Ive got an HP Microserver N36L which is a good number of years old now. Currently running Win Home server but its got internal SATA and USB should you want to use something like Free Nas. Currently 3 x 8TB but Ive got 2 x14TB sitting in a box, just waiting on prices dropping before grabing another 2 x 14TB drives and that will do me for a while. The only changes I've made to the server was more RAm and a proper GFX card.
Posts by DarkEther
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My biggest gripe with RPi4 is a lack of hardware VC-1 decoding which no release of LE is able to fix.
Yup. VC1 just doesn't work well on Libreelec/Kodi at all. I've basically given up with it and use Handbrake to recode any VC-1 to X264/X265 and that fixes the issue. Its a simple enough process to do, just take a bit of time.
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Hah, all I did was get a black sharpie and draw on them, that dulls them down enough to not bother me anymore.
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I'm assuming you are just putting a blank card in to your PC, using Balena to install Libre and then putting that card into your PI, no other weird and wonderful things in between.
If thats the case you could have a faulty Pi, which is causing the issue,
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Id be trying a different Pi4 as i've been through various versions of Libreelec on mine with no issue. If the same card works on other Pi models it does take the focus away from the card, OS, media centre and points towards hardware. have you got someone local with a PI4 that you can put their working card in your PI to see if it works?
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have you tried the newly created cards on an older PI to see if they work, if they do it would suggest its a PI issue rather than software.
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Within Libreelec /storage/.kodi/userdata there is a sources.xml this file contains all the paths to your media.
it'll contain something like this:
<name>Movies1</name>
<path pathversion="1">smb://192.168.1.10/Movies1/</path>
<allowsharing>true</allowsharing>
there will be a small bit of code like that for every share you have this is what tells Kodi where to look for your movies, TV, music etc.
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If you have the change above already in place and no difference then where are the movies stored? Are they on a NAS/Server/USB HDD on router connected by cable or are you on Wifi to the PI. If its Wifi then it could simply be your running out of bandwidth, even on cable that could be the same issue.
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HDMI cables do not have versions, (even though stores will sell with words to that effect). The version numbers relate to the port in your TV/AMP etc. If you want to display 4K resolutions for example just make sure that the cable has the HDMI high speed logo on the packet/cable
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how about tearing in the menu’s etc?
Ive never had tearing in the menus in any builds, so cant comment.
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Just installed 9.2.3 over 9.2.2 and its fixed X265 issues I had with tearing, its also fixed the x265 OSD menu black screen and jumping issues I had
everything else seems to just feel smoother.
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I think ive done the logs and such correctly. please find attached.
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Im at work as well, I'll try get the log files later. It's as if when you access the on screen menu, the signal changes, I can see it dropping the DTS HD Ma track and going back to LPCM, the screen goes black, refreshes and menu reappears...when you move the curser again to the next menu option the issue repeats. Very odd..
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Just started using a Pi4b for my front end to stream movies and TV from my HP Microsever. It's fine all setup, shares found and such no issues.
I've come across a weird thing though, if the mkv container has an x265 stream in it, when you goto the on-screen menu the film jumps about, stops, screen goes black etc... With x264 files it's absolutely fine.
Anyone else having similar issues, is it something that can be fixed withing libre or a bug or do I just convert everything to x264 and move along 😁
Setup
Pi4b > Yamaha rx-v681 amp > Panasonic tx-65dx750b
