The eeprom update in LE settings will only update to the latest critical firmware (which doesn't support USB boot, as the version in LE 9.2.5 is now outdated).
The latest stable eeprom firmware (from July) is included in LE 9.2.5, but only for manual update, and is now outdated as well.
Either use RaspiOS or pull the Sep 03 firmware from github rpi-eeprom/firmware/critical at master · raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom · GitHub and do a manual eeprom update in LE.
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You have to update the bootloader eeprom to a newer version. Easiest way to do this is to run a current RPiOS (ex Raspbnian) image from SD card, that will auto-update the bootloader to the latest version with USB boot support.
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This is the shortened githash of the master branch the build was created from - you can look it up eg with Merge pull request #4556 from CvH/10.0/espeak · LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv@1fcfe6a · GitHub
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GUI tearing on RPi4 is a well known issue. It'll be fixed in LE10 which uses the new kms driver.
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Just leave it, it's fine.
We provide stable firmwares just as a convenience for advanced users, if you want to track newer firmware versions that were released after the LE release it's easiest to do that with RaspiOS/Raspbian or download them manually from the rpi-eeprom gitub repo.
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If you just ran "rpi-eeprom-update" (without "FIRMWARE_RELEASE_STATUS=stable") then this output is expected.
You previously updated to the stable version (Jul 16 bootloader, 000138a1 VL805) and this is shown as "CURRENT". But rpi-eeprom-updates checks latest in critical (unless you set the release status info) so LATEST shows the available critical versions from the LE image (Apr 16 bootloader, 000137ad VL805).
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On LG TVs the option to disable overscan is called "Just Scan" - read here for more info: LG TV Wrong Picture Size or Aspect Ratio | LG USA Support
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H264 hardware decoding is only supported up to HD resolution on RPi0-4. Only HEVC works with hw decoding of 4k files on RPi4.
But keep in mind that some of the high-bitrate 60fps HEVC demo clips won't play smooth (this is a known issue), standard 4k 24-30fps files should be fine though.
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Download is working fine here but it could be that one of the download mirrors is having issues.
Please provide a debug log, without that there's nothing we can do as we don't know what's going wrong (or which mirror may be having issues, if that's the case).
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LE 9.2.5 firmware is ready for USB boot, no need to replace firmware files.
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Does this firmware include popcornmix upgrade to fix channel swaping on RPi4 (5.1 Surround issue after pausing Raspberry Pi 4) ?
Yes.
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These are straight builds of our master (LE 10 development) branch GitHub - LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv: Just enough OS for KODI
Milhouse used that as a base and included the very latest kodi version plus several additional changes that were not included in LE and kodi yet so it was always a bit ahead of LE master.
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ATM we have no plans to do any further 9.x releases after 9.2.4/5. Same goes for Kodi, there are no further 18.x releases planned.
Development focus is now purely on getting LE master/10.x running smoothly with V4L2 decoders and KMS/GBM.
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We reverted the RPi4 firmware back from the July 2 version kernel: Bump to 5.4.50 · raspberrypi/firmware@66fc5ea · GitHub to the June 26 version kernel: Bump to 5.4.49 · raspberrypi/firmware@2b76cfc · GitHub as the added support for interlaced modes was incomplete and caused the black screen issues with TVs that flag interlaced (eg 1080i50/60) as the preferred mode in their EDID. See also the github issue [BUG] · Issue #4523 · LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv · GitHub
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No, but it should be released soon.
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Only change in 9.2.5 compared to 9.2.4 is the RPi4 firmware change - both use Kodi Leia 18.8 and we'll release 9.2.5 only for RPi4.
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Create a .libreelec/options file either in your home directory or in the root of the LE git directory and set ADDITIONAL_PACKAGES there. See LibreELEC.tv/options at master · LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv · GitHub
Note that some projects set ADDITIONAL_PACKAGES so it's best to append to that variable. eg
ADDITIONAL_PACKAGES="$ADDITIONAL_PACKAGES kmscube"so long,
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