Posts by Da Flex

You need an additional audio input device for this task.

It's possible to route input to output on this device.

Problem: I don't think you can route audio from an external input device to another external output device (your USB soundcard).

Just to make this complete: HEVC (aka H265) is suggested by dev CvH as the best long-term solution for encoding. If you want to play your video library on multiple platforms, go for that codec. (RPi 4 can hardware-decode it.)

At second place comes H264. (RPi 4 can hardware-decode it.)

MPEG-2 is third place. (RPi 4 can only software-decode it. RPi 3 can hardware-decode it by license purchase.)

VC-1 is working on powerful hardware (x86 PC's), but can overcharge weaker hardware, like RPi's, due to missing multi-threading. (RPi 4 can only software-decode it. RPi 3 can hardware-decode it by license purchase.)

You talk about music videos, and I assume the audio data rate is higher at those. A single RPi core can't handle the decoding of such data rate anymore. -> re-encode or overclock

After conversation with dev's, I can say that the ability of ffmpeg's multi-threading depends on the codec. It's currently not available for VC-1. Parallelizing VC-1 decoding is a heavy task. So my suggestion is to re-encode videos by MPEG-2 (software decoding) or H264/265 (hardware decoding).

Yes, that sync error is visible at the log. The rest of the log looks good, so I'm thinking it's a decoding bug (WMA pro / DTS). A dev should have a look at this, I have no idea about a hot fix.

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2021-04-07 14:20:09.319 T:942      INFO <general>: CDVDAudioCodecFFmpeg::Open() Successful opened audio decoder wmapro
2021-04-07 14:20:09.319 T:942      INFO <general>: Creating audio thread
2021-04-07 14:20:09.319 T:945     DEBUG <general>: Thread VideoPlayerAudio start, auto delete: false
2021-04-07 14:20:09.319 T:945      INFO <general>: running thread: CVideoPlayerAudio::Process()
2021-04-07 14:20:09.319 T:945     DEBUG <general>: CVideoPlayerAudio - CDVDMsg::GENERAL_PAUSE: 1
2021-04-07 14:20:09.319 T:942     DEBUG <general>: Prepare - Start position set to last stopped position: 482000
2021-04-07 14:20:09.320 T:811     DEBUG <general>: EGL Debugging:
                                                   Error: EGL_BAD_SURFACE
                                                   Command: eglSwapBuffers
                                                   Type: EGL_DEBUG_MSG_ERROR_KHR
                                                   Message: dri2_swap_buffers
2021-04-07 14:20:09.322 T:811     DEBUG <general>: CDRMAtomic::FlipPage - Execute modeset at next commit
2021-04-07 14:20:09.323 T:942     DEBUG <general>: SeekTime - unknown position after seek
2021-04-07 14:20:09.323 T:942     DEBUG <general>: CVideoPlayer::FlushBuffers - flushing buffers
2021-04-07 14:20:09.323 T:945     DEBUG <general>: CDVDAudio::Pause - pausing audio stream
2021-04-07 14:20:09.323 T:944     DEBUG <general>: CDVDVideoCodecDRMPRIME::Reset - flush buffers
2021-04-07 14:20:09.345 T:945     DEBUG <general>: CVideoPlayerAudio - CDVDMsg::GENERAL_SYNCHRONIZE
2021-04-07 14:20:09.345 T:944     DEBUG <general>: CVideoPlayerVideo - CDVDMsg::GENERAL_SYNCHRONIZE
2021-04-07 14:20:09.345 T:942     DEBUG <general>: CVideoPlayer::SetCaching - caching state 2
2021-04-07 14:20:09.346 T:945     DEBUG <general>: CDVDAudio::Pause - pausing audio stream
2021-04-07 14:20:09.346 T:942     DEBUG <general>: CDVDClock::SetSpeedAdjust - adjusted:0.000000
2021-04-07 14:20:09.346 T:942     DEBUG <general>: Prepare - starting demuxer from: 482000
2021-04-07 14:20:09.352 T:811     DEBUG <general>: CWinSystemGbmGLESContext::PresentRender - Sending display reset to all clients
2021-04-07 14:20:09.352 T:811      INFO <general>: VideoPlayer: OnResetDisplay received
2021-04-07 14:20:09.352 T:945     DEBUG <general>: CVideoPlayerAudio - CDVDMsg::GENERAL_PAUSE: 0
2021-04-07 14:20:09.352 T:944     DEBUG <general>: CVideoPlayerVideo - CDVDMsg::GENERAL_PAUSE: 0
2021-04-07 14:20:09.359 T:811     DEBUG <general>: ffmpeg[(nil)X]: [image2] Custom AVIOContext makes no sense and will be ignored with AVFMT_NOFILE format.
2021-04-07 14:20:09.396 T:942     DEBUG <general>: CVideoPlayer::HandleMessages - player 2 reported state: 0
2021-04-07 14:20:09.396 T:826     DEBUG <general>: OnAVChange: CApplication::OnAVChange
2021-04-07 14:20:09.396 T:942     DEBUG <general>: CVideoPlayer::HandleMessages - player 1 reported state: 0
2021-04-07 14:20:09.399 T:942     DEBUG <general>: CheckPlayerInit - dropping packet type:1 dts:479317000.000000 to get to start point at 482000000.000000
2021-04-07 14:20:09.401 T:942     DEBUG <general>: CheckPlayerInit - dropping packet type:2 dts:481397000.000000 to get to start point at 482000000.000000
2021-04-07 14:20:09.401 T:944     DEBUG <general>: CVideoPlayerVideo - Stillframe left, switching to normal playback
2021-04-07 14:20:09.403 T:942     DEBUG <general>: CheckPlayerInit - dropping packet type:2 dts:481439000.000000 to get to start point at 482000000.000000
2021-04-07 14:20:09.405 T:942     DEBUG <general>: CheckPlayerInit - dropping packet type:2 dts:481480000.000000 to get to start point at 482000000.000000
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Ah, now I can see. I should censor that way of posting a version number.

The user never mentioned the LE version. For LE 9.2.6 it's the config.txt way, for LE 10 Beta it's kernel options.

Add hdmi_force_hotplug=1 and the HDMI mode of your choice to config.txt. The RPi will ignore the on / off state of the TV with those settings, which is what you want.

dudumaroja You talk about WiFi on an IR topic...

Please open a new thread, and describe your problem more precisely. Don't kidnap a solved thread.

Great! I mark this thread as solved.

Did you set the amount of output channels to 2.0? That's the right setting, other channels are encoded at those two.

Do you get different results with and without pass-through enabled on the audio settings?

Sorry to hear that. If you can't login by SSH to repair the asound.conf, then you could create an Ubuntu USB stick, boot it and access the Kodi file system from Ubuntu.

If you decide to do a fresh LE installation, use LE 10 Beta. It has a couple of bug fixes.

Does your /storage/.config/asound.conf look like this?

defaults.pcm.card 1
defaults.pcm.device 1

What's the output of aplay -l?

Quote from linuxuser

sorry if tis dumb question but how do i comment out,manually start the py and get the output?(i know that its dumb question but i am still learning....)

You really don't have the right user name.

Login by SSH.

Open autostart.sh by nano editor.

Comment out the Python line by adding a leading #. (like at line 1 - the magic line )

Save the change and close nano editor.

Type python /storage/.config/argononed.py and press Enter.

Copy the resulting text output into your next post.

linuxuser Comment out the Python line of autostart.sh, manually start argononed.py on SSH session and post the output. I don't have this device, Argon One owners can provide better support.

Quote from hakayova

When the speaker-test is not running, same movies produce no sound whatsoever, not even mono...

Try a different sampling rate:

1. Go to Settings -> System
2. Enable "Advanced" or "Expert" mode
3. Go to Audio -> Output configuration and switch to "Fixed"
   
4. Go to Limit sampling rate (kHz) and switch to "44.1" or another sampling rate

Quote from Brijac

It makes sense if I want to simply buy a box that already has a case, remote and a power cable.

You can have all that with an RPi, if you're a "maker". Anyway, I get your point now.

Quote from Brijac

It doesn't have to have Android but it does have to be an android box (media player with remote). I simply want a normal player where I will install Libreelec and use only that. I will not use Android but I do not want RPi or anything like that, I want android box.

Makes no sense to me. If you don't need Android, then hardware specs and open source support are everything that counts.