Posts by Bertel

Done.

[TL;DR: SUCCESS ! HVEC video playing now - and quite decent I might add!]

My switch to a non-zombiefied or frankensteinized LibreElec (ditch berryboot) worked well. I did everything new, no backup, just to be sure to have a clean system. The scraping of my media took quite long but now it's all done and I've even installed the most important (to me) add-ons.

I played a bit with config.txt after setting it to writeable (good thing there are tutorials for everything, I find Putty a bit scary, WinSCP way more intuitive, especially since it provides an editor with familiar look and feel. Yes, my Raspberry Pi is my first foray into the world of Linux and I admit I like my UIs with a capital G).

In the clean install, the graphics memory for 1024MB of RAM was already set to 256 as smp had recommended.

I did play a bit with the overclocking options after reading up a bit on that. Before that I exchanged my DC adapter for one that came with my Sony cell phone that was nominally better (5V at 1.5 Ampere instead of 1.2). However, that led to LibreElec showing the "lightning" symbol for power trouble under all circumstances, even non-overclocked. So I switched back to the 1.2A adapter and I'm having no immediate problems with the following settings:

arm_freq=1000
sdram_freq=500
core_freq=500
over_voltage=2
temp_limit=80

On these settings (Raspberry Pi2, I believe the B version), playback of my HVEC file not only did not cause my system to crash (like before and just like smp experienced when he set his graphics memory to 160MB (I have NO idea where that setting came from)) - playback was actually quite decent and much better than I assumed after your indication of the Pi2's limitations in that regard. I find it totally watchable, at least judging from my 2-minute-test of one file.

Also: I did all of that on the newest release of the 8.x-channel.

With such a good outcome I find it sensible to push back upgrading to LibreELEC 9 when there's a stable release.

A BIG thank you to everybody who chimed in on this thread. Everybody was very helpful to a newbie like me! You made my day and it's forums like this that make projects like LibreELEC accessible to the masses. Vielen Dank.

I find the Libre Computer project very interesting that I only read about yesterday and hope to be able to afford Le Potato in a few months.

Wow,

that sounds really promising, smp! Thanks for trying that out. I was away from home for most of the day and right now I'm newly setting up LibreElec as a single boot system since I didn't like the peculiarities of a multi boot system with berryboot (no automatic updates, some stuff more complicated). I'll just get a second SD card for my RetroPie.

At the moment the new system is scraping my libraries, as soon as that is done I'll edit config.txt. Hope I'll be able to announce HVEC playback (however slow) then!

[edit: I'm using a Pi2 btw. I'm trying to get my brother to buy "LePotato" of which I first read yesterday, so that he'll give me his Pi3 ]

Seems like editing config.txt needs to be done from the advanced options right in berryboot.

Which would indicate that my system is not overclocked (I had tried to overclock the Pi for RetroPie which is my secondary system, which is why I use berryboot. Never checked for success. I've never edited config.txt from the berryboot start menu which seems to override anything done within the OSs)

I'll play with that tomorrow (set the gpu_mem_1024 value) and report back.

So long!

By following the instructions on the page linked above I was successfully able to update my system so that it's running LibreElec 9 / Kodi 18 now

Sadly nothing has changed in regard to my problem with playback. Some files still crash the system

Even so I've learned quite a bit tonight, thank you smp and Klojum. I'd greatly appreciate any further help.

It does seem to be the fault of berryboot.

Just reading into the subject here: Update Openelec on BerryBoot (rasp pi 1) · Issue #151 · maxnet/berryboot · GitHub

There are instructions on that page.

[edit: this also seems to explain why I had an old version ob libreelec despite having auto updates checked]

Thanks again for helping me. Sorry for asking dumb questions, but...

- I created a backup

- I downloaded the newest build, realizing it's not a stable version etc... and copied it into the update folder

- I rebooted

Didn't update though, still on the 8.x version number.

What could I have overlooked?

[edit: added screenshot showing update file in folder]

[edit 2: I use berryboot fyi]

Ehm, I don't see a higher version than 8.2.2 on libreelec.tv

Am I missing something?

Thanks, smp.

What's the easiest way to upgrade from LibreELEC 8.x to 9.x?

Under settings it's only offering me upgrading on the 7 or 8 track.

How do I upgrade without losing all of my settings, addons, etc?

Thanks for your answer and giving me pointers, Klojum.

I never paid attention to the version numbers since I expected LibreELEC to update automatically. Now I will try to manually update.

Better hardware is not an option for now. Makes me wonder if all videos that wouldn't play are HEVC (a term I had to google, thank you wikipedia).

Thanks for the quick reply. If possible, I would prefer not posting a sample here.

All files causing this behavior play without a hitch on my windows pc using mpc (previously media player classic).

Hi,

new to this forum. I absolutely love Kodi/LibreElec which is running on my Pi media center.

However, some of my video files won't play and make LibreElec crash.

I choose playback of the file and nothing happens. After about 20 seconds the screen goes blank. After a minute or so, Kodi restarts (no full reboot of my Pi though).

After lots of trying I've managed to get my hands on the log-file (For some reason, the submit log function of libreelec didn't work, only got an error message). WinSCP gave me access though. The kodi.old.log seems to show everything happening right until the reboot but I can't make sense of it.

If anyone here can give me pointers what is going wrong here, I'd greatly appreciate it. Thank you in advance!

Bertel