Posts by cmayo

Quote from chewitt

I'm still using the original 'Amazon essentials' micro-HDMI to full size HDMI cable the RPi devs shipped out with the original RPi4 pre-production samples and it's never given problems.

I ordered the 'Amazon essentials' cable on the 24th and since installing it on the 25th, I haven't seen a single recurrence of the problem, where I would normally see it at least a couple of times per day. So it looks like your suggestion fixed the problem for me! Yay! I really appreciate your taking the trouble to advise me!

Quote from chewitt

I'm still using the original 'Amazon essentials' micro-HDMI to full size HDMI cable the RPi devs shipped out with the original RPi4 pre-production samples and it's never given problems. I prefer that to using adapters, and we do see occsasional issues from users with adapters being reported.

That's a really good idea, thanks! I will definitely give that a try before trying a different source computer. Cheers!

This isn't so much a LE question as it is a question for those using a Pi as a media server, and this forum seems like a good place to reach those folks...

I'm running LE on a RPi4 with the Pi's HDMI plugged into one of the Denon's inputs and the Denon's 4K output plugged into my Samsung TU9000 TV, and the TV frequently loses its connection to the Pi, usually when stopping or starting a video in LE. Switching the TV to another input, then back to the Pi, clears up the problem until next time.

I don't know if the Denon is at fault or the Pi, and I don't have an easy way to troubleshoot beyond using certified 4K HDML cables (I am) and trying a different HDMI input on the Denon (I did). The RPi4 has a micro HDMI jack which requires an adapter to accept a standard cable, and I'm wondering if maybe that adapter is introducing enough signal loss to make my HDMI connection borderline. Anyone else seeing anything like this?

I do have a spare PC that I could try as a Kodi server to see if the problem occurs with a different HDMI hardware source but thought I'd ask you guys if you had any ideas before I go to that trouble?

Quote from Klojum

- Backup your current MyVideos database, delete the Textures13.db file and the Thumbnails folder.

- Do a Video Library Export using separate nfo files (don't forget to activate watch status & resume point in the AS.xml file).

- Drop your video database, reactivate it via your sources, and start the import of your video collection

That should refresh your video database contents. Thumbs not loading could be because of outdated URLs after TMDB's cleanup.

Disregard.

Quote from Klojum

- Backup your current MyVideos database, delete the Textures13.db file and the Thumbnails folder.

- Do a Video Library Export using separate nfo files (don't forget to activate watch status & resume point in the AS.xml file).

- Drop your video database, reactivate it via your sources, and start the import of your video collection

That should refresh your video database contents. Thumbs not loading could be because of outdated URLs after TMDB's cleanup.

Well heck, I opened this post on LE because I was researching your reply on my forum.kodi.tv thread this morning (charlesmayo53) and couldn't find Textures13.db or the Thumbnails folder on my LE installation. Now that I look again they're both in plain sight (sigh - really need to get that cataract op scheduled).

I'll give this a go. You made a great point about orphaned URL's in the c06 URL field and I have been carrying these databases forward since Jarvis... a good housecleaning is probably in order.

Thanks, Klojum

LibreELEC version 10.0.1 running on Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.1 (2GB RAM)

Debug log: https://pastebin.com/Si3N8rPZ

On my Estuary home screen (10.0.1 and previous releases), "TV Shows-> In progress TV shows" thumbnails are very slow to load sometimes. The first page will generally load fairly quickly but scrolling right will soon get me to pages with no thumbnails (see attachment). If I wait until each thumbnail loads and then scroll left back to the first page, the first-page thumbnails are often missing and I"ll have to wait for them to load again.

I opened a thread on the Kodi forums and someone mentioned Kodi's Texture13.db and Thumbnails folder, but I'm not finding the .db file or the thumbnails folder on LibreElec, but the Kodi log does show to be loading Texture13.db.

2021-12-01 22:50:36.736 T:846      INFO <general>: Running database version Textures13

I have Kodi running on a couple of Windows machines that don't have this problem to this degree, so I'm wondering now if LibreELEC's thumbnail caching could be at fault somehow?

Any ideas how to debug or improve thumbnail caching?

Other factors:

My machines access a central MySQL database that is years old so there may well be some bloat in the tables

My media is stored on a network SAMBA server (same machine as MySQL) so network speeds are in play, but LibreELEC is wired with Gigabit.

My advancedsettings.xml specifies ~60MB of memory. Is that enough, or do I need that cache element at all?

<cache>
  <memorysize>62914560</memorysize>
  <buffermode>1</buffermode>
  <readfactor>10</readfactor>
</cache>

Quote from lrusak

Just use the "Wait For Network" option in Kodi and in the LibreELEC settings add-on

Not sure how this helps me. If no network is available, "Wait For Network" will wait ten seconds (or whatever's configured), then continue the launch and start looking for MySQL which takes (seems like) 2-3 minutes to time out.

Again, I'm looking for a way to make a manual network connection, then re-launch Kodi without rebooting the machine.

Is there a mechanism (or simple mod) for re-launching Kodi from within Kodi without rebooting the hardware? I'm running LE on Raspberry Pi, which frequently fails to make a WiFi connection during boot. Given that my MySQL and file server are on the network and Kodi hangs for quite a long while during boot when it can't reach those resources, I need to be able to manually connect to the network once LE finally loads, then re-load LE without rebooting. I can SSH onto the box and use systemctl to restart Kodi, but I'm looking for a more lazy solution.

I've run across a RestartApp system built-in but no way to trigger it. Apparently, some distributions have an "Exit Kodi" power menu option which kills the Kodi process, triggering a re-launch, but Estuary's power menu seems to omit that menu item (I only see Power Off System, Custom Shutdown Timer and Reboot). I've also seen folks somehow connect a Python script to a remote button, but I have different hardware in different rooms and need a hardware-independent solution.

Any thoughts?

Raspberry Pi 3B+

Kodi 18.9

When resuming a stopped movie (x264) with LibreELEC 9 (also on v8.95.3) on Raspberry Pi 3B & 3B+, the video lags (in slightly slow motion) behind the audio for 60 or so seconds before things get into sync. During this time, a slowly-rotating progress indicator is on the screen.

This is happening pretty consistently on two different RPI's. Both LE9's are running on 16GB Class 10 PNY cards (also marked Ultra High Speed 1 - https://www.walmart.com/ip/pny-16gb-prime-microsd-2pk/148199673). PNY does't make the best stuff, but Ithese cards ran without issue on the previous LE (Krypton) release.

I'm not seeing any difference between wired and WiFi connections.

Both LE configurations use a MySQL library database running on a third Pi3.

Anyone have any ideas about why this might be happening?

Kodi log: http://ix.io/1zz4 - The play event is at 16:44:53:539 and in this case, it took pretty close to a minute for the audio and video to sync.