Posts by HiassofT

  • No picture and sound via Yamaha Surroundbar

    It's hard to tell, it could be an issues with cables or the soundbar, pretty much anything.

    Might be worth checking all parts one by one, also test if the soundbar works with a different HDMI source (eg a bluray or dvd player).

    Also run the following commands, both when RPi is connected directly to the TV and also when it's connected via the soundbar, and post the URLs - this might give us some additional hints.

    Code
    pastekodi
modetest | pastebinit

    so long,

    Hias

  • No picture and sound via Yamaha Surroundbar

    Quote from dippes

    But can you still help me with the HDMI problem with the Surroundbar?

    The log looks fine, Kodi/LibreELEC is running at 1280x720 60Hz which seems to be the preferred mode

    Might be worth checking and/or replacing the cables, also test without the argon one case (there are several reports here on the forum that the case was responsible for display issues).

    so long,

    Hias

  • LibreELEC (Matrix) 10.0.0

    Quote from edjalmo

    I always thought that HEVC was a hardware thing and wold never see this on rpi3, but now is like there's a light in the end of the tunel.

    They're letting us dream kkkkk

    In general HEVC is a hardware thing (or you need a very powerful CPU).

    In the past RPi devs invested an enormous amount time to get HEVC playback working on RPi3 by offloading several CPU intensive tasks to the GPU - with really good results.

    The problem is that this approach only works with the legacy proprietary graphics driver which has now been phased out.

    With the new graphics drivers all of that old, optimized code can't be used anymore and adapting it to the new driver would both be very tricky and time consuming - and it's not even clear yet if it would be doable at all or achieve the same performance as with the old drivers in LE 9.2.

    So: don't hold your breath, ATM we can't promise RPi3 will get back optimized HEVC decoding in LE 10/11/... any time soon.

    so long,

    Hias

  • RPi4 is unreachable after TV was in standby for a while

    Quote from tobor

    ...but I am not attempting to play 4K content. Is the "no signal" problem with 1920x1080 output also a known issue?

    No. We are not aware of any "no signal" / "RPi unreachable" issues at HD resolution (or 4k up to 30Hz).

    Even in case of the known 4kp50/60 "no signal" issue the RPi was still fully functional and reachable eg via ssh - just the TV didn't show a picture anymore. Changing the resolution to 1920x1080 (or 4kp30) eg via the Chorus web interface also brought back TV output.

    If you have a different issue then we need more info.

    so long,

    Hias

  • LibreELEC RPi4 9.95.2 does not reproduce .ASS subtitles

    I could reproduce the issue, that seems to be a bug in kodi: ASS subtitles not shown on gbm if GUI resolution limit is active · Issue #20085 · xbmc/xbmc · GitHub

    When playing HD (or lower res) videos make sure your whitelist is set up correctly and enable "Adjust refresh rate" in player settings - so kodi outputs in HD (or lower), then ASS subs are shown.

    For 4k video output the only workaround for now is to disable the GUI resolution limit (which will give rather poor GUI performance though) or to limit output to HD.

    so long,

    Hias

  • LibreELEC (Matrix) 10.0.0

    Quote from jim_p

    May I ask what this means?

    Drivers for RPi2 and 3 are currently not yet feature complete and stable.

    LE10 uses a completely new and different graphics and video decoding stack. For quite some time RPi0-3 had some severe issues (which are mostly solved now) but so far we could do only a very limited amount of testing on RPi2/3 so there might be more bugs lurking.

    One of the major missing features on RPi2/3 is GPU accelerated HEVC playback - which means HEVC is practically unusable. Not sure if or when this will be added, it's very tricky and other missing features like deinterlacing (which is also important for RPi4) have higher priority.

    We'll look into providing LE10 testbuilds for RPi2/3, if you don't need HEVC these should already be quite usable - and feedback from testers will also help us find bugs.

    so long,

    Hias

  • LE 10.0.0 RPi4B - TV signal is lost

    Most likely you are hitting this issue: HDMI screen turns off when sustained high CPU usage on all cores · Issue #1598 · raspberrypi/firmware · GitHub

    Due to internal clocking changes the RPi4 started clocking down the HDMI block too much when it throttles (eg when it got too hot or in undervoltage conditions) which led to "no signal".

    LE 10.0.1 will contain a fix for that, but you still need to resolve the root cause (too weak power supply).

    LE 9.2 was able to visually notify you about undervoltage conditions (by showing a lightning bolt on the screen) but unfortunately that's no longer that case with the new graphics driver in LE10 so you/we need to check the logs (we added the throttled state to pastekodi logs right at the beginning though so we can easily see if there was a power supply issue - these are still quite common).

    so long,

    Hias

  • LibreELEC (Matrix) 10.0.0

    Always be careful with overclocking, it can cause subtle issues and settings that work stable today can result in an unstable system after the next (firmware) update.

    Of course you are free to overclock your RPis as much as you like, just keep in mind that if you experience some issue the first thing to check is if removing the overclock fixes it.

    so long,

    Hias

  • LibreELEC (Matrix) 10.0.0

    max_usb_current=1 has no effect on RPi4, you can drop that.

    Overclocking capabilities and settings depend on your specific board/chip, you'll need to find out yourself if it works or not.

    4kp60 output has some known issues (see release post), these will be fixed in 10.0.1

    so long,

    Hias