You're right. I plan to have a TvHeadEnd server-only LE device, and frankly, it will be used only for testing purposes, not daily use.
"LibreELEC is a minimalist 'Just enough OS' Linux distribution for running Kodi."
I'm just thinking... if don't need Kodi, why you don't just install a minimal raspios (without desktop), it's more easy to add drivers (in the case is necessary) and install the TVheadend... and play with that setup.
Hi, two things:
You can use both of the TVheadend versions, just keep only one enabled. So you can try the 4.2 without to remove the 4.3.
And if I know correctly, the TVH have nothing with the audio-video decoding, that is handled by the media player installed in Kodi. So maybe isn't the TVH the guilty here.
This is only possible as ADMIN.
Can I create a new admin in Bash? For TVheadend?
ADMIN user (and password) it's a security thing, doesn't exist an easy way to bypas it. The only time when you able to create an admin user, is the first time accesing the web interface. After that only an admin user have right to create another user...
The "easy" (but long) way is to reset the TVheadend server addon, create again the admin user and make all the settings again...
OR... you can play a bit to make a backup of the TVheadend server addon data (".kodi\userdata\addon_data\service.tvheadend43" - copy it somewhere), reset/reinstall the addon, make admin user in the web interface, stop the addon (ex. addon settings - disable addon), restore everything from addon data backup excepting the "passwd" folder, reboot, enable... and maybe...
After I finish watching a show, how do I exit the TV player app? The back button takes me to the home screen but the TV keeps playing behind the menu.
Just use the "stop" button, as when you watching any video/movie.
Well, in any case what I've set in config doesn't seem to be enough, as the GUI is quite usable but the videos, when played, are very "skinny" and have large black bars on eithe side. Unsure if that's a config issue or something that can be resolved in Kodi, it says it's already at fullscreen...
HI, Honestly, I really don't understand why you want to use that CRT display. It's so outdated. Power hungry and the picture quality is worst than any cheap flat display... So, you should really think to forget that CRT with "signal adaptation chain" (+ picture problems) and switch to a flat display with a simle HDMI cable.
But I don't want to save the data from my SD card, I want to clone it on another card to put this 2nd card in another Raspberry Pi 5.
Yet the 2 microSD cards are of the same size: 128 GB !
There isn't an universal standard for the "128GB" size, so maybe one is 128.02GB and another is 127.99GB...
If you really need to clone it, you can resize the big "EXT4" partition to be a little smaller. You can use a live linux (ex. any kind of Ubuntu on a USB-stick), a card reader - and the GParted program. A backup of the data isn't a bad idea before "playing" with the partition...
And I don't know if this is better in any way (probably not) than making a "classic" data backup and restore to an another fresh LE install...
In my use case it would allow simultaneous output of a spdif pi hat and hdmi audio. Since this has been a patch since 2014, I suspect a lot of users could benefit.
Do you really need to have simultaneous audio? If you want different sound output for different media type, to be able change (automatically and/or manual) the sound output, this could be a perfect solution for you: https://kodi.wiki/view/Add-on:Audio_Profiles
When I go to add the Nord Vpn Add in I get failed to attempt to install add-on from zip file.....cy.on xbmc python version 2.7.0 could not be satisfied
Probably the addon wasn't updated for a long time, python 2.x versions no more supported.
If you're lucky, enough to change in the "addon.xml" (in the addon zip) the python version.
Changing profiles with the remote works for me. My problem is that everything is fine when I navigate the Kodi menu. As soon as I turn on music or a movie, the audio automatically changes to HDMI. What could be the problem.
Hi, you should take a look at the "Audio Profiles" settings "Auto Switch" section...
Probably bad HDMI connection, can't detect the display properties.
Try another cable, another port...
so LibreELEC USB-SD Creator, Etcher and win32diskimg is failing to flash a usb drive
So if for a lot of people working and only for you not... it's logic to be something with the program and not at your side....
nothing is wrong with my usb ports, has to be some thing to do with permissions
Did you tried to run the LibreElec USB-Creator with admin rights (right click to icon... "Run as administrator")?
I had a suspiciously small number of wifi networks detected.
The problem disappeared as soon as I changed hdmi port on my TV. Initially I was using the (e)ARC port.
Hi, the RPi's built in tiny wifi antenna is notoriously weak. Maybe it's some kind of the EM field of the HDMI cable what could make interferences. What you can try it, change the HDMI cable with one with better quality and EM shilding, and if you have a USB-Wifi dongle, you should try it too, usually works far better than the built in.
I can dual boot with Windows 11 and that works fine sharing.
The old and repetitive story of the NTFS support under Linux (and LE)... Or something like that. 
I had something like this with my dual boot (Win11 & Xubuntu) PC. In your case probably that's happen because in the Windows 11 is set active the "hibernation flag" (or something like this).
Search (google it) for how you can disable the hibernate/suspend/fast boot options in the Win11 and you sould be fine...
Where should I begin?
Check the Wifi first. Possible you have a weak connection and not enough for the video files with higher bitrate.Try it with a USB-wifi adapter (one with a "real" antenna). Better if it's possible to switch to cable connection. I recommand to avoid the onboard wifi on the RPi with that tiny antenna (this is when the size it's matter 
).
It's not so easy to boot linux from USB, with UEFI bios these days.
Isn't too complicated at all. I'm using a USB stick with "ventoy" installed as boot manager and a lot of bootable ISO's on the stick. Only the "ventoy" needs to be installed on the stick, after that you can just to copy almost any bootable ISO files to the stick (live linux and even Windows installer ISO too). In the case of UEFI bios, just once need to enroll the key from stick, more info here: https://ventoy.net/en/doc_secure.html
You can always install EXT4 driver on Windows laptop.
True, an EXT4 driver for Windows coud be the simplest way in that case.
Hi, I don't know if this will help you... I had issues with special characters in video subtitle files. The solution was to change the "Character set" in the "settings - player - subtitles". Maybe you should try to search in the settings for "Character set", probaly exist somewhere one for handling the info files too. 
As for expectations for NTFS support, I was using Linux with NTFS drives on an old laptop for many, many years and never had such problem. I never saw this coming.
I'm using too something like this, a dual boot (Win11 & Xubuntu) PC, and I had issues with the NTFS partitions, become better after I disabled hiberantion option in Windows. And yes, for the partition what I want to be "simple" and always usable in the both, I'm using exFAT. Mostly this linux-NTFS issues coming after a "dirty disconnect", like sudden disconnect/power down, what couldn't be expected in the case of the HDD assembled in a laptop.
Not sure what an issue means for you, but it is without a doubt an issue for me, as my current setup is not usable, due to the HDD randomly just dissapearing from LE with no reason, no that I can think of.
To simplify more this, I think the NTFS issue isn't LE related. It's in the linux kernel. So I think the right place for this could be somewhere in a linux development forum, kernel section. And about if it could be "resolved" soon or not... just try to think from another side, to report an issue in a Windows forum as you have difficulties with reading EXT4 linux partitions and you don't have full suport for it...
You have concern about EXT4 and how to read it if your RPi with LE become defective. You have 10TB data on an external HDD, did you think ever, enough a little bigger mechanical shock and that disk could became defective, without chance to recover any data from it? I learned before, from my own bad luck and defectiv HDD, to don't keep important data in a single location.
Sorry, but exists issues without a simple (or at all) solution and this probably is one of them.
Seem like this is a known issue.
Is questionable, if it's an issue or not. Like Chewitt explained above, it's more about the different OS handling a disk with active error flag. And as the NTFS is Microsoft proprietary, developed for Windows OS, I didn't think to have ever a "perfect" support under linux for it.
For removable drives the best compatible way is the exFAT partition. A bit less good in error handling, but better support in all OS's. There's a lot of comparition between exFat and NTFS (and EXT4), just use the "google" if you want to know more. I'm using a "big" USB stick for storing media files (RPi4B, LE12), formatted to EXFAT, and (till now) didn't had any issue.
