Posts by VLouis

Quote from LoneWolf

Different cable and display show same result. Only those three 4:3 resolutions are available on 3B+, even after fresh installation on formatted SD card.

The 4B connects at 1920x1080 automatically with the same cable. But I agree, this is probably a secondary issue.

So, with the same cable and display the RPi4B working well and the RPi3B+ not. Maybe is something wrong with your RPi3B+. Did you tried with something else, like the "Raspberry Pi OS"? Just to check if with another OS you get the same issue. I'm using now RPi3B, RPi3B+ and RPi4B (now with the latest LE12 nightly), and only once had a display detection issue (last year, cheap bad HDMI cable).

Quote from Djos

But if I switch HDMI port on TV everything works. I read there it can be problem in 12.0.2.

That is more a HDMI cable problem instead an LE. Use a good quality HDMI cable, the quality of the cable it's more important than the length, I seen laptop connected to a "big" TV through a 5 meters long HDMI cable (wasn't a cheap thin cable ).... Another thing, some TV's isn't provide EDID (display info) data in stand-by. So, start the TV first, then the LE device. In that case the solution could be to run the "getedid create" command https://wiki.libreelec.tv/configuration/edid#getedid-create

Quote from LoneWolf

The monitor is actually 16:9 and supports a higher resolution. The 4B also makes use of this, but the 3B+ only offers 640x480, 800x600 and the selected 1024x768. I couldn't get it to set higher one, or any in the correct format.

Hi, I didn't seen any 16:9 display with 1024x768 max resolution (the 1024x768 isn't a 16:9 resolution at all). What's the maximum display resolution detected with RPi4B and 3B+? Looks like the 3B+ using only max. 1024x768, and if the display able for something better, it's a display detection issue there (HDMI cable?). Could you try with an another HDMI cable and/or display? Probably that isn't the main issue, but should be clarified to exclude any conection with it.

Quote from maple

I heard from someone who thinks it is a bug in the version of ffmpeg that they are using in the new version of Kodi, he says that he believes they made the change to the ffmpeg version to fix an issue with HDR, but it broke the decoding of those recordings (the ones that ones that use HEVC and h265 encoding, perhaps).

With respect, but if I understood correctly, the LE developers shouldn't upgrade the Kodi because probably exists a bug in newer version of the Kodi, or not in the Kodi, maybe in the ffmpeg instead... Without any "real" data, like logs, nobody can do anything with this. If may I have a question, who knows if meantime that "bug" where fixed or not? The new versions isn't "just released", before that it's a lot of beta (nightly) LE builds, where users can report any bugs (with description, logs) helping the developers to fix it.

Quote from alexiedb

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.

Quote from geoto

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...

Quote from glassesgem

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.

Quote from Krize

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.

Quote from Aphrodyte

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.

Quote from Aphrodyte

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...

Quote from RenEH

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

Quote from sparkplug

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.

Quote from sylwas72

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.

Quote from VLouis

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...

Quote from MechWarriorZero

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....

Quote from MechWarriorZero

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")?

Quote from asteriosd

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.

Quote from ajaykay16

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...

Quote from rickylovespi

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 ).