Posts by HiassofT

  • LibreELEC-RPi4.arm-10.0.4 heating up the processor

    Do you still have a backup of the LE10.0.2 installation? If yes, check which widevine CDM version you used with it (inputstream helper addon will show it) and compare it with the version you are currently using.

    ISTR widevine versions from about half a year or a year ago cause a very high CPU load (heating up RPi, but streams still watchable on RPi4, but unwatchable/stuttering on RPi2/3 as the load is too high) - older versions were fine (but may not work any longer, depending on the source) - not sure about newer versions.

    Personally I gave up on trying to watch Netflix etc with kodi addons, it was just too much hassle and hit-and-miss if it worked every evening when just wanting to watch the next episode of a show or a movie, and use the Netflix app on my TV instead. A cheap chromecast (or similar) device with official Netflix/.. app support is certainly the better choice if you don't like to play the cat-and-mouse game of streaming service changes and waiting for kodi addon updates.

    so long,

    Hias

  • RPI4 crash

    As you swapped the firmware for a much newer version my bet would be this is causing the issue - LE 9.2.8 is using an ancient 4.19 kernel and should be running the firmware that came with it.

    Just install official 10.0.4 or LE11 nightly versions.

    so long,

    Hias

  • LE 10.0.1 / Rpi4 / No picture after update from LE 10.0.0

    yullaw and all others who need the hdmi_mode/hdmi_group or input-switching workarounds to get a picture after boot, can you please test with this build:

    https://www.horus.com/~hias/tmp/libreelec/LibreELEC-RPi4.arm-11.0-devel-20230116232923-b261017.img.gz

    Write it to a spare SD card, don't make any other changes, and boot it - if the changes from popcornmix work as planned you should get a picture without needing any workarounds.

    so long,

    Hias

  • LE11 - PI4 - few questions

    If you are having issues please post full debug logs - otherwise we devs are unable to know the exact circumstances and background and won't be able to resolve potential issues.

    Enable debug logging in kodi, reboot, reproduce the issue then ssh in and run "pastekodi" (or use the log upload function in libreelec settings).

    The reason for not enabling 30/29.97/25Hz and instead allowing kodi to use double rates is that otherwise you'll run into issues with interlaced videos - they report as eg 25 Hz frame rate while they contain 50 fields and kodi will output that as 50 deinterlaced frames - and you'll get hefty issues trying to play 50 frames if kodi chose to setup display with 25 frames per second.

    so long,

    Hias

  • LE11 - PI4 - few questions

    Never ever hard power-off your system.

    There is no NTFS fsck for linux, the fsck.ntfs from ntfs3g only sets the "needs to be ckecked bit" - and you have to connect the drive to a windows PC and perform the filesystem repair there.

    It's best to format the drive as ext4 if you want to use it on linux.

    so long,

    Hias

  • How to check hardware integrity

    The log shows a read error from your NAS:

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    2023-01-07 16:57:40.694 T:1048    ERROR <general>: Read - Error( -1, 110, Connection timed out )
2023-01-07 16:57:40.694 T:1048    ERROR <general>: Process - <smb://192.168.1.3/Media/News/_move/Le.Pacte.Des.Loups.2001.DC.1080p.BluRay.DDP7.1.x264-W4NK3R.mkv> source read failed with -1!

    Network on the RPi4 side looks fine (nothing suspicious in logs) so it might be worth to check your network/switch/NAS and make sure you don't have any network/cabling issues and your NAS didn't go to sleep or something like that.

    so long,

    Hias

  • LE11 - PI4 - few questions

    Elysium sample is playing fine here as well.

    Might be worth testing with a different, 18Gbps certified HDMI cable, and without the JoyIT case (which seems to have a HDMI adapter board which could be problematic).

    BTW: RPi4 doesn't support 4k H264 playback, stick to H265 material.

    so long,

    Hias

  • LE11 - PI4 - few questions

    If you are having issues with EDID test without the case, and also a known good (or new) 18Gbps certified, fully wired HDMI cable - those two things solve about 95% of "display not working correctly" issues.

    Don't touch config.txt, gpu_mem=1024 can never work and even if it would it would only reduce usable memory without any benefit. 96 instead of 76 may help in very odd corner cases when dealing with out-of-spec H264 files but that's it.

    So in short: best use stock HW and SW setup - only adjust Kodi settings as outlined eg here https://wiki.libreelec.tv/configuration/4k-hdr

    Concerning hyperion: don't hold your breath for a solution soon, better thing about alternatives (external HDMI grabber or TV with ambilight built in).

    so long,

    Hias

  • Help find EDID from monitor

    You can use the internal script "dump-active-edids" (it's used by "getedid" on RPi) to write the edids of all connected displays to /storage/.config/firmware/edid

    It'll tell you which HDMI/DisplayPort/... connections it detected, for each one it created a edid-<NAME_OF_CONNECTOR>.bin file - which you can then simply decode with edid-decode.

    eg here on RPi4 with one display connected to the first HDMI port (edid-decode cut down for brevity):

    You could also check through all the connectors in /sys/class/drm/, verify if the status reports "connected" and then use the edid file from there (eg /sys/class/drm/card0-HDMI-A-1/edid) - this is basically what that script does - but as card, and connector names may change it's probably easier to let the script deal with that :)

    BTW: so far we only tested the script on RPi, it should work on all other devices though, so if you have issue or notice something odd please tell us about it so we can fix/improve it.

    so long,

    Hias

    so long,

    Hias