Posts by Free Man

  • RPi5 lip sync issue

    I've been having lip sync issues in all my videos for the last several weeks running nightlies on my Rpi5.

    I see that there's now an official release of LE12.0 that supports RPi5, and in the release notes it addresses this:

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    RASPBERRY PI

    • 50/60fps H264 HW decoding may need force_turbo=1 or core_freq_min=500 in config.txt to avoid AV-sync-issues/skipping

    Now, for the dumbest of dumb questions: Where is this config.txt located so I can make these changes? I have rummaged all around the directory structure and don't see it. I would presume that it'd be in /configfiles, but I definitely don't see it there or in any of the subdirectories there. Do I simply create config.txt and add one of those lines since I don't have a config.txt?

  • RPi5 won't boot.

    I'm sure you'll be pleased to know, chewitt, that I now have the backup add-on installed and it's currently running with a weekly backup scheduled. :D

    And, it's backing up to a network location that will then be backed up off-site in case the unthinkable happens. Because, of course, if a tornado hits my house, the most important thing is that I be able to get Kodi back up and running ASAP! ROFL

  • RPi5 won't boot.

    Quote from chewitt

    There are two types of computer user: those who are religious about taking backups, and those who didn't lose all their data yet.

    The LE settings add-on has a backup function. Explore it.

    Yeah. Thanks. I was thinking about that after I had to rebuild the SD card...

    Funny, I've been using Kodi since I hacked my first XBOX and this is the first time I've had it totally fail like this. (i.e. those who haven't lost data yet.)

    I've tried backing up the library & restoring as I've upgraded hardware, but never had that been successful.

  • RPi5 won't boot.

    Guess something broke the SD card. I formatted then reran the SD card maker and it boots now.

    Just have to reconfigure everything. Sigh. Shrug. The price of living on the bleedin' edge, I guess...

  • RPi5 won't boot.

    Sigh. Got 20240505 on the RPi and now it's stuck with the version string in the top left corner of the screen. No LibreELEC logo.

    I've watched a 10 minute video on something else and done other work, so I've let this sit for a fair bit of time.

    Suggestions? Can't connect to the box to grab any logs...

    Thanks guys. Didn't refresh the page before posting again. Will try rebuilding the SD card.

    Quote from Da Flex

    That's not a proper shutdown

    Yeah, I know, but sometimes it hangs and that seems to be the only option available. (Had this on my old machine running several older versions of LibreELEC, too - not just this RPi).

  • RPi5 won't boot.

    After leaving it alone for 10+ minutes, I saw this on the monitor:


    Several minutes (maybe another 10?) later, it had finally booted up.

    Installing 20240505 on it now.


    Still open to suggestions on what happened & why and if there's anything I might be able to do to prevent this in the future.

  • RPi5 won't boot.

    I've got an RPi 5 which has been running 12.0-nightly-20240426 since, well, probably April 26th or 27th, and all has been good.

    I turned the TV on this evening to watch, and found that LibreELEC was hung, totally non-responsive. I powered off the Pi (held the power button until it shut down), and now, when I turn it back on, it won't boot - it gets to the logo screen and shows the build version in the top left corner, but that's as far as it seems to get.

    I've powered off & on several times. One time, I got messages about failure to start sshd, smbd, and one other *d, but generally, it just hangs on the logo & version screen.

    Unfortunately, it's not getting far enough for me to connect to it with the Kore remote, via Windows exploder or ssh (it gives a login prompt, but after typing in a uid, it never prompts for a pwd). SSH did finally come back (after about 2-3 minutes), gave me a pwd prompt, but told me that the remote unexpectedly closed the connection:


    What are the recommended steps from here?

    I did pull the SD card and ran chkdsk from my Win10 machine - if found no errors.

  • No control over playback in "Video Files" library

    I'm running LibreELEC-RPi5.aarch64-12.0-nightly-20240303-d72cc46 on an RPi5, Embruary skin, and EmbyCon to connect to my Emby server running in a docker on UNRAID. (Just upgraded from LibreELEC-RPi5.aarch64-12.0-nightly-20240215-540999d, happened on both versions. Haven't tested on anything older.)

    I've added my "Sports" network share where I have mostly race videos, organized like this:

    Code
    Sports
--F1
----2023
----2024
--V8
----2023
----2024

    Side Note:

    Each directory can have anywhere from 3 to 10 files covering one race weekend. I have these videos in just a file structure, because I've got recordings of practice, qualifying & the race for various race series and it doesn't fit neatly into Emby's format - it wants to list everything in one huge "episode list" and I don't like them that way - I prefer to organize the files into race weekends so I can watch an entire F1 race weekend, then maybe jump to a Supercars weekend, then to something else. (If anyone knows of a good way to integrate this as a "TV Show" in Emby, I'd be more than happy to rearrange, but this is the best I've come up with.)

    The Problem:

    Once I start playing a video from this directory structure, I've got no remote control over it other than "Stop". I can't hit pause, the jump forward/back don't work. Hitting stop does not set a bookmark, so I have to restart from the beginning (which can be annoying, some of the files are a full day's worth of coverage - 8-10 hours long). Fast forward & rewind do not work.

    If I play a show or movie from a media library, everything works fine.

    I've done it this way for more than a decade and I've never had issues before.

    Anyone have any idea where I should start looking to figure out what's going on?

    Unfortunately, I can no longer log into the Kodi forums to ask (my old account doesn't seem to work, nor does password recovery), and it won't let me create a new account, insisting that my @gmail.com email address is invalid... :shrug:

  • Embruary skin marked incompatible with 20231213 build

    Running 12.0 nightly 20231213, the Embruary skin is marked as incompatible. I reinstalled the 20231211 build and it's fine.

    Not sure if this is going to be an incompatibility moving forward or if maybe some version bit got set somewhere marking it as incompatible. Not sure if Embruary is even still being developed at all, so I don't know if there's a chance of it catching up.

  • Unable to add SMB or NFS connection

    I'm trying to add a video folder for sports videos that don't fit neatly into the Movies or TV Show model. I've done this on all my previous Kodi/LE installs and never had any issues.

    Now, whether I try to add it via SMB or NFS, I get an error message stating

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    Unable to connect

    The connection to the network location couldn't be established. This could be due to the network not being connected. would you like to add it anyway?

    Claiming the network might not be connected is rather vague considering I've got Embycon and Emby Next Gen running and I can watch TV episodes from the very same server that the video folder is hosted on.

    I've tried with nightly-20231209 and nightly-20231211 and get the same response.

    Where do I start with troubleshooting this?

  • LibreELEC support for Raspberry Pi 5

    Ah, I see. It's step 1 OR step 2, I see.

    I did download and select the latest LE12 release in step 2, so I presume it used that one, but maybe not, since it's not properly starting LE/Kodi. I'll do it again without selecting anything in step 1 and see if that helps. If not, I'll go find the LE12 thread and search for/report my issue there.

    TYVM.