Posts by jernej

Wifi module on Lite is not supported here. It's a long standing LibreELEC policy not to add more external Realtek drivers to the build system.

zillevdr Allwinner: Fix and improvement by jernejsk · Pull Request #4784 · LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv · GitHub fixes H264 decoding issue and enables HW deinterlacing on H5. It's already merged, so you can start using nightly images from tomorrow forward.

We just discovered that this PR ffmpeg, Allwinner: Update H264 request API patches by jernejsk · Pull Request #4606 · LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv · GitHub introduces H264 decoding issues. Before that it works much better. You can add this patch http://ix.io/2JaK to linux patch collection. I plan to include it in master soon.

Note that HW deinterlace support was introduced recently, so you'll have a bit of work to combine all required patches and maybe fix them.

Quote from roel

I just checked them in 5.10

Where? This is stable branch and I don't see it anywhere: sun50i-a64.dtsi « allwinner « dts « boot « arm64 « arch - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

zillevdr Can you try following H5 update for deinterlacing? I get greenish frames but that could be also due to damaged board (I have also network issues on it)

LibreELEC-H5.arm-9.80-devel-20201221201705-c7aa22f.tar

Nope, those two are still required. Why do you think otherwise?

Both approaches work but neither is straightforward.

FYI wifi configuration should work again, work is focused on Bluetooth fixes now.

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Orange Pi PC2 - H5 and DVB TV uHAT

Is it possible compile LibreELEC with DVB TV uHAT dtb?

Yes but currently there is no support for overlays yet, so you have to either compile image with additional patch yourself or modify DT by hand (decompile, change, recompile). Neither of these two options is straightforward...

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I have an H3 board (BananaPi M2+) and I was wondering, will it run Kodi 18?

I know the Allwinner boards are a little temperamental and some only work with Kodi 19, but I saw an old forum with an Openelec image with Kodi 16, so I thought there might be a chance? Does anyone have any experience with this device? Will building LE 9.2 work for it?

BananaPi M2+ works very well with current nightly images but that means Kodi 19. Why would be Allwinner boards temperamental? LE 9.2 has extremely basic support for Allwinner SoCs and Cedrus driver not so good that it's now, so I wouldn't recommend 9.2 anyway. Why would you need Kodi 18? Python 2?

Quote from momus87

I just tried the latest nightly (2020/12/06) on my orange pi one plus a few minutes ago.

There seems to be a networking issue ( flashing lights on the ethernet port but no usable internet connection).

Quote from z3ntu

I also have problems with ethernet with the newest image (LibreELEC-A64.arm-9.80-nightly-20201208-8bfef13-pine64-lts.img.gz) on the Pine A64 LTS. An older image (20200311) works fine but has some other quirks.

Both networking issues will be fixed once Linux 5.10 PR is merged. If they are not, please report again.

FYI, support for deinterlacing was recently merged into master branch for supported SoCs - A64, H3 and H6. There is no need to use images from this topic. You can start using nightly images with all bells and whistles (and fixes).

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any news for HW deinterlacing on AW H5?

Nope.

W1 is not enabled in kernel config yet. Additionally, LE also doesn't support DT overlays yet. So, you would have to build custom image with appropriate drivers enabled and edit OrangePi PC DT to enable one wire on PD14.

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At the same time, I'm a little perplexed with the deinterlacer itself. On my box, it looks it's only performing BOB method, I've noticed the usual tell of judder and ghosting associated with this deinterlacing algorithm. Surely the H6 hw must be capable of better advanced deinterlacing like the PI or other SoC can do.

Yes, of course, it's capable of better modes than just bob. However, there is no documentation what any option means and how to put it in different modes. It's entirely possible that I misconfigured it. However, at this stage I'm happy that it at least works to some degree...

Obviously this board has no ethernet connector so ethernet driver is not enabled. And no, enabling it by default is not acceptable solution. Explanation: Allwinner: H2-plus: enable ethernet on Banana Pi M2 Zero by mklein-de · Pull Request #4659 · LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv · GitHub

Nope, pine64-plus is correct, one with underscore is old and it was renamed. Since no details were provided, I can't say anything why build error occurs. If you have unsupported distro, you can alway try to use docker. There are some helper scripts and some notes for it. Note, I'm building it on Arch, I can't give you help for any other distro or docker.

I updated images to latest LE master and fixed a bug when Kodi crashes due to SW decoding. SW decoded videos still won't be deinterlaced, but that can be improved later (ffmpeg filter needs some work for that).

see issue above - proper fix is to use different library. You can experiment by yourself however you want though. And I'm pretty sure display issue is not connected to it - it happens before Kodi is started.

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Is there any way I can further diagnose this?

Your display resolution is not so common: Found resolution 1280x1024 with 1280x1024 @ 75.000000 Hz Can you try on something more standard first, like 720p or 1080p? If you're able navigating through Kodi menu, try to select different resolutions and see if that stabilizes it. I suspect this is HDMI or clock driver issue...