Posts by lexi81

  • Google Chrome addon no audio

    It is the custom audio option of the CHrome add-on settings. These options get loaded when /storage/.kodi/addons/browser.chrome/bin/chrome-start is started. But when I use Chrome-launcher these options seem to be overriden. If I am correct, the value that I put in the custom audio field is directly loaded in the $ALSA_DEVICE variable.

    I think the problem lies in the Chrome-launcher addon, it does not recognize the location of Google-Chrome. So I have to manualy tell it where it is, but /storage/.kodi/addons/browser.chrome/bin/chrome-start is not recognised as chrome. So I select the actual Chrome location, thus al the tweaks in chrome-start are not carried over.

    Maybe I should to try to stop and start pulseaudio like it is in /storage/.kodi/addons/browser.chrome/bin/chrome-start.

    [EDIT]

    I have it running now on my laptop (live usb) which does have an analog output, I made no custom config or script changes. I'm going to run this live-usb on my NUC tonight to see if it works. If not, it probably has to do with the custom audio.

    [EDIT2]

    I have tested the live-usb, no audio when used on my NUC. So I started to check the chrome-launcher files to see if I could find a starting point to begin fixing this. As I found out if you use a custom path to Chrome, which is needed with your Chrome addon, the script.sh is completely skipped. Thus the chrome-start of your add-on is called on opening of a url. But in this case all the chrome_OPTS variables are not loaded. Which is a problem if you need to use a custom audio device to get sound. To get around this I hardcoded the options, which is not a long term solution becasue this might be overwritten with a future update. For now, I have shortcuts in Kodi Favorites and working audio :) .

    # start chrome

    # $chrome_OPTS \

    LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libGL.so $ADDON_DIR/chrome-bin/chrome \

    --alsa-output-device=plughw:0,3 --enable-gpu-rasterization --enable-accelerated-2d-canvas --ignore-gpu-blacklist --enable-accelerated-video \

    --no-sandbox \

    --user-data-dir=$ADDON_HOME/profile \

    --test-type $@ \

    2>&1 | tee $ADDON_LOG_FILE

  • Google Chrome addon no audio

    I have the custom audio option configured with HDMI:card=PCH. Otherwise I don't have audio with my NUC, HDMI is on alsa 0,3 and 0,7, I don't have any other analog output devices. I would like to add some shortcuts to favorites directly (ZiggoGo / Spotify for example), so I tried to use Chromelauncher. I can't get audio to work though.

    To try to fix it I edited the script.sh of chromelauncher, I added --alsa-output-device=plughw:0,3 (or 0,7) this won't help. I don't understand why I have to configure the audio output in the Chrome add-on anyway, shouldn't one of my HDMI outputs be the ALSA default because I don't have analog?

    Any insights on how to get this to work or any other way to create shortcuts?

  • Chromium?

    That might indeed be the case. I have enabled the gpu override setting in flags and now it is says hardware decoding is enabled. But when playing a video it still does software decode. Quality is enough for the occaisional stream I watch though.

    Thanks!

  • Chromium?

    I have installed #0626 which should have Chrome. But the repo has not been rebuild yet. I installed your last zip again and things are different now. See Photo. Intel is selected in settings.

  • Chromium?

    I've run the final installation method zip. Chrome runs, widevine seems correctly installed as I can stream video on ziggogo.tv. It doesn't use hardware decoding though. I'm running millhouse LE9, a build without xorg (or did I misunderstand that change). In the GPU output I see that hardware decoding is disabled, yet it doesn't say unavailable. So it should be possible on my hardware, this is an oldish celeron NUC 847dye. When I run Cloudready ChromeOS and install Widevine I can stream full HD without issues in Chrome.

    Anything I can do to get this sorted out?