Posts by lumpi

Sorry now back from fever, so again able to play with Linux

I tried it again with the lima test version and couldn't reproduce the missing sound issue anymore. Also after updating to today's nightly nothing worse or better. So seems all ok?!

Only thing I saw while rebooting a lot, is that LE is complaining about its inability to umount /flash "device or ressource busy" just followed by a complaint "failed to finalize file systems, loop devices, ignoring - system halted"

Not critical but not nice

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HDMI-CEC is activated and I can navigate in Kodi with my remote control (this using the same HDMI-CEC feature, right?). Still the screen stays black if the television is off on boot time and only turned on subsequently.

I've seen something similar here too with the x2 if im booting with hdmi unplugged i can't seem to start hdmi anymore once i plug the cable. Nevertheless it is ok if the tv is in standby ( never tried with tv unplugged from power)

Just tried this on latest nightly:

Unplugged tv from power

Powered up tvbox

Replugged tv to power

And still hdmi is on, so it seems only unplugged hdmi cable stops hdmi from starting in my case (2012 samsung tv)

With unplugged hdmi cable it is as you described, audio click sounds from kodi are played back over hdmi, but screen is black.

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could be that issue with kernel 5.5? Can you try latest nightly?

midnight here and tomorrow work will try another day

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lumpi can you test this one? LibreELEC-H3.arm-9.80-devel-20200206223537-b409e98.tar I enabled few CD/DVD ROM related drivers

EDIT: It uses Lima and has no deinterlace support. Just let me know if DVD is recognized properly.

Thanks jernej, much better now.

Dvd is recognised, i can browse the vob files, but no disc menu and no dvd libs, so still no video.

Else it seems working quite well with lima. Except it took a while until hdmi audio was coming (tried zattoo first, nothing, youtube had audio, but then also zattoo got audio...)

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Is this external DVD device or just DVD files on USB stick?

No its a usb dvd drive with a real disc.

I just cross checked with my rpi, once i managed to solve the power issues inherent to this board, the dvd starts up und adisc menu entry in kodi appears, the dvd appears in dmesg as being assigned to /dev/sr0 i didn't try playing anything seriously, as there are too many low voltage light ing symbols still now... But the movie studio logo played.

So I think it might be a missing driver?

Edit: it doesn't seem to be a module on rpi, as lsmod shows only very few brcm specific modules, nothing usb related at all.

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Here it is: LibreELEC-A20.arm-9.80-devel-20200205191806-1de4346-inet97fv2.img.gz

I updated original github branch with source.

Thanks will try tomorrow, thrilled to see what will happen!

I got the impression that all my samples so far are not interlaced, so i tried playing a known interlaced dvd. And found out that im unable to play DVDs.

In dmesg I can't see any device node added for the dvd, which gets enumerated as usb mass storage.

Is this a missing driver or something else?

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I did some more testing on my collection of "problematic" videos I obtained trough the years and I get audio/video sync issues... I think ffmpeg deinterlace filter I wrote is not good enough yet. It certainly causes occasional Kodi crash. I guess I'll leave this image here until I fix all issues. Anyway, this branch contains one fix which I'll plan to PR it to Kodi, because it fixes other de-sync issues I had from the beginning but I had no idea what causes them.

In that case I'm lucky... My daughter is still watching the kids programme and so far no complaints at all.

Poor guinea pig

Hi jernej would it be too bold asking for an image for inet97f2, as the dts should be part of the mainline kernel?

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I just very briefly testet it last night with zattoo streams, seems all is working, but had the feeling its slightly less smooth than before. But have to properly test and watch a bit longer than just zapping channels...

So far it's running for half an hour with one channel change. Rock solid maybe slightly flaky but that's just subjective.

With this build i got quite a few websocket disconnects on the web remote, but I'm not at all sure if it's related, as I usually use a proper remote, unless i misplace it...

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I finally managed to prepare proof of concept (not yet bug free) support for HW deinterlacing. Currently, it's only for H3. You can test this with following update: LibreELEC-H3.arm-9.80-devel-20200202224107-87919a4-deint.tar

I'm especially interested in Kodi crashes and if there is any interlaced video, which can't be played. For example, if Kodi shows only first few frames and then stops.

Source: GitHub - jernejsk/LibreELEC.tv at deint

I just very briefly testet it last night with zattoo streams, seems all is working, but had the feeling its slightly less smooth than before. But have to properly test and watch a bit longer than just zapping channels...

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done all of above with programmes suggested and wrote image succesfully

but wont load /boot when power up ? x2 working fine otherwise on kitkat 4.4 ! any suggestions? ive tried using phionix to write image to card too but that says "script not found" its like something is missing from original file that wont allow it to boot x2 ? all other images im trying (original stock and another nougat etc) all load perfectly but not this one ?

Strange I never had any troubles with mine...

That script not found happened while burning the image? Some SD writers try to manipulate the image to make it boot, but the LE images should just be copied to SD in raw or DD mode. Unfortunately as jernej writes there seems to be a batch of x2 which misbehave, as i only have that one well mannered x2 i cant help you further than that.

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is there a tutorial on how to install these onto beelink x2 please ?

Download the image from here: LibreELEC-H3.arm-9.80-nightly-20200126-8aa0b50-beelink-x2.img.gz

In case there should be already a new nightly go to here and grab the latest for h3/beelink x2: Index of /

On linux use gunzip to convert from img.gz to img (windows try 7zip, winrar etc.) then use dd on linux or etcher ( balenaEtcher - Flash OS images to SD cards & USB drives ) on windows to write the img to a micro sd card (it will get overwritten).

Insert card in your x2 and plug in the power to start.

If you remove the card it will be back on android after a restart.

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lumpi now and then I do a new H5 build, but current issue is that Lima for some reason doesn't work well in combination of sun4i-drm driver (DE2 part) and Kodi. For example, Lima works with A20, which has DE1. Interestingly, Panfrost works with H6, which has DE3, and Kodi (DE3 uses mostly the same code as DE2). Someone would need to do thorough test Lima on A20, but last time I tried, it crashed in menu after a bit of playing. But Lima fixes are coming in every week, so I'm optimistic this will be sorted out soon.

that means except for a10/13 and 20 this bug stops lima from being used successfully until a solution is found.

Let's see soon we will be blob free

jernej do you know if H5 is advancing somehow? Just out of curiosity, I'm not owning any...

What about lima and panfrost, how far away are they still?

So many questions

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I will search which device has the ampak AP6210 and a supported dtb and see further if this one boots are I have to build a custom dtb with the ampak AP6210 included

hi roel thanks for the very detailed answer.

Regarding the wifi i think the type of card doesn't matter for the dtb as Linux can autodetect what's on the bus once the sdio works.

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yes,

it is a projector that looks like a light bulb and has a e27 bulb connector.

Interesting, never heard of that

roel is that projector usable for something or just a toy?

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I have this device: KOHOTECH KP100 MB V3.0 - linux-sunxi.org

what is it? Looks like a light bulb?