Posts by schneiderlein

Chewitt, thank's for your advice - let me see what I can find out.
Additionally I've ordered a new BD Drive, maybe there's something "wrong" with the old one in fact.

Quote from chewitt

I think that's unlikely, but it's easy to test with older LE official releases and/or nightly LE12 images with older versions installed.

I tried with latest LE11 (11.0.6) - works as intended, DVDs are playing fine.
LE12 - no chance, DVDs are not recognized correctly.

I am not familiar with github but will try if I can find component version differences.

Additionally, I checked the current firmware of the BD drive and updated it to the latest available version, but that makes no difference.

Thanks for the feedback - I feared that, since nobody else reported this till now.
Maybe its something because of newer libdvdcss versions coming with LE12 that breaks compatibility with my old Lite-On BD drive, but that's beyond my knowledge.

Since release of LibreELEC 12 physical DVD disc playback is not working anymore on my setup.
For validation I tried a Live USB Stick with LibreELEC 11, which was working fine.

I have tried a development build of LibreELEC 13 on a Live USB Stick (LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-13.0-nightly-20250622-a162b37),
but with no success - same issue as with version 12.

My setup:
LibreELEC 12.0.2 (Generic x86 64)
Asrock J3455-ITX (Intel Apollo Lake)
Lite-On iHOS104 BD Drive

Log excerpts showing the issue imho (Live USB Generic.x86_64-12.0.2):

2025-06-25 12:33:36.465 T:1065     info <general>: Detecting DVD-ROM media filesystem...
2025-06-25 12:33:36.476 T:1022     info <general>: Loaded playercorefactory configuration
2025-06-25 12:33:36.476 T:1022     info <general>: Loading player core factory settings from special://masterprofile/playercorefactory.xml.
2025-06-25 12:33:36.476 T:1022     info <general>: special://masterprofile/playercorefactory.xml does not exist. Skipping.
2025-06-25 12:33:36.476 T:1022     info <general>: removing tempfiles
2025-06-25 12:33:36.478 T:1022     info <general>: initialize done
2025-06-25 12:33:36.478 T:1022     info <general>: Running the application...
2025-06-25 12:33:36.483 T:1022     info <general>: starting zeroconf publishing
2025-06-25 12:33:36.484 T:1077     info <general>: ES: Starting UDP Event server on port 9777
2025-06-25 12:33:36.484 T:1077     info <general>: UDP: Listening on port 9777 (ipv6 : false)
2025-06-25 12:33:36.490 T:1022     info <general>: JSONRPC Server: Successfully initialized
2025-06-25 12:33:36.499 T:1065  warning <general>: Libdvd: Can't seek to block 256
2025-06-25 12:33:36.499 T:1065  warning <general>: Libdvd: Can't seek to block 1089884672
2025-06-25 12:33:36.499 T:1065    error <general>: Libdvd: DVDOpenFileUDF:UDFFindFile /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.IFO failed
2025-06-25 12:33:36.499 T:1065  warning <general>: Libdvd: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.IFO.
2025-06-25 12:33:36.499 T:1065    error <general>: Libdvd: vm: vm: failed to read VIDEO_TS.IFO
2025-06-25 12:33:36.500 T:1065    error <general>: Error on dvdnav_open
2025-06-25 12:33:36.501 T:1065    error <general>: GetDirectory - Error getting /dev/cdrom/BDMV/PLAYLIST
2025-06-25 12:33:36.501 T:1065    error <general>: CBlurayDirectory::InitializeBluray - failed to open /dev/cdrom

... and this is what it looks like on LE11 (Live USB Generic.x86_64-11.0.6, same DVD disc as before):

2024-10-23 12:04:01.940 T:981      info <general>: Detecting DVD-ROM media filesystem...
2024-10-23 12:04:04.025 T:981      info <general>: Libdvd: DVD Title: INDEPENDENCE_DAY
2024-10-23 12:04:04.025 T:981      info <general>: Libdvd: DVD Serial Number: 2952B0B7
2024-10-23 12:04:04.025 T:981      info <general>: Libdvd: DVD Title (Alternative): INDEPENDENCE_DAY
2024-10-23 12:04:04.025 T:981      info <general>: Libdvd: DVD disk reports itself with Region mask 0x00fd0000. Regions: 02
2024-10-23 12:04:04.025 T:981      info <general>: Libdvd: Attempting to retrieve all CSS keys
2024-10-23 12:04:04.025 T:981      info <general>: Libdvd: This can take a _long_ time, please be patient

From the warning "Libdvd: Can't seek to block 256" it looks like the disc is unreadable, but since it is playable with LE11 this might be another issue.
I can provide full Logs, if needed.

Anyone else out there who still uses physical DVD discs with LE12 and got it working?

Thanks and regards,
Marco

Quote from schneiderlein

I have used "Limited" in Kodi video system setting in the past, with the LibreELEC 11 Beta1 I am getting washed out colors with that setting.

Switching to "Full" seems to crush blacks on first sights.

I am using an Asrock J3455-ITX (Apollo Lake) and my TV is not capable of displaying Full RGB.

Found a workaround to enable full range RGB on GBM using proptest in autostart.sh after searching this and Kodi.tv forum.

Now video levels are back to normal for me.

Question regarding color space and video level handling with new GBM/V4L2 graphics stack for Generic (x86_64) builds:

I have used "Limited" in Kodi video system setting in the past, with the LibreELEC 11 Beta1 I am getting washed out colors with that setting.

Switching to "Full" seems to crush blacks on first sights.

I am using an Asrock J3455-ITX (Apollo Lake) and my TV is not capable of displaying Full RGB.

Thanks and regards