Posts by sky42

oh boy ... i did a bit more of a playback test on LE11
- Video all fine from Mpeg2, H264, HEVC up to 4k with HDR (on my LE BT2020 version)
- did not yet test AV1 and LE12

- HD Audio is not fine on LE11
So i need to warn everybody of audio dropout for ALL HD Audio passthrough on my ASUS PN42. 1st check on a i3-8100 HDMI 1.4 i could not reproduce. Dropouts in the latest after around 5min. Sometimes every 15sec 2x-3x times.
Used 6 different remux from BD made my self. DTS-HD 5.1/7.1, TrueHD with/without Atmos 2.1 Mbit - 6 Mbit have all dropouts. DDP 7.1 with Atmos is fine 1.5 Mbit.

Will test more and come back
- Denon X6700H and LG 55E6D only HDMI connections, no ARC, no CEC
- ASUS PN42 HDMI 2.0 a or b (not sure)
- Asrock B360 ITX/ac HDMI 1.4 (so far could not reproduce) with i3-8100
- NUC8i7BEH HDMI 2.0a (need to free it 1st)
- maybe NUC12WSKv7 (but that is even more work because it is my desktop)
- maybe RPi4 too
- maybe Vero 4k+ with OSMC too

Anybody has a full fledged test plan and samples.
I will manage to create one my self, just asking to save time.

yamcenutzer
1.
- only HDMI
- no ARC
- no CEC
- PN42 -> Denon -> LG TV
- only passthrough except e.g. AAC that can not be passthrough

2.
- from SD to 4k HDR (with my BT2020 community build)
- Mpeg2, H264, HEVC
- no AV1 test so far

3.
- nearly all HD Audio has very short audio dropouts for like half a second from 1 up to 10 times in 5min, but at least one TrueHD did not dropout in the 1st 5min
- all audio works with passthrough (not yet DTS:X tested, have only 1 remux)
- now i will investigate the HD Audio dropouts, but that will mayby take some days to test

4.
- remux of DVD, BD, 4k BD
- H264 720p50 Live Streaming ARD/ZDF
- 720p AVC / 1080p HEVC streaming files
- i do have live TV with tvheadend and VU+ plugin but do not use it

adam.h. no not that one, the barebone N100 version and i put a 8GB DDR4 3200 and Samsung NVMe SSD in there

I have a ASUS PN42 with Intel N100 for a week or 2

- fanless !!!

- CIR RC6 works and wakeup from S5 too

- HDMI CEC with extensiv BIOS config (not tested but saw the settings)

- works.geat (for me) with LE11

- wakeup from S5 with USB or IR

-power consumption is like a RPi4 with USB3 SSD

- BT and WiFi ofc

- as fast as my i3-8100 HTPC but less then a 1/3 of the power consumption

- decodes AV1 in hardware (my i3-8100 not)

Even StandBy and WakeUp works. Most of the time the bios I can see too on my LG with a Denon AVR.

This Hardware is great. The power button is a bit bright. I did get it for 220 Euro "used" at Amazon.

Sorry LE and WLAN we are not friends. I always use wired.

The .kodi mount in a extra partition I did too for testing. You even can do that with ext4 FS encryption without extra partition. But the ext4 in FS encryptuon is kind of bad documented.

My goal was/is the same: take out one fully encrypted system and all the rest is gone no cache or metadata left.

NBDE with tang and clevis is very cool for that. I do that all the time with any RHEL and clones. At work with hundreds of servers.

le3b nice to see somebody else to be interessted to encrypt user data

here is the place you can use
https://github.com/sky42src/Libre…ripts/init#L604
last line in your "mount-storage.sh" should be
mount_part "$disk" "/storage" "rw,noatime"
or something else that does the job

for fast testing i use kernel command line and nfs backend (that is encrypted)
add to your kernel command line "ip=dhcp disk=NFS=server:/kodi/21/client,vers=4 ipv6.disable=1" normally in /flash/syslinux.cfg
that works with the official image too

And i already build LE12 Generic, but did not upload it or opened a new thread for it. Testing it for 4 days now with my new Intel N100 box (not yet checked out the part encrypotion).

My Pi4 with LE11 on a Denon X6700H plays absolute flawless every movie and all the HD audio formats with passthrough.

DTS-HD MA and HR

DTS:X

TrueHD with and without Atmos

also 4k HDR + HD audio

The Generic-BT2020 is a devices that official LE does not know and therefor cross device updates are not working.
1st update to sky42 Generic (not BT2020) version, then you can use a official LE version for update, because the device Generic is known by official LE.

Release version 11.0.3-231022

download link sky42 LibreELEC community builds

based on https://libreelec.tv/2023/07/20/libreelec-nexus-11-0-3/

231022

- upstream update now with RPi5 (as is)

- added linux (RPi5): enable MD, DM and more encryption

RPi5 is untested, becaus i could not order one yet. Hopefully tomorrow i can order one and if i am lucky at the end of the month i have one.

diff of my source
https://github.com/LibreELEC/Libr…v:11.0.3-231022

Release version 11.0.3-230910

download link sky42 LibreELEC community builds

based on https://libreelec.tv/2023/07/20/libreelec-nexus-11-0-3/

230910
- upstream update
- Generic-BT2020 added a m2ts audio patch hinted by smp

diff of my source

Comparing LibreELEC:9b8c9c8...sky42src:11.0.3-230910 · LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv

Just enough OS for KODI. Contribute to LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

No interpreter on my download server by choice.

Pure static html.

I need to wrestle with Python that creates the Json, but my filenames are not exactly what LE uses. In the past I changed it but not for 10 or 11 so far.

Sorry.

Yes my repo is not prepared to update from within LE.

I know.

For that I need to put some effort to create a releases.json, but so far I had not the nerve to do it.

Download Server move is done. Now SSL only and redirect to SSL if one tries without.

pasnox thx for the hint

Download Server will be moved and then it will be SSL only (with redirect from 80 -> 443).
After the DNS change is done the SSL Cert will be invalid.
When DNS is done i will activate a valid letsencrypt cert.

You are right sky42.libreelec.tv is http only and with TLS it lands on my webmail. I dont like that, but that is not new and like this for ever. Lets see if i can fix that.

Release version 11.0.3-230715 and 11.0.3-230723

download link sky42 LibreELEC community builds

based on https://libreelec.tv/2023/07/20/libreelec-nexus-11-0-3/

230723

- for testing added new device Generic-BT2020 with patches from HDR on x86 Hardware thread

Post

RE: [x86-64] HDR Playback

[…]

BT.2020 for Kodi 20

Channel switching GUI flicker fix

smp

July 22, 2023 at 6:03 AM

- new images for Generic and Generic-legacy too with updated canupdate.sh

230715

- upstream update 11.0.3

diff of my source
https://github.com/LibreELEC/Libr…v:11.0.3-230723

Thanks this one did compile.

But for me it is not working except black screen, but that is new before the patch it stuck without getting a black screen.
Hardware B360M-ITX/ac, i3-8100, Denon X6700H, LG55E6D.

Media my own 4k discs remux with makemkv and lots of samples.
That is not really a problem for me because i use a Vero 4k+ since it was released for HDR and now for testing a RPi4 too. But one can hope to just use one fast x86_64 device for all media.

If somebody is interessted you find my LE 11.0.3 comunity build + lvm and encryption + the 2 patches from here under http://sky42.libreelec.tv/release/11.0/G…Generic-BT2020/ .
The way back without forced update needs 1st a update to my Generic 11.0.3-#230723 and then back to official LE.

The commit with all the changes is https://github.com/sky42src/LibreELEC.tv/commit/fe9d270

smp that does not build on top of 11.0.3 (in my community build where i do not tocuh kodi anywhere)
i get http://ix.io/4Bfb and then try to find out if i missed something.
Found where the patch is comming from but have no idea if i need something else from here
https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/comp…-no-ffmpeg-bump
Any pointers?

I do play around for a while with the thought to build a extra "device" in my community build with the needed patches that are in this thread here. Now as i get it presented on a table (thank you) i did try, but no luck.

I had some rclone trouble on my download Server. That ist fixed.

Nö nothing Special. Should Work Like without my patches.