Posts by chook55

Nothing unexpected. I was surprised when playing a video I have for years played in HDR. Never mind I've seen it.

Thanks for your tireless efforts.

chook

RPI4B

LG OLED TV

Marantz SR55000 AVR

I see HDR is working on the Nightlies. Well done.

An observation.

1. The control panel overlay is also in HD while video is playing. Accessible by pressing ESCAPE.

The glare from the overlay makes is undesirable. I have an OLED screen and am wary of staying on this screen for more than a few seconds in case it burns in. Is this something that can be controlled or avoided.

2. Nice logo by the way.

3. How does one disable HDR

chook

Yes I'm using the option in the AVR SPDIF (AC3/DTS)^[ column.

If I use the JustBoom SPDIF option as audio out and passthrough device Dolby Sample files play as they should with 5.1 channels. However videos which I know are Dolby 5.1 audio will play as 2 channels only with identical options.

I havent had opportunity to reconfigure and recommission the HDMI to SPDIF splitter. This I know will play multichannel videos correctly.

It seems there is a problem detecting the audio encoding, though this shows in the info display widget correctly. I'll be a day or so before I can continue forwards.

Chook

So I'm using the JustBoom DIGI HAT and using the S/PDIF Optical source to connect to a Marantz Amplifier.

Dolby 5.1 DTS 5.1 and ATMOS 5.1 sample video files utilize all 5.1 channels with the Audio profile using the JustBoom Digi HAT option. However TV shows and Movies with Dolby 5.1, AAC 5.1 codec are out puting using only 2 channels. I'll reinstall a HDMI SPDIF splitter and remove the JustBoom HAT to see if it's a configuration problem or a firmware problem.

Quote from uNGam3R

Hey Guys,

To add more, I installed a fresh LibreElec v10.0.0. I installed the add on Raspbery pi tools, System tools and Adafruit Librairies (not sure it helps) from the repos.

I installed the dedicated argon one libreelec script: "curl argonone-setup-libreelec.sh | bash"

It was obviously not working at first.

I only needed to update the "/storage/.config/system.d/argononed.service" and change the ExecStart line with this one : ExecStart=/bin/sh -c ". /etc/profile; exec /usr/bin/python /storage/.config/argononed.py".

Everything then went fine and I was able to manage the fan control through the config file.

Have Fun,

Damien.

Display More

This worked well. I had the noisey stock fan running flat out when I rebooted. I edited "argononed.conf" with 4 lines of °C to % fan settings after removing 1=100.

ie

42=25

44=50

46=75

48=100

I didnt try through their app.

Chook

I'm still using the USB boot (which has become very fast) and the 20211029 nightly. It seems like the screen wrap resolved itself.

I'll mark as resolved.

cheers

Chook

29/10/21 7:30am It seems the wrap is caused by booting from the USB-SDD. To confirm I removed the USB-SSD went back to SD card. No problem with display wrap. Is running 40°C on idle and 43°C while playing a video.

29/10/21 8:17 AM To replicate the issue I have booted again with the USB SSD (Sandisk Extreme Pro USB 3.2 SSD) and can confirm the wrap around is back. Boot time was over a couple of minutes by the way.

I'm going to update to the latest nightly. 2021/10/28. Done. Result: Screen Wrap is still evident. At idle temperature settled to 41°C

chook

I upgraded to the nightly in question on a SD card. Did a system backup. Installed the latest nightly on a new USB SSD. I booted from the USB SSD then restored the backup. After a restart and re-enabling code for the Justboom digi hat. All seemed to be running OK but was running much hotter than normal. I rebooted after moving the USB SSD to the powered USB hub as the SSD was quite warm. This made little difference to the temperature which was creeping up with nothing running. The screen wrap was still evident at this time. I decided it was running several degrees cooler on the SD card so removed the USB SSD. And the pixel wrap has gone. So maybe it was power supply issue? Though the Powered USB has a separate 4A power supply. I'm wont pursue this further assuming it was a power issue.

Update: While the screen wrap issue has resolved itself using the SD card, the temperature is still running at 48°C compared to 39°C to 43°C. I've checked that WiFi is off. I use a wired network.

chook

Lots of work going on. Great effort kind people.

I notice the screen is wrapping by 1 horizontal pixel with upgrade to LibreELEC-RPi4.arm-11.0-nightly-20211027-f11ba02.

chook

I notice the LibreElec repository is now available once more.

Noted.

Thanks for your time.

RPI4 2GB

Using the latest Nightly LibreELEC-RPi4.arm-11.0-nightly-20210922-7455a76

When searching add-ons the LibreELEC repository is not available.

Message on screen say "Could not connect to repository".

Quote from HiassofT

Nothing has changed in that area during the nightly builds you mentioned.

Are you using (AC3/DTS/...) passthrough? Note that volume control won't work when passing through AC3/DTS/... - if you play a movie with eg 2ch PCM or an audio file it will work though.

so long,

Hias

Ah...thanks for clarifying for me. Pass-through was on. It can be hit and miss depending on the file audio.

thanks for your time.

chook

This problem has reemerged with the latest Nightly. LibreELEC-RPi4.arm-11.0-nightly-20210921-7455a76

The volume control plus or minus on keyboard or volume control keys does not work while playing movies or videos but works while playing music. The volume works while nothing is being played.

Some success with the Justboom Digi HAT. I now have 2 identical Justboom options to pick. Sampling rate options when these are selected show it automatically restricts it to 48KHz. So passthrough is OK to use.

2 Channel output works with no pass-through and 5.1 channel with pass-through works.

And LFE is working. So I have a choice now to keep the HAT or replace the splitter.

Thanks for your time.

Duh....changed entry to digi from dac and the entries appear. I'm about to plug it in. Passthrough off.

I dont think the card is working. It's not illuminating the optical fiber. Not entry appears on settings.

The Justboom site shows a ALSA:snd_rpi_justboom_digi, S/PDIF entry should appear in the audio output deice list. see attached.

I have the following lines in the config.txt

dtparam=audio=off
dtoverlay=justboom-dac

I'll do a search and see if anyone has it working.

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Probably that HAT can deal with DTS / Dolby Digital, but I'm skeptical about any HD audio format (you had DTS-HD in the log).

The receiver amp cant handle anything "HD" so DTS-HD is no loss. I hope the HAT will fit on top of the Argon case. So I might be a physical limitation. I'll find out shortly.

So the HAT fits OK, red LED power indicator displays. Unfortunately there is no Justboom or Audio DAC option displaying in system audio settings. Seem the card is inactive. I'll contact Justboom and see if is mean to work on the RPi4.