Posts by jernej

Quote from AZukr

So, it is possible to run Kodi over Armbian without X11? What is the difference with LE?

You can run Kodi in Armbian in whatever way you want. But Kodi alone won't help you, you have to patch ffmpeg and kernel in order to work smoothly.

Quote from winhex

Is it possible to use this images with another tv-boxes with allwinner H3 or H5, if they are not in the list of supported models ?

If the box is similar HW wise to one of the supported boards then yes. But that's not something I would rely on. There is no way to tell.

Quote from Andre Bollo

the file is read-only. how do i edit? Tried via SSH

Put SD card to PC and then you can edit file in whatever way you want. You can also run mount -o remount,rw /flash if you want to edit file via ssh.

Quote from mike2002

U-Boot not found. Please update current installation with board specific update or image first.

That will be fixed soon. Problem is that image can be build in two ways and one is not supported by installation script.

Quote from mike2002

my Pine H64 continue to freeze on a regular basis. As soon as it is idle for some hours, it freeze. No message in log, that's weird. I installed armbian on it and I ran a lot of stress test witout issue so it's not an hardware issue. I don't know what's the problem...

I'll test with my board, but no promises, such bugs are hard to analyze.

Quote from mike2002

I try to test I little my Orange pi PC and it freeze during image caching.

Nothing in the log. Enable debug logging in Kodi settings to get much more verbose output. Use pastekodi command to include system logs.

Let me clarify few things:

1. GPU has nothing to do with video decoding - VPU does (completely separate thing with separate driver)

2. GPU on H5 is mali450 which was never supported in mripard's repo. There are no userspace binaries for it.

3. GPU on H5 is a bit special, even if you find mali450 blobs, it most probably won't work, only safe bet is mesa

4. Cedrus (VPU) driver exposes new interface which is not really supported anywhere except in gstreamer or patched ffmpeg, so basically no app will work out of the box.

5. Additional patches are needed for better video support, Cedrus driver is work in progress.

Yes, it's possible to add Prime support. Check scripts/uboot_helper for clues and wiki for build instructions. There is enough information to do it yourself. In the mean time, you can use PC2 images.

Quote from AZukr

btw, what is the best way to update LE on opi3?

To copy .img.gz or .tar file to /storage/.update and reboot.

Quote from AZukr

May it be issues with wifi?

Hard to say.

Kodi restarts very occasionally for me with local files and it happens only when video is stopped. How often does it happen to you? Only at video stop? Do you get similar lines in crash log?

Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
#0 0x0045deb0 in CDVDTeletextData::ResetTeletextCache() ()

Can you find any patterns when it happens? like when playing specific files?

I hope we have same issue. If not, I can't do anything about it because fixing something you occasionally see but not me is practically impossible.

AZukr How much memory your OPi3 has? 1 GiB?

It seems that H6 must have at least 2 GiB to work properly. I have 2 H6 boards with 3 GiB and I didn't observe any crashes. I got report that OPi3 with 2 GiB of RAM works ok too, but my OPi3 with 1 GiB of RAM occasionally crashes too. However, I can't make it crash reliably. it's always different combination of videos. Anyway, this is not Kodi issue but something either in driver, ffmpeg or both. I'll take a look into that.

mike2002 No idea. What is frozen exactly? Only Kodi? Is it possible to connect to ssh? If so, try to restart Kodi with systemctl restart kodi and see if that helps.

gabe TV out is now supported in nightly images on H3 and H5. You have to add FDTOVERLAYS /overlays/sun8i-h3-tve.dtbo for H3 or FDTOVERLAYS /overlays/sun50i-h5-tve.dtbo for H5 in extlinux/extlinux.conf file, right before APPEND line.

Good, I don't have it.

LVina I checked nightly builds and they don't include U-Boot binary unfortunately. I'll check how to change that.

ldecarli No. Headers are not pin compatible and I2S on PC2 is not actually exported. You would need to unsolder one LED and use it for I2S DOUT signal and change DT file to remove LED definition and add new I2S node. So it can be done but nothing I would recommend nor I would help with that procedure.

gabe I didn't add TV out support yet.

Lewis It remains to be seen how much boards will be released as stable. I certainly don't have all of them, so it would be nice if people would report status once beta1 is released. Certainly H2+ and probably R40 boards won't be.

There are also known Kodi issues regarding passthrough: Garbled sound with DD+/EAC3 passthrough and official Dolby DD+ 7.1 sample · Issue #19182 · xbmc/xbmc · GitHub

Why are you afraid to experiment? Learning by doing mistakes is the best way

Anyway, you need u-boot binary - if it doesn't exist, you can't make installation, that's why I put that check there. If fresh image doesn't help, then it's possible that build server makes images differently than me.

At one point you probably updated your installation with some test or universal update, right? Anyway, download fresh image, burn it on SD card and run install2emmc.

Well, it works for me. I'm not sure I will be able to fix anything.

I tested systemd.debug_shell=ttyS0 with latest master and it works. Maybe something changed in between.

Quote from levitsky86

Any ideas, how to resolve it?

No. It would take some time to debug it, but as you noticed, it's not priority for me.

Quote from netmn

After turning on the TV from stand-by mode HDMI-CEC does not work

i am using orange pi pc (H3) and the latest build LibreELEC-H3.arm-9.80-nightly-20210207-91cf0cd-orangepi-pc.img.gz

On old version that used LibreELEC-H3.arm-9.80-devel-20200426021229-38764c8-orangepi-pc.img everything was OK

This is huge range, a lot changed in between. Can you narrow it down to specific PR with bisecting? It's annoying to build so many images but I don't know better way to pinpoint the reason.

Quote from caracolo

DTS, Dolby, Dolby+, DTS-HD MA, Atmos works only on 1080p 60HZ with micro cuts

In my case

For Orange pi plus one H6 , 4K 30Hz doesnt work! Canot sound on this resolution

This sounds like you're using old image. Can you check and report which version of the image you're using? What do you mean "doesn't work!"? No image at all or only no sound? I fixed plenty of H6 display related issues recently and all my monitors and TV work ok. There might be case where 4k@60 may not work perfectly, but 4k@30 work on both 4k capable devices I have.

Quote from caracolo

HDR content seems warm / yellow colorized on TV . It's not the TV with the PC I see the colors well. IS possible to fix it?

HDR is fine, 10-bit output is not yet implemented. BTW, this is no passthrough related, so off topic.

Quote from ygao888

Just built and run 9.2 release on AllWinner H3 board.

That is not something you want to use.

No. Maybe. There is power button too.

Those fixes were just merged in LE master so they should be in today's nightly images. tar are just updates - you put them in /storage/.update and reboot. You can actually do same thing with .img.gz files...