stuff) - but my 2160p59.94 Rec 709 SDR HEVC test stuff is still frame dropping like crazy. (Some other 2160p59.94 stuff isn't though)

High bitrate HEVC is next on the list to investigate. Currently it's just been "got working" rather than optimised.

Quote from dersascha

Hi guys i am at the lates aplpha on my Raspberry Pi 4 4GB but i notice some screen Tearing when i am in the settings or so. is a known probleme and maybe a fix for it?

The test firmware mentioned does improve tearing (but there are still occasional glimpses). It is still being investigated.

For the stuttering reports there is a fix. Either wait for the next LE update or grab firmware from here:

start4.elf?raw=true

fixup4.dat?raw=true

rename and replace start.elf/fixup.dat on the FAT partition of sdcard.

Quote from tonycollinet

Anyway - the new Raspi has potential to solve one of my problems. My TV has one 4K HDMI input, but my reciever is 1080P only. Unfortunatly the TV will only send stereo back down the ARC if the source is external. So I need a way of getting passthrough audio to the reciever.

Will it be possible to use the second HDMI to output the audio (with or without 1080P or lower video) while sending the full 4K video to the TV on the other HDMI?

I think this is possible from a hardware perspective.

We'll need a way for kodi to choose a different hdmi port for the audio

(possibly a different Sink, or maybe just a config option).

Don't hold your breath - there are more important things to support first,

but it's something I'll bear in mind.

Okay. You are on a Pi2, right? The commit I reverted should affect Pi3 behaviour rather than Pi2.

But, assuming you are still happy with the last test firmware can you try:

https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1ag88d56gimdzu7sxnc191hirepmgcnf8&export=download

This only partially reverts the commit to try to narrow it down. Let us know if you are happy or not with this version.