Posts by Alucard

Hello,

I'm trying to access some channels using TV playlist of FreeIPTV: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Free-TV/IPTV/master/playlist.m3u8

Same list as the one used by Linux Mint for its IPTV player "hypnotix".

But I have a lot of issues when I use inputstream adaptive.

Most of the stream I'm trying to watch are in error with this error:

2023-02-15 21:34:38.926 T:924 ERROR <general>: CCurlFile::FillBuffer - Failed: SSL peer certificate or SSH remote key was not OK(60)

2023-02-15 21:34:38.926 T:924 ERROR <general>: CCurlFile::Open failed with code 0 for https://s13.tntendirect.com/m6/live/playlist.m3u8:

2023-02-15 21:34:38.926 T:924 ERROR <general>: AddOnLog: inputstream.adaptive: Download failed: https://s13.tntendirect.com/m6/live/playlist.m3u8

2023-02-15 21:34:38.926 T:924 ERROR <general>: AddOnLog: inputstream.adaptive: Could not open / parse manifest (https://s13.tntendirect.com/m6/live/playlist.m3u8)

I'm using libreelec 10.0.4 with latest version of IPTV Simple Client and all dependencies Addons...

Any idea how I can fix that?

Thanks in advance for your help

Quote from milhouse

Intel have fixed the Gemini Lake framebuffer compression bug in kernel 5.1.9 - it's now turned off by default.

changelog-5.1.9:

Well good news...but they didn't fix it actually they just used the same workaround we used not to have the glitch: disable fbc...

Only thing is fbc was here to do some hardware compression to save some bandwith and should then increase the performances...

The real fix would be to solve the glitch issue without disabeling fbc...but I guess we can't expect intel to put to much effort in drivers corrections...

Quote from Kupo91

Alucard I just wondered if you also get this notification if you start a PS2 game via emulationstation or any other frontend?

"CDVD plugin failed to open. Your computer may have insufficient resources, or incompatible hardware/drivers. Press OK to go to the Plugin Configuration Panel."

If not, which plugings did you select in pcsx2 settings? Since you have the same NUC as me this should also work for me then

No idea I never tried...

But for me trying PS2 emulation on J5005 is a waste of time...even on windows...gemini lake won't be capable of playing PS2 games correctly.

For me best we can emulate with that CPU is PSP and Dolphin for some games: no way we can emulate the most difficult games like rogue squadron...but a good old mario kart double dash shoudl be ok.

CPU is more or less equivalent to a non overclocked Core 2 quad Q6600 and GPU more or less equivalent to a good old 8600 GTS but with bad intel drivers...hence a gamer configuration of 2008 with shitty drivers...

I can confirm that this time we have a fix.

fbc is correctly desactivated and I didn't suceed in trying to reproduce the bug again.

Quote from mglae

The driver is compiled into the LibreELEC kernel. You have to add a kernel parameter.

Make /flash writable: mount -o remount,rw /flash

Edit /flash/EFI/BOOT/syslinux.cfg, /flash/syslinux.cfg or /flash/extlinux.cfg (depends how your system was installed) and add  i915.enable_fbc=0 after the quiet.

Save and reboot. Check with cat /proc/cmdline that the parameter is set correctly.

Hello,

I just had a look at /flash/EFI/BOOT/ on my NUC...

Before updating any file I just did a ls on the folder and I don't have any of the files you listed above. I have the follwing files:

bootia32.efi  bootx64.efi   grub.cfg      ldlinux.e64

I tried modifying the grub.cfg:

set timeout="0"
set default="LibreELEC"

menuentry "LibreELEC" {
        search --set -f /KERNEL
        linux /KERNEL boot=UUID=5C5B-4325 disk=UUID=4053b926-d454-4517-8538-2183f4cd5058 i915.enable_fbc=0 quiet
}

But then when I rebooted I didn't have the "i915.enable_fbc=0" option when I checked with

cat /proc/cmdline

I also checked with other method and unfortunatly the result is still the same:

FBC enabled
Compressing: yes

Edit: My bad...I only looked into /flash/EFI/BOOT/ and not into /flash/...

I found the syslinux.cfg now and I modified the file...

I let my wife watching her show then I will restart and I will keep you guys updated.

Hello again,

So I investigated a little bit more regarding this issue in thread I linked before:

108085 – Intel GeminiLake corruption at top of screen caused by fbc

People helped my check that the drivers options I added by creating the i915.conf config file in:

smb://libreelec.local/configfiles/modprobe.d

with value "options i915 enable_fbc=0" inside were taken into account at startup of my NUC as the issue is still there...

I ran the following command lines (see thread in link above):

mount | grep debugfs

cat /sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/i915_fbc_status

And the result is:

FBC enabled
Compressing: yes

This means that despite adding the option file: the option is not taken into account at init.

So I guess we are close to a solution now...the question is...in libreelec...how can I force the init to take into account the drivers options for Intel drivers?

Can somebody help me with that?

I found some tutorials on the internet...but it's for ubuntu...not libreelec:

16.04 - Setting kernel options for the i915 - Ask Ubuntu

I'm not sure how to do it with libreelec...

Hello,

Regarding the investigation on the colored line bug I'm discussing in this bug thread if you want to follow:

108085 – Intel GeminiLake corruption at top of screen caused by fbc

I will try to help as much as I can...but I'm my knowledge is limited on how I can tweak/test on libreelec. If somebody wants to help too: do not hesitate.

Quote from Kupo91

I just noticed that when I created that logfile the path to dolphin.start in my rcb config file was incorrect. Here is another logfile that hopefully shows my issue. log-2019-03-05-18.11.44.zip

Alucard since you are using the same NUC and the same build like me I wondered if you also experienced that sometimes the NUC stucks in bootscreen?

So far no I never had this issue.

I have the infamous J5005 colored glitch in kodi interface...but that's pretty much it.

Quote from real_cyma

Hi,

I am going to buy one J5005 board. so i want to confirm before buy it.

1) how about MAME, is it smooth, and which version?

2) in some other thread, they said there is some display error on the menu, or some video. the error is at the top of the screen or under. do you see this problem? is it ok for video playback?

Very Thanks.

* this is the link about the video problem

LE 8.2.5 with UHD 630 / Coffee Lake / Gemini Lake support and luks

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The issue is still there: there is a "colored line" glitch on top of the screen that appears from time to time (not a big deal but annoying). Still no fix for now unfortunatly...

Regarding mame I didn't test. I only tested the following plateforms:

-Snes

-PC engine

-PSX

-GBA

-Genesis/Megadrive

Only emulator that I found was too much for little J5005 was the BSNES accuracy in some games (seiken desentsu 3), bsnes balanced works perfectly on the other hand.

Quote from real_cyma

Hi,

I am going to buy a J5005 board. is this video problem fixed?

No it is not...see my post above.

Hello,

So I tested again after coming back home...and it is still there...

Quote from 5schatten

Regular LibreELEC 9.x comes with Retroplayer not Retroarch. Or did you use any stuff like Gamestarter

My bad, I meant retroplayer.

In any case my point was just to say that the gemini lake CPUs are actually not that bad if you want good emulation untill dreamcast (that a raspberry pi 3 or a weaker CPU won't provide...).

For a little bit more high end emulation results (but on windows...be carefull with intel drivers perfs on linux compared to windows...) see below video:

Quote from Kupo91

On what internal resolution do you play?

x1 on beetle psx software. I think I tried to go higher at some point without much slowdown but from what I remember it activated the GPU and I had graphical gitches in some games (CTR in particular)...so x1 software all the way for me: good accuracy, good performances ==> PSX as in the 90s.

Note that I'm not talking about RR version but regular libreelec 18 with retroarch and beetle psx installed...but beetle psx is the same piece of software in the end...

Quote from 5schatten

NUC or some ITX Board?

NUC7PJYH.

Quote from 5schatten

As I said I don't use 4k screens but never experienced too small screens in ES. I've included a Quake2 client that had this behaviour too but only if it's not set to fullscreen.

NUC =! ARM stuff... the x86 based systems come with xorg server so they rely on an windows system program while the arm build directly rencer the stuff to the framebuffer. So you can't excactly compare them unless they run the same system software.

The J4005 was fine the J5005 has 4 cores 4 threads while the celeron has 2 cores / 4 threads. Both have a TDP of 10W so when they run hot I suspect the J5005 will throttle earlier. The thing is both are faster than any arm stuff but not as fast as an i3 or else. IMHO the J5005 is too expensive and won't let you run PCSX2 or Beetle-PSX too. If you really want to run all games then you've to buy a mini-itx system with a small i3 or AMD Ryzen 3 2200G, 4x 3.50GHz, boxed ab â¬Â 91,90 (2019) | Preisvergleich Geizhals Deutschland or Intel Pentium Gold G5400, 2x 3.70GHz, tray ab â¬Â 70,92 (2019) | Preisvergleich Geizhals Deutschland

For emulation your need high IPC & high clock frequencies. For high resolutions you'll need a "decent" IGP too but things get expensive then.

About the Dolphin dir -> I've changed to path so you can access & backup your data by copying the dolphin-emu dir in configfiles.

4GB of RAM are enough as long as they come as 2x2GB for dual channel speed. When I play GT4 it uses about 4GB of RAM.

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Regarding the J5005 I have one and I can confirm it allows you to run Beetle-PSX perfectly fine (tested with multiple games: Broken Sword 2, FF9, Symphony of the Night, Crash Team Racing, Suikoden...) and is light miles ahead of PCSX-ReARMed in terms of accuracy.

For PCSX2 on the other hand there's no way you can handle that with a J5005.

I will test with other emulators at some point (like the CPU hungry beetle Saturn) and keep you updated.

But if you want to play all games till Dreamcast/PSX/N64 and some additional Game Cube (not all but most of the games) a J5005 is a pretty good price/performance deal.

Hello,

I actually updated to the 9.0.1 MR yesterday evening and I didn't noticed the glitch.

I watched a 2 hours movie and just navigated a little bit inside Kodi interface for 5 minutes...so I will test again when I will be back home and confirm that it solved the problem this evening...but maybe kernel 4.19.23 solves the issue.

I will keep you udpated.

Ok I tried first just creating the driver option file and it didn't work.

I then tried directly puting the option in the syslinux.conf...and it killed my libreelec (no conf was saved: reeboot of the config each time I rebooted the PC). No luck either it didn't work I still have the glitch...

Currently reindexing my libraries...

Quote from sky42

you can change kernel boot command line without recompiling, SSH to the box and:

Code

mount -o remount,rw /flash
nano /flash/syslinux.cfg

and put in there what you need

OK then I will try to give it a try this evening. I will keep you guys updated.