Posts by BallerShotCaller

  • Xbox 360 controller: Powering off within LE possible?

    I am using the Xbox 360 controller for playing games with LibreELEC. Unfortunately the Xbox360 controller is not able being powerred off manually via hardware button by default.

    There are indeed some community scripts for Winodws which are doing exactly this but I have not found anything similiar for Linux.

    The only thing I found was xpad but I am not sure if and how this could be used within LibreELEC.

    Any hints or experiences about this?

    Thank you!

  • LE changes default resolution settings automatically

    After struggling around now with autoexec.py, cronjobs and autostart.sh I found out there is a much better solution:

    Add two according XML code lines into advancedsettings.xml to tie the screen resolution to fixed values like this (example for 1080p/60Hz):

    Code
    <advancedsettings>
    <videoscreen>
        <resolution>17</resolution>
        <screenmode>0192001080060.00000pstd</screenmode>
    </videoscreen>
</advancedsettings>

    Sources:

    [HowTo] Audio- & Auflösungseinstellungen fest in Kodi einstellen - Kodi allgemein - Kodinerds.net - Deutschsprachiges Forum zum Kodi Entertainment Center

    and

    AdvancedSettings.xml overriding guisettings.xml.

    Edit:

    After lots of tests now I mentioned the "abstracted" XML entries as shown above are not very reliable and pretty unstable.

    But it's really stable with the "full" XML entries instead, like this:

    Code
    <advancedsettings>
    <setting id="videoscreen.resolution">17</setting>
    <setting id="videoscreen.screenmode">0192001080060.00000pstd</setting>
</advancedsettings>

    Have a look into the last provided link above for further explanation.

  • LE changes default resolution settings automatically

    OK, so can I set this setting on the start of LE via script so that I will not have to change it manually again?

    I made the following script which I have tested and is indeed working to change the according value within guisettings.xml when executing manually from command line but I am not sure whether I have to auto-start the script via autoexec.py (which runs before user-login AFAIK) or via autostart.sh (which runs after user-login AFAIK).

    I guess when running it via autostart.sh I would also need a command to restart some kind of screen service/process or similiar? I don't think the screen settings will apply on-the-fly automatically by just changing the videoscreen.screenmode value within guisettings.xml, will they? If I need to restart a specific service/process, which additional command would I need to restart the according service/process?

    Or could I just use autoexec.py to start the script? In this case, would the script being executed before the screen settings apply to the TV screen?

    Here's the script's content I made:

    Bash
    #!/bin/sh
xmlstarlet ed --inplace -u '//setting[@id="videoscreen.screenmode"]' -v "0192001080060.00000pstd" /storage/.kodi/userdata/guisettings.xml

    Thank you.

  • LE changes default resolution settings automatically

    Not sure if this is a bug or an uncoverable behaviour because of all those fancy screen features TVs have implemented nowadays.

    It happened a couple of times now but I cannot say exactly when this is happening but sometimes after starting LE I got the behaviour that LE has set the default screen resolution itself from 1080p/60Hz to 4096p/30Hz. Then I have to set it back to 1080p/60Hz manually.

    My TV is indeed a 4K TV but I want to keep 1080p/60Hz for different reasons.

    Now my questions are:

    Why is it even possible LE changes this by itself?

    Is there any way I can prevent this behaviour (I don't know if it would help but the idea of taking 4096p/30Hz out of the whitelist would not be an adorable option to me)?

    Could it be that LE loses this specific setting after a crash?

  • IAGL (Internet Archive Game Launcher): Most games not working

    Thanks for your investigation.

    I had a really hard journey today to make everything work after a lot of hours messing around with IAGL on LibreELEC.

    First thing I did was to check your hint:

    vfs.libarchive/vfs.rar were already on the latest version and active, so that hint did unfortunately not help anything.

    So I decided to reinstall LE10.0 RC1 from scratch and after the first start I was indeed able to run some games which did not work before, but unforunately only once and then not again. I mentioned that on the very first run of a game I was asked for choosing an emulator but on further starts of the same game(s) I was indeed aksed again but the strange thing was that some emulators were disappeared and did not show up anymore altough they were indeed installed.

    I was messing around with re-installing IAGL a few times and I tried to download emulators from different repositories but nothing helped.

    Then I thought the problem could be the use of multiple user profiles in LibreELEC. I wanted to give it a shot and installed LE10.0 RC1 again from scratch without multiple user profiles and "Bingo!", that was it. I don't know what exactly the proplem is according to multiple user profiles but maybe you can find out and/or tell me/us.

    But: Even without the use multiple user profiles I still ran into a strange issue:

    After the installation of the IAGL addon, for setting everything up, I chose to use the wizard which was asking me for "archive.org" login. After putting my according e-mail address it told me that the e-mail address was not found within the "archive.org" database. After inserting the same e-mail address again the e-mail address was accepted somehow. Then, on the next step, it asked for the according "archive.org" account password. After inserting the password there was a message showing up that some games may not work without a registered "archive.org" account, but what's pretty disturbing abut this message is that it won't tell you if the password was right or wrong, it's just this message. So you have no idea if the message was just an additional information or if it was an explicit warning because of a wrong inserted password.

    Then, after installing all emulators and downloading all game lists, on the very end of the wizard, the setup assistant showed up "Setup could not be completed to launch games with RetroPlayer" which gave me a bad feeling again. And indeed I was not able to run most of the games. So I went through IAGL addon settings and mentioned that the "archive.org" account I have inserted on the wizard was not being saved so I tried to insert it via the IAGL addon settings manually again. Then I checked for "account confirmation" (I don't remember how exactly the option is called within the IAGL addon settings) and got the message that the account was found successfully.

    After that I was able to run all games I have tried yet (I will test more games these days and report back if something does not work).

    Just to be clear: I did all those steps twice from scratch and as described on the official IAGL Github instructions, just to be sure that this was not happening because of a mistake of myself (which am pretty sure right now).

    Plus, if you don't mind, I would like to set an "improvement request" for the IAGL setup wizard: It would be very convenient to have an option to choose to install all available emulators without having to confirm every single one of them to be installed (which is obviously pretty annoying because there are a lot of them).

    Thank you and if you have any question or need any further information I can provide, I am happy to help.

  • IAGL (Internet Archive Game Launcher): Most games not working

    Quote from zachmorris

    Hello,

    I'm the addon author. There looks like there's an issue with vfs.libarchive/Kodi with LE based on the log. The error is:

    Code
    Create - unsupported protocol(archive) in archive://path_to_zip_file.zip/

    Which is an error I've never seen. It points to LE not supporting the archive protocol. I'll have to dig into this a little more.

    Good news, at least to me, that it seems not to be my mistake :D

    Edit: Thank you for answering my question and for helping me out with this, mate

  • LE 10.0 RC1: Crashing when trying to play a MKV file

    Since LE 10.0 RC1 on generic x64 device I'm not able to play any of my MKV movies stored on a remote SMB share anymore.

    I can navigate through the SMB share but when I start playing a file it shows a black screen immediately for about 3 to 5 seconds and then it puts me back to my profiles login screen.

    Here are the dubug logs:

    http://ix.io/3v4r

    Note: I don't have any other format than MKV movies so I was not able to test any onther container format.

  • IAGL (Internet Archive Game Launcher): Most games not working

    Guys, I don't know what's wrong over here and I need help:

    I've just set up IAGL for the first time and there are indeed a few games that do work, but most games do not.

    For the debug logfile I first tried to start Street Fighter II which makes LE crash completely (black screen and after a few seconds it puts me back to the login screen (without rebooting completely, btw)). Then I've tried to start Super Mario Bros. 3 which just aborts with the error message that I should check the logfiles.

    Here is the debug logfile:

    Logfile

    Any help would be appreciated, thank you in advance.