Posts by Anke

nope, it did not help.

My next test will be to flash a fresh Libreelec to another SD, and ultimately RaspBerry Pi distro - if none of them work, then it is some bizzare hardware failure (This RPi4 it is less than a week old, so it might be...)

Quote from Da Flex

Login by SSH and

cd /storage/.kodi/userdata

mv guisettings.xml guisettings.xml.backup

reboot

Restore your settings file if HDMI audio doesn't work.

Thank you.

It did not fix the problem.

Also, two interesting thing I've noticed:

1: Even the projector can't make sound.

2: the HDMI->SPDIF extractor does not even lit it's LED

both very simple ways to conform that there is no audio on HDMI.

I did select analog(that works) , rebooted, (heard analog audio) had four choices; analog, analog+HDMI, HDMI, and BT. - chose HDMI, and it still does not work, nor does analog+HDMI work for HDMI.

This is the exact same chip.. I bet they found a way to detect it. Maybe an additional pin is connected to ground somewhere.

If somebody have both, it is a simple job to measure both devices for differences.

the the method in the first post still correct for current release of Libreelec?

I restored a Libreelec made backup on RPi3 to the new RPi4.

(both running same, current Libreelec)

Backup/Restore worked perfectly.

I cannot get the audio over HDMI to work anymore. I suspect it died after the restore.

The odd symptom is:

While the Kodi is quiet, adjusting volume animates the volume indicator.

While playing a video, (so sound is heard) adjusting volume shows no change on the indicator.

Maybe a RPi3 related setting/file were restored ?

How should I troubleshoort?

Thank you.

The SD card works fine in RPi3B

I moved it to RPi4 2GB, there is some text about some file needs to be updated for RPi4 (sorry I did not read it, as I thought the LibreElec did nor support RPi4)

Now I see that RPi4 is supported by LE9.2.6

Question: is a SD moved from RPi3b it supposed to boot on RPi4 ?

(email notifications are off by default for new users, that explains my initial slow response.)

Thank you.

I agree, the RPi SPDIF/TOSLINK card was mainly supposed to workaround the need for audio extraction, and that the projector gets sound. (It always defaults to unmuted)

So I completely agree that the soundcard won't solve the performance issue.

I have another issue as well:

Norwegian censorship stops DNS resolving of opensubtitles.org

kodi's SOCKS5 with DNS is not supported by PriveteInternetAccess (aka PIA) that I use. (not the DNS part)

nor does PIA support RPi .. their (rather nice) Linux client is great on Ubuntu - so that could indicate that I really should just use a weak (not-noisy) SFF computer or something like that for the job.

Thank you.

Great, so now I can workaround by dropping to 24FPS, ...and get an "very freezing" interface.. I love choices

Seriously: should I get some other hardware instead? - maybe a weak x86 thingy ? I had problems with h265 too, and start to suspect RPi is not the way to go.

Sorry for the late response, will check where the expected email-notifications went, if they are sent.

I am using a HDMI->TOSLINK/SPDIF extractor. The reason thatI requested whatever the TOSLINK device I ordered will work, is because HDMI audio is played through the projector as well.

you wrote: "You talk about HDMI 5.1 audio. This doesn't exist,"

Yes, on Rpi, when I select HDMI out, I can select channels: 5.1 - and - I enabled passthru, and played a THX test video (VOB from DVD), that worked just fine. (heard all 6 channels just fine)

Then I tested two movies with AAC5.1 audio, missing voice channel, or barely audible. (I doubt AAC is passed through, but decoded/poorly before being sent.)

Switching output to 2.1 "works".

I did try pass-thru - have no reason to believe it was requires, did not reboot - but the issue remained.

Pi 3 Model B , hardware code a02082

LibreELEC (official): 9.2.4 (RPi2.arm)

If I enable HDMI 5.1 audio, i will have trouble with center channel, and/or other channels, only in movies with 6channels. - apparently regardless of codec.

Enabling HDMI 2.0 or 2.1 works flawlessly

If I were to buy an onboard SPDIF/Toslink board like:: Raspberry Pi 3 Model B HIFI DiGi Digital Sound Card I2S SPDIF Expansion Board Digital Chip for Raspberry Pi 2|chip board|chip cardchip sound - AliExpress : will it "just work" with this distro ?

Thank you, for a smooth solution.

Please consider making HDMI always output as default, booting without HDMI does not seem to make any sense for this distro.

I chose defaults during installation, did not select SSH.

Also, defaults do not include hdmi_force_mode , so there is no HDMI output unless projector is on in the booting moment (this should really be on?)

So now I have a well configured and working LibreELEC, except.. how can I edit the config file, or install SSH?