Posts by VLouis

Quote from LybsterKodi

The way Kodi on the RPi4 and v12 calculated the timestamp and the way Windows calculated it were different so it looked as though I have a LOT of files to copy.

Hi,

Files have some date-time properties, creation, last write, last access... probably that synchronization tool, in case of exfat partition doesn't use the proper timestamp pairs. I had some issue when I created a small program and needed to check the time when files where created. I used the last write time instead of creation time to avoid the issues.

I had too many issues with accessing ntfs partitions on linux, in my dual boot (W11 and Xubuntu) PC I'm using an exfat partition for "common files". If we talking about a media what need to be accessed with linux and windows too, the simplest solution is the exfat partition (it's not a common thing to use file synchronization tools with linux-windows devices). For "only linux", always the ext4 is recommended. And if really need, reading an ext4 partition on windows, isn't an impossible task too...

Hi,

Probably isn't an LE issue. But what you can try...

First try to reboot all devices, the Fritzbox and the device/devices (if the TVheadend server and client running on separate devices). And use the "hard reset" method, power off all, wait, and power on. I had same issue once, when my USB tuners remains blocked after strange power issue.

Check if the issue coming from TVheadend server or client side. Install Kodi on another device (Android, PC), add and configure the TVheadend client and try if working. Or you can save the channel list from TVheadend server ( http://TVheadendServerIP:9981/playlist ) and open in VLC...

Disable the TVheadend server 4.2 addon and try to install the 4.3 version.

Quote from utdrmac

I'm confused about the update messaging on the main downloads area and am seeking clarification. I have a RPi3B1.2. I don't have any 4K content; everything is either 720p or 1080p. No content is h265. I wanted to get the new TheTVDB v4 plugin but it was not available for Libreelec v9.

The update notes seem to indicate I should not upgrade to v10/v11 because I'll lose hardware h264 decoding? Is that correct? If I upgrade to v10 or v11, my Pi will perform worse?

Thanks for clarifying.

Hi, I'm using 3x RPi3 with LE, two with the LE.11.0.1 stable and one with LE12 beta (20230612 - now). I'm not a "heavy user", net-radio, some live TV, watching movie sometimes, and didn't noticed any significant issue compared with the "old" LE9. The early versions (LE10 and 11 too) had some issues, almost all fixed till now. This is my experience, you should proceed as "HiassofT" recommended, install to a spare SD card and try it. If you don't have another SD card, create a backup image with installed LE9 (search for "win32diskimager") before to install the new one.

Quote from ansey

Thanks a lot to both of you; the Audio Profiles add-on works perfectly for me! Thank you also for the additional recommendation to improve the audio quality, VLouis, which was also mentioned in the thread shared by Da Flex. Not being a pro, I suppose the best solution for me is the USB Audio Adapter. Do you know if it will just appear among the audio output devices which can be selected in the system settings, or if some additional changes have to be carried out in config.txt or elsewhere?

I'm using this, but needs some wiring and settings in the config.txt. Before to switch to I2S DAC, I tried a cheap USB adapter (what I already had it), after reboot appeared in the Kodi audio settings as a new audio output. As that Adafruit USB Audio Adapter is recommended for RPi, should work in the same way.

Quote from ansey

Hello,

I recently moved from LE9 to 11 on my Raspberry pi 3 and realised that unfortunately it is not possible any more to set the audio output to both HDMI and the 3.5mm jack (which I have connected to my HIFI amplifier). Do you know if there is any solution or workaround for this or plans to enable this option again? I use Kodi for listening to music via the hifi-system as well as watching movies using the TV speakers, and constantly changing the audio output in the system settings would be a bit cumbersome.

Best regards and thank you, Ansgar

Hi,

I'm in the same situation, LE11 installed on RPi3, sound to HDMI for video and to HiFi amplifier for listening music.

The best solution what I found is the one recommended by Da Flex, the Audio Profiles add-on.

As addition, the audio quality on the RPi3 jack output is poor (simple PWM output), if you want something better, try to use an I2S audio DAC module (ex. HiFiBerry), or at least an USB audio module (ex. this).

Quote from MatteN

Even booting from ssd connected to usb2 is faster than any sd-card.

I's not about if is faster or not. It's about if worth to gain few seconds boot time (3-5 seconds or more?) when lose the safety of keeping the boot/system separated from personal/media data. After an bad update or reinstall, the time lose will be definitively more than few seconds in the case of booting from SSD what contains few tons of media files too... Also the boot time can be reduced by limiting some writes to card (disabling the log files, in the case of PVR redirecting the EPG database to ram-disk...).

Quote from kosmonaut_75

Hello,

my plan: to connect my SSD (Samsung EVO 870) with Libreelec 10.04 image on it via SATA adapter to the USB port of my Raspberry Pi 4 and use the SSD as boot medium.

Unfortunately this does not work, nothing is displayed on the TV.

Can anyone help me?

Hello,

I have a question: what do you want to gain using that SSD as boot media?

As the LE is a very slim OS, I don't think to be a significant boot time difference (USB - USB-Sata adapter - SSD vs. SD-card reader) if you use a good quality high speed SD-card.

Always is a good idea to split in two different device the "boot/system" and the "user/personal" data. That can save a lot of time in the case of new install (or when an update going wrong...). I recommend to you to get a good small SD-card for LE, and the SSD keep it for media and other data.

Quote from gbonawitz

100% CPU utilization + jittered playback on my BluRay rips.

Hi, I suppose your hardware is working in software-decoding mode for that videos and don't have enough power for that.

You should check the media (video) codec info, maybe the recent version of LE don't have HW decoding support for it.

"Permission deniede 3: can't create /sys/class/gpio/export"

Should be checked the owner and permission of that autostart.sh file.

Try with SSH: ls -l ~/.config/autostart.sh

Hi,

As first step, you should try these commands one by one in a SSH terminal. Maybe you will get some error message (what's not visible when run from autostart.sh)...

Quote from twilightened

This happens to me all over the board, rpi3, rpi4, different power cables and sources. Doesn't matter. It is not a power issue. Streams do get interrupted and only the audio returns. It started after the big update which is called Matrix. Leia did not have this problem.

I think two "things" lead to that "picture freezing", the imperfect stream (from RPi powered HDD or TVheadend server with interlaced video and limited antenna signal) and the mediaplayer/codec changed after Leia (probably far more sensibile to stream issues).

Quote from LybsterKodi

Looks like you are right - put a 3TB powered drive in and things seem fine. Shame the Pi can't handle more power but I don't suppose plugging USB HDDs into each USB port was a design consideration.

It's a "grey zone" between powered enough and no enough power. The current consumption not "flat", it's dinamic, and sometimes, for short time, can be insufficient, leading to strange issues. I had some strange freezing issues with my RPi3B, after changed the power source, no more freezing...

And why only the picture freezing... probably it's something with media player or the codec, when in the stream some issue occurred, sometimes the video part can't be recovered, remaining blocked, meantime the audio part continued... that can explain why with a skip forward the video started working again.

Hi, I used before to update to LE11 nightly builds directly from Settings - LibreELEC - Updates menu. I think should work with LE12 nightly builds too.

You need to enable the "Show Custom Channels", than type at the "Custom Channel 1" the path to nightly builds: "https://test.libreelec.tv/". After that, change the "Update Channel" to LE 12 nightly and check the "Available Versions".

As the nightly builds are beta builds, you can expect some bugs, so it's highly recommended to have backups, in case of something not working...

Quote from Da Flex

CRT should work without additional hardware, just by using the headphone jack.

There is a known CRT bug since LE 10.0.2, and I don't know whether it's fixed now. So please test with LE 10.0.1.

Here are the settings: Click!

Hi, it's not about a "classic" CRT TV display with composite video input. I repaired things like this 15-20 years ago, know them well, but even in that era, that type of connetion was very rare compared with VGA. It's a CRT monitor for PC with RGB input, three BNC connector for Red, Green and Blue analogue signals, usually with synchro signal mixed on Green or another two BNC input (for V-sync and H-sync signal). Same as the VGA connector signals, but without EDID connection. The RPi's composite video from jack connector can't be used for this and probably harder to transcode to analogue RGB than the HDMI output.

The cable (used after a HDMI-VGA adapter) probably is like this:

Quote from pxel

Hi, it's not working but nevermind, I'm trying something else now with my Pi 4, maybe you can help me.
I plug my Pi 4 with this extension : https://www.recalbox.com/fr/recalbox-rgb-dual/

So I can output true RGB with this extension > scart cable > scart bnc.

Do you think it's possible to display LibreELEC from this extension ?

Thank you

Hi,

Sorry but I think you should let it go that very old CRT monitor with only BNC-RGB input.

The system (LE in this case) needs to know the supported picture modes from display, for that is used the EDID data, but that is missing in case of BNC-RGB connection. Also if that old CRT accept only interlaced picture when the Kodi only support the progressive mode... maybe can't be solved at all. For the both case, no matter what type of adapter-over-adapter connection you will use. The system want something what the display don't have it (EDID data) and the display want something what the Kodi can't provide (interlaced picture).

You should upgrade the display to something less old, which have digital input (HDMI or DVI) and less power hungry...

Quote from LucidEye

What is up with the LibreElec website DL page?

Been trying to DL the RPi 2 image and it is taking over 60 minutes for a measly 127 MB file that should DL in a few seconds?

Tried DLing some of the other images and it's the same thing... 50-60 minute wait for a file that should take less than a minute to DL?

Did you guys forget to pay your internet bill?

Really doesn't instill any confidence in your product if you can't even DL it.

Probably you already sent some donation to LE team to help to pay the internet bill...

And took for me 10 second to search for download mirrors.... all had download problems?

Quote from cosmos

As for HDMI splitters: they are tried and tested but IIRC when using them with RPi's there were some issues with the correct transfer of EDID information.

Hi, just some additional info about the "issues with the correct transfer of EDID information". Can be resolved by saving the EDID data without the HDMI splitter. After that the LE always will load the saved EDID and the HDMI splitter can be used. Use the "getedid create" command (More info).

Quote from Der Olli

Due to the fact, that my wife complained about the EPG problems I had to find a faster solution. I just made a complete re-install of the image and made all the same settings as last time. Currently the EPG problem is gone and connmanctl clock still tells me it would use the Timezone of Arctic/Longyearbyen. So this doesn't seem to be the root cause.

Hi, About the "Kodi shows the correct time, but EPG in Kodi is wrong" I remembered, I had something like this at every clock "change", excepting now. The difference now, I redirected the EPG database to the "/tmp" folder (RAM instead of SD card) and I have a cronjob for every night for reboot (what clear the EPG database in the /tmp). That "EPG wrong time in Kodi" could be because of the database. I made that EPG database change to speed up the startup (takes some time to write the EPG data to SD card at every startup) and to protect the SD card from unnecessary write. If you want to try that add this to "advancedsettings.xml", and probably at autumn, you won't have same EPG issue (or will be easy to resolve with a simple restart).

<epgdatabase>

<type>sqlite3</type>

<host>/tmp</host>

</epgdatabase>

<tvdatabase>

<type>sqlite3</type>

<host>/tmp</host>

</tvdatabase>