Posts by HiassofT

  • HDR, 4K questions

    Quote from ivobo

    Yes. The TV is Philips 4K Android TV and with Kodi installed on it the same file plays just fine. Only the Rpi4 has problem.

    Please provide a debug log, the output of modetest | pastebinit while playing a HDR file and mediainfo output of the file (mediainfo is available in the multimedia tools addon).

    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

    so long,

    Hias

  • HDR, 4K questions

    Quote from ivobo

    Today I found out that my Rpi4 can play 4k hdr10 file, but with washed-out colors... while my Huavei laptop, Ryzen 5 3500u, running Kubuntu, can play the same file just perfect (with vlc and Kodi), with HW acceleration and very nice colors? Why is that? why Rpi4 can not do it?

    Does your TV support HDR and BT.2020?

    If not that's expected as the RPi can't tonemap HDR videos to SDR which vlc on your laptop probably does.

    so long,

    Hias

  • Why no Kodi 19.5

    Quote from chewitt

    So i'm telling you (as a Team Kodi person) that the original intention was always to make the K19.5 release immediately before K20. The dates for K19.5 on GitHub will be pushed back as/when someone remembers to move them until roughly that happens.

    Sorry for the misinformation and thanks a lot for correcting me - seems I remembered wrong.

    K19.5 milestone due dates were rather chaotic though and it would have been better to set no date at all if they didn't have one. That really gave the impression 19.5 should be out in summer 2022...

    so long,

    Hias

  • 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