Posts by Da Flex

Quote from TFCMaine

It's 100% not a cable issue. I just today had openelec running just fine. With the modified xorg.conf file. Clean install of LibreElec and I'm back to a quarter screen. The previous link was someone else who had a similar problem.

Yes, this is no cable issue for sure. The expected screen modes are in your xorg.conf file, and the screen modes you actually get are in your guisettings.xml file (whitelist part). So, there is a difference. Can you post both files, please? Which resolution / vertical frequency do you use when you get a too small display?

Read here.

It's much easier to create a video playlist by scripting.

Quote from shippy

So you are saying I can play TV channels on the Kodi PVR IPTV Simple Client and stream them to a display/other device via UPnP ?

It's crystal clear what I said. You said it's about YouTube - no need to stream this to another client.

What do you want to do? You are asking a wide range of questions, and your goal is still unknown.

Quote from shippy

1. Aren't USB sticks used on TV sets to stream live (playback recorded content on USB sticks), if no transcoding is needed?

2. While we are on the subject, is it true that UPnP cannot do live streaming, i.e., can only stream recorded (library) content?

And for live IPTV streaming you would need a UPnP alternative like IPTV for Sony PlayStation 3 - xupnpd ?

3. So...how do you download Youtube type content from LE/Kodi into your USB stick?

A live stream and a playback from USB stick are two different types of transmission. Content providers want to give the same user experience, but technically it's different.

UPnP AV can do live streaming.

I have never recorded YouTube content, no idea.

Quote from shippy

For #1 you mean live streaming?

No, just simply stored files. But you probably know that this works.

For live streaming the player usually buffers content to the RAM. An USB stick can't be the source of a stream. A server has to do that, because permanent calculation (transmission protocol handling) has to be done while streaming. An USB stick can't calculate.

Answer 1.: If you have a movie on a connected USB/SD medium, LE will automatically mount it, and you can play it from the "Video" menu.

Answer 2.: Please describe the stream. Does the provider allows to record it?

There is a spindown command available for hard disks. I think an OS is free to use that command at shutdown or not. It should make no difference, un-mounting the file system is the only important thing.

PS: Plan: Check the ext4 partition (GParted), reformat the ext4 partition (GParted), then try to reinstall LE on that partition.

GParted can check your fat32 and ext4 partitions. You can run it from CD or USB stick.

It would be helpful to have a complete list of your UUID's. I mean all partitions of all your storage devices, including the installation USB stick.

Quote from Darkyputz

What do you say?

That could be the two partitions from your screenshots. If you don't see them mounted when running LE, you can probably delete them.

PS: But that's all partitions you have on your SSD, right? So, I would completely reformat the SSD.

PPS: Be sure to unplug all other storage devices.

Quote from alexamend

Now i search for solution to get one GPIO set to high during power on.

That's pretty easy, if you call a Python script from the autostart script. I did that to activate a status LED when LE starts - look here.

You did the right hardware tests. Because it works with your other TV, I think the cause is bad HDMI communication of your Sony TV. You don't have a whitelist in your guisettings.xml, because the Sony TV doesn't transmit the possible screen modes, I guess.

If you would try VGA, there will be no whitelist transmission. If you would try DVI <---> HDMI, it would basically work like HDMI, with no whitelist, too.

I had a conversation with another user without whitelist. At the end I gave him a weird idea, but it's still untested.

Quote from Darkyputz

It is a OCZ Vertex 2 SSD with 64 Gig space

I had it running for years with Kodibuntu...so i assumed it would just work fine with Librelec

It looks like you still have some partitions from your older installation, and LE tries to mount them. Remove those unneeded partitions. If you are not familiar with partition operations, reformat the whole SSD and reinstall LE.

Can you try to play MP3 over USB stick instead of network access?

Which screen resolution do you use when playing MP3?

If you use 4K, your system maybe actually is on it's limit, because the screen grabs all the resources.

Quote from antcj

I know this may be a bit off topic, but a few questions.

is there a reason one cant do the LE upgrade on a USB stick rather than sd?

Regards USB stick, how do they stand up to having an os installed.? I have need to install linux to a new drive yearly (read tax dates) and would like to just swap out old for new, each new fin. year, so keeping that year intact.

To my limited knowledge, USB sticks and SD cards have no big difference in lifetime. They both last long, if they are just read.

If you run Linux on a USB / SD medium, the interesting point is what data Linux writes back to that medium. A Linux system can be configured to write temporary data to the RAM instead of USB / SD. That's good for the lifetime of the medium. I think the Linux of LE does as much as it can to avoid writing data back to the storage medium. That's why I would keep a MicroSD for that special Linux.

Other Linux systems write a lot of temporary data to the permanent storage medium. No problem for SSD, but bad for USB sticks or SD cards.

I have seen a HDMI dummy plug at Amazon. It fakes a connected monitor with a fixed 1920x1080 / 60Hz resolution. If you combine a HDMI splitter with a dummy plug, it would be some kind of a hack.

One output of the HDMI splitter goes to the dummy plug, and the second output goes to the DE-15 <---> HDMI monitor.