Posts by tokul

  • Thai font for subtitles

    Quote from Sanuk

    I have copied arial.ttf from Windows 11 to that folder on RPi4 with LibreElec 10.0.2 but still no Thai. Only placeholders.

    How can i enable it?

    Thank you!

    arial.ttf does not support Thai. You are probably looking for arial unicode. I don't remember atm if that bigger Arial (Unicode.odf) variant got Thai code pages. If you start Character Map on Windows 11 (if you can find it in that !@#$ start menu UI), it got search option for Unicode range. Arial on Win11 got no Thai support. Just checked. I don't have Thai support enabled on my Win11 to check which fonts they add to the system to support it. Microsoft Store shows Mitr Light font.

    https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/list/language/thai lists other two fonts.

    More on Thai fonts at https://slice-of-thai.com/fonts/

    Microsoft got page about it too. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typograp…ws_11_font_list

    You need other fonts. Not Arial.

    You are coming from niche language region and you probably know better which fonts support your language than most westerners do.

  • Hardware recommendation for solely LE

    Quote from denist

    We there is no ROI to buy, so need to resort back to the Nuc and my original question still stands do I go new or just grab another Gemini or keep the NUC5 Pentium.

    Thanks.

    New NUC models, NUC7 Gemini or NUC5 will run libreelec. It is your decision how much you want to cut costs. If your existing hardware works and provides all the features that you need, nothing stops you from continuing to use it. If it breaks, then you can always make a new decision about getting new kit from price range acceptable by you.

  • Folder disappeared

    dmesg command in libreelec CLI will show, if sd device is recognized when you plug it in. It probably won't help, if your file system is setup on device and not on partition.

    Example of dmesg in spoiler

    Display Spoiler

    [348403.046290] usb 2-3: new SuperSpeed Gen 1 USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd

    [348403.065542] usb-storage 2-3:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected

    [348403.066802] scsi host2: usb-storage 2-3:1.0

    [348404.073315] scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access <<snip-hardware-name>> 1072 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6

    [348404.073705] scsi 2:0:0:1: Enclosure <<snip-hardware-name>> 1072 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6

    [348404.075072] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0

    [348404.075226] scsi 2:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 13

    [348404.079796] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Spinning up disk...

    [348405.086129] ......ready

    [348410.154097] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] 1953458176 512-byte logical blocks: (1.00 TB/931 GiB)

    [348410.154530] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off

    [348410.154533] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 53 00 10 08

    [348410.154785] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page found

    [348410.154787] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through

    [348410.338335] sdc: sdc1

    [348410.340926] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk


    chkdsk in Windows CLI. Linux will not mount dirty NTFS.

    Did you turn off hybernation in that Seagate?

  • HDD corruption

    Quote from LybsterKodi

    I did a lot of web searching before I posted here. The vast majority do a bit of a pro & con list with zero evidence to support anything. Wikipedia have a very detailed entry if I was interested in technical specs. I'm not.

    If you are looking for cross platform compatibility, use NTFS. Both NTFS and exFAT are not native filesystems for Linux and NTFS implementation is older and more mature.

    Filesystem performance is less critical than device performance.

    Turn off hibernation in disk settings. If disks shutdowns on its own while being mounted, it can only cause mess. Disk should be stopped by OS and not other way. If your storage thinks that it is smarter than OS, you have to use synchronous file system without journal on it.

  • Problem: 6TB hard drive totally messed up

    Quote from LybsterKodi

    > you probably supplied insufficient power to the drive.

    That's a distinct possibility. I've never seen so much damage done from that before.

    I had two 1TB WDs connected once. Was sorting files on them, drive started clicking, failed. Required CLI dskchk in windows to get it fixed.

    Technically they were connected to x86 pc and not to RPi, but they were sharing connection on same USB3 header and RPi is known to have limited power output on USB.

    Your story sounded like my two hour long dskchk multipled by six times.

    I won't try connecting HDD enclosures that rely on single USB connection to RPi or x86 USB sockets connected to same header.

  • command "expr" (from coreutils) under LE ?

    write your script without using that calculation.

    You can get current disk space usage in KB or MB. So *1024 part is redundant.

    Assumption that compressed package needs three times more to install is as inaccurate as hardcoding space requirement in a script. Try compressing bmp files and see how much they can expand.

    Nothing stops you from having several size checks and then setting required space accordingly.

  • T400 support

    NVidia Quadro T400 ? Why put LibreElec on it?

    It might be economy version of Quadro card, but it is still from Quadro product line and new Nvidia cards tend to require binary/proprietary drivers from Nvidia.

  • rPi4 won't boot. Probably something really simple.

    Which image is for USB stick boot? First one looks like disk failure or rpi is not giving enough power for argon one addon over USB. Second one is trying to mount device that does not exist in the system.

    some SD card writers come in "USB stick" form. If you could create image in USB stick, you can create image on SD card. Have you tried booting from SD card? Logical way for running LibreELec on RPi would be to install it on SD card and use SSD or NAS for storage.

  • Recommendation for a passively cooled solution

    Quote from dalto

    Sure, the NUCs are faster but as I stated in my initial post, top performance isn't really the goal. Also:

    * NUCs just don't hold up well to 24/7 usage. NUCs were my goto choice for media PCs but I have had two fail in the last couple of years and they are too expensive to be disposable. We also use them at work as SBCs at small remote sites and see high failure rates there too.

    * I am looking for a low power, passively cooled solution.

    there are many ways to interpret "don't hold up well". I was consider suggesting mini-itx based fanless mobo, but did not do that after checking NUC specs. You did sound like NUC was not powerful enough for you.