Posts by itisljar

Can't TV do the scaling? It doesn't accept any 1080p input? I have an old Samsung 720p (so called HD Ready), but I can play 1080p videos on it, TV does all the scaling.

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That is what JBOD is. It refers to a collection of disks in a computer system or array combined as one logical volume.

No. That is Spanned volume. JBOD is and always was what it's name says, "Just a Bunch Of Disks". What you do with disks in such configuration is up to you. You can also make soft RAID, mirror, striping, whatever.

I'm not sure that works for Netflix. When I had that problem, I tried everything, I think I was on LE10 then.

Anyways, as it is now, it works. I predict failure of this TV set soon, as it has 13 years now

That's OK, I have 720p TV, and am forcing 1080p resolution on it because of Netflix; when I had KODI at native resolution, subtitles on netflix were in three lines, but the third line was one line separated, or at the top of a screen, making watching almost impossible.

Maybe it was a bug, maybe it was fixed, but it just stayed that way because I didn't have any troubles at all.

Just to add, I've just tried AV1 file to see does it decode as it should, I've used Sparks-5994fps-AV1-10bit-1920x1080-2194kbps.mp4, it's free Netflix test file. When using in generic image, where I had to disable VAAPI decoding, it was using between 50 and 60 % CPU usage, as seen on htop, with CPU Average. Now, with legacy image, it hovers on 4% CPU usage, so clearly it uses GPU decoding for AV1, and that's why I bought that board with that CPU

LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-13.0-nightly-20240809-357e83f.img.gz

The green flickering is more intense, but now it has small purple squares on it random all over the screen. Netflix is funny - it starts from greyish screen, grey fades away in a second or two and picture becomes normal, but colors are still pumping.

https://paste.libreelec.tv/willing-labrador.log

Intel drivers work fine in legacy image; are these same drivers used in generic image? If so, there must be something shoddy in communication between window managers and drivers, or am I wrong there, as legacy uses X11, and generic uses GBM (I think)?

OK, so I loaded LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-12.0.0.img.gz and played two videos, one is H264, "A dog's life" and got green flickering screen, audio is OK. Afterwards I played "Aunty Donna's Big Ol' House of Fun" on Netflix and got color pumping, audio is OK. I've been playing before with the new option, Prime Render Method, on old installation, all possible combinations, and it didn't reduce Netflix flickering. I didn't do it now.

I've recorded a 10 seconds video of that green screen on my mobile phone, I can upload it somewhere if needed, also of the pumping, but I don't know if it will be visible as there is framerate difference... (edit, it's not visible)

Log, as requested, is here:

https://paste.libreelec.tv/valued-cougar.log

I will try Nightly, to see if there is some difference.

These are results with nightly: LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-12.0-nightly-20240801-cbf0545.img.gz

https://paste.libreelec.tv/accurate-ferret.log

In short, nothing changed.

Hello all!

I've migrated from J1900 itx board to n100 itx board. Installed generic LE12 image, the GUI experience is more fluid than before, however....

...the thing that didn't work for me before doesn't work even now: When VAAPI is enabled, I can't watch H264 videos, I get all green screen with some green block movement. H265 works. Disabling VAAPI only for mp4 doesn't help at all, I have to disable VAAPI altogether. And oh, Netflix plugin is still pumping colors.

Imagine my surprise when I put legacy image and rebooted, that HW acceleration just works; H264, H265, and Netflix doesn't pump colors.

My board is Asus PRIME N100I-D D4-CSM. I've added 8 GB of RAM and 256 GB NVME for booting; and with Legacy image it just works.

OK, what I did was this: I've upgraded LE11 legacy to LE12 legacy, rebooted, waited for database to upgrade, and then made backup from within Kodi. Transfered that backup file to main PC, installed LE12 generic on new one (N100 cpu), booted up, restored backup from that backup file made previously, and all things were there.

However, the thing that didn't work for me before doesn't work even now.

Greetings.

Currently I have LE 11.0.6 Legacy on J1900 ITX board, and in few days I'll be getting N100 ITX board, on which I would like to install LE12 Generic, but I would like to retain all the info on all the music, shows and movies I have - watched status, paths (media files are on NAS) and well, everything.

I don't run dockers or anything else, I have few addons, tho, but they are installed from official repos, nothing unofficial.

How should I proceed? Should I create backup on LE11 and import it on LE12? Or should I upgrade LE11 to LE12, create backup and transfer it? How to do backup?

Thank you.

Thank you for information.

I'm sorry to intrude, but is this specific to Raspberry or is it for all architectures?

I'm into buying N100 based motherboard, and I'd like to have HW accelerated decoding of h264, h265 and AV1, which is supported by that iGPU. Should I postpone it?

Well, something was interfering, as I didn't change anything else except generic to legacy.

No, it updated to generic.

I've done manual update to generic-legacy (naming is very confusing, btw) and the problem with Netflix is gone. Could it be related with how my TV interpreted (possible) HDR (or something that legacy doesn't support) signalling, as I have pretty old 720p Samsung TV?

With generic image I finally got smooth(er) transitions when browsing the collection. Now, with legacy, transitions are not smooth, they reverted to what they used to be, more choppy.

I guess I should update the hardware

I've updated LE10 to LE11 and since then I've had this problem with only Netflix addon: when I watch anything, colors are flashing, like, switching from normal to saturated few times a second. When I pause, no flashing occurs. I've disabled HW decoding acceleration before, because I have J1900 CPU which has broken support for that - I get green screen for h264, and if I enable it for mpeg2, I lose lipsync.

I did not have that problem with LE10. Also, I did GUI update, so I think it updated to generic image, could legacy image help? Also, can I update to legacy without any problems?

I have FTP server (vsftpd) and Transmission server running in containers in LE, on old J1900 based PC which I've made into media center.

I've noticed vsftpd runs a bit slower, it doesn't save files at full speed as it was when I had Ubuntu server installed, but the difference is less than 10%. Transmission runs and downloads stuff so I didn't really take care about it.

Docker adds some overhead when running apps, but if you are not greedy, it will work quite OK. Just prepare yourself for steep learning curve with Docker.

Also, try disabling HW decoding of video codec (don't know which it is, for me it was VAAPI), I had simmilar issues in the past, but I have old Celeron class CPU with bugged GPU. Couldn't even watch SD resolution x264 without desync. x265 worked, but only because it has no HW acceleration and it decodes by software.

I have no problem with ASS subtitles in MKV files, and am also running 10.0.1 version. What device are you running LE on? I have ITX board with J1900 cpu/gpu. Subtitle rendering problem can be tied with inadequate graphic card driver (as far as I know, subs are rendered in some sort of overlay mode).