Posts by TonP

Isn't it recommended that the power supply should deliver 5.1V, not 5V?

What do you mean with "All cables between switch and rpi are cat6" ? Multiple connections ? Or cables extended ? If a Cat 5 cable works, but Cat 6 not, I suspect the Cat 6 cable. Are you sure there isn't a cross cable used instead of a straight one? How old is the switch? A connection between Pi and switch requires a straight cable, although most modern switches can adapt to a cross-cable.

It will work, but minimally. Fair chance you run into performance issues and get annoyed. In previous years I have tried to reuse old PC's for a linux installation and always gave up because of support issues with old hardware and performance issues. Do yourself a favour and follow Klojum's advice: buy a 3B+. A setup with Libreelec is quite mature by now compared to a PI 4 and it is only 20$ more than a Zero and much more powerfull. I am happily running two for more than a year now, one as a TV server and one as a general media player.

Ok, I finally figured out that I haven't posted the correct logfile, here is a correct one (I think): hastebin

Reading the last part of the contents, there is indeed something fishy going on concerning TrueHD

Well, TrueHD appears to be the problem here. I have tried several movies now and using the TrueHD track always causes a crash when skipping. Using the AC3 core doesn't cause any problems.

So either I don't skip anymore and wait for a fix or I move to AC3 for all TrueHD files.

Thanks again cwadge!

The first movie that I noticed having this problem is indeed using Atmos:

Format : MLP FBA 16-ch

Format/Info : Meridian Lossless Packing FBA with 16-channel presentation

Commercial name : Dolby TrueHD with Dolby Atmos

Codec ID : A_TRUEHD

Interesting, I will investigate this further, thanks for the info!

Made a mistake with the url for the system log, this is the latest after another crash: http://ix.io/2lvD

And the latest Kodi log: http://ix.io/2lvG

What happens is that the movie freezes for about 10 seconds, then the screen goes dark and after some more seconds there is a reboot. This seems to happen only with some HD movies, I haven't noticed it yet with DVD quality movies. Other HD files play ok. Got the Kodi logfile : http://ix.io/2lnO

System log: http://ix.io/2lo0

My knowledge of Libreelec is slim, so I hope somebody can point me in the right direction.

Thanks.

Arduino is used by me for peripherals. I have a domotica system in my house with a lot of ESP8266's as temperature/humudity sensors and to read the info from my electricity meter. Previously I tried to use an Arduino Due as a central system, but the lack of a proper operating system made me decide to switch to a NUC. I could have done it with a raspberry pi as well, but my programming skills with Linux and C are not very good, I am a Pascal guy using Delphi. Besides, I have a sort of love/hate relationship with Linux. A year or so ago I was looking for a ready to use solution to replace my media-player and Humax tv unit with a combined system and replaced them by two raspberry pi 3B+'s, one as a central tv server (tuner with recording function) and one as a client to display tv channels from the server and video/photo's from my NAS and play music, also from my NAS. Both are running Libreelec and I never regretted this decision for a second.

Just to be complete, I have always been using NFS for the streaming from my NAS.

Also, I didn't have any video problems when using dumb switches (non-managed switches). Only when I replaced the simple switches for managed ones did the problems appear. I have never been able to figure out what the cause was, but the buffer setting as in example 4 did the trick.

@ghfy4: What example did you use?

I use example 4 when I experienced the same video problems as you. It works fine now.

About the boot problems I can't help you. Wifi the same, since I use the ethernet port.