Posts by sky42

I am a x86 fan. Started with a Celeron 1610 and Nvidia GT 610. That was great. Next Haswell NUC was great too. Now i3-8100 and it does it all in the most stable way except 4k with HDR.

For me x86 is not dead, it is working great except HDR (for now) and i will buy most likely a new x86 Board and CPU and put in in my Streacom FC8 Evo.

I was tempted more then one time to buy something for Intel HDR, but it is not yet ready and far from be stable to use.

I will not buy a new Intel before native HDMI 2.1 4k HDR 60 Hz is working and that is for sure not this year, becaues Hardware for that is not yet build. LSPCon are the worst.

I use Kodi every day instead of TV and i just want to use it stable

2 main Kodi player at the moment.

i3-8100

- most stable

- the least problems

- can use full software deinterlace yadif

- really fast interface

- really fast start playing also Streaming like amazon prime

- HBR audio does simply work

Vero 4k+, because i wanted 4k HDR now with HBR Audio (IIRC 18 month ago)

- plays HDR with 4k and passthrough just fine

- interface is a bit slow, when use x86 all the time

and for testing

RPi4 to see if it can beat the Vero 4k+

- it is getting there, but probably not this year (talking about stable and good for the wife with 4k HDR PT)

- today i tested successfully HBR Audio with the latest patches from HiassofT

- but that is with devel Kodi 19 and at the moment without 4k and no HDR (it will come)

RPi2

- reference for the other 2 rooms where are RPi2 running

- interface is slow, but fast enough

- play H264 1080p fine if you dont need/want HBR audio

Meecool K1 Pro to play around with AML

- mostly off, because i wait that mainline kernel will do with full HBR audio

Update 9.2.3-#200605

download link sky42 LibreELEC community builds

based on LibreELEC (Leia) 9.2.3 – LibreELEC

Generic kernel-4.19 is now 4.19.126 in the release

full source

GitHub - sky42src/LibreELEC.tv at 9.2.3-200605

diff of my source to LE 9.2

Comparing LibreELEC:9.2.3...sky42src:9.2.3-200605 · LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv · GitHub

Sorry Wicher  Nicolas i was and still are very busy at work

Wicher 2 examples from one of my posts 2 yesrs ago

features tested:

- truecrypt with "cryptsetup open --type tcrypt /dev/sda6 tcrypt-sda6 ; mount /dev/mapper/tcrypt-sda6 <your mountpoint>" created on OE 5.0 with truecrypt

- veracrypt with "cryptsetup open --veracrypt --type tcrypt /dev/sdb6 vcrypt-sdb6 ; mount.exfat /dev/mapper/vcrypt-sdb6 <your mountpoint>" created on Windows 10 with veracypt and formated as exfat

- cryptsetup luks i used to create and mount encrypted userdata

and the actual command line i use at the moment on my CentOS7 systems to mount my encrypted drives with a PW given in a script and mounting all

stty -echo
$ECHO -e ">>> Please enter password:    \c"
read PASS
stty echo

cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdc1 luks-sdc1 - <<< "$PASS" || exit 1

Nicolas sorry for the delay the next post will be 9.2.3

Update 9.2.1-#200303

download link sky42 LibreELEC community builds

based on LibreELEC (Leia) 9.2.1 – LibreELEC

Generic kernel-4.19 is now 4.19.106 as the RPi version in the release

Update 9.2.0-#191123

download link sky42 LibreELEC community builds

based on LibreELEC (Leia) 9.2.0 – LibreELEC

but i included [le92] NFS / netboot backports by HiassofT · Pull Request #3991 · LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv · GitHub

I don't think so.

Update 9.1.502-#191018

download link sky42 LibreELEC community builds

based on LibreELEC (Leia) 9.2 Beta 2 – LibreELEC

Atmos with DD+ (EAC3) does work, but not with TrueHD as HD Audio is not yet done.

Setup the GUI Refresh Rate to 50 Hz in settings -> system -> display, so switching to TV does not change refresh rate.

Whitelist Looks fine to me.

Setup adjust display refresh rate to "On start" in settings -> player -> video, so stopping would not change back to the GUI refresh rate.

Use the resolution whitelist and select all 1080p modes except 25, 29, 30 Hz.

Video from some TV channels shows up as 25fps and after some seconds Kodi detect it is interlaced and 50hz and switches again.

If you start with 50 Hz (25 Not allowed) no unnessearry switching.

reserved post for some documentation (i want to write) on how to use lvm2, cryptsetup and hopefully in a later version network bound disc encryption.

download link sky42 LibreELEC community builds

latest is 9.2.6 and has version number 9.2.6-#201025

If you have any problems please install offcial LibreELEC version on which my build is based on and test again. If the problem is the same it is most likely not my build.

If you dont use any of the following additions i made, then my images have no benefit for you and you should use the official build.

the following was added in my community build:

- /flash 1024MB

- added a 2nd kernel for Generic: ported 4.19 from 9.0.2 and updated to the latest version (suffix kernel-4.19)

- no GUI tools for the encryptiom or lvm2

- enable kernel config for lvm2 and snapshots (no raid, no cache)

- added lvm2 tools (config is under /storage/.config/lvm)

- enable kernel config for dm-crypt to use cryptsetup (compatible with luks, veracrypt, truecrypt)

- added cryptsetup to manage encrypted block devices with luks, veracrypt and some more

- enabled /etc/crypttab support in systemd

- enable kernel config for ext4 filesystem encryption

- added fscryptctl to manage ext4 encryption

- enable kernel config for more crypto modules and hardware acceleration (if existing)

- curl: enable protocol support for scp, sftp, smb, smbs

- added some Kodi newclock5 patches from popcornmix to all projects where they are not included (details see github source below)

Builds are done for all project and devices that are supported by LE 9.2 at the moment (Generic, RPi, Rockchip)

weekly use by me: Generic

tested booting: RPi4, RPi2

just build and never tested: all the rest

The following links are only for people who are interested in the source code of my builds.

You will find them in my GitHub account sky42src (sky42) · GitHub

full source of my LE 9.2

GitHub - sky42src/LibreELEC.tv at 9.2.6-201025

diff of my source to LE 9.2

Comparing LibreELEC:9.2.6...sky42src:9.2.6-201025 · LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv · GitHub

Have Fun

sky42

This is then first 9.2 alpha and has a version number 9.1.001

There is since the release on 24. here LibreELEC (Leia) 9.2 ALPHA1 with Raspberry Pi 4B Support – LibreELEC

Around 10 diffrent DD+ samples I tested from my library play well on RPi2 and RPi4 from 5.1 up to DD+ 7.1 with Atmos, where my Denon AVR says Dolby Atmos. Tested with 9.2 latest git version.

No confirmations so far, then i am out. I just send back the N4100 and ordered a RPi4 yesterday.

Non can not reproduce without the TV, because the TV can not do HD Audio. So I did not try at all.

It is not just Aquaman. I did try around 25 movies.

I fear i found a new Gemini Lake problem -> Gemini Lake HD Audio dropouts problem