Posts by Tandric

v6.90.004 finally fixes RPi2 freezing with OMXPlayer on live tv.

I will update to LE now on all my 3 RPi2, as it's ready for production. (at least for me)

Thank you very much and keep on your good work.

Update:

v6.90.003 fixes the issue for movies and tv shows.

The problem remains for live tv (tvheadend client):
When first tuning into a channel, playpack works most of the time.
Switching channel always freezes kodi with omx.
Mmal works fine as before.

With OMXPlayer activated Kodi freezes right after starting playback of arbitrary video file.
SSH is possible, "systemctl restart kodi" restarts Kodi, as expected.
No sign of extensive cpu/memory usage.

To exclude any upgrade effects (from OE 6.0.3) I made a clean install, but no luck. Same freezing with OMXPlayer.

Steps i made to reproduce:

• "flashed" sd with [font="Times"]LibreELEC-RPi2.arm-7.0-Milhouse-20160324154422-#0324-ga0c0b80.img.gz[/font]
• restart with flashed sd and ssh into
• wget LibreELEC-RPi2.arm-6.90.002.tar into .update
• copied advancedsettings.xml and sources.xml from OE6 installation to have video files for testing (video db in mysql already on jarvis version)
• reboot
• finished initial LE wizard
• played various videos (with default MMAL) without issues (despite the usual little stutters you have with MMAL on RPi2 )
• deactivated MMAL, activated OMXPlayer
• tried to start video --> instant freeze

I made no changes to the default settings despite mentioned above.

I can upload a debug log, if it helps.

EDIT:
Changed subject as it's fixed for me with v6.90.004

Thanks for your advice, David, but in fact, I'm using profiles already. I should have mentioned that, sorry.

And yes, everything is working fine and as expected ... except one thing:
Even if you select "all" for "lock settings" in "lock preferences", the restricted user ist still able to select "LibreELEC" under "system" and therefore is able to change LibreELEC settings.
As the "deactivate" button for "service.libreelec.settings" is greyed-out, your only chance is to "hack" AddonXX.db, as I mentioned.

I can live with that, but imho it's not "nice". It's a hack and not very elegant.

It would be nice if service.libreelec.settings could respect <locksettings>1</locksettings> in profiles.xml.
I.e. showing the pin window if one tries to start the LE settings addon.

Scope:
Having a curious nine-year-old trying out every settings option on his own rpi2 with OE (atm, soon will be LE) on it, and me having to sort out all the mess he made later isn't THAT much fun.

ATM as a workaround I manually added "service.libreelec.settings" to the disabled table in the AddonsXX.db in his profile, but it doesn't "look nice" if nothing happens when trying to select a menu item.
And if you really want to change something you have to manually reenable it, wich is very uncomfortable.

OT:
Good luck with your new project!
Who designed the LE logo?
It looks really really nice and professional, even more compared to the ugly OE logo.