Posts by sYCO

    No idea how your set up is, but works flawlessly here with an MXQ Pro 4k (P212 model with S905x socket) on practically anything I throw at it. Any examples of files that always fail? More than happy to test a few to see if it is hardware, software or otherwise related.

    Maybe they talk about TV streaming, which is fucked
    since f or g (purple lines, banding, resolution reset, ...).

    I found the same issue on S905X/S912. It starts red and green color flaring in bands with equal width. Simple switching liveTV channel fix this flaring. But after a while it appears again. This issue has nothing with overheating. I opened box and kept CPU temperatute < 60°C and the behavior was same. This flaring has never happended on S905 boxes..

    I am happy to hear, I am not the only guy with that issue.

    Btw, my beamer is totally going crazy with refocusing and
    resizing the screen with this problem.

    I went back to c and now it seems to work again without
    that purple lines and flaring and resizing issue. I will test
    more today/tomorrow.

    With the f version I was watching some minutes/hours
    of stream TV (official public TV channels), when I got
    some purple lines and disturbings into the picture and
    also sometimes the resolution reseted to 4:3 and went
    back to 16:9.

    So, I thought ... okay, shit, my beamer is dying.

    Well, then I switched to play local files (movies in mp4
    format) and the normal quality was back. No problems.

    I will do some testing later to rule out, if my beamer is
    dying. I just went back to c and also I will do use the
    PS4 to determine, if the beamer is the issue.


    I experience frame drops about 30 minutes into seemingly every H264 file I play. I then skip back 10 seconds and the passage plays flawlessly. If I pause playback at anytime that 30 minute "timer" gets reset. Meanwhile the Kodi log shows this:

    Code
    WARNING: CRenderManager::WaitForBuffer - timeout waiting for buffer


    So there's some kind of buffer underrun it seems. This is playback over NFS with dec_control set to 4.
    During the runtime of this particular file (full-length movie), I also got this (log time stamp does not correlate with stutter, appears later):

    Code
    NOTICE: CActiveAEStream::AddData - messy timestamps, increasing interval for measuring average error to 6000 ms


    I'll try to get a full debug log later.

    Same here, I think, but I can not say for sure, because I just watched one file.

    "Same" here. I go to bed and let the stream run
    over night. In the morning the picture is frozen
    (at some point some hours later).

    On earlier versions like Jarvis the stream was still
    running in the morning, when I turned on the TV.

    Actually, it was even running one or two days
    later, when not stopped manually.

    Hi Kszaq,

    I'm running [7.0.3.012j] LibreELEC 7.0 for S905/S905X on my S905 devices right now.
    Do you advice to step over to 8.0.0e right now? I don't think the mentioned issues in post #1 are a problem for me.

    Thank you!

    I would not do it (again). I changed up last week and find
    Libreelec 8 way inferior to 7.

    It is slower and unstable. With Jarvis I had no crashes and
    buffering problems and the response time was brilliant.

    With Krypton that all went bad, I think. It is still usable, of
    course, but stability and speed in Jarvis is unmatched. Also,
    simply moving forward/backward in a movie file is smooth,
    while it is a stuttering and buffering issue in Kodi 17.

    Unfortunately, I cannot go back without doing a new installation,
    which is just too much work again. If I consider to buy another
    box, I will use Jarvis for now.

    What kind of NAS are you owning? Synology?
    What kind of share method are you using on our Synology? HTTPS WebDav?

    There is a problem with Synology not accepting the SSL connection what LibreELEC 8.0 is using. See thread-4075-post-30202.html
    You can fix that by using a HTTP WebDav connection from LibreELEC 8.0 to your Synology.

    Exactly, a Synology NAS I am owning. Using Samba, I guess.

    Still I managed to get it running again. I deleted the database files again and also removed the sources and add them again, while setting the content anew.

    Now it is scraping/searching movies/series again.

    I do not know, what happened, but from one day to another
    all my movies/series were not shown anymore in Kodi.

    So, I tried to update/scan again all the files, but it says, there
    is nothing new.

    Then I read about deleting the database files, which I did, but
    even after a reboot I cannot update/scan the files with success.

    Anyone else having an issue like that or knowing a solution?

    Thank you in advance.


    PS The NAS is working fine, I could even play a movie on Kodi with
    using the stream plugin (Yatse). So, it has no access limitations and
    it was working the last twelve months, too.

    I am about to order another cheap box as second device (for a fullhd beamer).

    I found the MXQ 4K Pro and the A95X the cheapest in the market with 30 and 35 bucks.

    One question: What to prefer, S905 or S905x?

    Also, I could not find a cheap box with 2 GB RAM. I guess, they start at 50/60 bucks. :\

    Hi Kszaq,

    I'm running [7.0.3.012j] LibreELEC 7.0 for S905/S905X on my S905 devices right now.
    Do you advice to step over to 8.0.0e right now? I don't think the mentioned issues in post #1 are a problem for me.

    Thank you!

    Five minutes ago I went from the latest 7 to the latest 8 and everything was running fine.

    Even my skin AppTV (I love simple minimalistic styles) was working immediately.

    Estuary looks fine, but is just not showing enough or showing too much. I reduced the list on the left side (navigation), but AppTV is still nicer, I think. :)


    mmpp is 100% correct. In my opinion Jarvis builds are almost 100% working and I am backporting hardware-related fixes from time to time.

    If you want a new box, get S905 or S905X. Do not buy S912. My S912 builds are a proof that it's possible, not something recommended to use.

    I am using your latest Kodi 16/Libreelec 7 with a MXQ 4K Pro (S905).

    Is there any reason or even recommendation (from you) to use Kodi 17/Libreelec 8 (on a S905 box) or should we rather stay on Kodi 16/Libreelec 7?

    Are there pros and cons for Libreelec 8, even regarding addon support?


    Hi everyone, I just joined the thread. I would like to report a problem related to NAND appeared in the last 7.0.3.012h release. I use a NexBox with S905 (1GB/8GB). When booting with SD card, the NAND driver starts correctly but the system does not load the aml_nftl_dev module. Consequently, /dev/boot, /dev/system and others are not populated in the file system. And the script used to write LibreElec to the NAND fails.
    I think this issue may be due to one of the latest commit named "load NAND module only when needed" which disable automatic loading of aml_nftl_dev.
    This problem did not occur in 7.0.3.012g release.

    Thank you for your support (and above all for your hard work!)
    Regards,
    RR

    Maybe that is why my update from 012f to 012h went totally wrong and
    destroyed my installation. :\

    kszaq ... do you have a clue/solution maybe?

    greetings

    Guys, does nobody have an idea, how to solve that? I mean,
    it was a standard update, which lead to that issue.

    I have no access to the internal side, of course, but I still have
    a working external SD card installation with 012f and I could maybe
    access the internal side with this.

    Maybe it just helps to copy the old system files from 012f to the internal
    SD to overwrite what went wrong in 012h, so that it boots up normally
    again?