Posts by HiassofT

  • 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

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

    Thanks, this is interesting and useful information - this thread has become a bit convoluted, but most issues seemed to affect older (Samsung) models.

    Could you please test with the latest LE11 nightly build from here https://test.libreelec.tv/11.0/RPi/RPi4/…/11.0/RPi/RPi4/ ´(currently 20221215, scroll down to the end of the page) and if doesn't work test if the workaround of setting a different mode in config.txt works?

    Add the following to the end of config.txt

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    hdmi_group=1
hdmi_mode=20

    Also test (without those config.txt changes) if unplugging and replugging the HDMI cable gives you working video output, if yes set the display resolution in kodi to something different than standard (eg 1920x1080 at 50 Hz instead of 1920x1080 at 60 Hz) and report back if that works, too.

    Anyways, we'd need logs (with debugging enabled in kodi) of all working and non-working cases.

    so long,

    Hias

  • Raspberrry pi 4: cannot boot LibreELEC anymore

    Test with a different HDMI cable and if you are using a case also without the case.

    Argon cases have a long history of causing HDMI issues because of low manufacturing quality of their internal adapter PCB, but as I just experienced myself even cases without internal adapter boards can cause HDMI issues as they often won't let you fully plug in the HDMI connector - even half a millimeter or a millimeter can make a huge difference.

    And it gets even worse if the HDMI cable is a bit worn out and starts to fall out easily.

    I just had that issue here with a "full armor case" and both a new and an older HDMI cable, and also with a USB3 cable - have to say I absolutely hate the HDMI and USB connector crap, it's as bad as SCART was in the old days, non-interlocking connectors just cry for problems. Display port did it right, same goes for ethernet, VGA, DVI etc but the consumer connector crap is starting to really annoy me...

    so long,

    Hias

  • HDMI Splitters and audio

    What kind of splitter / audio extractor are you using?

    The splitter needs to mix the EDIDs of both the AVR and and projector, LibreELEC heavily relies on that being accurate and it is quite likely Windows was more relaxed about it.

    My HDFury Vrroom has very extensive settings how it'll mix (or patch up) the edids and also allows you to download the edid directly via the web interface.

    You can also grab the edid presented to your chromebox from /sys/class/drm/cardX-HDMI-A-Y/edid (A, X, and Y may vary on your system) and decode it with edid-decode. eg

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    edid-decode /sys/class/drm/card0-HDMI-A-1/edid

    if you have multiple cards or connectors (A-1, A-2 etc) try all of them and post the output (the unconnected HDMI ports will show "empty" - just ignore them).

    so long,

    Hias