I haven't seen any related errors on your log. Maybe the MKV's have different horizontal resolutions, and the filled space is just black on your other players. Look at the MKV's meta data for differences.
Posts by Da Flex
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I found this, but how I can do this automatically for when I turn tv on?
The major problem is that you disable CEC when you switch HDMI off.
If you're familiar with electronics, you could install an infrared receiver element on your RPi. So you can turn HDMI on by IR code.
An easier solution is to install a push button, and listen to it by an autostart script (similar to the well known power button on RPi).
Take into account that an RPi Zero is cheap, and you can even run LE on it just for CRON jobs.
To run LE headless, switch HDMI off from autostart.sh. As I already mentioned, switching off works.
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In theory you can switch HDMI off and on by using the "tvservice" command with the appropriate options. That would save energy. I was playing around with that command a couple of month ago, but I was not successful to switch HDMI on after switching it off. Maybe it's working with the current LE version.
Or you could buy another RPi, and run one of them headless (Raspbian) for your CRON services. Install a power button on the other one, where you run LE.
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An RPi2 is definitely the wrong hardware to display such high resolutions. So, it's not a bug, it's a feature to keep it disabled.
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I had a safe mode issue, too, shortly with LE 9.1.002. I think it was triggered by a settings change I made.
I have been changed "Settings -> Services -> General -> Device name". My advice is to keep this setting untouched at "Kodi".
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I use analogue output a lot connected to an old Dvd Surround Sound System and audio is normal as when playing dvd's..
I always leave the audio setting ON to both analogue and hdmi audio...then when I need to use the speakers just mute the TV.
My RPi analogue audio has normal volume, too. It seems like only robmcc83 has such a problem.
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I haven't found that option inside guisettings.xml. If you really want to force 5GHz usage, you have to compile your own version of LE.
You can try to find a channel number inside the 2.4GHz frequency band, which is not overloaded by other WLAN users (router option).
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It just shows bad forum sw or at least spam protection. I don't see as much spam on other forums I visit. There is zero spam on a most of them actually.
Yes, I've never seen that much spam in other forums, too. Maybe LE is a threat for Chinese settop box companies.
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I am already in creating blocklists for that Chinese symbols, sadly thats pretty difficult
Good man. I've been suggested that a while ago, too. That Chinese spam is a pain in the ass.
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My last resort is to try a fresh install of LibreELEC just incase any settings have been changed that have caused this.
That is the last thing I can try.
Yes, that's my final thought, too. During the updates an analogue setting maybe got lost. Analogue output is not a very popular feature.
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Here's a USB Audio Adapter that does not hog room from your usb jacks
Yes, that's cheaper, but he was talking about "aesthetics of the case". So let's see if he invests the extra money for that reason. Just an HDMI cable looks better for sure.
Hopefully the case has no additional pass-through resistor at the audio jack.
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Tried your guisettings.xml and it's exactly the same, still low audio via analogue unfortunately.
OK. Next theory: The analogue audio hardware has been damaged, and your other OS compensates it by doing extra amplification.
To give you a more practical advice: You could buy an HDMI audio extractor.
Benefits:
- They are cheaper than a special RPi audio DAC (HiFiBerry).
- They work with other devices, too.
- Other output formats (SPDIF) are possible.
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...audio keeps getting cut without any CPU spike.
That can indicate a bad connection. HDMI has different strands, maybe just one of them is bad. Try other cables.
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You do autostart scripting to make your case work, right? If my guisettings.xml don't work, deactivate the autostart scripting for a test run.
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Thanks for the feedback. It looks like we are still dealing with master volume control, not just the analogue part.
I've been uploaded my current RPi guisettings.xml. Give it a shot.
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I really don't know whether analogue volume control affects your output, but maybe it's worth to check. Read here.
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I found the solution to edit analogue volume.
Edit the file /STORAGE/.kodi/userdata/guisettings.xml.
Change the XML content of "audio" (bottom of the file) like this to get max. analogue volume:
Code<audio> <mute>false</mute> <fvolumelevel>1.000000</fvolumelevel> </audio>
