Posts by x0x0

Thanks Chewitt, I appreciate that info.

I already did set the scraper to "Use local content only" but didn't do anything with the .nfo files. In fact, all of my sources are set to use local scraper only. I think I remember only 2 options there; one was the online option and the other was a local option.

I can certainly bring the Kodi machine to a place with an Internet connection, but can you tell me if I'd have to have the movies on the same drive in order to scan from TVDB.com? Or, are the movie titles saved somewhere within KodI, where it can pull them for a scrape? Reason is, my movies are on a NAS, and the NAS would be impossible to get over to an Internet connection.

Thanks again for all your help and your contribution to this really cool program!

Maybe someone can enlighten me on how LibreElec works. I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong or if I've hit a bug. I'm thinking it's me though.

I am using LibreELEC offline, with NO INTERNET connection.

So, last night, I pointed LibreELEC to my NAS and tried to build my movie library but no matter what I do, LibreELEC will always give the message that there is no library set up and that I should click "files" to build it. I can build my music library just fine, but anything to do with Video or Movies, fails. I've checked the log and all I see is that the scraper fails to download; there are no errors at all.

When I try and build the movie library, I can see LibreELEC scanning but after it completes, no library shows up. Is it because I'm not connected to the Internet? Does this have to do with the .nfo files or something like that? Is there a workaround to get a library built? I should mention that I have all of my movies in separate folders and inside each folder is the actual movie.

Thanks for the help.

Thanks Irusak. I was just logging back in to say I found it. This works for me. Thank you again!

Please feel free to mark as solved.

Hi SupervisedThinking. Thanks for the link, and congrats on your build!

Your info certainly helps! Thank you for that!

Can someone please tell me where the mounts are controlled within LibreELEC?

I have other systems on the same box with LibreELEC and when I boot into LE, I can see all those partitions have been mounted.

I need to prevent LibreELEC from mounting these partitions:

var-media-ASTOR.mount                                  loaded active     mounted         /var/media/ASTOR
var-media-ASYS.mount                                   loaded active     mounted         /var/media/ASYS
var-media-LSTOR.mount                                  loaded active     mounted         /var/media/LSTOR
var-media-LSYS.mount                                   loaded active     mounted         /var/media/LSYS

udevil-mount@-dev-sda1.service                         loaded active     exited          Udevil mount service
udevil-mount@-dev-sda2.service                         loaded active     exited          Udevil mount service
udevil-mount@-dev-sda5.service                         loaded active     exited          Udevil mount service
udevil-mount@-dev-sda6.service                         loaded active     exited          Udevil mount service
udevil-mount@-dev-sr0.service                          loaded active     exited          Udevil mount service

Quote from lrusak

It's pretty easy if you don't have to deal with firmware.

Yes, it's the firmware that I can't seem to figure out; to me, it's the least straightforward thing about retro gaming. Is there a resource you can point me to that would give me more info about how to know when, and if I need to get new firmware? I've been to many sites already looking for firmware and noticed many of them want to give you files with viruses in them. This makes me less willing to really get into the gaming.

So, please help me understand something about how LibreELEC and retro gaming tie together. I have Lakka running now, outside of LibreELEC. So, if gaming is available from within LibreELEC, do I need an add-on to get that working?

I should mention that I also use this computer without an Internet connection.

Last night, I pointed LibreELEC to my NAS and tried to build my movie library but no matter what I do, LibreELEC will always give the message that there is no library set up and that I should click "files" to build it. I can build my music library justy fine but anything to do with Video or Movies will fail. I've checked the log and all I see is that the scraper fails to download. There are no errors.

When I try and build the movie library, nothing shows up. Is it because I'm not connected to the Internet? Does this have to do with the .nfo files or something like that? Is there a workaround to get a library built? I should mention that I have all of my movies in separate folders and inside each folder is the actual movie.

Thanks again for the info on SNES. I have some of those games I'd love to play. If I can get LibreELEC to do this, I'll gladly dump Lakka.

Thanks for the help!

Quote from lrusak

An emulator is a program/binary that is designed to "emulate" the functionality of the original console.

Thank you, Zero. I am still playing around with things and trying to familiarize myself with how everything ties together. I had NO idea this would be such a learning experience. All I wanted to do was to play a couple games. It tuned out to be more, much more than I barganed for.

Thanks Zero. I'll have a look there and start with the NES emulators until I get a little more familiar with all these moving parts.

Can you please tell me exactly what an emulator is? Does an emulator emulate the hardware that used to run the BIOS? I'm sorry for asking what seems to be such an elementary question, but I've googled it several times and still have no idea exactly what it's supposed to emulate exactly.

Thanks

Quote from lrusak

If you can find an emulator in the add-on list that supports the game you want to play then yes.

I'm totally lost here. Maybe a Dummies book on how to do this?

Thank you for the explanation on that and how it all works together.

I have a Dell Optiplex I'm using with LibreElec and I'm trying to run a few games like Doom II and Pacman. But, I have no idea at all how to get this working within LibreElec. I can't seem to find a good tutorial either.

Can you please tell me if it's possibe to run these 2 games from within LibreElec? I don't want to run ReCalBox alongside of LibreElec if LibreElec can do it by itself. This is my whole issue.

Hello all,

I've been at this for a couple of days now and a little frustrated at this point. What I need is a clarification on how most of these technologies tie together. I've looked through many articles but am actually more lost now than when I began.

I began with LibreElec then was introduced to ReCalBox. I liked the idea of being able to play games from one system so I wanted to dual-boot LibreElec and ReCalBox on the same machine. Then I noticed in LibreElec/Kodi there was a way to play games from within it. This was the beginning of all my confusion.

Can someone please tell me if LibreElec/Kodi, can play games through its interface if provided BOS and ROMs, or are other add-ons needed? From what I can gather, it's not clear if I need to also download retroarch, libreto, or if these are standard in Kodi.

Can someone please set me straight on exactly what is needed to play retro games from within Kodi/LibreElec?

Thank you