Posts by ozarks

  • @balbes150 LE images with Kodi-19 for S9xxx

    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?

  • New Kodi Box for playing HEVC files. S905X or S912?

    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.

  • Comskip with Tv headend

    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.

    uaaoVti3JNzBEtnEhZFifnujH5eizCUGkO5_E78FaWxIpfmntbdUNpwFb2a7iElFxMibgRSFsp0pJLBdkIAlX5E2ZVqCH2x89zuqGa-h9Llf_AlJ_15kbDczwSzD9Z7Z35J5dGJQirUDOlhWnop04kFVsVUaa3NZPQhXEGi0srn4D6WjUm3Zr1Gqc3MapZMOBYIqakEKsrnBG0-ev-UD9G4a0UG9LbSU_CNvDjmkV_l6ttJgTyzj7OwEOJwvnsvnVEGzkaxhdg5nol-EPEWov0J9Yu_yBEEAzVjW5Ju2lzH8EumsdlPgIt0OgojhXFKxUJ7TvRqvoZbmRz-jVbNxuFRkKpzZR-diflK8JaM_3KlSPhHzTa5spoqiCPwhBfRuY3BC8T0Ks3vBNT_xeoQt5Z0e1Fl73SAUoR1UdqqToo3GJ8N2S7XHkCSxZR86qEdzqoAhXf6uhG33NLANRGgYLd5et5n0601BcybrqPp55b1OuWMvMlLpo4Pc705kLkI3tJAYD4kfBs0Q9uplmnvNpVE18l901yddcu1Qp2eDbuROlvL9Dlz3h82Ln1FRsTQeeLWT6cPazr1NFx2r6cyrlq_j5takzXnA3RfDIUmvmB-XhfKuTgQ44rlgMwYzFdM=w690-h298-no

    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.

  • [8.2.4.1] LibreELEC Kodi Krypton - S905 & S912 devices

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

  • [8.2.4.1] LibreELEC Kodi Krypton - S905 & S912 devices

    Just updated to LibreELEC-S912.arm-8.2.5-Chroma.422.10bit

    After the first boot there was an error that popped up quickly that talked of CEC not working and bluetooth connection was not automatically restored but after a couple more reboots, all was working correctly.

    I have noticed one minor issue with all builds and that is that when I am playing a stream/video and I go into audio and subtitle settings, if I lower the volume and then select Set as default for all media, after the next reboot the setting is never retained.

    Apart from that though, it's as flawless a performance that I could want for media playing /streaming and I don't bother with the Android route any more for these uses.

  • [Solved] Can't get past the early stages of setting up TVHeadend

    Quote from awiouy

    Ah... You have a PC... You might not need Crazycat then

    Try to configure Tvheadend Server

    OK.

    I'm afraid that I'm probably going to sound really dumb here but when you say Configure the Tvheadend Server via its UI at libreelec.local:9981, do you mean in terms of the TvHeadend settings?

    The default hostname is 127.0.0.1 with the HTTP port already set at 9981.

    Do I change 127.0.0.1 to libreelec.local

  • [Solved] Can't get past the early stages of setting up TVHeadend

    Using some information from this thread XBOX One DVB Tuner and LibreElec 8.1.1 I decided to purchase one of the Xbox one tuners and use it with Libreelec 8.2.5 on my Intel Mini PC to watch and record a little TV.

    So I plug the tuner in to a USB port, fire up Libreelec, enable the TvHeadend HTSP Client (which immediately tells me that the server is unreachable).

    I read that I also require the pvr.hts addon which I could not find in the repository and had to Google to find a zip file, none of which would install, either stating that they could not be installed or that a dependency could not be met.

    I've spent hours reading various Wikis, not knowing which ones are the most relevant and got absolutely nowhere and wading through the forums to see where I am seemingly going wrong.

    I'm completely stumped.

    It initially seemed like it should be a fairly straightforward process but I'm now feeling that it's more like rocket dynamics lol

    Is there a simple, step by step guide anywhere that can direct me or can anybody shed light on where I get the right pvr.hts addon from and what I have to change in the TVHeadend settings to get that to work.

    Thanks.