Posts by FeFiFoFum

Quote from chewitt

Google only publishes 32-bit libwidevine for Linux/ARM use and even that has to be extracted from a 3GB ChromeOS update image. There is no 64-bit lib that's ever been found, and we haven't ever managed to use the 32-bit lib in 64-bit userspace via compat tools. So we can either build images with 32-bit userspace and facilitatte access to Amazon, Netflix and a number of other DRM oriented streaaming platforms, or we can give a marginally better performing 64-bit userspace without them. As much as DRM sucks balls, it's a fact of life in the world of legal streaming, and we (and Kodi) would prefer to encourage use of legal streaming services than create yet-another obstacle to encourage use of pirate services.

Your comment is appreciated.

"Google only publishes 32-bit libwidevine for Linux/ARM use and even that has to be extracted from a 3GB ChromeOS update image."

This seems like a problem long term, how long until the file isn't available at all? Who is responsible for making a 64bit edition?

Thanks for hard work - agree with your decisions for sure.

(Can I get an understanding of what these DRM files do? Allow Kodi to use Amazon Prime as a client / Youtube??)

Quote from majlou

Worse.. Its copy paste since first 9.1 ALPHA in June 2019... so the phenomenal rate over last year and my Rpi 4 still suffer from tearing in menu and random crashes

They are working on the graphics driver - it's bigger than the LibreElec team.

I assure you, I get it - My Pi4 is barely quicker than a Pi3B+ or even my Pi3B (!!!) - the video playback is flawless for me (PHEW!) but the UI? it's a bit clunky for something with 4x the memory, double the CPU and better GPU

It's not their fault though.

Thanks for release - seems to have installed fine on my test unit.

Hey, really dumb question.

Do the updates always 'clean up' after themselves well?

Like what if you had Libre 8 and you updated all each individual update file through the line - would the filesystem end up full of junk?

Quote from LE23

This is planned in the near future, but not implemented yet.

WireGuard Didn't Make it To The Mainline Linux Kernel This Cycle - Phoronix

If you really need Wireguard immediately, you can use the beta 3.0 firmware on GL.inet routers

Which routers are these? All of them or only the higher end models?

Quote from CvH

we like to go full 64bit but the whole DRM stuff is only available in 32bit so you would loose Netflix/Amazon/whatnot ...

What does this mean, could you elaborate?

Seems a bit backwards in 2020!

"In this initial release 1080p playback behaviour and performance on the 4B are broadly on-par with the previous 3B/3B+ model, except for HEVC media which is now hardware decoded and massively improved. New 4K video capabilities still have plenty of rough edges to be smoothed out, but the Pi Foundation developers have been pushing fixes to the test team at a phenomenal rate over the last month and that will continue as the userbase expands."

I'm pretty sure, that's a copy and paste from a release nearly 6 months ago, isn't it?

Thanks for the hard work.

Looking forward to future versions!

Quote from Mario77

You can't really watch video over vnc even on high..

Not sure why but with windows it does same thing...it only works with low or high quality..not with medium or auto..and android app it s a bit of a pain to use..

Best is from a windows pc but found out that the mouse was crashing libreelec so best to control menus fron keyboard arrows and disable mouse in LE input settings.

Something else I noticed is that after few days VNC stops working and can't connect..needs to ssh and reboot for it to start again.

Just wanna make sure people know this - I'm not dumb enough to even CONSIDER watching video over this (!!)

This is purely just, so I can administer it and consider designing skin (well, skin customisations, layout changes etc) remotely - I'm not dopey enough to expect that bandwidth over VLC

I'll give Mocha a try tomorrow - thanks guys.

high and medium unusable, same issue.

low works - but it's horribly ugly (no, I don't intend to watch video over it, but it's very very bad)

I am almost damn near positive I've had the issue on low as well, because I recall messing with these settings previously.

No one, please? I know it's not the end of the world problem, but it's very very easy to test.

Here is what happens - it connects for a second, shows movies, then drops to this, reconnects, shows 1 second, drops - over and over.

Does no one else at all have an iPad? All you need is an iPad to test this. (Note, my Pi4 is on Ethernet, obviously the iPad is on wifi).

We just need someone else on an iPad to test this really........

Video of the problem below.... hope it works....?!

Quote from Mario77

In addon It s all left as default..I mean the vnc on your pc you have to change to low or high grom settings..

VNC works fine from my PC - works a charm.

VNC does not work, from my iPad - it goes into a 'reconnect loop'

Quote from CvH

okay its already RealVNC and not the legacy one

just to be sure, you installed the vnc addon from the LE repository and changed their settings ?

VNC is from LE Rep (I believe? check the screenshots) - I didn't change (and did!) the settings, nothing seems to work.
Does anyone have an iPad to test.

Quote from Mario77

It works fine but you need to set Vnc viewer settings to low or high...auto or medium doesn't work..

I did this, didn't work.

See the attached screenshot - I've tried messing with almost all these settings.

"Official" VNC app from VNC Company or whatever.

‎VNC Viewer - Remote Desktop on the App Store

This doesn't work, can you iPad VNC -> Kodi 9.2.1 ?

Using the official VNC app (which I use on PC without issue)

It drops out / screws up and I can’t see settings to fix it.

It basically connects over and over and over.

I’ve fiddled with every setting EXCEPT ‘screen 0’ - cause I have no idea what it does.

Anyone else got this working?

Well, I've googled and found this.

<videolibrary>

<recentlyaddeditems>45</recentlyaddeditems>

<cleanonupdate>true</cleanonupdate>

</videolibrary>

and I've added it to

~/.kodi/userdata/advancedsettings.xml

So we'll see if this resolved the issue long term (if I manually clean, it seems to fix things, so who knows)

P.S I appreciate the response but I VERY much disagree that this is a file issue. Kodi should be cleaning up if data is removed. It makes for a messy library.

I have R.Pi 4 and latest LibreElec stable.

I specifically have option set to ALWAYS clean the library after an update.

I have a folder called //server/incoming

I also have one called //server/media/movies/

Now, due to complicated stupid reasons, sometimes, my software isn't importing things from /incoming/ to /movies/ - therefore, I've added incoming as a media source in Kodi.

When my media is moved from /incoming/ to /movies/ the next scan, should pick up the movie being relocated and notice it's no longer in the old location, so remove that entry

How can I make Kodi ALWAYS clean the library after each update?

Do you think there will be performance improvements in general for the UI, before the LibreElec10 build? (Specifically Pi4)