Posts by HypnoToad

Oh and some people have had issues with the way their sound has been setup.

I haven't really experienced this issue. I've just had it set to 5.1

Nice, thanks for sharing.

Been making htpc's for over a decade and it's always fun to see what people do to customise their setups.

1080i isn't a resolution it's a method of interpolation fields to reduce codec performance drag.

From memory if your tv can only play 1080i it wont be able to handle the 1080p resolution. So set it to 720p.

So for instance I have it set to 1080p resolution but when I play 4k the videos resoution is 4k but the user interface is 1080p.

Also you might want to check kodi forums and maybe even open elec and raspbian ones on how to force resolution.

STICKY: Setting up HDMI output when video output is wrong. - Page 19 - Raspberry Pi Forums

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From my experience the codec used in the production of the video being played is important. There is limitations to the Rasp pi, but they are perfectly acceptable IMO.

h264 and h265 run without stutters.

I have found some files that are encoded outside the DVR recording standards struggle because as you have noticed they need more processing power to smoothly play the video.

This is just something we need to accept with Rasp Pi 4b.

The silver linning is h265 4k buffers and plays faster than on my main pc, but some of the larger and questionable hevc encodes are touch and go.

Others have mentioned it in the past but reencoding your videos might be something worth considering. As a audio video nerd h265 file sizes are relatively tiny compared to their counterparts. So reencoding could help free up space but may take a little time working out some good settings.

I've made posts on other places about understanding and accepting the limitations of Rpi4, who knows we could be one revision of the board away from playing the files you are having problems with.

What is your hardware also.

Perfect, love your work.

Unfortunately now I am having the same problems with h265 as the last build. Where they hang and crash.

kodi log files: http://ix.io/1vcr
crash log files: http://ix.io/1vcp

Fresh install.

Only thing I can think of is trying to fresh reinstall on another sd card, even try OpenElec or newer/older Libreelec builds.

The goal ATM is to find out if it works at all with anything to eliminate hardware fault.

So you need to;

* Test different Operating Systems(With CEC)
* Test different TV's
* Test different cables(already done)

What's the model number of the TV, probably worth looking up whether someone somewhere else has had issues with that TV. Also I remember ages ago updating firmware on my TV.

I've been testing on a wide number of TV's(mine, friends and families) and have only had the problem with the cable in use.

There is also settings for CEC in your System -> Input -> Peripherals.

Make sure it's not turned off or on some weird setting, eventhough I trust you didn't change the settings from install. It doesn't hurt to double and triple check these things.

Newest build I cannot get Audio device working, it's greyed out and we don't have any other option besides bluetooth audio through pulseaudio.

Ok, I got way more cables than I ordered.(6x) micro hdmi to hdmi.

I'm having the same problem as OP. It shows the rainbow test screen but doesn't show a clone.

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I’ve also noticed that some video does not play smoothly.

More than likely has to do with the file. H264 and H265 are very smooth, but I've noticed with some old and badly/oddly encoded videos there is slight stutters. The pi doesn't seem to break a sweat on the codecs it supports via hardware. Have been thinking about just re-encoding things to h264.

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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 Alpha test team at a phenomenal rate over the last month and that will continue as the userbase expands.

You guys are doing a phenomenal job for the Rasp Pi 4 launch. I've been watching 4k h265 not just at home but at friends houses and even on the work TV.

I've bought 3, and have another one coming for a parent. I have my brothers and sister interested in getting one, and I have a mate who wants a few for him and his friends and family.

Most users wouldn't be interested in this device if it wasn't for your work in particular.

This is a pretty good wave to be riding right now.

This, I was wondering if I was just an idiot after I tried to change the core estuary files for advanced weather radar.

I read somewhere, probably here, that you can just copy the files to your .kodi skin addons but that doesn't seem to be working.

I'm waiting for a delivery of micro HDMI cables, currently I only have adapters that are too big to put two in at a time. Will report on whether or not it works.

I expect down the line that this is inevitable, perhaps an easy config or setup to add additional dispays and control how they are handled.

But I am sure there is quite a lot of us looking forward to using dual monitor functionality. Just a matter of time and interest to build.

In the Libreelec settings plugin you can package kodi logs and it will give you a small link to post.

It just helps the people narrow down your problem, quite often they wont offer help without logs because you cannot really be sure of the issue.

Make sure to replicate the issue before doing this though.

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Update : Release 2019-08-23-RPi4 · magicseb/LibreELEC.tv · GitHub

Been using this since it was pushed to me about a week ago. Everything works great besides h265.

My other SD with rasp pi 4 build has no problem with h265 and 4k h265.

This build just crashes and I am wondering what I can do to fix that.

Crash log also