Can i check somehow if the graphics or the hdmi port is still working correctly?
No TV or DVI monitor available to test? It's pretty basic to test the hardware first.
Posts by Da Flex
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Today I was able to test a USB DVD drive on my Ubuntu Linux PC (VLC player), using region code 1 and 2 DVD's. Some DVD's work, some don't. On Windows 10 (64 bit), using the built in "Windows DVD-Player", some DVD's don't work, too.
Funny thing: My internal PC DVD player works with some DVD's, who are unable to start in the external DVD player. I think the DVD copyright protection produces different results on different DVD drives.
So, there is no more need to try the USB DVD drive on Raspberry Pi - the drive failed. It's a game of luck (different DVD copyright protection), if some DVD works or not.
I have to use a stand-alone region-free DVD player. It's a libdvdcss and hardware issue, not a LibreELEC issue. Problem solved.
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state 0x40001 [NTSC 4:3], 720x480 @ 60.00Hz, interlaced...The configs don't seem to work ....
Are you sure your beamer can deal with interlaced signals? If you still have the handbook, investigate what display modes are supported by the beamer. Here is my guisettings.xml, which uses 720p / 60Hz as default. You can try those settings on your device.
Check out the whitelist on your guisettings.xml:
Code<setting id="videoscreen.whitelist">.....</setting>Maybe the detection of available screen modes doesn't works right with your beamer. Detected screen modes will appear on that whitelist. Manually editing the whitelist (or using my guisettings.xml) could be worth a test, too.
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Currently I have connection problems with my HDMI TV and Raspi. Even a 3000mA PSU didn't solved it. Now I guess it's a cable issue. It seems like some HDMI cables don't stand the test of time, and contact corrosion leads to trouble after some years. Try a different cable.
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Interesting. I will keep my bug report open / unsolved (see link above) until I did a lot (20+) reboots with 8.90.006. Please post your log files on that thread. If you compare a successful reboot log file with an error log, the additional errors should tell something about the bug.
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I don't have the bug with the current Milhouse builds, too. I think they fixed it.
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But isn't this related to Kodi - not LibreElec? So I would open an Issue on Kodi.
Yes, it's a Kodi issue. I wasn't sure where the LE frontend development starts.
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OK, I understand the question now.
Kodi itself offers also a keyboard layout setting - but nothing about input method. In this layout settings are e.g. Korean and Russian offered. So Japanese shouldn't be a problem also. But Japanese is not offered. I can I bring Japanese into the system here?
Or do I have to use a different way?
You are right. On "Settings -> Interface -> Regional -> Keyboard layouts" there is no entry to select a Japanese on-screen keyboard. It has not been implemented yet.
PS: To my knowledge, the on-screen keyboard is not compatible to other systems. You maybe want to work together with the LE developers to do the implementation.
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It is about input for the on-board-keyboard.
I think that's the reason for the misunderstanding. You mean the keyboard on your remote control. I use CEC to make my TV remote control work with the Raspberry Pi. That may work for you, too.
If CEC has been activated on TV (read your TV handbook to find the option, it has different names sometimes, like Viera-Link for Panasonic TV's), it will pass-through the commands from remote control to HDMI cable, and so to your Raspberry Pi. No need to use FLIRC.
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LE builds Kodi with libdvdcss support. We are generally against piracy, but in the context of current trends the ripping of personal DVDs is a good thing even if your local laws are backwards enough to disapprove.
Yes, I have found that info too in the meantime: USB DVD Playback on a Raspberry Pi. It says, DVD playback (with libdvdcss) is a core feature for Kodi video in general. So, connecting a USB DVD drive should work. I'll wait for the results of admin Iridium to be sure.
I will not rip my complete DVD collection, that's too much for just watching one per month. If I could manage to do an NFS mount, that would be the most elegant solution. But I have to do some research first. I found this thread, and it's still unsolved. Any hints are welcome.
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I think you are right.
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Interestingly the older rpi3 worked fine out of the box with the same setup...some more suggestions, what I could do? Thanks for advise!!!
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I tried a different cable (vga) with a hdmi to vga adapter. And now it becomes strange, because this setting normally works everywhere i have been so far. But still the same problem...
I think those points are indications for a PSU issue. Please try your older 3B with the LibreELEC MIcroSD card that you have in your 3B+ now. If it works with the 3B, you can be sure that the wattage of your PSU is the problem.
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13:11:53.194 T:1938960400 NOTICE: Disabled debug logging due to GUI setting. Level 0.Change your loglevel to '1' via the advancedsettings.xml, so debugging is enabled by default but you won't have on-screen stats.
Yes, I already did that to report a different bug.
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I will try to reproduce the bug.
I will also check whether it's a PSU issue. Maybe the HDMI signal is too weak to set the right display mode on TV.
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It is working without any option changes on LibreELEC. I have been tested it with Raspberry Pi 3B+, a HDMI cable and a HDMI to DVI adapter on a PC monitor. Make sure to first connect the display device, and then power on the Raspberry Pi. LibreELEC figures out, what display is connected, while booting.
PS: It could be a PSU issue, too. The 3B+ needs more wattage compared to the 3B.
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After some more research, it looks like Kodi / LibreELEC has to use libdvdcss to play DVD's:
XBMC/Kodi uses a video-player 'core' for video-playback called "DVDPlayer". This in-house developed cross-platform media player was originally designed to play back DVD-Video movies, and this includes support native for DVD-menus, (based on the free open source libraries code libdvdcss and libdvdnav).
I guess stand-alone DVD players are using licensed software (maybe hard-coded in a chip). That would mean, libdvdcss (and libdvdnav) is a re-implementation of licensed and non-public software. That may be the reason for some issues, especially on DVD menus. Using libdvdcss is legal in many countries, but not everywhere.
With libdvdcss region codes can be ignored for most (maybe not all) external DVD players. The region code has to be initialized for some players by selecting one region first - see here. The region code of the player can be set to "not forced" at "Settings" -> "Player" -> "Discs" -> "Forced DVD player region". I'm not sure what this option does. Does it ignore the players region code, or is it still in use when "off"?
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I have a couple of region 1 & 2 DVD's and a basic USB drive, so I can test tomorrow if required.
It doesn't answers my questions about the type of software decoding, but yes, that could help to find solutions.
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You will probably need a drive with an RPC1 firmware.
Also, Kodi is not a great solution for DVD playback, especially on RPi (issues with menus, etc). Any standalone player will do a much better job.
Just to translate it for other readers: RPC1 means region free playback (all DVD region codes playable).
Using libdvdcss could be the reason for DVD menu issues. I have seen those issues with VLC on PC too, which uses libdvdcss.
So, understanding what LibreELEC does with DVD's is really important here.
