Posts by Elicity

That's was all I was allowed to attach, but you can start the video, then hit pause. It does not need to be playing, it just has to be started.

Take a look, I'm not that versed in video tech but its x265 hevc if those are the right terms.

Attachment triggers the GUI-palet shift on rpi5.

Most colors switch to a "brighter" version of themselves, but its best seen if you select "brown" under settings>interface>skin>colors

In the GUI brown just switches to red when playing that file.

Afaict its just a one off after I tested more x265 and they do not seem to have this issue.

However converting it to a different container or with different encoder does not seem to matter.

The problems shifts along, its weird.

I'll put in a request, referring to this thread.

Quote from Elicity

The GUI-colors are off too while playing, its weird

So I thought I'd take some screenshots, to show the issue. Now here comes the kicker: they are snapped when colors are not right, but display fine when I look at them. When I play x265 GUI-colors are off, when I select another video-type x264, the GUI-colors snap back.

There is another underlying issue. Maybe driver related idk.

Thanks for all the help, its awesome!

Quote from maple

If you try to play this in any version of Kodi released since March 18 it will immediately crash Kodi hard. If it doesn't for you than maybe it is GPU related although I don't think Kodi uses the GPU for that kind of file, as best I could tell all the decoding was done in software.

I tried on latest LE12 nightly (2025-04-04) and it works just fine. It uses SW decoding because of YUV422, but if you want HW decoding and save tons of space convert it using:

ffmpeg -i test_recording.ts -acodec copy -pix_fmt yuv420p10le -c:v hevc test_recording.mp4

This will reduce it to ~3.5mb which is a 93% reduction or ~16x smaller.

-rw-r--r-- 1 kodi kodi 54689388 Apr 7 01:15 /dev/shm/test_recording.ts
-rw-r--r-- 1 kodi kodi 3453886 Apr 7 01:22 /dev/shm/test_recording.mp4

First of all, for future reference. Make a backup once in a while. I do it every other week for LE.

You can find all installed/downloaded packages under /storage/.kodi/addons/packages.

Make a LE backup first and then try installing them manually one-by-one (pick lastest version)

HiassofT Thank you very much, you guys are too fast

edit:

So I updated to latest LE12 (2025-04-04), Immediately for some constructive feedback.

The black screen problem has been fixed, yay!

However the other issue i still present:

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Everything works fine except for Zoom Mode, when I cycle to that nothing happens. If I do it from the video-menu it does work, but I have to increase or decrease the percentage and set it back.

(afaict the zoom value is not applied when switching to zoom mode)

Its working fine for everything else, just not x265. The GUI-colors are off too while playing, its weird

Something isn't right with x265, but it does not really matter. I'm happy its playing at all. I'll report it once I have some more time on my hands.

Thanks, that saves me the trouble

edit:

still broken on nightly-20250328-47483e0 (RPi5.aarch64)

I dont know if this is related, but I have reported some issues with x265 here

I tried doing this and there were some issues. I just unpacked the .kodi/userdata folder. That seemed to have worked fine. However the guisettings.xml caused my 4k screen to display as 1080p, leaving me with 25% to work with. I fixed that with:

systemctl stop kodi
cd /storage/.kodi/userdata
mv guisettings.xml guisettings.xml.bak
awk '/<resolutions>/ {print "    <resolutions />"; next} /<\/resolutions>/ {next} {print}' guisettings.xml.bak > guisettings.xml
cd $OLDPWD
systemctl start kodi

Oh, and don't forget to extract your .ssh folder, almost locked myself out

Also deleted the Addons33.db, to prevent x86 plugins to reinstall.

That was it for me

Well this problem does also appear on the rpi5.

And there is an additional issue where by changing the zoom percentage on x265 video will black out the entire screen (while playing the video). Stopping/Starting/Restarting KODI service does nothing to get video back. So I'm forced to reboot the rpi5 or powerdown/poweron.

Can someone confirm ?

Quote from chewitt

but HDMI needs to be reliable.

I looked at mainline again and I think the earliest would be 6.15, now that would be somewhere in July which also includes audio support. But to be honest I think if 26th of December presents us with an image we are very lucky. I'm sure they are working very hard to get it all in before 6.18 which afaict will become the latest stable.

All n All, patience is key

I bound a remote key to switching Display Modes, its easier than to go into the menu all the time.

Now when I press a button on the remote I can easily cycle to the mode I want for a particular video.

Everything works fine except for Zoom Mode, when I cycle to that nothing happens. If I do it from the video-menu it does work, but I have to increase or decrease the percentage and set it back.

I'm using the generic x86/64 image.

Quote from popcornmix

So, yes it is a workaround, but not for a design flaw that the Pi created.

That makes sense, preventative measures do not work after the fact. Nice I learned something today

Thank guys, a 2GB it is then.

Can I change the eeprom option from LE itself or do i need to boot into rpi-os or raspbian ?

Quote from popcornmix

It is by design

Like buying a car that intentionally leaks gas, just for those that want to pull a trailer. Seems like a design flaw workaround to me.

Thanks for the advice, it really helped me

Hi,

I read somewhere that 2GB is enough for running LE, does that still hold up?

Is there any reason to spend $15 extra on a 4GB ?

And has this fix been applied ? Just curious.

Reducing Raspberry Pi 5's power consumption by 140x | Jeff Geerling

All thoughts are welcome, especially when you run LE on an RPI5

Thanks in advance

Fixed it manually, and reported.

My cousins wife is Flemisch and I setup two language profiles one English one Flemish/Dutch.

She could not find Movie sets/Film sets. After some quick phone support it appears to be mislabeled as "Instellen".

So where to report this translation error ?

Is there a way to rename it manually ?