Posts by ozarks

Quote from rraod

I would not like to wait and try the new Amlogic series S905x2 or S922. As the history indicates S912 boxes have suffered the lack of support for fbdev drivers from Amlogic for very long time. After reading on the forum that kszaq has finally succeeded in finding a solution and made a successful release, I took a risk and bought a S912 box though initially I wanted to play safe and go for a S905X box.

I thought of going for the latest LE release for S912 and have tried the LE 8.2.4.1 release on this box. But I was facing problems right from the beginning. The Screen was getting stuck at LibreElec start screen. Sometimes it used to load Kodi 17.6 but I was not able to go forward in the initial configuration of the box. Another aspect is the intermittent clicks from the speaker continuously.

Then I reverted back to LE 8.2.2.3 release on the box, and I was happy to find that this version is working very smoothly. It was just like the LE 8.2.5 on my old S812 box but faster and smoother.

I tried to play HEVC files and they were playing smoothly while on S812 box the movies were with jerky motion. My only observation on this new S912 box is that the videos are little dark and I have to increase the brightness of the screen. There is also no clock display on the box.

Overall all the box and the supplied remote are working perfectly and I am happy with the LE 8.2.2.3 release, as my videos are only up to 1080p. I will wait till a more stable LE version appears in the future.

I am grateful and thank the developers kszaq and wrxtasy for their relentless efforts in giving us this fine piece of software.

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Try the LibreELEC-S912.arm-8.2.5.1-444-1000nits build from here.

I've been using it on my S912 and it's about as perfect as you can get and all videos and streams are pretty much flawless and not a dark video in sight.

I have tried Coreelec and it does work well but because I use Comskip, it isn't yet compatible with the latest Leia based releases, I'm sticking with it.

Could not be happier right now.

I would prefer to see words such as 'misogynistic' not continually misrepresented and completely misunderstood.

Firstly, in reference to the term wife acceptance factor, we should first look at what it refers to.

"an assessment of design elements that either increase or diminish the likelihood a wife will approve the purchase of expensive consumer electronics products such as high-fidelity loudspeakers, home theater systems and personal computers."

It implies no such derogatory statement about women.

It is simply a tongue in cheek reference to something that many men may well have experienced when going out to buy their beloved tech.

The really bad practice seems to come from people who are unable to balance a sense of humour with ethical and moral thinking that matters and seek to ban anything that they decide is offensive, without really looking at the larger picture.

Look at 95% of humour and you will find it aimed at somebody, often taking a stereotype and exaggerating it.

Be careful what you wish for because you may find others picking holes in what you find amusing, dissecting it to fit in whatever they decide should be right and wrong for today, or turning your own arguments around to make you face your own morality to make it appear that you want a cake and eat it kind of scenario.

That's my tuppence worth on the subject.

I get this on occasion and just have to disable and enable the client and server.

Quote from balbes150

There is no such file in the image. Therefore, it is built outside the source kernel that is used in the image and will not be able to work with it.

Show the entire output of the script. The specified error may not be critical (in some cases). What system is installed in eMMC ?

Thanks for the confirmation.

Quote from balbes150

1. What model of TV box ?

2. What is the version of the LE image used ?

3. Write in detail the steps you did.

1. The version of the image LE ?

2. Where did you get this dtb (gxm_q201_2g_1gbit.dtb) ?

For all.

When asking a question, be sure to specify the version of the LE image that you are trying. Without specifying the version of the image, there will be no response.

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I am using the latest image LibreELEC-S912.arm-9.0-devel-20180920164743-905fd26.img.

I put a link to the dtb as part of the name in the last post.

gxm_q201_2g_1gbit

Thanks

I decided to give this a test and initially was able to boot up from the SD card successfully but I noticed that whilst I had WiFi, there was no Ethernet connectivity shown.

So I swapped out the q201 2g dtb with the one that I had previously been using that has ethernet (gxm_q201_2g_1gbit.dtb) but then unfortunately it would not boot at all.

Quote from chrisssj2

Why are you saying LE 8.2.5.1 is latest for S912? The OP only has LE 8.2.4.1 as is in title name.

Wrxtasy has an 8.2.5.1 available here..

Quote from balbes150

Since the regular Android does not know how to work with other systems, it is implemented through the menu item in LE. Start LE and the selected item in the menu off "Reboot to Android".

Thanks for the clarification.

Quote from balbes150

New images 20180920 (kernel 3.14).

I draw attention to the changes. Now the process of installing the system in eMMC has changed. The default install of the additional copy of the LE at eMMC without uninstalling regular Android. Now, to install LE in eMMC, there is a special menu item in "Libreelec->Services->eMMC->Install to eMMC". When you select this menu item, LE will be copied to eMMC in parallel to Android (Android is fully saved and can be used). Also in the new images added two menu items to create and restore a full copy of the eMMC on external media (along with the bootloader, settings and all data). I recommend that you make sure you create a full copy of eMMC before installing LE on eMMC. Depending on the type of external media and how busy eMMC data is, the backup process can take anywhere from 5 to 30 minutes. After the copy is created or restored, the system automatically shuts down. It is not recommended to use the system during creation and recovery (to reduce the risk of errors). For those who want to install LE in eMMC with delete Android, you need to rename the script on the external media beforehand "full_install2emmc.sh" to "install2emmc.sh", start the system from external media and also select the item in the menu. The system will execute the installation LE to replace eMMC with Android on LE.

A very interesting option to run LE and Android in parallel from eMMC but my question is what is the procedure for switching between the the two?

I have a first generation S912 (MXIII-G2) running wrxtasy LibreELEC-S912.arm-8.2.5.1-444-1000nits.tar build and it's superb. Picture quality across the board is the best that I have seen from anything and it just does the job that I have waited for Android to do for far too long.

I also have a very cheap T95N S905X box which also does a very good job with the latest builds, although I do tend to find that it comes to multiple tasks such as when I'm using a couple of TV tuners, recording 2 programs whilst streaming something else from another source that it can be quite skippy but for most things it does a good enough job, including streaming of local 4K files or playback from a USB flash drive.

I also run Libreelec from 2 X86/64 boxes, one an Cherry Trail Z8350 and the other a Beebox N3150 and whilst both run well, no matter what I try, I am unable to get the same picture quality that I get with the S912.

The only downside to the S912 is that there is no working method of putting it to sleep and waking up to record OTA TV but I accept that limitation and the box uses so little juice that it's not such a great problem with leaving it on all of the time. Other S9XX boxes are able to take benefit from the sleep/wake up but it seems random as to which ones will work.

Most AMLogic boxes tend to come with 2 USB ports but I just use an externally powered hub to provide for an extra port or two when required.

Tried it on my Z8350 Hibox and it works well.

Very snappy in operation.

Quote from CvH

Just for info, comskip is now also available at the tvheadend addon as soon the pending pr is merged

That's great news.

I've been playing around and managed to get comskip to work with my AMLogic S912 box.

I'm not sure whether all of the following steps that I used are necessary as is was a case of try this and that until it worked but this is how I achieved it.

1. SSH into the box and create the directory /storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/tools.comskip

2. Install the Comskip addon tools.comskip-8.2.90.zip from post #22 for RPi2/arm courtesy of shanemeagher.

3. Fire up TVHeadend on your browser and navigate to Configuration, Recording.

Choose your profile name of choice from the left hand window pane (probably Default profile unless you have created one for specific needs).

Scroll down the options in the right hand pane until you get to Filename Options and check the boxes for Replace whitespace in title with '-': and Remove all unsafe characters from filename:. Also make sure that your chosen profile is Enabled.

Scroll back up a little until you see the option Post-processor command:. In this field enter the text /storage/.kodi/addons/tools.comskip/bin/comskip.bin --ini=/storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/tools.comskip/ini/comskip.ini %f

In the left hand pane, click the Save button.

4. Reboot your box,

5. Set-up a timer recording for a programme that will have adverts (note that if you ever stop a recording part way through then post processing will still be carried out).

6. Wait for the recording to finish and then SSH into your box and navigate to your recordings folder. In my case it was /storage/recordings

Navigate your way into the folder containing the recording, named after the show you just recorded.

You will initially see 4 files but don't do anything until post processing is complete and you see the 5th, which is the .edl file.

7. Open the video in Kodi and when the ads begin, the video will skip the ads and you may even see a small pop-up in the bottom right hand side of the Kodi screen with the word Commercial, to indicate that it has reached a point and is skipping it.

Ensure that the .edl file always remains with the video file if you copy it elsewhere.

The other .log and .txt files can be deleted unless you want them for further diagnosis.

A big shout out to all that have contributed and given the answers by their own sheer efforts of trial and error.

I'm using Build: 4.2.5 ~ LibreELEC Tvh-addon v8.2.113 (2017-12-21T20:30:12+0100) of TvHeadend.

Update: I noticed when using this with a current X86/64 build based on Kodi 18 and although the addon would install and there were no errors, there was no post processing.

I then tried an 18 based distro for S912 and it didn't work either, so for now it will only work on Krypton 17.6 builds for AMlogic/Intel.

Quote from wrxtasy

Yes LibreELEC-S912.arm-8.2.5-Chroma.422.12bit.tar has everything in it for S912 users inc. the Kodi dirty regions Subtitles stuttering workaround.

I do not use SMB file sharing so never encounter the SMB Subtitles crashing issue. I use NFS only.

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EDIT:

I have had a look and reverted a CIFS/SMB update in the Kernel and will be putting out S905 / S912 SMB.Subtitles.test .tar's in the following:

Google Drive Folder

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I updated to the subtitles test release and tried a dozen subtitles, all of which played perfectly.

Did either of you guys get the other 3 USB ports to work as I was about to buy one of these specifically to have use of all 4 and then read this thread?

Quote from dgamboa

On Coreelec it's fixed altough they are using Leia, maybe is a bug related to Krypton?

I had the same problem the other day but it only happened with one particular video.

Another worked fine.

Quote from CvH

ffmpegx and tvh by CvH · Pull Request #2916 · LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv · GitHub

Thanks.

I've installed it and will be testing it out during the day.

Update: I played around with it for a few hours but was unable to get it to work.

Perhaps there are some parameters that I am missing.

It would be a very useful feature to have for sure.