Posts by TheWojtek

Oooh, OK. Does "AppleTV1,1" work as a fruit model as well? AFAIR the list goes:

Xserve (same as RackMac)

PowerBook

PowerMac

Macmini

iMac

MacBook

MacBookPro

MacBookAir

MacPro

AppleTV1,1

AirPort

"SMARTV" is my Libreelec Odroid

Well, works for me out of the box, without editing any config files:

Oh you do! There are literally hundreds of processes running under the hood, each of them being gracefully terminated (however funny that sounds) - what you do is you close the running GUI programs. Not all, however - take the taskbar apps as an example (apps running in the clock area): no way you quit each of them separately, I bet you

Quote from FeFiFoFum

This is exactly why I'm asking, do I sound like a linux guru here?

I am unsure of the backend of linux, is it smart enough to send a message saying "I'm shutting down, Kodi, please also shut down and please do it safely" does Kodi then close all open files / handles / stuff in the database?

I don't know, that's why this thread exists I'd like to look after my install and have it long term reliable.

Well, you'd probably admit it's a reasonable assumption that a standard Linux shutdown command acts gracefully and asks all the processes nicely to terminate and then turns the computer off, wouldn't you? You won't ask the same question if the "Shutdown" menu in Windows is safe, I think...

It's perfectly safe, no worries.

Do yourself a favor and set up a VPN server on your router instead of exposing your Kodi wide open to the world.

Quote from FeFiFoFum

Wait I'm confused? Are you saying the command I'm issuing is fine?

How exactly would you expect the default graceful reboot command NOT to be fine?

Use an external .nfo scraper and run it on your library, let it write the .nfo files and only then add the movies to Kodi as usual. On a Mac I use the tinyMediaManager (it's cross-platform, so Windows and Linux are catered as well) and it does a much better job than any scraper.

Download this file: textinmotion-videosample-1080p.mp4 test and report back. Follow the rules of logging (enable debug logging, send to pastebin, link here)

I appreciate this input, alice434, however if it was meant to be valuable, you'd certainly notice that neither Libreelec, Kodi nor MySQL are Apple products. Thank you.

I run the latest release (Leia 18.1) with EstuaryMOD skin and store my database on a MySQL server (8.0.15 installed using Homebrew on Mac OS 10.14.3) in the basement. I have massive problems with MySQL crashing on updates (note: I believe it's not related to MySQL version, I got same logs back in MySQL 5.xx and I started to upgrade versions in order to get rid of the crashes). Namely, right after a library update - automated or not - MySQL server crashes with following logs:

(not a Kodi log - a MySQL one):

and here is the Kodi log:

Pause on IPTV is tricky, as the stream is being fed continuously. Theoretically an add-on could freeze the stream processing and buffer the stream until unpaused, but this would lead to all kind of problems, with running out of memory being just the first of them.

GitHub - asciidisco/plugin.video.netflix: Inputstream based Netflix plugin for Kodi

No prob. I believe I had this once or twice, but not any more. Perhaps (I am not an expert in codecs) it is down to some exotic settings in the file that is being played.

The heartbeat LED flash is normal, it should flash exactly like this, it does not indicate any "panic mode" whatsoever.

Kernel panic results in an immediate halt of the whole system, so no, your installation is not panicking, on the contrary - the pulsating LED shows everything is OK and the operating system is still in control of the hardware.

The audio problems sound like a glitch in your resampling settings. First, make sure you set your player to adjust the refresh rate to the video (Settings → Player → Videos → Playback / Adjust display refresh rate on start/stop (you can try "Always" as well).

Then make sure your audio is configured correctly. Go to Settings → System → Audio and set "Output configuration" to "Fixed". Set the resampling quality to the lowest possible (Low/fast, you won't hear the difference anyway). Threshold for pitch correction to "2". Keep audio device alive: Always. I do limit the sample rate to 96 kHz due to other hardware, but 192 works as well.

This should work. Again, the pulsating heartbeat LED is a sign of the OS working properly, not "kernel in panic mode". There is no panic "mode" anyway, it's not a mode of kernel working, it is a full stop and will always result in the screen looking like this (picture lifted from another thread on the forum):

AFAIK it's a non-issue, the process looks like that:

- old database is duplicated as a whole with a new name

- the new copy is upgraded

- after a successful upgrade, Kodi uses the new database

- the old DB is retained as a backup just-in-case and is free to drop once everything is confirmed to work

I have MyVideos databases ranging as far as 75 on my server, they do not do a lot of harm (about 0.5 GB disk space) and their performance impact is negligible.

No need to kill the process, systemctl restart kodi.service will do.

Quote from olivluca

I know that the latter is a nightly and I know what a nightly is, but the question was, if I download a nightly right now, it should more or less corresponds to the release image, shouldn't it?

Oh, in this case it should be on par with the release, perhaps even a couple of commits fresher.