Posts by cmayo

    - 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 Thumbs not loading could be because of outdated URLs after TMDB's cleanup.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.

    - 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 Thumbs not loading could be because of outdated URLs after TMDB's cleanup.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.

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    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?

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

    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.