Posts by HiassofT

  • Why no Kodi 19.5

    Quote from chewitt

    The original plan was to make a final roll-up of changes and ship K19.5 shortly before K20 release (think days, not month).

    That's not quite correct.

    The original plan was that 19.5 should have been released months ago and we've been waiting for it to align LE 10.0.3 with it.

    Then the due date of 19.5 got pushed further and further into the future and was finally completely removed - see here:

    Matrix 19.5 Milestone · xbmc/xbmc
    Kodi is an award-winning free and open source home theater/media center software and entertainment hub for digital media. With its beautiful interface and…
    github.com

    That's why we released LE 10.0.3 with latest Kodi Matrix changes (kind of pre 19.5) so you're already very up to date if you're using that and final Kodi 19.5 won't be too different to that.

    If and when Kodi 19.5 will finally be released and what fixes it will contain is a question only kodi folks can answer.

    so long,

    Hias

  • Attention: LE11 nightly 2022-12-08 will cause issues with binary addons

    Due to numerous issues we just reverted our initial try to make LE Y2038 compatible which, unfortunately, will cause issues (crash loops) if you update from an earlier LE11 nightly build and have binary addons installed - eg PVR clients.

    So please uninstall PVR clients and all other addons that you installed from the LibreELEC addon repository before updating to that (or newer) nightly builds.

    If you select "keep settings" when uninstalling the addon everything should be as before after re-installing the addons.

    New addons should be available in 1 or 2 days. So better wait a bit if that is important to you.

    If you didn't read this before updating and are left in a crash-loop then ssh in shortly after the LE splash screen showed up and remove the (esp pvr) addons from /storage/.kodi/addons/

    so long,

    Hias

  • Rock 4 SE wrong Hdmi Resolution when TV is started later

    The "getedid" only exists for x86 and RPi ATM, but we ship some internal helper scripts (beware: that may change in the future) that may help you:

    dump-active-edids checks for connected HDMI ports, writes the edid to /storage/.config/edid/edid-<CONNECTOR-NAME>.bin and prints the connectors.

    eg here on RPi4:

    Code
    xbmc:~ # dump-active-edids 
found active connector(s) HDMI-A-1
xbmc:~ # ls -l /storage/.config/firmware/edid/edid-HDMI-A-1.bin 
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root           256 Dec  7 19:21 /storage/.config/firmware/edid/edid-HDMI-A-1.bin

    create-edid-cpio creates /flash/edid.cpio with the edids from

    /storage/.config/firmware/edid/

    eg:

    Code
    xbmc:~ # create-edid-cpio 
successfully created /flash/edid.cpio

    Now there's two things left to configure manually:

    Adjust the kernel command line, configure the connector to use the edid file and the tell the video subsystem to ignore the hotplug (i.e. connected) signal of the HDMI connector.

    eg here on RPi4 the following is added:

    Code
    drm.edid_firmware=HDMI-A-1:edid/edid-HDMI-A-1.bin video=HDMI-A-1:D

    And you also need to configure the bootloader to load edid.cpio as an initrd.

    eg here on RPi4 (with very different bootloader than Rockchip, Allwinner etc) it adds this line:

    Code
    initramfs edid.cpio

    I don't have any rockchip boards set up at the moment so I can't tell you exactly which file you have to modify (might be /flash/extlinux/extlinux.conf) - hopefully some other users or devs can chime in here.

    so long,

    Hias

  • [HowTo] - RPi 4 annoying LED's

    I've pinged admins regarding broken search.

    Assuming you are running LE 10.0.3 (you didn't mention which version you use) you could just have looked at the 10.0.3 announcement thread instead of necro-posting to an ancient thread - the solution to your issue is even on the first page of that in post number 15

    so long,

    Hias

  • Video playback problem with Zoom recordings

    Provide a full debug log, mediainfo of a recording and ideally a short sample.

    Please provide a full debug log.

    How to post a log (wiki)

    1. Enable debugging in Settings>System Settings>Logging
    2. Restart Kodi
    3. Replicate the problem
    4. Generate a log URL (do not post/upload logs to the forum)

    use "Settings > LibreELEC > System > Paste system logs" or run "pastekodi" over SSH, then post the URL link

  • retroachievements.org

    The game addons in kodi Nexus added support for that, but I never tried it (also I suck at gaming so there wouldn't be much achievements for me to publish :)

    Note that retroplayer is currently broken in LE11 nightly builds due to a longstanding bug in kodi which was just fixed a few hours ago https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/22195

    We'll include the fix when kodi releases Nexus RC1 which is planned for end of next week https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/milestone/151 - so LE11 nightlies in about 1.5-2 weeks should have that feature available.

    so long,

    Hias

  • Airplay crashes, better solution than reboot?

    Quote from jazzlpunk

    Tried that a while ago by connecting a more powerful charger to the pi, but the result was the same.

    Use the official power supply and if you connected bus-powered USB drives remove them or use a powered USB hub. It's really pointless digging futher until you resolved the power issues - would you complain to the mechanics that your car stutters and suddenly stops because you are out of fuel?

    so long,

    Hias

  • ERROR: cannot read `./usr/lib/libsqlite3.so.0.8.6'

    Post a full log - it could also be some compatibility issue with your USB SSD adapter, power supply issues or anything else

    Please provide a full debug log.

    How to post a log (wiki)

    1. Enable debugging in Settings>System Settings>Logging
    2. Restart Kodi
    3. Replicate the problem
    4. Generate a log URL (do not post/upload logs to the forum)

    use "Settings > LibreELEC > System > Paste system logs" or run "pastekodi" over SSH, then post the URL link

  • 5.1 sound doesn't work on RPi4

    TVs usually don't support 5.1ch PCM - if you connected the RPi to an AVR that'll be different.

    If your TV accepts AC3/DTS/... and can decode it or pass it through to an optical output, (E)ARC HDMI port etc then enable passthrough support in audio settings, choose the HDMI device and select available formats (AC3 etc - you need to be in expert level mode to see them)

    so long,

    Hias

  • Mpv as secondary external player/library decoder

    LibreELEC is using official Linux kernels and running a custom userland OS (so nothing like Debian, Arch, Fedora etc) and we don't use any window manager at all.

    Kodi is in full charge over all graphics stuff and interfacing directly to the graphics drivers (that is, all the stuff your windowing system and window manager would normally do).

    This has the benefit that kodi is in full control of everything graphics related and there are no additional layers in between that might decrease performance or hinder doing advanced stuff (like HDR output).

    so long,

    Hias